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In This Issue: Nursing Faculty Members Provide Health Checks, Information to Local Community Barry Well Represented at International Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Nominations for Community Engagement Awards 2020: Community Partnerships Category Deliberative Dialogue Series Gets Going on Wednesday with Focus on Temporary Protected Status Barry Staff Member Goes to Capitol Hill to Help Raise Awareness of Domestic Violence Dream Defenders Hold Summit at Barry to Push for Reform of Pretrial Detention System Next Meeting of Faculty Learning Community Takes Place on November 19 | |||
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Barry Founders’ Week to Kick Off with Day of Service this Saturday at Historic President Allen will participate in inaugural event This Saturday (Nov. 9), Barry students, faculty, and staff will join President Mike Allen to kick off Founders’ Week with a day of service at “In celebration of President Allen’s inauguration, this special service day will offer participants an opportunity to honor and learn more about Participants will explore the intersection of community activism and environmental health through the university’s long-term partnership with At Saturday’s event, President Allen and Guy Forchion, executive director of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust, are expected to deliver remarks. Forchion is a member of Barry’s Community Advisory Board.
Barry Founders’ Week 2019 is November 9–15. Among the highlights is the Core Commitments Luncheon on Monday. During the luncheon, students, faculty, and staff members will present “exemplary collaborative projects that demonstrate Barry's mission and core commitments in action.” Presentations will include “Nursing and Education International Learning Partnership (Project NEILP)” and “Community-Based Research: Haitian Head Start Program.” | |||
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Nursing Faculty Members Provide Health Checks, Information to Local Community Four members of Barry’s Nursing faculty participated in the Annual Fall Festival at Broward Health Imperial Point in Dr. Ronica Subramoney, Dr. Indra Hershorin, Nurse Cynthia Perodeau, and Dr. Mureen Shaw provided free blood pressure readings as well as weight and body mass index (BMI) checks. They also offered wellness and healthy lifestyle counseling and related information. The faculty members provided service as leaders and active members of Lambda Chi, the Subramoney is the president and Hershorin a past president of the Lambda Chi Chapter. Perodeau is the leadership succession chair and Shaw a former vice-president of the chapter. The Fall Festival took place on October 19, over a three-hour period, at Faculty Present at Sigma’s International Congress During the summer, Dr. Belky Bivins joined Shaw, Hershorin, and Subramoney, as Lambda Chi Chapter representatives at Sigma’s 30th International Research Congress in Shaw based her presentation – “Improving Student Learning Outcomes through a Collaborative Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary, Nursing and Education International Partnership” – on a major faculty and student initiative benefiting northwestern The theme of the Sigma 2019 Congress was “Theory-to-Practice: Catalyzing Collaborations to Connect Globally.” | |||
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Barry Well Represented at International Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Four faculty members, two administrators, a student, and an alumna of Barry were among the presenters at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) last month. Dr. Celeste Landeros, Dr. Pamela D. Hall, Elizabeth Valencia, and Marly Jean-Jacques made a presentation titled “Kiyes Ou Ye? (Who Are You?): Exploring the Experiences of Students of Color to Challenge Assumptions about Community-Engaged Students.” Landeros is professor of English and humanities in the School of Professional and Career Education (PACE); Hall is associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences; Valencia is a PACE alumna and Jean-Jacques a senior majoring in psychology. Drs. Heidi Whitford and Sean Buckreis, associate professors in the Adrian Dominican School of Education, made a presentation titled “How Do Faculty Navigate Community Service-Learning Projects on an International Branch Campus?” Dr. Glenn A. Bowen and Courtney Berrien, administrators of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), were the other presenters at the IARSLCE Conference. With six co-presenters, Bowen and Berrien participated in a two-hour workshop on “How to Get Published in Service-Learning and Community Engagement Journals.” Bowen is a member of the IARSLCE Board of Directors and co-editor of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE). He was the coordinating presenter of the session. Berrien represented Collaborations: A Journal of Community Research and Practice. She was recently named the journal’s associate managing editor. Bowen and Berrien’s co-presenters were Dr. Clayton Hurd, co-editor of IJRSLCE; Dr. Andrew (Andy) Furco, an advisory board member of RIDAS – Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje Servicio; Dr. Catherine Stemmans Paterson, editor of the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education; Dr. Andrew J. (Drew) Pearl, associate editor of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship; Dr. Emily Janke, an associate editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning; and Dr. Burton A. Bargerstock, an associate editor of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. In addition, Berrien and Buckreis made a presentation on “Evaluating the Fair-Trade Learning Framework: Designing Research for Partnership Development in Rural Haiti.” “Celebrating the ‘I’ in IARSLCE: Researching Engagement across Borders” was the theme of the three-day conference, held October 23 to 25, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. | |||
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Nominations for Community Engagement Awards 2020: Community Partnerships Category “Community Partnerships” is among the categories for which Community Engagement Award nominations are being accepted. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators are invited to submit nominations by January 27.
The other award categories are Community Impact, Community-Based Research, Engaged Scholarship, Community Engagement Educator, Service-Learning Faculty, and Engaged Department. The Center for Community Service Initiatives will host Barry’s seventh annual Community Engagement Awards on March 25. The nomination forms are available in the Community Engagement Management System <http://web.barry.edu/service/ProgramView.aspx?ID=1494>. | |||
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Deliberative Dialogue Series Gets Going on Wednesday with Focus on Temporary Protected Status "Temporary Protected Status: Should Persons from Countries Affected by Armed Conflict and Natural Disasters be Allowed to Remain in the Marleine Bastien, executive director of the Family Action Network Movement (FANM), and Adonia R. Simpson, director of the Americans for Immigrant Justice Family Defense Program, will be on the panel of lead participants. The panel will also include Dr. Karen Callaghan, dean of Barry’s College of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology, as well as Antonio (Toni) Rodriguez, a Barry Service Corps Fellow and political strategist for the College Democrats of America. The United States Congress created Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, in the Immigration Act of 1990. At least nine countries are on the current TPS list. Wednesday’s forum is the first in this academic year’s Deliberative Dialogue Series organized by the CCSI. This forum is slated for 4 to 5:30 p.m., in Andreas 112. Students, faculty and staff, alumni, and community representatives will participate. The Deliberative Dialogue Series serves as an avenue for civic learning and engagement in addressing hot-button social issues. The series brings together campus and community stakeholders to weigh perspectives on the issues and to work towards practical solutions. | |||
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Barry Staff Member Goes to Capitol Hill to Help Raise Awareness of Domestic Violence
At the invitation of a congressman, a Barry staff member went to the United States Capitol in Stephanie Wong, the Center for Community Service Initiatives’ administrative coordinator, participated in a march and attended a press conference at which U.S. Representative Adriano Espaillat (D–NY) called for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The event at the Capitol took place on October 22. Espaillat hosted the “Brides’ March” press conference primarily to raise awareness of intimate partner violence and its impact. Hosted in collaboration with the New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence, the event honored a woman named Gladys Ricart, who was killed by her former boyfriend in 1999, on her wedding day. Ricart was a resident of the The congressional representative invited Wong to Capitol Hill because her mother, Myhosi “Josie” Ashton, inspired the Brides March. Two years after Ricart’s murder, Ashton walked in her wedding gown from Wong joined a group of women – wearing white wedding dresses and veils and displaying images of Ricart – who took to the halls of Congress to draw attention to dating and domestic violence. VAWA, the piece of legislation originally signed by President Bill Clinton in September 1994, provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases that prosecutors chose to leave unprosecuted. After a number of reauthorizations, VOWA expired earlier this year, in February. In April, the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1585) reauthorizing VAWA. The bill has not been brought to the Senate floor as yet. The Brides March takes place in several cities each year. Barry hosts its spin-off, the College Brides Walk, annually in February. The 10th anniversary of | |||
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Dream Defenders Hold
Dozens of community activists and supporters turned out for the Dream Defenders’ “We Keep Us Safe” According to a report, community members proposed “imaginative alternatives to criminalization rooted in restorative justice, community-led interventions, and accessible healthcare.” They suggested public investment in housing, education, and healthcare. The meeting was part of the Dream Defenders’ Free the Block Campaign – an effort to get signatures on a petition calling for reform of the bail and pretrial detention system in Miami-Dade. The campaign organizers argue that the bail system punishes people who cannot afford to pay and consumes resources that should be invested in the community. Founded in 2012, Dream Defenders is a Miami-based activist group whose purpose is “to make powerful change come to | |||
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Next Meeting of Faculty Learning Community Takes Place on November 19 The Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship (FLC) will have its next meeting on November 19, beginning at noon. The CCSI will host the lunch-hour meeting in Adrian Hall, Room 208. All FLC members and prospective members are urged to attend. For further information, contact the CCSI at 305-899-4711. |
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Posted On : November 04, 2019
