Middlesex County College

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CAMPUS NAME AND ADDRESS

2600 Woodbridge Ave

Edison, NJ

www.middlesexcc.edu/democracyhouse

CAMPUS AT A GLANCE (brief description)

We're the perfect choice if you're looking to explore different fields of study, jump-start your career, or make your own path to a Bachelors Degree and beyond.

Middlesex County College partners with students to make the College experience exciting and rewarding. Small classes, leading edge studies, great resources like our many computer labs, lots of student activities and faculty who are there when you need them to open new worlds.

Our Mission

The mission of Middlesex County College is to provide access to an affordable, quality education for diverse students and to promote lifelong learning opportunities to strengthen the economic, social and cultural life of the community.

KEY FACTS

Location: 30 Minutes from Princeton, NJ; 45 minutes from New York City

Enrollment: Approx. 10,000 full-time and part-time

Other interesting tidbits:

BONNER PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

DEMOCRACY HOUSE

Name of Campus-Wide Center: Democracy House, located in History and Social Behavior Dept.

Relevant website: www.middlesexcc.edu/democracyhouse

Bonner Leader Program

Year Began: 1995

Bonner Program website: www.middlesexcc.edu/democracyhouse

Number of Bonner Scholars/Leaders: 30

Active in Bonner AmeriCorps Ed Award: 25

Active in Other AmeriCorps Ed Award:

Active in Learn & Serve CBR: Yes

Active in FIPSE Civic Ed Certficate/Minor:

KEY CONTACTS

President: Dr. Joann La Perla-Morales

Center Director: Kevin McGowan

Bonner Director: Kevin McGowan

Bonner Senior Intern(s): Jasmine Bundy, Liana Orazi

Bonner Congress Representatives: Michael Austerlitz, Garima Singh, Ruth Orellana, CJ Staples, Peter Cipparulo, Yicell Hodge, Rebecca Shield

Other:

MORE ABOUT US (our partners, trips, structure, best or unique practices)

Democracy House at Middlesex County colleges partners with organizations throughout the Edison, Perth Amboy and New Brunswick areas to provide them with service work from our Bonners. Our Partners include: Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen, PRAB, 21st Century, Rartian River organizations, and many more.

This past academic year at Democracy House, our corps members delved into a wide variety of service, trainings and campus wide inititaves that helped to strengthem them individually, as well as the program itself. In April, we hosted a Holocaust Speakers Forum, entitled, "The Holocaust and Israel" in which Tova Friedman, a well known survivor told the story of her time leading up to Auschwitz as well as her time there and final transition to Israel. Following her was Daniel Rosenfeld, a former member of Democracy House who participated in March of the Living through the Birth Right program which sends young Jewish people to Israel and Poland and/or Germany who have not been there before. His portion on the program focused on his experiences and how the linkage of the Holocaust to Israel today is of much signifigance. The basis of the program was to help students and adults gain knowledge of the horrible events that took place in Europe, Israel's state today and how we can create and maintain peace in the world through looking at these events and situations.

Also in April, Democracy House hosted a river clean up along the raritan river in which students from Middlesex County College, our program, Rider, The College of New Jersey and others who wanted to help extracted garbage and other items from a section of the river which flows through Middlesex County. Before the actual cleanup, we hosted workshops in which students learned about their impact on the environment and how we can make a difference in the earth's state.

Overall, this past year was a great one for Democracy House in which many students took leadership roles as Bonners. Many students came up with ideas for fundraisers and participated in them. Others showed amazing willingness to serve their community through our work with our community partners. Through service, events and training, 2007-2008 was an amazing year.

You also want to:

1) Review the rest of the profile and edit it for accuracy, add photos, and so on.

2) Click on the link below to take you to a second wiki page where you can submit a more extended program report as part of your Annual Report.

ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Click here to complete next wiki-based portion of Annual Report.

2009 ANNUAL REPORT OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

2009 Annual Report

Student Leadership Planning:

Click here for Congress Leadership Plans:

Middlesex Congress Action Planning

SPRING 2009 INITIATIVES

Serve 2.0

Staff Point Person for project: name - email
Student Point Person for project: name - email
Planning to submit mini-grant proposal: yes - no
Bonner Program or Campus-Wide Wiki status: created - not created; if yes, provide URL
Participating in Bonner Video Project: yes - no
- Student BVL (Bonner Video Liaison) contact info posted on link: Bonner Video Liaisons
- Need a Flip Cam? (we can provide one per campus): yes - no
See useful links: Serve 2.0 Resource Wiki | Mini-Grant RFP

BWBRS

Using BWBRS 3.0: yes - no - comment
Need for additional training: yes - no - for whom
See useful links: BWBRS 3.0 Help Guide

Bonner AmeriCorps

Please list the contact information of the staff and student interns who manage your AmeriCorps Paperwork:
- Note: due to the audit and the transition to BWBRS 3, all current AmeriCorps Managers will be scheduled for an AmeriCorps Management Training for 2009 within the first few weeks of the semester. Please schedule this phone call with your Foundation Program Associate as soon as possible.
Spring Enrollments 2009: Please complete this survey right away: AmeriCorps Survey
Please note: This survey is for the Spring semester slots only. It does not matter if your campus had previously requested slots and have "left overs." Please fill out this survey to specify how many members your campus will enroll this semester. If you do not want slots, they should fill it in with zeroes. We will be sending out a Summer and Fall request as well, so this is only for this semester.

Issue-Based Research

What issue(s) working group will your campus focus on (in preparation for SLI 2009)?
- general issue area
Specific topic for issue brief (see Research Guide for help to work with partner in defining):
- specific issue brief topic (define by February)
Lead contact people for project (staff and/or students, community partner agency):
- names, titles, phone numbers, emails
See useful links: PolicyOptions Wiki | Campus Implementation Guide