Tunji and his family at a gathering
on a scholarship from the Camphill Foundation for an internship to help a community with people with special needs Camphill is "a worldwide movement of vibrant lifesharing communities where people with and without developmental disabilities strive together to reach their full potentials," according to its website. Tunji's internship was to learn how to set up a special needs group in Nigeria for his PhD project. He first lived in Pemberton Hills, Pennsylvania for one year and then lived in a Camphill community in New York where he met his wife.
Tunji told me, “She is American, and we decided to get married, which is why I still live here.” He first taught at the University of Minnesota before coming to Atlanta to work at Georgia Perimeter College. It had 3 campuses and was very big; with 30,0000 students, vastly larger than Reinhardt.
After Tunji and his wife moved to Georgia, he began working for Georgia Perimeter College, which he noticed was far more culturally diverse than Minnesota. He worked with people with disabilities and with interna-
tional students as a member of the Office of Disability Services. Due to cutbacks, he lost his position at GPC and got hired at Reinhardt University. Reinhardt was lucky to get such a dedicated and hard-working professor.
Upon arriving at Reinhardt, Tunji noticed there were many minority and international students who didn’t feel a part of the Reinhardt community. Tunji always tends to get involved when he can. He said he saw a position that needed to be filled and stepped up and started making a barrier-free environment where people are culturally aware and proud of their history.
He manages to do most of these projects by dividing the work among the students involved. He felt he needed to find a way to make the diverse population feel a part of the community.
His solution was the Culture Fest. Culture fest is a festival in which the cultures of different countries are represented. At the year of Mexico Festival last semester, Tunji participated in the water running challenge, where you had to run with about two gallons or more of water about 100 yards and try
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