The Guyana Lesley Abroad Service Semester (GLASS) program is the first semester-long study abroad program in the country of Guyana and is unique in many ways. The aim of the GLASS…
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MenuAlice Layton is a social entrepreneur and Director of the Rupununi Learners Foundation, the U.S. nonprofit partner of the indigenous Guyanese NGO, Rupununi Learners Incorporated. Together they have created an ecotourism enterprise in the village of Yupukari that has brought economic advantages to every household; sustained an Internet-enabled, computer-equipped, fully staffed public library, and supported participatory research and conservation of keystone species. Rupununi Learners developed the business plan for a Yupukari-based study abroad semester that with the partnership of the Science division at Lesley University became the GLASS program. As a social worker specializing in career development with low-income adults, Ms. Layton has taught in such diverse settings as a maximum security prison, a community college welfare-to-work program, and as a guest lecturer at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, which awarded Rupununi Learners a Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation prize in 2009.
2013 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design Recipient
Alice Layton, recipient of the 2013 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design, speaks about her “Indigenous Natural Resource Ecology” course at the Standards Institute on Curriculum, Teaching and Education…
Indigenous Natural Resource Ecology
“Indigenous Natural Resource Ecology” is a three-credit, eight-week fieldwork course designed to complement a Tropical Ecology course by providing an immersion in the social environment of an indigenous Guyanese community….