> SERVICE-LEARNING Digest 452
>
>Topics covered in this issue include:
>
> 1) House Action on Nat'l. Service
> by pboylan@compact.org (Pam Boylan)
> 2) Re[2]: Points of Light Self-Assessment Kit.
> by Kenn_Goodrow@ambassador.edu
> 3) Diversity and s-l -Reply
> by NOTTENRITTER@AACC.NCHE.EDU
> 4) Immersion Opportunity
> by Susan Burton <sgburton@deans.umd.edu>
> 5) connections at University of New Mexico
> by Seth Pollack <pollacks@leland.Stanford.EDU> SETH, MICHAEL
>MORRIS AT UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO DOES THIS WORK--AND HE IS EXCEPTIONAL. IRA
>
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>
>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 10:52:41 -0400
>From: pboylan@compact.org (Pam Boylan)
>To: service-learning@csf.colorado.edu
>Subject: House Action on Nat'l. Service
>Message-ID: <v01510101adf4511d6e9c@[204.17.74.8]>
>
>On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will consider funding for national
>service programs for FY 1997 (October 1, 1996 start). As you'll read from
>the following note, several amendments to eliminate specific programs may
>be offered. This is a key time to support national service. If you need
>the contact info. for your Representative, please e-mail me directly rather
>than replying to the list. Be careful about following lobbying guidelines,
>especially if you're a grantee of the Corporation for National Service.
>
>June 24, 1996 Update from the National and Community Service Coalition:
>House VA/HUD Appropriation Heads to Floor -- Amendments threaten program,
>training funding, etc.
>
>The House of Representatives on Tuesday is expected to turn to
>consideration of the FY 1997 VA/HUD/Independent Agencies Appropriations
>Bill, including funding for AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America. As of
>Friday (6/21), a number of amendments had been printed in the Congressional
>Record and may be offered when the bill is considered. The Council for
>Citizens Against Goverment Waste has endorsed the elimination of AmeriCorps
>-- a program it labels a *wasteful leviathan.*
>
>Rep. Hoekstra (R-MI) may offer a series of amendments: elimination of
>funding for the Presidio Leadership Training Center, transferring Subtitle
>H funding to AmeriCorps grants, denying all VA/HUD funding for training and
>technical assistance contracts, prohibiting the use of funds for *uniforms,
>site signs, palm cards, or any other national identity activity,*
>prohibiting the award of grants to any national service program when the
>grant amount exceeds a rate of $21,000 per program participant. The
>training funding elimination would deny assistance at all levels, including
>PDAT funding for state service commissions.
>
>Rep. Brownback (R-KS) may offer an amendment transferring $352 million of
>the bill's $365 million in national service funding to the Community
>Development Block Grant, leaving Federal funding for national service in
>the bill at $15 million for FY 1997. Rep. Hoestettler (R-IN) may offer an
>amendment deleting all funding for national service programs (AmeriCorps
>and Learn and Serve America) in the bill.
>
>The amendments published in the Congressional Record do not necessarily
>mean other amendments will not be offered from the floor of the House of
>Representatives. Congress has by tradition considered appropriations bills
>under a fairly open process. The only limitation of modern times has been
>the total level of spending in each appropriation bill -- amendments to
>increase funding for specific line items is severely constrained, absent an
>offset from other program line items in the measure.
>
>House Appropriations Committee to Complete Labor/HHS Funding Bill -- Also
>on Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee was last scheduled to
>complete action on its FY 1997 Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Bill,
>including funding for AmeriCorps VISTA and the National Senior Service
>Corps. While the measure froze VISTA funding at FY 1996 levels and
>included a modest 3.5% increase for the senior volunteer programs, the bill
>appears headed for a rocky ride. Late last week, Acting OMB Director Jack
>Lew wrote the appropriators warning of a potential presidential veto unless
>elements of the bill are changed. The administration took particular
>exception to the planned termination of the Goals 2000 school reform
>initiative and restrained spending in education and student aid programs,
>including Title I compensatory education and Head Start.
>
>For more information, contact Alan Lopatin, National and Community Service
>Coalition Executive Director at 202-488-7378 or 202-488-1004 (fax).
>
>Pamela M. Boylan
>Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service
>Box 1975/Brown University
>Providence, RI 02912
>401 863-1119 401 863-3779 (fax)
>pboylan@compact.org
>
>
>
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>
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:15:19 -0500
>From: Kenn_Goodrow@ambassador.edu
>To: Bonnie Jones <bjones@ctc.ctc.edu>, service-learning@csf.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re[2]: Points of Light Self-Assessment Kit.
>Message-ID: <1ceb18f0@ambassador.edu>
>
> Bonnie and others,
>
> The address and phone number to the Points of Light
> Foundation is as follows:
>
> P.O. Box 66534
> Washington, DC 20035
> (202) 223-9186
>
> I haven't used the self-assessment kit yet, but it appears
> very interesting and useful. I am looking forward to
> applying it this fall and will report on how it goes.
>
> Kenn
>
>*************
>
>Kenn Goodrow
>
>I would be interested in getting the Points of Light Self-Assessment
>Kit. DO you know if there's an address or number that I could use to do so?
>
>Also I'm wondering if you've used the kit, and if so what your thoughts
>are on it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bonnie Jones
>
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>
>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:44:59 -0500
>From: NOTTENRITTER@AACC.NCHE.EDU
>To: EMBOWLEY@a1.stthomas.edu, service-learning@csf.colorado.edu
>Subject: Diversity and s-l -Reply
>Message-ID: <s1ce80dd.002@AACC.NCHE.EDU>
>
>Thank you Erin and Nick for the opportunity to talk
>about service and diversity.
>
>I am interested in the fact that discussions about
>diversity (which IS a huge and complex issue)
>seem to take into account important variables such
>as race, ethnicity, class, age and sexual preference
>(a new one on the scene - thank God it's finally
>arrived and is visible). What seems to be missing
>in these discussions is the factor of TIME.
>
>Here's what I mean.
>
>As continuously evolving human beings, we grow
>and change over time. Our experience of
>ourselves (and our own "differentness") and others
>(and our perceptions of their "differentness")
>changes. People can evolve from wanting (and,
>yes, NEEDING, developmentally) to be with only
>those like them. I believes this happens when the
>very nature of their being has been denied,
>repressed, rendered invisible by the culture.
>Having had that experience of being fully who you
>are, not having to fight for your very existence, you
>are then more able emotionally, cognitively,
>behaviorally and, yes, spiritually, to be with others.
>AND, you might choose to never move from that
>point of being with those who are like you. We
>need to think "both and" here.
>
>Look at the players in "service." (This will be
>extremely simplistic) The provider of the service,
>the recpient of the service - they both can be,
>developmentally, at very different places. We need
>to respect and honor where they are. We also
>need to challenge where they are. This is the crux
>of the helping relationship.
>
>Let me make an assumption. I believe that many of
>us on this listserve have ideas about the WHERE
>we want society to be - the endpoint - the goal. I
>believe that those ideas probably include a life for
>ALL participants of equality of opportunity, social
>justice, the opportunity to have basic human needs
>met and the privilege to be a part of others'
>journeys as they go about meeting their needs.
>
>Let us not forget that our collective journey towards
>this end can allow for everyone to proceed in their
>own way and at their own pace. This is the point of
>"When in Rome" "to everything there is a season"
>"timing and delivery" etc. And let us not forget the
>paradox of relationship, that by creating an
>environment in which people can be fully who they
>are, they can then move towards who they are
>destined to be.
>
>Nan Ottenirtter
>American Association of Community Colleges
>202-728-0200
>nottenritter@aacc.nche.edu
>
>
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>
>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:39:00 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Susan Burton <sgburton@deans.umd.edu>
>To: jsl@csf.colorado.edu
>Subject: Immersion Opportunity
>Message-ID: <199606241939.PAA08631@Onyx.deans.umd.edu>
>
>
>One of the pre-conference institutes during the 1996 ACPA Conference was an
>urban immersion experience in Fells Point (Baltimore) -- specifically
>interacting with and trying to understand the dynamics which impact people
>who are homeless. This is a great SERVICE-LEARNING experience that Loyola
>College does with their students a couple of times each semester.
>
>Tabitha Gray (from George Washington Univ.) and I are pulling this together.
>If you have friends/colleagues at other colleges/universities in the area
>who you think would like to participate, please feel free to forward this
>message. We have to LIMIT the number particpating to 8, so let me know as
>soon as
>possible if you are interested.
>
> DATE: Sat., July 20th - Sun, July, 21st
> TIME: 8am (meet at Pratt Library in Baltimore) through 12noon on Sunday
> *carpooling will be arranged
> COST: $25 to cover food, lodging, etc.
> PLACE: Beans and Bread, Fells Point
>
>If you have any questions or want additional information, please call me at
>(301)405-3283.
>
>Take Care,
>
>Susan
>Susan G. Burton
>Asst. Program Coordinator
>Women In Engineering Program
>(301)405-3283
>
>'If you are coming over to help me, don't bother, but if you are coming
>because you believe your liberation is tied to mine, please join me.'
>
>
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>
>Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 17:22:22 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Seth Pollack <pollacks@leland.Stanford.EDU>
>To: service-learning@csf.colorado.edu
>Subject: connections at University of New Mexico
>Message-ID: <199606250022.RAA09644@elaine10.Stanford.EDU>
>
>Hello All,
>
>We are wondering if anyone on the list knows of service-learning
>activists at the University of New Mexico? We have some young
>people in Taos involved in local community service projects,
>and are looking for routes to affiliate their work with academic
>study.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Jean-Louis Bourgeois and Seth Pollack
>People For Taos Stanford University
>
>
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>
>End of SERVICE-LEARNING Digest 452
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