CCSI Newsletter

CCSI Newsletter

CCSI Names Service-Learning Faculty Fellows for 2014-2015

 

The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has named Dr. Judith Malek-Ismail and Dr. Raymond Ward as the service-learning faculty fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year.

 

Malek-Ismail (DHS, University of Indianapolis) is an assistant professor of occupational therapy in the College of Health Sciences. She won the Instructor of Distinction award for teaching excellence at Keiser University in 2007.

 

Ward (PhD, Boston College) is an assistant professor of theology in the College of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award at Boston College in 2009.

 

Service-learning fellows develop and coordinate seminars and workshops on service-learning and community-based research; provide consultation to faculty in designing or revising courses and syllabi to include service-learning; and create or modify a course to include a service-learning component, with plans to teach the course either during the fellowship or within one year after the fellowship. They also assist in identifying university courses that are potential candidates for service-learning integration and participate in the Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship.

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Faculty Learning Community Seeks New Members

 

The Faculty Learning Community for Engaged Scholarship (FLC) is seeking new members.

 

The FLC is an interdisciplinary group of faculty members who engage in an active, collaborative, yearlong program focusing on the scholarship of engagement. Also known as community-engaged scholarship, the scholarship of engagement integrates work in the areas of teaching, research, and/or service that addresses community issues. The FLC provides an intellectual venue in which faculty can exchange ideas with an academically diverse group and learn from one another’s experiences. Members become familiar with the tools and resources needed to implement community-engaged scholarship successfully.

 

Faculty members interested in joining the FLC should contact CCSI Director Dr. Glenn Bowen, gbowen@barry.edu.

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Chapman Partnership Recognizes CCSI for Volunteer Contributions

 

Barry University’s Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) recently received a certificate of appreciation from Chapman Partnership for volunteer contributions to the agency.

 

The agency publicly recognized the CCSI for its “dedication and contribution to the least, the last and the lost of Miami-Dade County.”

 

CCSI Associate Director Courtney Berrien attended the agency’s Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon at the Coral Gables Country Club in Coral Gables.

 

Chapman Partnership helps homeless people by providing a comprehensive support program that includes emergency housing, meals, health care, job training and placement, and assistance with securing stable housing.

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Faculty and Staff Urged to Contribute Box Tops

 

Faculty and staff members are urged to contribute box tops as part of the campus-wide collection drive that is still underway.

 

For each box top – from groceries and household products – that is donated, North MiamiMiddle School will receive a 10-cent contribution toward much-needed supplies. The Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students (MAPS) has placed collection boxes in various locations on campus, including the CCSI office, Adrian 208.

 

For further information, contact Dr. Stephanie Bingham, the MAPS faculty advisor, at sbingham@barry.edu.  

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Conference Proposal Deadline is This Friday

 

The deadline for submission of workshop and poster session proposals for the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Campus Compact Conference is this Friday, May 16.

 

The mission of the conference is to advance institutional and community engagement for the public good. Scheduled for October 15-17 in Jacksonville, Fla, the conference will highlight the 50th anniversary of the Civic Rights Act. The conference theme is “Moving Us Forward: Fifty Years On: From Civil Rights to Critical Engagement.”

 

Further information is available from Eastern Region Campus Compact.

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CCSI Newsletter Schedule

 

The CCSI Newsletter is being published less frequently until the start of the new academic year, in August. The next issue will be published on May 26. Other issues will be out on June 9 and 23, July 14 and 28, and August 11. Regular weekly issues of the newsletter will resume on August 25.

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