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Local Food Systems Course Development Grants available
Oct 27th
The Office of Service-Learning is offering course development grants over the next three years for faculty interested in developing or redesigning undergraduate courses with a service-learning component for inclusion in the new Local Food Systems Certificate program. All permanent, full-time instructional faculty from any UGA school or college are eligible to apply. 2011-12 applications will be accepted until May 31, 2012 and are funded on a rolling basis. Funds for this fiscal year must be spent by September 30, 2012.
Funds for course development grants are provided through a three-year USDA (NIFA) grant to develop an interdisciplinary Local Food Systems (LFS) certificate program. The LFS certificate provides UGA students a unique academic opportunity to explore the economic, political, social and cultural aspects of local food systems. A significant component of the grant proposal for the LFS certificate is to develop more academic service-learning opportunities focused on local food issues.
Download guidelines and an application here.
Nominations for Service-Learning Excellence Awards Due November 1, 2011
Sep 15th
The Office of Service-Learning (OSL) is seeking nominations of outstanding UGA faculty for the 2012 Service-Learning Teaching Excellence and Service-Learning Research Excellence Awards. NOMINATIONS ARE DUE TO THE OSL BY NOVEMBER 1, 2011. All full-time, permanent UGA faculty members in any career track are eligible for nomination. Award recipients receive a $2,500 faculty development award. Nominations by deans and department heads, faculty colleagues, or self-nominations will be accepted. Nomination packets and guidelines are available here.
For questions, please contact Dr. Shannon Wilder, Director, Office of Service-Learning at 706-542-0535 or swilder@uga.edu.
REMINDER: Service-Learning Interest Group Meeting 9/22/11
Sep 15th
A Service-Learning Interest Group (SLIG) meeting will be held from 3:30-5:00 PM, Thursday, September 22, 2011 in the Office of Service-Learning Conference Room. Our topic this quarter is “Community Engagement Hubs for Service-Learning,” and we will be joined by many individuals working with service-learning efforts related to our engagement hub themes for 2010-11. The “OSL Engagement Hubs” is a new initiative providing connections to projects and opportunities for developing service-learning partnerships related to three themed areas: community food issues, Latino initiatives, and K-12 connections. SLIG welcomes all faculty, staff, students, and community members interested in service-learning and community engagement information sharing and networking.
PARKING AND LOCATION
The Office of Service-Learning is located at 1242 1/2 S. Lumpkin St. across the street from the track in a small brick building in the W12 parking lot behind the Fanning Institute. There are 3 visitors spaces available. In addition, parking passes for the Georgia Center deck will be provided. The Milledge bus line also runs right by the OSL.
Eight University of Georgia faculty members named 2011-2012 Service-Learning Fellows
Sep 5th
(front row, from left) Silvia Giraudo, foods and nutrition; Katherine Melcher, environment and design; Michael Marshall, photography; Maritza Soto Keen, Fanning Institute; (back row, from left) Jon Calabria, environment and design; Jennifer Hauver James, elementary and social studies education; Montgomery Wolf, history; and Jennifer Martin Lewis, environment and design.
The Service-Learning Fellows program, now entering its seventh year, provides an opportunity for faculty members from a broad range of disciplines to integrate academic service-learning into their professional practice. Fellows meet regularly throughout the academic year and receive an award of up to $2,500 to develop a proposed service-learning project.
The 2011-12 Service-Learning Fellows, their respective academic fields, and projects are:
Jon Calabria, Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Calabria’s project will integrate service-learning into a graduate studio course (LAND 6030: Nature and Sustainability) focusing on green infrastructure on and off campus.
Silvia Giraudo, Associate Professor, Foods and Nutrition
Giraudo plans to develop, implement and assess programs focused on prevention of childhood obesity among the Latino population in conjunction with a First Year Odyssey Seminar.
Jennifer Hauver James, Assistant Professor, Elementary & Social Studies Education
James’s service-learning project entails development of a First Year Odyssey Seminar (Learning with Young Children) and assessing how students and teachers reflect on their efforts to build community and meet children’s needs.
Jennifer Martin Lewis, Public Service Program Coordinator, Center for Community Design & Preservation
Lewis plans to assess the impact on students and community partners of the community design charrettes developed as service-learning projects by students and faculty in the College of Environment and Design.
Michael Marshall, Associate Professor, Art
Marshall’s project integrates service-learning into the photography curriculum via a special topics course (ARST 4210/7210) for undergraduate and graduate students, allowing them to integrate their photographic skills into community contexts.
Katherine Melcher, Assistant Professor, Environment & Design
Melcher will develop a graduate-level independent study course (LAND 6911) focusing on design-build work in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity and Athens Garden Club during which students design and construct an outdoor gathering space.
Maritza Soto Keen, Public Service Associate, Fanning Institute
Soto Keen will work with the Office of Service-Learning and community partners to develop a set of orientation materials for faculty and students interested in engaging with the Latino community through service-learning.
M. Montgomery Wolf, Lecturer, History
Wolf will work with the Global LEAD program to enhance service-learning in study abroad programs (FCID 3900S, Service-Learning and the Arts) with students in South Africa, Ecuador, and Greece.
Academic service-learning integrates organized service activities that meet community-identified needs into academic courses as a way to enhance understanding of academic content, teach civic responsibility, and provide mutual benefit to the community. The Office of Service-Learning is jointly supported by the Office of the Vice President for Instruction and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach.