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Barry University Honors Civil Rights Leader’s Legacy on MLK Day of Service Faculty and Students to Present at Educational Research Association Meeting Pamela Hall Presents at Conference, Attends Journal Editorial Board Meeting Community Engagement Award Nominations Close Today, January 28 Deadline to Submit Presentation Proposals for Symposium is This Friday Faculty Learning Community to Meet This Afternoon at 2 o’clock
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Barry University Honors Civil Rights Leader’s Legacy on MLK Day of Service
Service Projects Implemented in Broward, Miami-Dade
By participating in a Day of Service earlier this month, Barry students, faculty, and staff honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ahead of the King Holiday, they gave their time and energies to service projects in several Miami-Dade neighborhoods and at Pembroke Park in Broward County. The projects were designed to demonstrate the role of service in fostering unity in the community.
The service sites included Arcola Lakes Park and Cerasee Farm in Liberty City; the Apostolic Faith Church in Little Haiti; Historic Virginia Key Beach Park; and the Feeding South Florida main warehouse in Pembroke Park.
Feeding South Florida is a regional food bank serving approximately 300 nonprofit partner agencies throughout Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties. Inside the warehouse, a group of students inspected, sorted, and packed food items for distribution mainly to pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and childcare centers.
Barry’s annual MLK Day of Service is the Saturday immediately preceding the federal holiday – the third Monday of January.
The year’s theme, “Unity,” conveyed the main message of a commencement address that King gave in 1959 at Morehouse College, his alma mater. Calling for unity, he declared, "We must learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools."
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Faculty and Students to Present at Educational Research Association Meeting
“Intersecting Communities and Their Stories of Belonging: A Qualitative Inquiry.” That is the title of a presentation to be made at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Educational Research Association (EERA) next month in Myrtle Beach, SC.
The presenters will be Dr. Ruth Ban, a professor in the Adrian Dominican School of Education (ADSOE), and eight Ph.D. students: Xiaoxi Dong, Orlando Cardozo, Dorise Berrouet, Annette Cardozo, Aleksandar Chonevski, Marvin Hattaway, Marius Knowlin, and Verona Nisbeth-Hart.
Focused on the refugee experience, “Intersecting Communities and Their Stories of Belonging” has resulted from collaboration between Dr. Ban and her students with the Miami office of Church World Service (CWS).
The Doral-based Miami office is one of three CWS South Florida offices that provide resettlement and legal support to refugees from such countries as Afghanistan, Burma, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, and Iraq.
Twenty presentations by Barry faculty members and doctoral students are listed in the preliminary program for the EERA Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Embassy Suites Myrtle Beach Resort on February 20–23. The meeting serves as a major regional conference.
EERA is an organization for educational professionals interested in conducting and disseminating research that improves education for all, in both formal and non-formal settings. Created in 1977, EERA is affiliated with the American Educational Research Association.
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Pamela Hall Presents at Conference, Attends Journal Editorial Board Meeting
Dr. Pamela D. Hall, an associate professor of psychology, presented a paper, “Using Photovoice as a Reflection Tool for a Service-Learning Head Start Project,” at a conference earlier this month.
The 10th Annual Conference of The Qualitative Report (TQR) was held at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Fort Lauderdale, on January 16–18.
In addition to making her presentation on the final day of the conference, Hall attended a meeting of TQR’s editorial board.
The Qualitative Report is a peer-reviewed, online monthly journal published by NSU. The oldest multidisciplinary qualitative research journal in the world, TQR “serves as a forum and sounding board for researchers, scholars, practitioners, and other reflective-minded individuals who are passionate about ideas, methods, and analyses permeating qualitative, action, collaborative, and critical study.”
Both Dr. Hall and Dr. Ruth A. Ban, a professor in Barry’s School of Education, have been members of the TQR’s editorial board for just over a year.
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Community Engagement Award Nominations Close Today, January 28
Today, January 28, is the deadline for the submission of nominations for the Community Engagement Awards. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators are invited to submit nominations before midnight.
The nomination forms are available in the Community Engagement Management System <http://web.barry.edu/service/ProgramView.aspx?ID=1494> and via email from the CCSI.
The award categories are “Community Impact,” “Community Partnership,” “Community-Based Research,” “Engaged Scholarship,” “Community Engagement Educator,” “Service-Learning Faculty,” and “Engaged Department.”
Barry’s sixth annual Community Engagement Awards Ceremony will be held on March 27.
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Deadline to Submit Presentation Proposals for Symposium is This Friday
The deadline to submit proposals for presentations at this year’s Community Engagement Symposium is this Friday, February 1. Students as well as faculty and staff members are invited to submit proposalsfor oral (podium) and poster presentations.
Organized around the theme “Bringing Learning to Life through Community Engagement,” Barry’s sixth annual Community Engagement Symposium will be held on March 27.
Community engagement includes experiential learning practices such as service-learning, community-based research, fieldwork, study abroad, capstones, and internships.
Proposals should address the theme of the symposium and identify the experiential learning practice that was implemented. Successful proposals will specify the course or co-curricular project, the social or community issue addressed, the related activities undertaken, and the actual learning outcomes. Proposals should also emphasize how learning “came to life” – that is, how learning was enhanced or enriched and made meaningful for the student.
The 2019 symposium will highlight student learning outcomes of community engagement practices in the context of Barry’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) titled “Fostering Personal and Social Responsibility through Experiential Learning.”
For additional information on the symposium, contact the CCSI at service@barry.edu.
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Faculty Learning Community to Meet This Afternoon at 2 o’clock
The semester’s first meeting of the Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship (FLC) will be held this afternoon (January 28). The CCSI will host the meeting from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m., in Adrian 208.
Members as well as prospective members are invited to the meeting.
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