Newsletter

The Idaho Human Rights Education Center publishes a quarterly newsletter. You can sign-up to receive our newsletter via email or mail.

Archived newsletters

• Winter 2009/2010
• Spring 2009
• Winter 2009/2008 Annual Report
• Fall 2008
• Summer 2008
• Spring 2008
• Winter 2007

Summer Institute

Presenting scholars at our annual Summer Institute often prepare scholarly articles for our newsletter and Center staff has been featured at conferences around the world. These articles and papers are available for download below.

• "Message from a Refugee," by Linda Ricketts, Ed.D., University of San Francisco, presented at the Idaho Human Rights Education Center 2009 Summer Institute for Teachers, June 8-12, Boise, Idaho.
• "Civic Education in the 21st Century: A Call to Action," by Dr. Dan Prinzing, Education Director, Idaho Human Rights Education Center, presented at the International Conference on "The Future of Civic Education in the 21st Century," Montpelier, Virginia, September 21 - 26, 2008.
• "The Geopolitics of Justice: Assessing the State of Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Period," Mark Gismondi, Ph.D., Northwest Nazarene University, presented at the Idaho Human Rights Education Center 2008 Summer Institute for Teachers, June 9-13, Boise, Idaho.
• "Promoting & Protecting Human Rights," by Susan M. Leeson, Ph.D., J.D., University of Oregon College of Law, Oregon Legislature and former justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, presented at the Idaho Human Rights Education Center 2008 Summer Institute for Teachers, June 9-13, Boise, Idaho.
• "E pluribus unum: Out of many, one . . . shared fate," by Dr. Dan Prinzing, Education Director, Idaho Human Rights Education Center, presented at the International Conference on "Citizenship Education in an Age of Worldwide Migration," Muenster, Germany, September 14 - 19, 2007.
• "Americanization, Immigration, and Civic Education: The Education of the 'Ignorant and Free'," by Dr. Dan Prinzing, Education Director, Idaho Human Rights Education Center, presented at the International Conference on "Civic Education and Politics in Democracies: Comparing International Approaches to Educating New Citizens," San Diego, CA, September 26 - October 1, 2004.
• "Restoring the Civic Mission of Schools in Idaho," by Dr. Marilyn Howard, Idaho Human Rights Education Center Education Committee Chair and former Idaho State Superintendent of Public Instruction."
• "Human Rights in Idaho's Classrooms and Communities," by Idaho Representative Nicole LeFavour (District 19).