CUPS Recognizes the Nominees and Awardees for the 2011 Engaged Scholarship Awards
On
May 3rd, the CUPS office announced the recipients of its Engaged
Scholarship Awards at the 7th Annual CUPS Recognition Reception.
Nominations were judged on the quality of engaged scholarship
demonstrated in courses between Spring 2010 and 2011 semesters.
The Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award was presented to Alex Finn,
an active member of the Dewey House for Civic Engagement. As a
student in the Civic Engagement and Self-Reflection course, Alex has
demonstrated outstanding commitment to service beyond course
expectations.
The Outstanding Community Partner Award was awarded to Peter DeGraff of Otter Creek Engineering,
who worked enthusiastically with students from CDAE 171 "Community and
Economic Transformation" to create successful community-based water
systems projects in Honduras.
The Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award was awarded to Shelly Rayback,
Geography, for her exemplary partnership with The Nature Conservancy on
a dendrochronology project in the LePlatte Rivermarsh Natural Area.
The inaugural CUPS Outstanding Achievement Award was presented to long-time CUPS supporter, collaborator, and passionate friend Janet Bossange.
Nominees were also honored:
Outstanding Service-Learning Student
Alex Finn
Caitlin Shelburne
Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty
Jacquelyn “JB” Barna, Social Work
David Kestenbaum, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
Shelly Rayback, Geography
William "Chip" Sawyer, Community Development and Applied Economics
Kimberly Wallin, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
Deane Wang, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partner
Peter DeGraff, Otter Creek Engineering
Vicky Smith & Gabriella Strouse, King Street Center
Outstanding Achievement Award
Janet Bossange, College of Education and Social Services
Spring 2011 Engaged Scholarship Planning Grants
Service-Learning
Planning grants support the development of new initiatives or
partnerships that will result in service-learning or community-based
research in the future. Spring 2011 grants have been awarded to Cecilia Danks and Graham Leitner (RSENR) for building community-based forestry projects at Harwood Union High School, Cynthia Reyes (Education) and Bill Clark
(Winooski Middle School) to support a digital research project with
English Language Leaners (ELL) at Winooski Middle School, and Thomas DeSisto and Kelly Hamshaw (CDAE) for developing a holistic assessment model for the CDAE 186 Saint Lucia international service-learning experience.
2011 Service-Learning Faculty Fellows
The Faculty Fellows for Service-Learning Program
recruits faculty members from across UVM to participate in a seminar
each Spring to build service-learning pedagogy into courses. Carol Buck-Rolland (Nursing), Binta Colley (Education), David Conner (CDAE), Larry Forcier (RSENR), Jed Murdoch (RSENR), David Raphael (RSENR), Anju Dahiya (PSS), and Bethany Rice
(Education) completed the Spring 2011 seminars, and join a community of
over 70 trained faculty members at UVM. Faculty members apply to
the Program, are given a small professional development fund, and are
expected to inject service-learning into at least one of their courses
after finishing the program. In its first ten years, the program
has graduated more than 70 Faculty Fellows who have gone on to teach
more than 125 service-learning courses, involving over 3000 students.
The CUPS Office supports implementation of 5 Service-Learning courses
UVM faculty members are invited to apply for mini-grants of up to $1,000 to cover expenses associated with altering an existing course to include service-learning pedagogy, developing a new course involving service-learning activities, or initiating a long-term service-learning project or partnership.
Jay
Ashman (CDAE), Anju Dahiya (P&SS), Walter Kuentzel and David
Kestenbaum (RSENR), Walter Poleman (RSENR), and Don Ross (P&SS)
have all committed to creating new service-learning
opportunities at UVM. The CUPS office is supporting the
implementation of these new courses by awarding $3,750 in
Fall 2010 Service-Learning Implementation Grants
to these faculty members. These proposals are judged on the
quality of both the projects and partnerships proposed, as well as
evidence of innovation and creativity.
2009 Recognition Reception: Award Winners and Nominees
Recognizing Community Engagement at UVM
Faculty, Students, and Community Partners Recognized for
Outstanding Community Partnerships
On
April 28, 2009, those who have been committed to service-learning and
deepening university-community connections will be honored at the CUPS
office annual recognition reception. This year’s nominees and winners
come from all different disciplines across UVM’s campus. They are a
group of dedicated and hard working individuals whom without
service-learning would not be what it is at UVM today.
Service-Learning
classes have existed at UVM for many years; they integrate
community-based projects with course content so that one aspect informs
and guides the other. The CUPS Office was founded in 2003 to promote to
support active, collaborative UVM-Community partnerships, high quality
service-learning, and community-based scholarship. Since that time, the
number documented service-learning classes per year has more than
tripled. In the 2008-2009 academic year, for example, more than 60 UVM
courses integrated community-based learning elements. Momentum in
Community-Based Research has followed suit, with increased numbers of
faculty participating in research that is designed and carried out in
collaboration with community partners.
The CUPS
Annual Recognition Reception recognizes faculty, students, and
community partners who have excelled in creating community-based
learning opportunities that both enhance student learning and meet real
community needs. Awards have been presented annually for the last 6
years. The following nominees will be honored at the 2009 ceremony:
Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award:
Winner:
Julie Richards, for her success in her Social Work classes including
Social Work Practice in India, an international course.
Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award:
-Winner: Michael Haulenbeek, for his work as a service-learning TA in ENVS 195/NR 185: Systems Thinking for Sustainability.
Nominees:
-Connor McFadden, Social Work
-Leanne Avery, Social Work
-Hung Mai, Graduate Assistant in College of Education and Social Service
-Sarah Sterling, Community Development and Applied Economics
Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partner Award
-Winner: Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger
-Winner: Joyce Shaw, St. Barnabas Anglican School in Cayo, Belize
Nominees:
-Orchard Elementary School
-Saraswati Mandir Trust
-Women Helping Battered Women
-Women’s Rape Crisis Center
-New Sudan Education Initiative
In
addition to these awards, the event will also feature a
service-learning photo contest and a showcase of community-based
projects.
For more information on the Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning, visit www.uvm.edu/partnerships.
2009 UVM Faculty, Students and Community Partners Receive Statewide Civic Engagement Awards
Professors
Jay and Meg Ashman of UVM's Department of Community Development and
Applied Economics have been honored with the 2009 “Excellence in
Community-Based Teaching” award by Vermont Campus Compact. Presented at
a conference on April 1, 2009, this award recognizes a faculty member
who has made public service an integral part of their teaching, to the
benefit of both students and community. Founding faculty directors of
the Belize Semester Abroad in Sustainable Development, the Ashmans were
honored as a team for their long-term dedication to crafting
experiences that make a meaningful impact on the local community and
have a lasting impact on student learning. In addition to their work in
Belize, Jay has been involved in programs in St. Lucia and Meg
regularly teaches her strategic writing class as a service-learning
course with partners in and around Burlington. As one student said of
the Ashmans, “I have never before worked with professors as committed
to their program and to their students…my time studying in Belize would
not have as much meaning if it were not for the support and guidance I
received from Jay and Meg.”
Nick Balfour, a sophomore at
UVM, was named UVM's student winner of the Commitment to Service and
Engagement Award. Presented to one student on each Vermont Campus
Compact member campus, this award recognizes the breadth and depth of
each student's community engagement. Nick's involvement ranges from his
status as a Vermont Community Service Scholar, to alternative spring
break and 1st year orientation leadership, to leadership in the Dewey
House for Civic Engagement. Nick was honored as a sophomore for both
his involvement to date and his potential as a future leader of
community engagement across campus.
Professor Ernesto Mendez
(Plant and Soil Science) was named as a finalist in the “Engaged
Scholar” category for his work in supporting community-based
participatory research at UVM, and for his long-term dedication to
community participation in his agro-forestry research. Mendez is a
founding member of the Community Participatory Action Research Network
(CPAR) founded to further support this research approach at UVM and
supported by the Office of Community-University Partnerships and
Service-Learning (CUPS).
In addition, UVM had the honor of
nominating a community partner who has made a commitment to partnering
with the University to enhance student learning while providing
meaningful service to the community. We were honored to recognize the
Chittenden County Emergency Food Shelf for their work with the new UVM
“Campus Kitchens Project.” Their partnership and investment has been
pivotal to the successful launch of this program which incorporates
student leadership, community service, and service-learning all in the
name of increasing food systems sustainability.
Faculty Selected for 2008 Fellowship Program in Service-Learning
Each
year, the office of Community-University Partnerships selects a small
number of faculty members to participate in the Faculty Fellows for
Service-Learning seminar program. This program engages faculty in
three intensive days of training in January followed by a semester of
one-on-one support and a concluding seminar in May. This program
has trained more than 60 faculty members in service-learning pedagogy
who have gone on to teach courses involving thousands of UVM students
with local, regional, and national community partners.
The following faculty members have been selected to participate in the in the Spring 2008 program:
- Ken Bauer, Community Development and Applied Economics
- Linda Berlin, Nutrition and Food Sciences
- Don Ross, Plant and Soil Science
- Kimberly Wallin, Forestry/Natural Resources
Fall 2007 Service-Learning Implementation Grant Awardees:
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of this fall’s Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Four projects will be
receiving grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in integrating
service-learning pedagogy into courses. A new grant cycle will offer
further funding in April 2008.
- Ken Bauer, Community Development and Applied Economics
Bauer’s
students in Applied Research Methods (CDAE 250) will work with Mercy
Connections, a local nonprofit agency, to conduct a qualitative and
quantitative evaluation of the outcomes of their Women’s Small Business
Program. Specifically, they will work to understand the impact
that this program has had on women who have completed it. Funds
will be used to support a research assistant who will support data
collection and processing; the grant will also allow the Center for
Rural Studies (a partner in this endeavor) to host the survey and
database online.
- Nancy Welch, English; Julie Roberts, Communication Science; Emily Manetta, Anthropology
Professors
Welch, Roberts, and Manetta have created a Problem-Based
Service-Learning Community titled “Communicative Competencies in a
Multi-Literate World.” Students will concurrently enroll in 2-3
cross-disciplinary courses to explore the study of linguistics, issues
of literacy, and language use. They will apply their learning in
a project with the King Street Youth Center helping to create “King Street Voices,” a blog that represents the diverse experiences of King Street
youth. The grant will fund materials and supplies for creating
multimedia portions of the blog as well as a workshop for teens and UVM
partners on elements of good storytelling.
- Matthew Carlson, Political Science
Students
in Professor Carlson’s Asian Politics classes often take part in
service-learning projects with local schools. This grant will be
used to help Carlson develop a long-term partnership with an Essex
school in order to create a more sustainable and lasting
relationship. Carlson hopes that this long-term relationship will
not only be more practical, but also provide a means for increasing and
deepening contact between UVM and K-12 students.
- Ernesto Mendez, Plant & Soil Science/Environmental Program
Professor Mendez will use his grant funding to continue to pursue a long-term partnership with key actors in El Salvador
around conservation and coffee. Mendez has taken students to
these communities for international service-learning courses, and now
plans to bring representatives from this community to UVM to
participate in strategic planning efforts around sustaining this
partnership. Goals include networking with other UVM offices that
might partner with these colleagues, developing plans for
multi-semester, multi-discipline coursework; and hosting several public
events.
UVM Faculty, Staff, and Students honored at Statewide Vermont Campus Compact Gala 2007
Dr. Mary Watzin, Professor in the Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources and Director of the
Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory, has been named the 2007 winner
of the Vermont Campus Compact Campus Engaged Scholar Award. This
distinctive award honors one faculty member in Vermont
for making community engagement an integral part of his/her teaching
and research, and recognizes the innovative or important use of
knowledge for the public good.
In addition, Carrie Williams Howe,
Associate Director of the UVM Office of Community-University
Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS) is the 2007 statewide winner
of the Campus Leadership for Civic Engagement Award. This award
recognizes one staff, faculty, or administrator who has strived toward
a vision and the institutionalization of service and/or civic
engagement; supported faculty, students, and partnerships; and advanced
public service on the campus.Â
Vermont
Campus Compact (VCC), a statewide consortium of colleges and
universities strengthening the civic mission of higher education, each
year honors students, faculty and staff, and community agencies with
whom they partner, for their contributions and impact on Vermont
communities through campus service, service-learning and/or civic
engagement. All winners and finalists were honored at the VCC Gala on Thursday, March 29, at the Vermont State House in Montpelier.Â
Other UVM winners include student Nathaniel Moore, who has been named a 2007 winner of the TD Banknorth Commitment to Service and Engagement Award. Bonnie Acker and Abbie Nelson
have been named as UVM’s Engaged Partner Award winners for
2007. This award is given to one community partner per VCC
member institution that has worked with a campus to develop and sustain
a lasting partnership. In addition, UVM students Allison Black-Foley and Ryan Farran were named as finalists for the statewide Madeleine M. Kunin Public Service Award, and Professor Julie Richards from the Department of Social Work was named as a finalist for the Award for Excellence in Community-Based Teaching.
2007 Outstanding Service-Learning Award Winners & Nominees
On April 26, 2007, the University of Vermont
celebrated another year of community engagement and service-learning at
its Annual Recognition Reception. This reception, which was
hosted by the Office of Community-University Partnerships and
Service-Learning (CUPS), highlighted the work that is being done to
infuse curriculum at UVM with a value of civic participation by
recognizing the outstanding contributions of faculty, community
partners, and students in creating and implementing service-learning
projects and programs. University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel and Provost John Hughes were present to help honor the following awardees:
- The 2007 Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award was presented to Nancy Hayden,
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering for her efforts to
infuse the entire engineering curriculum with hands-on, experiential
opportunities designed to truly meet the needs of partnering
communities. Other faculty nominees included Nancy Brooks (Economics),
Jackie Weinstock (Integrated Professional Studies), and Nancy Welch
(English).
- Valerie Esposito, PhD student in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, received the Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award for her performance in multiple roles as service-learning student, service-learning TA, and PhD researcher.
- Recycle North and The Williston Conservation Commission were dually recognized with the Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partner Award.
The ReCycle North YouthBuild program (Deborah Shelden and Ethan Maurer)
partnered with a graduate level career and lifestyle counseling
course. The Williston Conservation Commission has a history of
partnering with UVM, and most recently Carrie Deegan and Gary Hawley
partnered with a place-based landscape analysis course. Other
community partner nominees included Kate Strotmeyer (UVM Student Life)
who worked with graphic design students, and Anya Schwartz and Peggy
Curtis of the King Street Youth Center who have worked with multiple UVM courses.
All
of the above awardees were given the chance to designate a financial
honorarium to the nonprofit of their choice in recognition of this
honor.
Spring 2007 Service-Learning Implementation Grant Winners
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of the Spring 2007 Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Two projects have received
grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in integrating
service-learning pedagogy into their courses. A new grant cycle will
offer further funding in Fall 2007. This semester's awardees include:
- Ernesto Mendez
(Environmental Studies/Plant and Soil Scient) - to fund planning
efforts toward institutionalizing a participatory action research
partnership in El Salvador.
- John Hayden
(Plant and Soil Science) - to fund the creation of a community garden
in a partnering community in the Dominican Republic as part of a
long-term service-learning project.
Fall 2006 Service-Learning Grants and Fellowships
Eight University of Vermont
faculty members have been selected as spring 2007 service-learning
Faculty Fellows by the Office of Community-University Partnerships and
Service-Learning (CUPS). This semester's fellows are: Richard
Watts, RSENR; Jennifer Jenkins, RSENR; Joshua Farley, CDAE; Mike
Snyder, RSENR; Ximena Mejia, Counseling; Monica McKenna, RSENR; Mandar
Dewoolkar, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Marjan van den Belt,
Public Administration.
The
CUPS Offices is also proud to announce the winners of this fall’s
Planning & Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Five
projects will be receiving grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them
in integrating service-learning pedagogy into their courses. A new
grant cycle will offer further funding in April 2007.
Fall semester awardees include:
- Scott A. McLaughlin- History: This
grant will help fund the equipment and materials costs for a shipwreck
simulation that is being created for ANTH 195: Archaeological
Education. Those involved in this SL class will have the opportunity to
incorporate real world learning from actual artifacts from the Sloop Island
wreck. The simulator will be available as part of a traveling
curriculum for use by UVM and other educational institutions in the Champlain Valley.
- Jan Decher, PhD- Biology: Funding as been provided to help the faculty member to explore the potential creation of a Faculty-Led Study Abroad program to Ghana at the Ankasa National Park.
This course will enable students to collaborate in conservation
and education efforts with the Ghana Wildlife Society and villages
affected by their projects.
- Nancy Brooks- Economics: This grant will be used to enable economics students to work with the Community and Economic Development Office (CEDO) in Burlington to learn about urban economic theory as it applies to local development.
- Gary Flomenhoft - CDAE: Students in the newly developed semester-abroad program in Belize
will participate in community and environmental projects revolving
around the theme of sustainability that will complement their
semester-long curriculum. This grant will contribute to the costs
associated with incorporating a service-learning project-based course
into their curriculum.
- Christina S. Melvin - Nursing: In
this service-learning course, students from the Nursing department will
partner with the Winooski Wellness Project to deliver health screening
and testing services to residents of low-income housing.
- Julie Richards, MSA- Social Work: Students
in the Social Work department may soon have the ability to take part in
a Faculty-Led Program Abroad working with the Jewish Community in India.
Funding has been provided to assist the faculty member in developing a
relationship that will allow for the development of a long-term
service-learning partnership with this community.
- Ximena Mejia- Integrated Professional Studies: This
grant aims connect graduate students in a career counseling course with
clients at local agencies who are exploring career and lifestyle
choices. Students will work with the clients to complete career
inventories and explore decision-making options.
Spring 2006 Service-Learning Grants and Fellowships
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of the Spring 2006 Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Five projects have received
grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in integrating
service-learning pedagogy into their courses. A new grant cycle will
offer further funding in Fall 2006. This semester's awardees include:
- Mandar Dewoolkar,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, who will integrate
service-learning into his Geotechnical Design course by having students
work on projects related to the foundational design and repair of
historic structures.
- Joshua Farley,
Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working with a
group of students and faculty on a service-learning course that will
travel to Ethiopia in summer 2006. The group will help to conduct a
2-week conference which will bring together stakeholders and experts in
order to conduct an ecological economic impact assessment of critical
ecosystem services.
- Scott McLaughlin, History, who will be teaching a course on small museum curation in partnership with the Jericho Historical Society.
- Kazuko Suzuki,
Japanese, who has formed a partnership with educational institutions in
Japan; students from UVM will travel to Japan in Summer 2006 and
present to local elementary schools on US and Vermont Customs and
Traditions.
- Sasha Davis,
Geography, who is taking a course to Vieques, Puerto Rico in summer
2006 to conduct a geological mapping project for the re-development of
the island after extensive bombing practices.
Nine faculty were also accepted to the Spring 2006 Faculty Fellows for Service-Learning Seminar.
These faculty began their training in January 2006 and continued throughout the Spring 2006 semester. They are:
- Sarah Abrams (Nursing)
- Matthew Carlson (Political Science)
- Jeff Frolik (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Lynn Gregory (CDAE)
- Matt Kolan (Natural Resources)
- Scott McLaughlin (History/Anthropology)
- Donna Rizzo (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- Kazuko Suzuki (Asian Studies)
- Amy Trubek (Nutrition and Food Sciences)
Each of these faculty members has committed to teach a service-learning course within one year of completing the training.
2006 Oustanding Service-Learning Awards
Each
year, the Office of Community-University Partnerships and
Service-Learning hosts a "Recognition Reception" to honor the dedicated
work of those who participate in service-learning partnerships.
Nominations are accepted from a wide group of stakeholders, and winners
are chosen by a representative committee.
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Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty Award Winners:
- Daniel Baker, Community Development and Applied Economics
- Eileen Burgin, Political Science
Outstanding Service-Learning Student Award Winner:
- Kelly Hayes, Natural Resources/Community Development and Applied Economics
Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partner Award Winners:
- Julie Graham, Chamberlin Elementary School / America Reads and Counts
- Linda Shaw, Copley Hospital
Five Faculty Awarded Fall 2005 Planning and Implementation Grants for Service-Learning
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of this fall's Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Five projects will be
recieving grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in integrating
service-learning pedagogy into their courses. A new grant cycle will
offer further funding in spring 2006.
This semester's Awardees include:
- Meaghan Emery - Romance Languages
Professor Emery recieved this award to be used in three separate French
courses undertaking a variety of service-learning activities, including
a project that partners with local Congolese high school students.
- Jeff Frolik - Electrical and Computer Engineering
This
grant will be used to develop a partnership between Professor Frolik's
first-year engineering design course and local K-12 schools. UVM
students will create interactive displays on engineering concepts in
collaboration with local youth.
- Rick Paradis - Environmental Program
This grant will be used for Professor Paradis's course Comparative
Mountain Systems Ecology and Conservation: New England and Scotland.
The course will compare environmental conservation efforts in mountains
in New England and Scotland; the course will partner with conservation
associations in both geographic areas.
- Matt Kolan - RSENR
Students in NR 206: Environmental Problem Solving and Impact Assessment
take on service-learning projects each semester to address what they
see as problems in the local community. A fund will be created for
students to apply for sub-grants to support the projects that they
develop.
- Roulef Boumans - RSENR
This grant will be used in Professor Bouman's Local Economics Seminar
to analyze available local buying programs, and to write a business
plan for a solution to fill the gaps.
2005 Outstanding Service-Learning Awards
Each
year, the Office of Community-University Partnerships and
Service-Learning hosts a "Recognition Reception" to honor the dedicated
work of those who participate in service-learning partnerships. This
year, there were more than 20 individuals and partners nominated for
these three awards, representing a diverse range of disciplines.
Outstanding Service-Learning Faculty:
- Jon Erickson, Rubenstein School
- Patricia Erickson, Animal Sciences
- Gary Flomenhoft, Community Dev. and Applied Econ.
- * Walter Poleman, Botany / Field Naturalist Program
- Julie Richards, Social Work
- Sheila Weaver, Mathematics and Statistics
- Jackie Weinstock, Integrated Professional Studies
- Nancy Welch, English
Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partner:
- Monica Greene, Alburg Revitalization Committee (ARC)
- Steve Hagenbuch, Audubon Vermont
- Erin Talmage, Birds of Vermont Museum
- Lindsey Ketchel, The Intervale
- * Rhonda Barr, People in Partnership
- * Megan Camp, Shelburne Farms
- SUNY-ESF Engineers without Borders
- Vermont Natural Resources Council
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
Outstanding Service-Learning Student:
- *Alvin Chan, CDAE / Engineering
- John Demeter, Public Administration
- Kendall Kahl, Community Dev. and Applied Econ.
- Matthew Kolan, Botany
- Monique Priestly, Computer Science
* winner
Nine Faculty Awarded Spring 2005 Planning and Implementation Grants for Service-Learning
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of this Spring's Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Nine projects will be
receiving grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in integrating
service-learning pedagogy into their courses. A new grant cycle will
offer further funding in Fall 2005.
This semester's awardees include:
- Garet Allen-Malley, Education
- Lisa Chase, Extension / Natural Resources
- Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, Geography
- Ann Greenan-Naumann, Physical Therapy
- Fred Magdoff, Plant & Soil Science
- Rycki Maltby, Nursing
- Bob McCullough, History / Historic Preservation
- Christina Melvin, Nursing
- Yuichi Motai, Engineering
CUPS Announces Faculty Recipients of Service-Learning Grants
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of this fall's Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Seven projects will be
receiving grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in injecting
service-learning pedagogy into their courses. A new grant cycle will
offer further funding in Spring 2005.
The faculty winners of the Fall 2004 Planning & Implementation Grants for Service-Learning are:
- Mary Canales and Judy Cohen (Nursing)
to create service-learning opportunities for graduate nursing students
enrolled in a new course - Policy, Organization, and Financing of
Healthcare - through partnerships with local health care organizations
that would benefit from policy research, policy-writing, legislative
assistance, etc.
- Susan Comerford (Social Work)
to integrate a service-learning component into a social welfare policy
practice course. The service-learning project will help students to
become familiar with the process of policy formulation and policy
analysis through key partnerships with legislative bodies and/or
nonprofit human service agencies.
- Jane Mekkleson (America Reads and Counts/Education)
for improvements to the service-learning elements of the America
Reads/Counts program and the Education seminar in which literacy tutors
participate.
- Roulef Boumans and Saleem Ali (Gund Institute)
to provide equipment that will help to facilitate a partnership between
the Gund Institute and Chulalongkorn University in Peru. The
partnership will explore conflict resolution, and will help to provide
ecological, economic, and social welfare evaluations of potential
construction and maintenance of gas pipelines through remote areas of
Peru.
- Fran Kahn (Learning Cooperative)
to improve the service-learning element of a course cross-listed with
Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) and Human
Development and Family Studies (HDFS) called "Finding Community Voice."
The course will most likely partner with the Vermont Refugee
Resettlement program and the Visiting Nurses Association to address the
needs, and find the strengths, of a growing population of Congolese,
Sudanese and Bantu Somali refugees.
- Ellen Marsden (RSNER)
to create a service-learning project between students in Ichthyology
(the study of fishes) and ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain.
The project will help ECHO to create programming for visitors through
student presentations.
- Charles Rathbone (Education)
to create a mentoring project between middle school students in
Burlington and UVM students in EDEL 24 - Learners and the Learning
Process - that fosters exploration of diverse cultures and diverse
learning styles.
2004 Outstanding UVM Faculty and Community Partners Honored at Spring Reception
The
UVM Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning
(CUPS) proudly named its first annual Outstanding Service-Learning
Faculty and Outstanding Service-Learning Community Partners, at a
ceremony on April 28. Both honors carried monetary awards.
Faculty Winners:
- Bob Costanza and Jon Erickson from the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Faculty nominees:
- Dan Baker
- Phyllis Bronstein
- Mary Canales
- Bob Costanza
- Jon Erickson
- Josh Farley
- Tom Hudspeth
- Erica Hurwitz
- Chris Koliba
- Kathleen Liang
- Willard Morgan
- Yuichi Motai
- Diane Peterson
- Walter Poleman
- Richard Schramm
- Patricia Stokowski
- Sheila Weaver
- Jackie Weinstock
Community Partner Winners:
- Celia
Cuddy, The Women’s Rape Crisis Center, nominated by both Suzy Comerford
and Julie Richards (Social Work) and the Virginia Mullen, Senior Art
Guild, nominated by Fran Kahn of The Learning Coop.
Community Partner Nominees:
- Alliance for Climate Action
- American Lung Association
- Baird Center for Children and Families
- Burlington Community & Economic Development Office
- Burlington Community Justice Center
- Burlington Electric Department
- Burlington Food Council
- Burlington Legacy Project
- The Center for Rural Studies
- Champlain Elementary School
- Charlotte Central School
- ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
- Edmunds Middle School
- Edmunds Middle School PTO
- Food Works
- Intervale Foundation
- King Street Youth Center
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont
- Senior Art Guild
- Shelburne Farms
- South Burlington School District
- Vermont Education for Sustainability Project
- Women’s Rape Crisis Center
2004 Service-Learning Planning and Implementation Grants
The
Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS)
is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Planning &
Implementation Grants for Service-Learning. Seven projects will
be receiving grants of up to $1000 from CUPS to aid them in injecting
service-learning pedagogy into their courses:
The winners of the mini-grants are:
- Jan Carney (Medicine)
- Josh Farley (Community Development and Applied Economics)
- Gary Flomenhoft (Community Development and Applied Economics)
- Christina Melvin (Nursing)
- Yuichi Motai (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- Jane Petrillo (Diane Gayer, Kathleen Liang) [Community Development and Applied Economics]
- Walter Poleman (Botany)
UVM Faculty, Students, and Staff honored by Vermont Campus Compact
- Commitment to Service Student Award Winner: Laura Megivern
- Community Impact Student Award Winner: Laura Sforza
- Engaged Staff Award Finalist: Courtney Lamontagne, CUPS Associate Director
- Excellence in Linking Community with Academics Finalist: Richard Schramm, UVM CDAE
- Engaged Scholar Award Winner: Lynne Bond, CUPS Director, UVM Psychology Department
For more information about these awards: Campus Compact Spring Gala Awards (Spring 2004)