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Symposium Serves as Venue for Sharing Outcomes of Community-Engaged Work
Highlights Include Student Poster Competition
The seventh annual Community Engagement Symposiumwill be held on March 25, 2020. “Engagement in Purposeful Projects: From Awareness to Action” is the theme.
The symposium, which serves as a venue for sharing outcomes of community-engaged work, will feature a nationally recognized community engagement scholar as the lead presenter. Students, faculty and staff members, and community partners will make presentations during concurrent sessions.
A Student Poster Competition will be a highlight of the symposium. Entries will be on display during the Poster Session, and prizes will be presented during the Closing Session of the event.
The annual Community Engagement Symposium supports the implementation of Barry’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). Social responsibility is one of the key elements of the QEP.
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Bowen Re-elected to Board of Community Engagement Research Association
Dr. Glenn A. Bowen, executive director of Barry’s Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE). His second three-year term on the IARSLCE Board will begin in October.
IARSLCE is the premier professional membership organization for service-learning and community engagement scholars.
Bowen was first elected to the IARSLCE Board in 2016 and served as chair of the Board Development Committee for two years. He is currently a co-editor of the association’s scholarly journal, the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
The winner of Florida Campus Compact’s Engaged Scholarship/Research Award in 2018, Bowen is the author of a service-learning reflection manual/workbook, several book chapters, and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles based on his service-learning and community engagement research. In addition, he has made presentations at conferences not only in North America but also in Asia, Australia, and Europe.
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First Forum in Academic Year’s Deliberative Dialogue Series is Postponed
The first forum in this academic year’s Deliberative Dialogue Series has been postponed. Titled “Truth and Reconciliation: Confronting South Florida’s Racist Past,” the 90-minute forum was scheduled for September 19.
The CCSI organizes the Deliberative Dialogue Series as an approach to 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.
The revised schedule for the Deliberative Dialogue Series will be announced soon.
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Barry Volunteers to Participate in International Coastal Cleanup Projects this Saturday
This Saturday (Sept. 21), Barry volunteers will take part in International Coastal Cleanup projects in Miami-Dade County.
The volunteers will remove debris and discarded items from the shorelines of the Oleta River State Park and another section of Biscayne Bay as well as Historic Virginia Key Beach Park and Pelican Harbor Seabird Station.
Last year, just over 100 Barry University volunteers participated in International Coastal Cleanup Day in Miami. It was all hands on deck, so to speak, as the volunteers got to work, removing discarded items and debris from much of the mile-long shoreline adjacent to Historic Virginia Key Beach.
The volunteers recorded numbers of trash items collected and provided the data to the project organizers. The main items they picked up were cigarette butts, plastic beverage bottles, metal and plastic bottle caps, food wrappers, straws and stirrers, and shards of glass.
In all, about 180 volunteers collected more than 5,000 pieces of trash weighing 226 pounds, the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust reported. The report was later submitted for Ocean Conservancy’s Ocean Trash Index.
To register for an International Coastal Cleanup project, visit the CCSI homepage <barry.edu/service> and click “GET INVOLVED” to log in to CEMS, the Community Engagement Management System. | ||||||||||||||||
Organizers Making Early Preparations for Alternative Fall and Spring Break Trips
The organizers of Alternative Breaks are making early preparations for fall and spring break trips. They are inviting students to attend an Open House next month, when preliminary details of the plans will be discussed.
The Open House is slated for October 2, from 4 to 5 p.m., in the De Porres Center, Thompson Hall.
Alternative Fall Break, October 4, will involve a farmworker justice immersion in Immokalee, southwestern Florida, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) will welcome the Barry group to its headquarters. Students will learn about injustices in the modern agricultural sector and are expected to offer their support to the CIW Campaign for Fair Food.
The Alternative Fall Break participants will also do voluntary work at social service agencies in Immokalee.
Alternative Spring Break will run from February 29 through March 6. ASB trips are being planned for McAllen, Texas; Tallahassee, Florida; Port-de-Paix, Haiti; and elsewhere.
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Faculty Urged to Attend Community Engagement Fair with Students on September 25
This year’s Community Engagement Fair will be held on September 25. Faculty members are urged to attend with their class.
The showcase segment of the fair will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the atrium of the R. Kirk Landon Student Union. Community partners will provide students, faculty, and staff with information on opportunities for volunteer work, service-learning and community-based research projects, and community-focused internships.
Preceding the showcase will be a workshop for community partners. Held annually, the workshop supports the professional development of community partners while contributing to their understanding of Barry’s community engagement initiatives.
The Community Engagement Fair is designated as a QEP-PSR (Quality Enhancement Plan-personal and social responsibility) event.
For additional information on this event, contact Liz James, experiential learning coordinator, at ljames@barry.edu or 305-899-3728.
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CCSI Invites Course Instructors to Apply for Service-Learning Designation
Courses that meet specific criteria are labeled “service-learning” in the course schedule and are listed as such in the university catalogs.
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) is inviting faculty members whose courses include a service-learning component to apply for the service-learning designation.
Sections of courses, internships, practicum assignments, field education, capstones, community-based research, and similar community-focused or community-based work also may be designated as service-learning.
“Designating courses as service-learning promotes deep integration of thoughtfully organized community service into the curriculum and high standards of service-learning practice,” according to a statement from the CCSI. “Service-learning courses demonstrate the value of applied learning, student engagement with the community, and critical reflection.” | ||||||||||||||||
Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship Meets This Afternoon
The Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship will have its first meeting for the academic year today (Monday, Sept. 16), beginning at 3 p.m. The CCSI will host the meeting in Adrian Hall, Room 208.
All FLC members and prospective members are urged to attend.
The FLC is a cross-disciplinary group of faculty members who participate in a collaborative program focused on the scholarship of engagement, or community-engaged scholarship. The FLC provides an intellectual venue in which faculty members exchange ideas with an academically diverse group and learn from one another’s experiences.
FLC members attend engaged scholarship seminars and other professional development activities, and they become familiar with the tools and resources needed for engaged scholarship.
For further information, contact any of the FLC facilitators: Dr. Laura Finley (lfinley@barry.edu), Dr. Pamela Hall (phall@barry.edu), or Dr. Celeste Landeros (clanderos@barry.edu).
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“Accelerating the Pace of Civic Engagement”: Theme of CCSI Annual Report
“Accelerating the Pace of Civic Engagement.” That’s the theme of the 2019 Annual Report of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI).
“The Barry Urban Garden came to fruition; the Community Engagement Symposium complemented the implementation of the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan; the Barry Service Corps continued to harness students’ skills and energies for civic engagement,” noted Dr. Glenn A. Bowen in an introductory message.
Highlighted in the report is the University’s celebration of the community engagement achievements of students, faculty, staff, and community partners; students’ demonstration of how their engagement with the community brought learning to life; and the Barry Service Corps Fellows’ demonstration of excellence in academics and civic leadership. Also highlighted are forums focused on voting rights, hunger policy, the opioid epidemic, and global warming.
Bowen thanked Sister Linda Bevilacqua, now president emerita, for her “exceptional leadership of this community-engaged institution” and for shaping her alma mater as a place where students learn, reflect, and serve.
“We are also grateful to students, faculty and staff, senior administrators, alumni, and community partners,” the CCSI executive director added. “By participating in community-focused programs and events throughout the year, they all had a hand in accelerating the pace of civic engagement.”
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Box Tops for Education Drive Continuing Throughout Academic Year
The Box Tops for Education Drive is continuing this academic year. Proceeds of the drive benefit two South Florida elementary schools – North Miami in Miami-Dade County and Sheridan Hills in Broward.
The Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS), in association with the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), organizes the drive from which the schools earn 10 cents for each Box Tops clip.
Box Tops clips from household products may be dropped in the labeled boxes found at several locations on Barry’s main campus, including the CCSI (Adrian 208), the Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library, and the Thompson Hall atrium. Alternatively, donations may be sent to Dr. Stephanie Bingham, the MAPS advisor, in the Department of Biology, Siena 309.
Cereals, household-cleaning supplies, paper products, and school supplies are on the list of eligible products found at the following site: <http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/participating-products>.
For additional information, contact Bingham at sbingham@barry.edu.
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Fact Sheets on Various Community Engagement Topics Available from CCSI
Sixteen fact sheets on community engagement topics are available from the CCSI.
Topics covered include Community-Based Research, Community-Engaged Scholarship, Community Service, Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Conferences, Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Organizations, Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Publications, and Service-Learning and Social Justice.
To obtain copies of the fact sheets, contact the CCSI via email at service@barry.edu.
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Contact Brittney Morales, coordinator of FWS Community Service, at BriMorales@barry.edu.
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