Written Feedback from Participants at 10/6 session
(Islam & Social Justice)
About 85 people attended the second session of the Social Justice
and World Religions series
and 45 turned in written forms to UNIITE.
a. Of these, citing their sources of information re. the event,
3
said they learnt about the event from the St. Cloud Times
3 saw a flyer (1
at CentraCare, 1 at SCTC, 1 at St Cloud Hospital)
5 from Course
Catalogue
9 from a friend
1 from their faith community
23 listed
“Other” (20) Class at SCTC,
(1) Walked in to find out what was going on,(1)
Spiritual Search,(1) Didn’t specify
1 didn’t list any
b. 27 were attending a UNIITE event for the first time
17 had
attended UNIITE events earlier
1 didn’t list any
c. On a scale of 1 to 10, how did participants rate the first session of
the series?
14 gave the presentation a 9 or a 10
23 gave the
presentation a 7 or 8
3 gave the presentation a 5 or 6
2 gave the
presentation a 3
3 didn’t give the presentation any ratings
d. Remarks about the event:
i) What I liked:
“The
PowerPoint presentation”
“The movie/video was informative/good”
“The
information was good/a lot/interesting”
“Number of people attended”
“Very
organized”
“Very informative”
“Great examples of justice &
religions”
“Learned more/a lot about Islam”
“Concept of equality as basis
for social justice was explained well”
“Educational”
“Everything”
“The
speaker was in sync with the PowerPoint – he knew what he wanted to say”
“The
speaker was wonderfully versed”
ii) What could have been better:
The color of the
PowerPoint
(Should have) more pictures/visuals
(Should be) more
interactive
Less lecturing, more humor
(Should have provided) outline of
the presentation
Women were not included/a woman’s perspective would be
nice
Sound
(Should have) more time for presenter
More on the religion
itself, not just social justice
More definition
The moderator’s question
to the presenter as closure was distasteful
(Should have) intermission in the
middle
(Should have been) louder when speaking
Transition from movie to
speaker
Difficult understanding what was said
The room was
noisy
Difficulty hearing the presentation
Start sooner, shouldn’t preach
in schools if other religions can’t
(Should have) less info and more current
examples
(Should have) used the microphone
e. Furthermore:
i) Further questions:
How are other
religions related with Muslims?
Compare different religions together
Main
differences between the most common religions
The dress that people wear and
why
More on stereotypes and information about the Islamic culture
Female
& Quran
How can we help, make change for positive
How many Muslims are
in the St Cloud area
Not just religions, but different cultures,
subcultures
Examples/stories of how it lived out from the speaker’s
experience
ii) What should UNIITE address next?
How we live these beliefs out
on a personal level, how much we practice what we believe
The way Muslims
live their lives
More stereotypes about the religions
Christian, Islam and
many other religions
Unity – all religions
Pagan diversity
Common &
different things that the religions have, to compare and contrast
