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March 26, 2018 |
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Three Community Partners to be Honored at Community Engagement Awards Three of Barry’s community partners will be honored at the Fifth Annual Community Engagement Awards on March 28. The Community Partnership Award will be presented to the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, MCCJ, and the Women’s Breast & Heart Initiative.
The Community Partnership Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between the university and community organizations that produce measurable improvements in people’s lives while enhancing higher education.
In addition to community partners, students and faculty members will be among those publicly recognized for their community engagement participation, contributions, and achievements.
The Fifth Annual Community Engagement Awards will be held on March 28, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., in Room 111 of the Andreas Building on Barry’s Miami Shores campus. This event will follow the Community Engagement Symposium, which is scheduled to end at 4 p.m.
Nadinne Cruz, a service-learning pioneer and former director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, will be the guest speaker at the Community Engagement Awards.
A recipient of the National Society for Experiential Education’s Service-Learning Pioneer of the Year Award, Cruz also received the National Youth Leadership Council’s Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award, the California Campus Compact’s Richard Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Citizen Scholar Award.
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Registration for Wednesday’s Community Engagement Symposium Remains Open
Registration for Barry University’s Fifth Annual Community Engagement Symposium remains open. The event will be held this Wednesday, March 28, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Barry’s main campus in Miami Shores.
The symposium consists of six sessions: an opening session at 9:30, workshop, concurrent presentation session, lunch-time seminar, poster session, and closing session at 3:30.
“Demonstrating Social Responsibility through Experiential Learning” is the theme of the symposium.
The symposium supports the implementation and assessment of Barry’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), “Fostering Personal and Social Responsibility through Experiential Learning.”
Here is a link to the registration site: <http://www.barry.edu/community-engagement-symposium/?bypass=true>. For additional information regarding registration, contact the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) at service@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Barry Students Participate in Alternative Spring Break in Haiti and Texas
Rather than spend spring break frolicking on the beach or staying at home with family and friends, two groups of Barry students took the community service alternative. One group went to northwestern Haiti, the other to Hidalgo County in Texas.
In Haiti, students Presler Maxius, Brittany Okoh, Dai’Jonnai “DJ” Smith, and Amani Wright served alongside Dr. Sean Buckreis, assistant professor of education; Courtney Berrien, associate director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), and Asha Starks, a Barry alumna currently assigned to the CCSI as an AmeriCorps VISTA member.
In Texas, students Grace Adams, Caomie Archelus, Lourdyne Blaise, Wills Compere, Anel Ramirez, Paris Razor, and Giscar Ternelus rendered service with two community partners: Catholic Charities’ Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen and Proyecto Desarollo Humano (Human Development Project), or PDH, in Peñitas.
Dr. Victor Romano, associate vice provost for student success and undergraduate studies, and Liz James, experiential learning coordinator, accompanied the students on the Alternative Spring Break trip to Texas.
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) coordinates Barry’s Alternative Breaks. The program, which includes Alternative Spring Break, provides students with transformational learning experiences while contributing to community partnership development and advancing social justice in regional and international settings.
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Faculty, Staff, and Students Urged to Support Barry FairShare Project
Faculty, staff, and students are urged to purchase produce, eggs, and honey in support of Barry FairShare.
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has developed the project in partnership with Urban GreenWorks, a Miami-based environmental and food-access organization.
Barry FairShare purchases provide revenue directly to South Florida farmers, encourage healthy eating among young people, and support efforts to eradicate food deserts in low-income neighborhoods of Miami-Dade County, including Liberty City and Little Haiti.
Harvested from sustainable small farms, all produce is non-certified organic.
“Participants may purchase full or half shares of assorted seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs sourced from a cooperative of South Florida farmers,” said CCSI Program Coordinator Asha Starks. “A Barry student share is also available and includes produce items that can be prepared easily in a residence hall.”
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Organizers Urge Continued Support for Box Tops for Education Drive
The organizers of Barry’s Box Tops for Education Drive are urging continued support from staff, faculty, and students. The goal is to collect 1500 Box Tops “clips” (or cuttings with the Box Tops logo) this academic year.
Proceeds of the project benefit two South Florida elementary schools – North Miami in Miami-Dade County and Sheridan Hills in Broward. The schools earn 10 cents for each Box Tops clip.
The Minority Association of Pre-health Students (MAPS) organizes the Barry’s Box Tops for Education Drive with support from the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI).
Dr. Stephanie Bingham, the MAPS advisor, has reminded potential contributors that participation is easy: “Simply identify the Box Tops logo on household products you already purchase, including many grocery items, and cut the logo from the packaging. You may submit your Box Tops in the donation boxes on campus.”
Box Tops clips may be dropped in the labeled boxes found in the CCSI office (Adrian 208), the Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library, and Thompson Hall. Alternatively, donations may be sent directly to Bingham 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>.
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Forum on Fracking in Florida Taken Off This Year’s Schedule
The forum on fracking in Florida has been taken off this year’s schedule, the CCSI announced last week.
Part of the Deliberative Dialogue Series, the forum was scheduled on April 10.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process in which a highly pressurized solution of chemicals and water are used to fracture and dissolve rock to free up and collect petroleum resources such as oil or natural gas locked below the ground. Environmentalists say fracking poses enormous dangers to food and water supply, air quality, and soil, and therefore to human health and welfare.
For information on Deliberative Dialogue forums, contact CCSI Associate Director Courtney Berrien at cberrien@barry.edu or 305-899-4017.
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Variety of Community Engagement Literature Available in CEMS
A variety of community engagement literature is available through the Community Engagement Management System, or CEMS. Among the literature are books and book chapters, journals and journal articles, manuals, and fact sheets.
The literature may be accessed directly from the “Resources” section of CEMS.
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Community Engagement News
Posted On : March 26, 2018
