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Bowen to Begin Three-Year IARSLCE Board Term in September
Dr. Glenn Bowen, director of Barry University’s Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI), has been elected to the board of directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE). He will serve a three-year term beginning in September.
IARSLCE has more than 900 members. The association’s mission is “to promote the development and dissemination of research on service-learning and community engagement internationally and across all levels of the education system.”
Bowen has served as a proposal reviewer for the annual IARSLCE Conference and co-chaired the conference’s social justice track in 2015. In his board role, he will engage in planning strategies and programs to spur the growth of the association.
At Barry, Bowen provides strategic leadership for community engagement, encompassing faculty development programs, community-engaged scholarship, and university–community partnerships. Holding the faculty rank of associate professor, he piloted the institutionalization of service-learning and created the Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship. His work has resulted in the annual recognition of the university on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll and Barry’s attainment of the prestigious Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
Previously, Bowen was director of the award-winning Center for Service Learning at Western
The author of Reflection Methods and Activities for Service Learning, Bowen also has published several book chapters on service-learning pedagogy and civic engagement practice. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in such publications as the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, and Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
A former journalist and public relations manager, Bowen was a two-term president of the Public Relations Society of Jamaica and was appointed by the nation’s prime minister to the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO. In addition, he was elected to a five-year term on the executive committee of the Geneva-based World Federation of United Nations Associations.
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Barry Students Complete Global Development Leadership Program
Two Barry students recently completed a leadership program focused on global development. Paola Montenegro, a political science major, and Kevin Dalia, a pre-law major, participated alongside other college students who had received fellowships from the Millennium Campus Network.
Called Millennium Fellows, the student leaders took part in an eight-month program designed to improve student organizations, partnerships, and community impact while preparing them for roles in advancing global development.
The 11 Miami area Millennium Fellows gathered for 12 sessions at Miami Dade College North Campus. They attended leadership-coaching workshops, networking, and other activities designed to improve their organizational leadership and civic engagement skills.
“The fellowship was definitely valuable and worthwhile,” Montenegro, a rising junior, said. “It has opened doors for my career by allowing me to meet people who are pursuing careers that are quite admirable. The fellowship made me question what I want to do career-wise.”
One of the persons she met was a local representative of Human Rights Watch, an organization whose work she admires and would like to support. Human Rights Watch is an international nongovernmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Carine Chehab, Human Rights Watch associate director (
As the fellowship drew to a close, the Millennium Fellows participated in a pitching competition on behalf of campus-based student organizations in front of a panel of donors. Dalia pitched on behalf of Barry’s Students for the Poor.
Montenegro led a three-member Barry student team who represented Alternative Breaks, the student organization on whose executive board she serves. Joining her for the presentation were Marissa Herrod and Luis Diaz Quilotte, two Barry students who took the 2016 Alternative Spring Break trip to northwestern Haiti. The Barry team won the $250 third prize.
The pitching competition coincided with the Millennium Fellows graduation soirée. The other competitors were from Miami Dade College North Campus, Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, and the University
Both Montenegro and Dalia are Barry Service Corps Fellows participating in a civic learning and leadership development program organized by the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI). In addition, Montenegro is a Barry student ambassador and Dalia has been active in the Student Government Association.
The Millennium Campus Network is a nonprofit organization based in
Dalia attended the 2014 Millennium Campus Conference in Boca Raton, Florida, and Montenegro the 2015 conference in New York. Montenegro will participate in the 2016 conference, scheduled for August 1–5 at
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Graduate Counseling Course Designated as Service-Learning
A graduate course in the counseling program has been approved for the service-learning designation. CSL 629: Social and Cultural Issues in Counseling will carry the designation in the course schedule and on students’ transcripts.
The service-learning component of the three-credit course requires that students select a community agency where they will provide service and initiate a relationship with agency personnel before they embark on their service. The service-learning project is expected to support the agency in advancing its mission and particularly in achieving its social justice or advocacy goals.
Counseling is an academic program of the Adrian
The service-learning component of the newly designated course calls for students to provide 10 to 15 hours of service and to engage regularly in reflection on their experience. Students will share the results of the entire service-learning experience in a professional presentation toward the end of the semester.
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Next Newsletter Issue Scheduled for July 25
The next issue of Engagement News is scheduled for July 25, the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has announced.
Barry students’ participation in the Federal Work-Study Community Service Program during the 2015–2016 academic year will be highlighted in that issue.
Regular weekly issues of the newsletter are scheduled to return on August 22, the first day of classes for the 2016–2017 academic year.
The Department of Brand Marketing and Communications publishes Engagement News on behalf of the CCSI.
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CCSI Newsletter
Posted On : July 11, 2016
