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From: Mindy Nierenberg <mnierenberg@massart.edu>
To: Community Service Directors Listserv <csdlist@compact.org>
Subject: Re: your mail
Kim- I began a program last year that is very similar to what you are
describing, at the Massachusetts College of Art. This September will be
our second annual Service
Learning Day, which is a full day discipline-based(in our case,
art)community service project, which includes planning activities,
educational pre-site discussions, five hours onnsite, relection, and
each group presenting a synopsis of their experience with the whole group.
350 new entering students are divided up into 16 groups. Each group was
led by a 4 person leadership team of a faculty member, staff member, and
two student leaders(all volunteers) The 16 staff members ranged from the
President of the College, to a facilities worker, to the Bursar. Faculty
were from many different departments. The day was considered a component
of Orientation, and was the first Saturday after classes began. Examples
of projects were: painting an underwatersea life mural on an abandoned
wading pool
in the middle of a public housing development(and we got the city to fix
the plumbing to make it usable!); painting a map of the world and
international hopscotch games on an asphalt schoolyard at an inner-city
elementary school; painting a mural of hope in an underground tunnel at a
homeless shelter for 400 people who walk the tunnel to get from their beds
to the cafeteria.
The day began at 8a.m. with two speakers- alocalcommunity activist named
Mel King and a community artist named Sidewalk Sam. They were
extraordinarily inspiring. Theindividual groups did last minute
planning(they had met before), and then each of the 16 groups were
transported to their site. They returned 5and a half hours later. Each
group then met for an hour for reflection, and then presented to the whole
group. There was then a barberque and celebration dinner, over at 8p.m.!
The day was a complete success but an enormous amount of work in every
way. I raised all the money needed to fund it($16,000). People
were
overwhelimingly positive and still are about the day. One of the most
difficult aspects was getting the faculty to volunteer- last year in June
we only had 8 out of the needed 16. This year, by April 25, I had all 16
faculty volunteers in place, both repeat people and new ones.I don't have
time to go into more detail, but if you or anyone else is interested, I'd
be glad to answer questions, either by phone or e-mail. I'll be giving a
workshop at the international FYE Conference in Dublin which will provide
the details and how you could use our program as a model. I may also give
a workshop at the National Orientatio Director's Conference in Austin,
Texas in the Fall.
Hope this helps- best of luck!
Mindy Nierenberg
Associate Dean of Students
Massachusetts College of Art
621 Huntington Ave Boston, Ma 02155
617-232-1555 ext.. 511
mnierenberg@massart.edu
On Mon, 4 May 1998, by way of Maria Monteiro wrote:
> The University of Vermont is beginning to design a service opportunity for
> as many as 1500 first year students during the first or second weekend at
> UVM. THe purpose is three fold.
> 1) Expose the students immediately to the Burlington community
y> 2) Make a strong link between faculty and students and the academic
value > of service
> 3) To provide students a service experience within their first couple weeks
> at UVM.
>
> Ideally this program design would integrate faculty, community agency
> representatives and student leaders to implement the program. This
> service experience would be MORE than a three hour service 'project'. The
> faculty would add an educational component and the community agency members
> would provide an in-depth orientation to the agency and be part of the
> experience from conceptualization to implementation. Perhaps there would
> be student leaders who would develop and manage the sites and would with
> the community agencies and be supervised by a staff member at UVM. ( TO
> some this may sound similiar to either Community Plunge or an Into the
> Streets, the difference here is the academic piece!)
>
>
> So, my questions are as follows:
>
> 1. Does your institution have a program like this?
> 2. If yes, who makes this happen?
> 3. If faculty play a major role in your program, what stategies do you use
> or incentives do you have to get them on board?
> 4. How is this program funded?
> 5. How is it publicized?
> 6. Who organizes the sites? Students, staff, local agencies?
> 7. What are some challenges that you encountered with placing such large
> numbers of students in the community?
> 8. If you were to begin from the ground up on an idea like this, what
> would you do differently as a result of your experience?
> 9. Who/what departments played a major role that you would not have
> predicted would have at the beginning?
> 10. Who else would be a good contact at your university to talk about this
> program?
>
>
> Thanks for answering these questions and playing a role in UVM actively
> linking more faculty with the student service experience.
>
> Kim
>
> Kimberly Penharlow
> Coordinator of Community Services
> Billings Student Center
> Department of Student Life
> University of Vermont
> phone:802-656-2060
> fax: 802-656-7731
>
> " What you learn intellectually lies in the shallow pools among the
> wrinkles of your brain. What you learn through the skin of experience
> sinks deep into your roots."
> Hank Taft
>
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