Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

Woodrow W. Clark, II spoke to hundreds of students and faculty at Pierce College on Thursday, April 16, 2009 about the environment, the green economy and technology and what going green means for their educational and professional pursuits.  Dr. Clark presented a PowerPoint presentation, showing data, images and information about how we got where we are today and what viable options there are for the future so that we can have renewable energy resources and help our economy grow in a responsible sustainable fashion.  The presentation concluded with remarks on what going green means for the future of jobs and how students can prepare for the Third Industrial Revolution.  The presentation ended with a question and answer session where students and faculty were able to ask Dr. Clark questions about what they can do in light of what is happening to our environment and our economy.  Dr. Clark generously provided a copy of his presentation to add to our web resources.

April 4 is  the anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have Been to the Mountaintop" speech--his final speech before his assassination on the following day April 4, 1968.It is in his memory that we send out this 1-page educational sheet about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's last campaign.

The SCL and the DHLI collaborated to create a collection of materials that can support the labor studies programs of the Los Angeles Community College District and other educational institutions.  The collection will be primarily used by labor union members and staff, community college students, and faculty members, and will be housed at the Southern California Library.  This project is made possible by a grant from the Diane Middleton Foundation.

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What are open textbooks?

 

Covering a wide range of disciplines, open textbooks are freely available, under an unrestricted license, to download and print in various file formats from several web sites and OER (open educational resources) repositories.  Many organizations provide access to open textbooks through their websites. Several file formats are made available for open textbooks; typical formats are: HTML, Adobe PDF, and plain text.

The following attachments provide some information about open textbooks and where you can get them.  These resources were provided by Dr. Judy Baker, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.

The following is a guidebook developed by History Instructor, Grace Chee from West LA College on one approach to teaching a Modern U.S. Labor History Course from Reconstruction to the Present.