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Saturday’s MLK Day of Service Emphasizes Need for Unity in the Community Women's Basketball Team Serves Meals at Miami Rescue Mission Barry Urban Garden to Provide Produce for Food-Insecure Neighborhoods Community Engagement Awards: Nomination Deadline is January 28 Students, Faculty, and Staff Urged to Submit Presentation Proposals for Symposium Faculty Learning Community to Meet on January 28, February 18, and April 8
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Saturday’s MLK Day of Service Emphasizes Need for Unity in the Community
Volunteer Registration Remains Open
Saturday, January 19, is this year’s MLK Day of Service for Barry University. As registration winds down, the final arrangements have been made for projects designed to emphasize the need for unity in the community.
Scores of volunteers – students as well as faculty and staff members – are expected to turn out for projects in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and advancing his enduring call for unity.
Volunteers will render service at the Apostolic Faith Church, Miami; Arcola Lakes Park; Cerasee Farm, Liberty City; Feeding South Florida, Pembroke Park; Historic Virginia Key Beach Park; and Miami Beach Community Church. The Barry Urban Garden is also on the list of service sites.
"Unity," the day’s theme, conveys 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."
Barry’s annual MLK Day of Service is the Saturday immediately preceding the federal holiday. This year’s event is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, "MLK Day of Service is intended to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, create solutions to social problems, and move us closer to Dr. King’s vision of a ‘Beloved Community.’"
Barry volunteers are asked to register online – visitwww.barry.edu/service and click on the "Get involved" link. All volunteers should wear closed-toe shoes at the service sites. T-shirts, breakfast, and lunch will be provided.
For further information, contact the CCSI atservice@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Women's Basketball Team Serves Meals at Miami Rescue Mission
Members of the Barry University women’s basketball team made their annual trip to the Miami Rescue Mission recently and helped serve meals to people experiencing homelessness.
"Serving at the Miami Rescue Mission has become an annual event for our BarryU women's basketball team," Head Coach Bill Sullivan said. "To be able to offer a little help to those in need is always a rewarding experience. We are proud of the way our student-athletes represent Barry University in our community."
Senior Ayida Peters said, "Going to the rescue mission is always a great and humbling experience. It's a reminder to always be grateful for everything you have."
"I enjoyed meeting everyone and hearing their stories, which made the day even more rewarding," freshman Ashleigh Pink said. "Seeing how appreciative the people were over a gift so small was very humbling. Everyone was so welcoming and friendly, which made the experience more enjoyable."
Since 1922, the Miami Rescue Mission has served homeless and needy people in South Florida. The organization’s Miami-Dade and Broward Centers serve over 1,300 people each day. Its core values are compassion, hope, restoration, and transformation.
– Dennis Jezek, Jr.
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Barry Urban Garden to Provide Produce for Food-Insecure Neighborhoods
University Chaplain Fr. Cristóbal Torres blesses the
On Barry’s Miami Shores campus, an urban garden has come to fruition. It is an initiative to provide produce for neighborhoods where residents experience food insecurity.
University administrators, faculty and staff members, students, and community partners gathered outside Powers Hall recently for a brief ceremony during which the Barry Urban Garden, aka the BUG, was formally launched.
“I am very happy to see BUG come to fruition,” said Sister Patricia Siemen, OP, JD, prioress of the Adrian Dominican Sisters.
In a note to Barry University President, Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD, Sister Pat noted that the initiative would “tie together both the experiential learning and the scientific research required for healthy plants/healthy soils/healthy food, healthy people.”
Dr. Jill Farrell (left) says the
The BUG concept is rooted in permaculture design principles. Dr. Gerene (Gerry) Starratt, professor of education, explained that permaculture is both a philosophy and a strategy, branded as “Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share.”
Speaking at the event on November 28, Starratt also shared information on the annual Environmental Leadership Experience. The two-week spring program for Barry and Siena Heights University students takes place on the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse campus. Ten Barry students participated in 2017, when the program was initiated, and eight last year.
Dr. Jill Farrell, dean of Barry’s Adrian Dominican School of Education, said the BUG would support STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) learning and would contribute to “the lived curriculum.”
CCSI Associate Director Courtney Berrien cuts the ribbon; Roger Horne, community partner, and Alena Costume, staff member, outline the objectives of the “values-based” initiative. (Photos: Daniel Bock)
Courtney Berrien, associate director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), cut a red ribbon, officially launching the BUG. At the start of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, University Chaplain Fr. Cristóbal Torres said a blessing.
Roger Horne, director of community health initiatives at Urban GreenWorks, and Alena Costume, coordinator of health promotion and wellness at Barry, outlined the intended outcomes of the “values-based community agriculture initiative.”
Jaedyn Amaro, president of the Barry Green Team, spoke briefly during the ceremony. Members of the BUG Advisory Committee turned over the soil in a garden plot.
Dr. John Murray, provost, and Dr. Christopher “Kit” Starratt, vice provost, were in attendance.
Asha Starks, the BUG coordinator, thanked Facilities Management and Urban GreenWorks, a Barry community partner, for helping to lay the groundwork for the BUG. She also thanked service-learning faculty and students for the work they have already done.
– Glenn Bowen
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Community Engagement Awards: Nomination Deadline is January 28
The Community Engagement Awards Ceremony will be held on March 27. Last year’s recipients of the Community Partnership Award are pictured here with Dr. Karen Callaghan, dean of the
The deadline for the submission of nominations for this year’s Community Engagement Awards is fast approaching. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators are invited to submit nominations by the January 28 deadline.
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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Students, Faculty, and Staff Urged to Submit Presentation Proposals for Symposium
Students as well as faculty and staff members are urged to submit proposals for oral (podium) and poster presentations at Barry’s sixth annual Community Engagement Symposium. The submission deadline is February 1.
The theme of the symposium is “Bringing Learning to Life through Community Engagement.”
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.
Scheduled for March 27, 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 on January 28, February 18, and April 8
The Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship (FLC) will meet thrice this semester – on January 28, February 18, and April 8. The CCSI will host each meeting/seminar from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m., in Adrian 208.
Members as well as prospective members are invited to participate in the meetings/seminars.
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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