Community & University: A Duquesne University Honors Seminar

1. Community & University:A Duquesne University Honors Seminar • Dr. Evan Stoddard • Community & University • Benjamin Shopland • Getting to Know the Community • Jamie White • Selecting & Planning the Project • Juliane Murphy • Executing and Reporting • Allison Pogue • Project Assessment

2. Community & University Dr. Evan Stoddard

3. Community & University • Honors Seminar • Substitutes for a core writing course • Writing-intensive

4. Course Objectives • Know and love the community • Research a community and its needs • Learn important skills • Writing proposals • Project management and budgeting • Writing reviews • Work productively in a diverse team • Contribute to the community • Contribute to the national dialogue on service-learning

5. The Class Professor: Resource and Coach Course: Expression of Duquesne’s Mission First Day: We get started! The semester is short to do all we want to do.

6. Getting to Know the South Side Benjamin Shopland

7. Southside is well-known to DU students • Lots to do close to campus • 1,000 commuting students live on Southside

8. A Fresh Look at Southside Our First Three Assignments: -Personal Observations -Research -Group Report -using wiki technology with Blackboard -update old report -collage of our interests • What can we offer Southside?

9. Get Out There: The Importance of Knowing the Community • Project must have value in Community • Community investment • Sustainability • Community Partners

10. Two Goals of Service Learning: • Service: Benefit to Community • Learning: Benefit to Students

11. Selecting & Planning the Project Jamie White

12. The Project: Revitalizing South Side Park • Beautification • Trail Mapping

13. Project Selection • Storyboarding

14. Gantt Chart & Budget

15. Gantt Chart & Budget

16. Project Proposal • Purpose and Result

17. Community Partners • South Side Local Development Company • South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association • PA Cleanways • Pittsburgh Public Works • Pittsburgh Trail-building Advocacy Group • Dr. Nancy Trun, DU Biology Dept • Peter Greninger, REI • Esser’s Floral • DU Honors College • DU Volunteers • Aramark

18. Executing & Reporting Juliane Murphy

19. Funding • Seed fund • $100 • Fundraisers • Pizza sale • T-shirt sale

20. Organizing the Class • Class groups • Fundraising • Volunteers • Community Partners • Advertising • Work Groups • Beautification • Trail-mapping

21. Project Results • Removed • 300 trash bags • 65 tires • 2 refrigerators • Several mattresses • Car engine

22. Project Results • Planted Flowers • Improved and mapped a major trail • Made community connections

23. Reporting: The Wiki

24. Reporting: Online Archive 1.Click here 2. Type keyword 3. Click here 4. View results

25. Project Assessment Allison Pogue

26. Lessons Learned • Sustainability • Realistic Project Choice • Time Management • Fundraising • Teamwork & Leadership • Grading

27. Role of the Instructor - Encouraged student responsibility - Granted freedom - Valuable resource

28. Student Reactions “I will take away a great experience from this course, and I am happy to have become friends with the members of our small class. I think this project effectively personalized our class with the community of the South Side and made us more aware of the people that live there and the concerns of their community.”

29. Student Reactions “I’ve learned a lot about the South Side and Pittsburgh communities in the past few months. I feel more connected to this area than ever before. It was tough to feel this way being from out of state and unfamiliar with the area.”

30. Student Reactions “As I look back on this class five years from now, I think I will remember what a great impact we were able to have on the community around us. I never realized how willing people were to help others out. The community was very willing to donate their time and money to our project.”

31. Thank you for attending our session! Any Questions?