University of Orange (NJ)

[ellen]

Dear friends,
Do you know about this?
Sounds interesting.

http://www.universityoforange.org/
"A Free University for the People"

Our Mission:
The purpose of the University of Orange is to empower the people of
Orange by learning from each other and calling each other to action to
teach others how to use resources they already have and others they
might acquire to make Orange the urban village of the 21st Century, a
just and beautiful city.

History:
The University is situated on an historic, yet ever-evolving 2.2
square mile campus, the City of Orange Township. The University of
Orange was founded in 2007, growing out of celebrations of the 50th
anniversary of the fight for school desegregation in Orange. The
University of Orange has a volunteer faculty from Orange and around
the world.

Get Involved:
We believe that everyone has something to teach and everyone has
something to learn. Therefore, everyone can be a student and everyone
can be a teacher. Your diploma from the University of Orange will
show that you care about making the world a better place. The
University of Orange offers the Bachelors of Freedom (Be Free), which
is annually awarded on Juneteenth (June 19th or thereabouts) to those
students who have completed the requirements for graduation.

[monica]

i recently find myself in the oranges a lot. i like it up there. !
anyone want a field trip to thomas edison's lab?

[ellen]

oh boy, I am finding so many reasons to wish I still lived up there. I
like the oranges too. I used to live in Orange on Scotland Road in a
building with a "dumb waiter" - sorry I guess that is an offensive
term! - and an ironing board that folded into the wall.

I always wanted to visit Edison's lab, but I'm more interested in the
garden, so I'll save my trip up north for that. :)

[Tobias Fox]

Wow! This is beautiful! This is definitely a step towards changing the values of our current society. We should definitely introduce ourselves to them. Will it be okay to reach out to them and inform them about what we're doing and see if we could, at the very least, establish an opendoor relationship.

 

Check out who their partners/supports are:

 

1st Unitarian Church of Essex County - Orange, NJ
Arts Unbound
City of Orange Township
Community School of Orange
Family Succes Center of Orange
Garden State Urban Farms
HANDS, Inc.
Interfaith Hospitality Network
Intersect Fund
Luna Stage Co.
Mass Urban
ORNG Ink
The Legacy Project
Township of West Orange
Valley Arts
YCDPA (Young Community Development Professionals Association)

[Tobias Fox]

Hey Monica. I'd love to check out Thomas Edison's lab. Never been there. What day do you have in mind?

 

tobias 

[chuck nwosu]

very interesting! considering im a former resident of Orange NJ.

Sent from my iPad

[ellen]

I used to know the head of HANDS, Pat Morrissey, when I lived in East
Orange/Orange in the '60's, '70's. He was involved in community
organizing, specifically around housing issues.
HANDS inc is involved in developing the neighborhood, but from the
grass-roots (as far as I can tell from their website), not from the
top-down. They give tours, and there is an artists' community!
http://www.handsinc.org/

Who woulda thunk it?!

On Mar 25, 4:45 am, chuck nwosu <ngteleph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> very interesting!  considering im a former resident of Orange NJ.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>