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My Social Vision for Civic Engagement

My Social Vision for Civic Engagement. Rammy Salem. The Roots. Community Service for the Resume. Transformative Experience. Participating in UNA-USA’s HERO Program. Maybe Life is More than Just Me?. One woman dies in childbirth every minute.

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My Social Vision for Civic Engagement

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  1. My Social Vision for Civic Engagement Rammy Salem

  2. The Roots • Community Service for the Resume

  3. Transformative Experience • Participating in UNA-USA’s HERO Program

  4. Maybe Life is More than Just Me? • One woman dies in childbirth every minute. • 50% of schools worldwide don’t have access to clean water. charitywater.org • 100 people every minute pushed into poverty by economic crisis • One acre of tropical forest disappears every second

  5. Democratizing Research • Davydd Greenwood • ParticipatoryAction Research • Cyclical • Flips conventional research on its head

  6. New Vocabulary • Stakeholder • Participation • Pedagogy • Forcefield Analysis

  7. Select a discussion leader. • Select a reporter to keep track of the discussion on a flipchart to report in the subsequent plenary. • Select 2-3 items to work on by taking one full turn around the group with each person suggesting which items they would prefer to work on and then debating briefly until you can agree on 2-3 to proceed with. • Develop a force-field analysis for each item. • If you have time, look for common driving forces and restraining forces and make note of them for the plenary discussion.

  8. Public Service Center Scholars • Enrich: Project Kenya • The Problem • Majority of people live in extreme poverty in Western Kenya. • Lack of basic nutrition education perpetuates deficiencies and diseases. • People in the advanced stages of AIDS experience severe wasting. • When left untreated, malnutrition contributes to accelerated disease progression. • What We Did • Partnered with NGO called ICODEI • Held three-day education seminars on HIV prevention, general nutrition, as well as nutritional management for HIV/AIDS treatment. • Conducted research on the food nutrition status and culture of local residents

  9. We cannot win overnight. Success will require sustained action across the entire decade between now and the deadline. - Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan The Millennium Development Goals

  10. Evolution • Connecting the Cornell experience and the study-abroad experience through service learning • Service-Learning Course aimed at Study Abroad students to apply skills learned from service done abroad to the local Ithaca Community

  11. How This Would Work • Stage 1 • Select study abroad students committed to service learning and global justice • Selected participants attend workshop(s) in the semester before they study abroad • Stage 2 • Locate service-learning placement sites. • Engage in service that will support their learning about the host community and global issues. • Reflect upon study abroad experience through online discussions with fellow program participants. • Stage 3 • Students enroll in a follow up course. • Learn to link their service abroad experiences with issues affecting the world today, • Continued involvement in service in Ithaca

  12. Roadblocks • Time • Invested Faculty • Student Outreach

  13. Service Culture in the University • Civic Engagement • Subject Position • Service (-Learning) • Social (In) Justice • (Unearned) Privilege Darlene Evans Richard Kiely

  14. Looking Inward • Cornell public service community is fractured • Minimal administrative support • Competition for resources, funding, and visibility • Organizations that are involved in the community may be misinformed about how to engage in effective and mutually beneficial service.

  15. Solution • Student Assembly Public Service Committee • open to any interested undergraduate • Bring together student service organizations, Greek service projects and the Public ServiceCenter • Networking between service groups through an online hub. • Create a database of articles from service-learning groups • Online donation center

  16. Progress • Weekly Meetings • Seven drafts before approval • Contacted all identifiable campus service organizations • Over 60 Responses • Town-Gown Community Award • Creating: • a guidebook to organizations on campus • a website with up-to-date events and donation opportunities

  17. Literary Inspiration • Keith Morton’s Irony of Service • Dunlap et al.’s White Students’ Experiences of Privilege and Socioeconomic Disparities • Harkavy et al.’s Challenges of Institutionalizing Service-Learning • Bell Hook’s Engaged Pedagogy • Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

  18. Future Playgrounds for Peace

  19. Thank You

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