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Dwight Giles will be Lead Presenter at Third Annual Symposium
Dr. Dwight E. Giles, Jr., professor of higher education at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will be the lead presenter at Barry University’s Third Annual Community Engagement Symposium on March 30. He will lead a morning and an afternoon session.
Currently also a senior associate at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), Giles was a founding member of the National Peer Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement.
He has co-authored numerous publications on service-learning and community engagement. His books include Where’s the Learning in Service- Learning? with Janet Eyler and Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future with Timothy K. Stanton and Nadinne I. Cruz.
A former faculty member at Vanderbilt University, Giles was a co-recipient (with Janet Eyler) of Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning in 2003. He also won the Distinguished Research Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in 2009 and was the 2014 recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Society for Experiential Education.
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Barry Law Students Participate in 67 Community Service Events
Student organizations at Barry
Community service events included a local lake and beach cleanup, a feed-the-homeless event, and a clothing drive, reported Brian Sites, the Center for Community Service Initiatives’ (CCSI) community engagement liaison in Orlando.
Rotaract, the Rotary-sponsored service club, logged more than 50 hours of community service. Angela Meador, president of the club, completed an additional 150 hours of service to the community, including more than 40 hours of pro bono service as a guardian ad litem.
The Veteran Legal Society raised $1,849.31 through its annual “Kiss the Pig” event to benefit injured veterans, and the Women Lawyers Association raised $842.89 to support the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides initiative. Additionally, the Student Bar Association donated $500 to Santa’s Peacekeepers, the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund raised $1,410 for the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando, and Students Against Sexual Assault contributed $81.64 to Harbor House of Central Florida. Students at the School of
Sites, an assistant professor of law and faculty administrator of experiential learning and of legal research and writing, also reported: “The four law clinics continue to work with the community daily. Those clinics are the Juvenile Defense Clinic, the Immigration Clinic, the Environmental and Earth Law Clinic, and the Collaborative Family Law Clinic. Students participating in these clinics and the law school’s externships and other programs play a vital role in serving our community.”
Several other community service events are scheduled for later this semester. For example, the School of Law is gearing up again for the VITA program, Sites said. Through this program, students assist local community members with preparing tax forms.
Early preparations are also underway for the school’s mission trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, scheduled for May.
Next month, the school will support the Women Lawyers Association’s Seventeenth Annual Silent Auction. The auction raised almost $7,000 in 2015 and has raised approximately $100,000 over the years, benefiting Harbor House of Central Florida.
Community engagement liaisons assist the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) with planning, monitoring, assessing, and reporting community engagement activities. For further information on the contributions of the liaisons, contact CCSI Associate Director Courtney Berrien at cberrien@barry.edu or 305-899-4017.
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City of Hollywood Council Hosts Barry-Organized Workshops
This Tuesday evening (Feb. 23), the City of Hollywood’s African American Advisory Council will host a workshop on civic involvement as part of a workshop series organized by
The workshop, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., in the City of Hollywood Commission Chambers at
On February 9, Dr. Nichole Castater, associate professor of finance, conducted a workshop titled “Financial Literacy: Managing Your Personal Finance.” Each workshop participant received a copy of Protecting Your Financial Future: A Sourcebook for Budgeting, Lending, and Credit, by Dr. Philip H. Mann, Rose Marie McClung, Selen Turner, and Joe G. Lahoud of the Barry Institute for Community and Economic Development (BICED).
For further information on the workshop, contact CCSI Director Dr. Glenn Bowen at gbowen@barry.edu.
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Service-Learning Workshop Scheduled for March 2
The next service-learning workshop for faculty is scheduled for Monday, March 2. “Community-Based Research as Service-Learning” is the topic of the workshop, which will be held from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. in the Center for Community Service Initiatives, Adrian 208.
The registration site is http://goo.gl/forms/uYaxSTXe5f
For further information, contact either of the service-learning faculty fellows – Dr. Ligia Mihut, lmihut@barry.edu, or Dr. Raul Machuca, rmachuca@barry.edu – or the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI).
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Observance of 40 Days of Peace Ends this Friday
Barry University’s observance of 40 Days of Peace will end this Friday (Feb. 26). Events on the schedule include two community service projects.
Students and staff members will participate in PACT’s (People Acting for Community Together) North Rally on Monday (Feb. 22) at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Miami Gardens (21311 NW 34th Avenue). Barry participants will gather in the Landon Student Union at 6 p.m. in preparation for the rally, which is scheduled to begin at 7:30.
The purposes of the rally are to build support for legislation that will keep youth from unfair incarceration and to promote efforts to fund housing for homeless people in Miami-Dade
PACT is a “direct action” organization that hosts large community assemblies where public officials are encouraged to adopt solutions to serious issues. The Miami Shores-based organization identifies issues through an extensive “listening process” involving its more than 1,500 members drawn from 37 congregations and two universities.
Students will participate in service projects with the Little Haiti Optimist Club on Wednesday (Feb. 24) and Gang Alternative on Thursday (Feb. 25). Participants will head to the service sites at 2:30 each afternoon.
As a 40 Days of Peace activity, students wrote messages on specially designed postcards for delivery to veterans in appreciation of their military service. The postcards will be sent to the Miami Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System.
With more than 1.6 million veterans, Florida has the third largest population of
Also on the 40 Days of Peace schedule are two film screenings. Students attended the screening of American Sniper and Sin Nombre.
American Sniper, the American biographical war film, prompted a discussion of some of the effects of military service, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, and challenges faced by disabled veterans.
"The film is an eye-opening reality that exemplifies what many military soldiers and their families have to go through," said Sha’novia Warren, a social work student.
Sin Nombre explores immigration issues. The Spanish-language film, whose title means "Nameless," tells the story of a Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster who are united on a journey across the Mexico–United States border.
Barry University has been observing 40 Days of Peace since January 18, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Students were encouraged to sign a peace pledge and to perform daily acts of peace.
The CCSI has been coordinating Barry’s 40 Days of Peace observance, with support from Campus Ministry and the Center for Student Involvement in the Division of Student Affairs, the School of
For additional information, contact the CCSI at service@barry.edu or 305-899-3696.
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Support Women in Distress by Participating in Saturday’s 5K Walk and Run
Barry students and faculty/staff volunteers have an opportunity to support Women in Distress this Saturday, February 27, when the 17th Annual Safe Walk and Run 5K will be held at Nova Southeastern
Women In Distress is the only nationally accredited, state-certified, full-service domestic violence center serving Broward County, Fla. The center’s mission is “to stop domestic violence abuse for everyone through intervention, education and advocacy.”
Services provided by Women In Distress include a 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter program, individual counseling, support groups, and professional training aimed at educating the community on domestic violence. The services are offered, free of charge, to victims of domestic violence regardless of race, sex, age, religion, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, immigration status, or language spoken.
“All walkers, runners, and families are welcome to join our survivors, as we celebrate them for living a healthy relationship where Love Doesn’t Hurt,” said Karlene Chung, associate director of development at Women in Distress. “We know with your help we can reach our goal of raising $150,000 to provide support services, counseling sessions, therapy and 2,000-plus nights of safe shelter to survivors and their families escaping abusive situations.”
The registrationsite is http://widbc.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1040&pg=entry
The volunteer site is http://www.womenindistress.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/SW-Volunteer-Registration-Form.pdf
For answers to questions about Saturday’s event, contact Eileen Trower at 954-760-9800, ext. 1245, or etrower@womenindistress.org.
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CCSI Newsletter
Posted On : February 22, 2016
