Thanks go to faculty who used service-learning in their
2008-09 courses
From the Office of Service-Learning
In 2008-09, faculty involved in service-learning pedagogies engaged their students in the lived experience of academic concepts.
These faculty members contextualized learning and expanded the walls of their classrooms to encompass: Twin Cities high schools, programs for single mothers and their children, organizations delivering meals to people living with HIV/AIDS, domestic violence shelters, mental health facilities, legal clinics, a native Hawaiian school, an agribusiness network in Mali (to name just a few).
The Office of Service-Learning recognizes and thanks all of the faculty who taught courses using service-learning this year: 26 individual faculty from 13 departments who offered 55 sections of 31 courses, in partnership with a wide variety of community organizations:
- Elise Amel, PSYC 342: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Tonia Bock, PSYC 203: Psychology of Adolescence
- Lauren Braswell, PSYC 428: Counseling and Psychotherapy
- Sheila Brommel, SOWK 402: Generalist Practice for Social Change
- Carol Bruess, Kris Bunton, Tom Connery and Wendy Wyatt, COJO 111: Communication and Citizenship
- Susan Callaway, ENGL 190: Critical Reading and Writing; ENGL 300: Theory and Practice of Writing; and ENGL 300 Theory and Practice of Writing for Center for Writing Consultants
- John Del Vecchio, BLAW 301: Legal Environment of Business
- Dina Gavrilos, COJO 470: Advertising and PR Campaigns
- Heidi Giebel, PHIL 354: Biomedical Ethics
- Steve Hansen, CISC 200: Introduction to Computer Technology and Business Applications
- Angela High-Pippert, POLS 205: Introduction to the American Public Policy Process
- Kelli Larson, ENGL 112: Critical Reading and Writing II
- Jill Manske, BIOL 490: Topics: Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Jennifer McGuire, ESCI 310: Environmental Problem Solving
- Amy Muse, ENGL 111: Critical Reading and Writing I
- Susan Myers, THEO 101: Christian Theological Tradition; and THEO 359: Women in the Early Church
- Jack Nelson- Pallmeyer, JPST 250: Introduction to Justice and Peace Studies
- Debra Petersen, UMAIE: Hawaii: Multicultural Communication in Diverse Organizations
- Ernest Owens, MGMT 384: Project Management
- Roxanne Prichard, PSYC 401: Physiological Psychology
- Tim Scully, COJO 360: Videography: TV Production in the Field; and UMAIE: Hawaii: Multicultural Communication in Diverse Organizations
- Arkady Shemyakin, MATH 314: Mathematical Statistics; and MATH 333: Applied Statistical Methods
- Susan Smith-Cunnien, SOCI 498: Mali Agribusiness Network
- Phil Stoltzfus, JPST 250: Introduction to Justice and Peace Studies
- John Tauer, PSYC 151: Cross-Cultural Psychology
- Mary Twite, THEO 215: Christian Morality
- Kimberly Vrudny, THEO 200: Christian Belief: Ancient and Contemporary; and IDSC 480: Community Action and Social Change
- Lisa Waldner, SOCI 210: Research Methods in Sociology; and SOCI 220: Sociological Analysis
Many thanks as well to the members of the Service-Learning Advisory Board, who support and facilitate community-based learning from every corner of the university:
- Meghan Allen Eliason, director, Center for Intercultural Learning and Community Engagement
- Barb Baker, program manager, Service-Learning
- Kathy Bredesen, office manager, Legal Services Clinic, Interprofessional Center
- Carol Bruess, associate professor, Communication and Journalism
- Kate Caffrey, director, Tutor-Mentor Program
- Barbara Gorski, director, Business 200
- Mary Hernández, office coordinator, International Education Center
- Susan Spray, director of corporate and foundation relations
- Tim Scully, associate professor, Communication and Journalism
- Nancy Utoft, director of community relations, School of Divinity
- Kimberly Vrudny, associate professor, Theology
- Doug Warring, professor, Education
