Summary of Campus Issue Profiles 

  Service  |  Academic Work  |  Education & Training  |  Capacity Building  |  Deliberative Democracy 

Specific Issue Areas

• Literacy support
• GED
• Citizenship
• College access and retention
• Immigrant and refugee education (English as a Second Language - ESL)
• Broad practical education / vocational training
• Links to other areas like mental health, crime, etc. 

Types of Service   short-term  |  ongoing school year  |  summer

One-time or short-term:

•  book drives, awareness weeks

Ongoing School Year and Site-based Teams

• Community Garden for refugees
  • Community garden started for former refugee families in housing development
  • Service-learning project involving students in Russian class working in community garden and conversation
  • Refugees participate in Politics of Russia course; conversation over lunch and college tour 
• ESOL/Citizenship tutors:  
  • 50 students work as tutors each semester, drawn from six exiting courses
  • Project SHINE (Students Helping in Naturalization of Elders)
  • ESOL on campus began partial credit tutor certification and full-credit teaching ESOL certification
• Prison/jail tutoring programs
• Peer adult education programs, such as peer-to-peer literacy education, math, and reading tutoring
• Bonner Leaders manage team of tutors at each literacy site; Student Literacy Corps (Maryville College)

   

Advocacy and Direct Action:  

• Blount County literacy council board
• Refugee policy issues
• MN Dream Act
• MN Grant Program Day at the Capitol

Summer:

• Community Garden Internship (recruit students to fill in as tutors)
• Lilly Summer Fellowship

Academic Work   courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes

Courses and Programs of Study

• Service-learning project involving students in Russian class working in community garden and conversation
• Refugees participate in Politics of Russia course; conversation over lunch and college tour
• ESOL tutor certification program or teaching certification (see above)
• Upper-level Spanish courses
• Literacy courses (such as Literacy Core)
• Introduction to Women's Studies and Global Feminism course
• Program Evaluation courses
• Social Change and Advocacy courses

Departments and Institutes

• American Studies
• Education
• English
• Government
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Urban Studies
• Women's Studies
• Writing curriculum; GED and job training course links

CBR and Other Service-Learning Projects

• Forum/needs assessment with Burmese women
• Needs assessment with housing development
• Evaluation of literacy projects
• Best use of limited funding for literacy policy research
• Project SHINE: Temple University

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

• Forums or awareness weeks on immigrant/immigration issues
• Trainings available through SCALE 
• Bringing in speakers and workshops for ESOL groups

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building   training  |  fundraising  |  resource development

• Campus assists with Refugee Center in community
• Meeting space on campus for groups; lunches provided
• Students/staff help lead/facilitate retreats for community partners
• Staff development grants
• Work study positions
• Ongoing student volunteer positions 
• Nonprofit certificate program (community residents can participate)
• VISTA positions, assigned to relevant community partners
• Campus development office

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy

• Proactive and preventive measures for native literacy
• Refugee/immigrant resolution of trauma to move forward
• Issue briefs for Presidential Administration for this topic 

Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)

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