Summary of Campus Issue Profiles 

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

Specific Issue Areas

• Accessibility
• Basic Needs Provisions
• Distribution of Resources and Tax Policy
• Educational Access
• Fair Wages and Living Wage 
• Healthcare (Affordable, Universal) and Mental Health Issues
• Privilege and Oppression
• Social Justice
• relationship to other areas, such as Economic Development, Hunger & Homelessness

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

One-time and Short-term

• Orientation/Broad Scale Service Days (MADD, UC Berkeley)
• Repair Fair (Union)
• Personal Finance Classes for community residents
• Income Tax Preparation Services

   

Ongoing School Year and Site-based Teams

• Boys and Girls Clubs
• Habitat for Humanity programs
• After-school programs for low-income children
• Clean water access programs
• Sliding scale medical clinics
• Microfinance programs for low-income families and communities (loans to start small businesses)
• RESULTS chapters 

   

Summer and Other 

• Internships in New Orleans doing anti-poverty work and community economic development in wake of Hurricane Katrina
• internships with organizations like RESULTS on advocacy strategies for eliminating poverty through public policy 

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

Courses and Programs of Study

• Civic Engagement Minor (includes coursework on poverty)
• Public Policy and Community Service Major (Emory & Henry) - educates students to deconstruct and change systems of policy
• Shepherd Poverty Program (Washington & Lee) - major in poverty with intensive coursework and practical front-line experience

Departments and Institutes (add examples of courses in each discipline)

• African-American Studies
• Anthropology
• Biology / Health
• Economics
• Ethnic Studies
• Political Science
• Public Policy
• Sociology
• Spanish

CBR and Service-Learning Projects

• Cal in Local Government:  involves students in CBR project and longer-term internship in state government
• Watershed projects (Union)
• Studies of link of obesity and poor nutrition to poverty 
• CBR training for faculty to develop relevant course connections and projects (Siena)
• Social Inequalities course includes 'inside out' initiative with prisons (Berry)

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

• RESULTS provides links to many resources useful for education, such as:
  • Reports based on research - "Enduring Neglect"
  • Education and action tool - monthly actions that any citizen can take
  • Studies on variety of subtopics connected to poverty reduction (tax policy, health care access)

     

• Some campuses have done extensive community tours and asset mapping activities, having students better understand the conditions of poverty that exist in the surrounding area

   

• Activities such as Oxfam Hunger Banquets and other simulations about global and domestic poverty engage students in thinking about the distribution of income

   

• Workshops and series can teach students about promising strategies for poverty reduction; many of these may be drawn from internationally focused efforts, such as those by the Grameen Foundation (Grameen Bank, see links above) or organizations connected to the ONE Campaign. 

• We need more information here about what types of workshops and activities are being used to teach and discuss poverty and poverty reduction more systematically (is it always connected to topics like Homelessness, for example, or are there examples being used by Bonner Programs and related coursework) 

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

• Some campuses have engaged their resources in creating a variety of organizations and initiatives that contribute to the fair distribution of resources and provision of basic needs.
  • Emory & Henry College has helped create a sliding scale health clinic in the community, a value-added processing for local agriculture, and a creamery for local dairy farmers

     

• Some campuses have helped coordinate consortia involving campuses and other organizations to address local policies (such as Siena's work on a consortia or UC Berkeley's Center for Education Partnerships) 

   

• Some campuses are creating capacity-building workshops for local organizations that address poverty, such as grant-writing workshops, fundraising strategies, and more.

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

• Some campuses are looking to create ways in which their students (and others) can be defined in policy creation/redefinition and in helping facilitate policy involvement by local citizens (Emory & Henry is working on an initiative in this area on access to education).  

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

• List names and emails