FW: S-L and rural community dev

For those of you who expressed interest in S-L and rural community
development, below are the referrals I rec'd.  Thanks again to all who
responded! =)

-Steve

Steven A. Henness
Grad. Research Assistant
Community Policy Analysis Center
University of Missouri
200 Mumford Hall
Columbia, MO 65211

Voice/fax - 573.882.2504
Email - sahfc6@mizzou.edu
Web - http://www.cpac.missouri.edu



1 -----
Kansas State University's Community Service Program has conducted a number
of community development projects in rural areas over the past several
years.  Contact the CSP's Director, Carol Peak, at cpeak@ksu.edu, for more
info.

Robert E. Burns, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Service-Learning
119 Campus School
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
715-836-4649 (voice)
715-836-4633 (fax)
www.uwec.edu/Admin/SL/


2 -----
You may have already heard from her regarding your question, but if not, I
would recommend contacting Michelle Ajamian, who heads up Rural Action in
Athens, Ohio.  She's a committed s-l advocate and member of the Invisible
College--she's facilitating our community dinner at this year's gathering
for service-learning educators in June.  Her email address is
ajamian@frognet.net

Best of luck,
Jennifer

* * * * *
Jennifer Guerin
Coordinator, Invisible College
312 New North
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
PHONE: (202)687-7622
FAX:  (202) 687-5445
Email:  invisiblec@georgetown.edu


3 -----
The Learn and Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has put
together a resource list on the topic of rural service-learning that can be
found at http://umn.edu/~serve/res/faqs/rural.htm.  We also have a database
of
program descriptions you can search by visiting http://umn.edu/~serve
(choose
"Databases" from our main menu, then select "Programs.")  373 K-12 programs
appear when you search for programs in a rural setting, and 3 higher ed
programs
appear when you perform that search.

I hope this information is helpful!

Andrea Roufs
Information Specialist
Learn and Serve America
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
1-800-808-7378
http://umn.edu/~serve


4 -----
We are working with a local rural school district in Britton's Neck, 
SC, to write up their experiences in service learning for our Linking 
Learning With Life series of service learning publications.  The book 
should be available in the fall. It does target K-12.

The students there built and maintain the community park and they 
also built the fire station, among other things.  Much of their work 
is led by the districts Learn and Serve Coordinator, Jerry Pace. You 
could probably find information about this on the SC Dept. of Ed. web 
page. www.state.sc.us/sde. They did a great deal to bring the 
community together to make these decisions of what they needed, and 
what each could do to meet the identified needs.

In addition, Clemson is a landgrant university so many of the 
projects our faculty work with are in rural areas of the state. There 
might be something on our web site here, www.clemson.edu/learning.

Good luck!

Marty Duckenfield
National Dropout Prevention Center
College of Health, Education, and Human Development
Clemson University
209 Martin Street
Clemson, SC 29631-1555
864-656-2599 (phone)
864-656-0136 (FAX)
mbdck@clemson.edu
www.dropoutprevention.org


5 -----
I'm coordinating the Statewide Local Government CECH-UP Program in Missouri.
This program, designed to teach middle school students about and involve
them in local government.  It has been done with St.Louis area middle
schools for four years now and, now with funding from University Extension
and Outreach, is starting to expand throughout the state.

Contact me if you want more information.

Marvin Beckerman
Citizenship Education Clearing House (CECH)
University of Missouri-St.Louis


6 -----
I would look into the National 4-H's Innovation Center for Community and 
Youth Development. They have several projects, including Bridging the Gap of

Isolation, for rural commuities to engage youth in community development. 
Depending on your definition, these activities may intersect with 
service-learning practices.  The website is www.fourhcouncil.edu/cyd/

Good luck,
Sandra Naughton
National Service Fellow
sandranaughton@hotmail.com
"examining community-based organizations engaging youth in service-learning 
during out-of-school time"


7 -----
It's not a research article, but it's an article about service-learning and
rural community development issues.  We asked Mark Lapping, Provost at the
University of Southern Maine, to write it for our rural service-learning
project.  You can find it at:

http://abacus.bates.edu/mcc/lapping.htm

Good luck, and please share other articles you may find.
Thanks,
Liz

Liz McCabe Park, Director
Maine Campus Compact
215 College St.
Lewiston, ME  04240
207-786-8216
mainecompact@bates.edu