Free and open to the public.
Join the CEHD community in reading Outcasts United, Warren St. John’s bestseller about a refugee soccer team, its remarkable female coach Luma Mufleh, and a small southern town dealing with refugee resettlement. More details at cehd.umn.edu/reads.
The Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning and the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) are building a year of education and events around the shared question: Can one person make a difference?
As part of this process, the college community is joining our 2011-2012 first-year students in reading Outcasts United, by Warren St. John. In the book, St. John expands a story that began as a 2007 New York Times article about the Fugees, a soccer program for boys from families of refugees from war-torn nations who were resettled in Clarkston, Georgia.
Luma Mufleh, the Fugee's coach came to the U.S. from Jordan to attend Smith College and stayed in the U.S. despite her family's expectations. The book follows the challenges the coach and these young people face (which include confronting prejudice, finding funding and a field on which to practice, and living with memories of tragedy in their home countries) as well as the triumphs they achieve on and off the field.