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

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

• Short-Term = Students from two Comp Lit courses, Near Eastern Folklore and Korean Literature and Film, spent time in an impoverished elementary school through the West Side Project's Youth Development: Adopt-A-Class program.  The Near Eastern Folklore students read condensed Near Eastern folklore and interacted with the younger students through active discussion, drawing and games.  The Korean Literature and Film students discussed North Korea's improbable march to the 1966 World Cup Quarterfinals with older students participating from the Advantage After-School program.  Additionally, volunteers from two Hispanic Studies courses regularly visited Kernan, where they read to the children Spanish short stories and poems and taught them basic Spanish phrases.  Faculty members are excited to continue the Adopt-a-Class Program next year.      
• Ongoing school year = Five Bonner Leaders are placed in Youth Development sites, and three are in the elementary and middle school identified with the West Side Project. 
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• Fall 2009 update
• Students from Cultural Anthropology and Child Development courses are volunteering from their service-learning courses at Bonner sites -- YWCA Y-Girls program, Kernan Elementary School and the Underground Cafe (both after-school programs, elementary and high school) and Thea Bowman House, a day-care and after-school care facility.  Approximately 26 students are a part of the Youth Development Project in the Levitt Center.  Also, international students in an ESOL Fundamentals of Composition class will make 5 presentations (in groups) about their countries and cultures to the elementary school students in the after-school program.
• Stefanie Russel is planning a "pen pal" project between Hamilton students and 3rd graders in the after-school program.

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

Spring 2009

• Service Learning Courses: 

  CPLIT 126W01 Adventure and Magic in Near Eastern Epic MWF 10:00 - 10:50 (Oldfield):  Reading condensed Near Eastern folklore to Utica elementary school students. (Project Youth Development)

  CPLIT 268W01 Korean Literature and Film TR 1:00 - 2:15 and M 4:00 - 6:00 (Kim):  Discussing Korean film clips with Utica elementary schoolers (Project Youth Development)

  ECON 235-01 Policy. Poverty, and Practice MW 12:00 - 12:50 (Morgan-Davie):  Preparing tax returns for low-income individuals in Utica (Project VITA)

  GOVT 342 Seminar in Program Evaluation TR 2:30-3:45 (Owens-Manley):  Completing program evaluation activities for Family Treatment Court in Utica.

  HSPST 27101 Topic: Envisioning the Real TR 2:30-3:45 (Burke) and

  HSPST 30301 Gender in Latin America TR 1:00 - 2:15 (Burke):  Reading Spanish and English children's stories to Utica elementary schoolers (Project Youth Development).

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• FALL 2009 UPDATE
•  PSYCH  Child Development- (Kempler) integrating the physical, cognitive, social and emotional domains of development. An experiential component is included in this course whereby students will work with children or adolescents in an applied setting (e.g., child care center or school). Youth Development Project.
• ANTHRO Cultural Anthropology- TR 9:30-10:20 and 2:30-3:20 (LaDousa) Cross-cultural approaches to the study of social structure, polity, economic behavior and belief systems. Anthropological methods of analysis of nonliterate, peasant and complex contemporary societies. Youth Development Project.
• ESOL Fundamentals of Composition

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

• A training was held for Bonner Leaders on Wednesday, April 1 to discuss "the Impact of After-School Programs that Promote Personal and Social Skills." 
• A Bridges out of Poverty training was held in March for Bonner Leaders and led by community partners: Catholic Charities and Safe Schools/Healthy Students, both of which run Advantage After-School Programs at Bonner sites.
• Students in Near Eastern Folklore received a quick orientation to working with children by reading their stories to the professor's son before visiting Kernan Elementary.
• FALL 2009 UPDATE
• Orientation was held for all students participating in the Youth Development Project (YDP). Students were asked to attend a 2 hour training session where professors from Child Development, Cultural Anthropology, and ESOL gave mini lectures regarding the psychology and development of children they will be working with. As well as, cultural implications to think about when working in the community. 
• Bonner Leaders at Hamilton will be trained on the laws of war and humanitarian law from a red cross volunteer, Jar Starr. Students will also be informed on different capacity building workshops such as grant writing workshops, and the mental and physical health/development of children, which will be presented by Dr. Sara Kempler of the Hamilton Psychology Department. 

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

• A Youth Development Project Forum on May 5 showcased the beginning of this youth-enrichment program for the West-Side Project at Kernan Elementary.  Hamilton faculty and administrators, Kernan administrators and Hamilton students commented upon the success of the program, offered constructive advice on how it could improve, and proposed ideas for maintaining a sustainable initiative with Kernan Elementary.
• Two professors, one for Comparative Literature and the other for Hispanic Studies, have made plans to include the Youth Development Project in their curriculums next year  
• A list has been compiled of activities in local schools done with various Departments in the Sciences and will form the basis for a campus wiki on Youth Enrichment/Youth Development.
• Plans are being made to re-energize a group of faculty and administrators at Hamilton that used to meet and focus on public school education locally. 
• FALL 09 UPDATE
• All service learning students completed an online survey at the beginning of the semester and will complete a post-survey at the end of the semester.  We've also gathered names of nearly 500 students who've completed substantial service-learning in their courses (15-20 hours per semester) over the past 5-6 years, and we are identifying them by student number to compare to overall results in campus-wide surveys on variables relevant to service-learning outcomes.   

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

• The forum on May 6 brought educational administrators and Hamilton faculty, administrators, and students together to discuss the impact of the West Side Project's partnership with Hamilton College and plan for the coming year.
• This year Dr. Judy Owens-Manley, Professor Kempler, and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer Jordan Davis will be conducting research on students involved in service learning to determine the correlation of course work and their work in the community. As well as looking at what predictors are common among the students who volunteer and if there is a difference in motivation to continue volunteering based on the number of hours spent in the community. 

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

Professors and Staff

• Professor Anna Oldfield, Visiting Assistant professor of Comparative Literature and Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies, 315-859-4581, aoldfiel@hamilton.edu
• Professor Su Yun Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies, skim@hamilton.edu
• Professor Jessica Burke, Assistant professor of Hispanic Studies, 315-859-4588, jnburke@hamilton.edu
• Professor Yolanda "Elena" Aguila, Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, 315-859-4145. yaguila@hamilton.edu 
• Jordan Davis, AmeriCorps VISTA and Youth Development Project Coordinator, 315-534-8460, jordan.p.davis@gmail.com
• Dr. Judy Owens-Manley, Associate Director for Community Research, Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, 315-859-4486, jowens@hamilton.edu.
• Professor Sara Kempner, Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology, skempner@hamilton.edu, 315-859-4819
• Professor Chaise LaDousa, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, cladousa@hamilton.edu, 315-859-4109 
• Professor Barbara Britt-Hysell, Instructor, ESOL, bbritthy@hamilton.edu, 315-859-4150.

Bonner Leaders

• Henry Edelson, 917-714-3711, hedelson@hamilton.edu 
• Laura Gilson, 973-600-9529, lgilson@hamilton.edu 
  • Donovan Advantage Afterschool Program Contact: Kelly Wolfe, 315-368-658, KWOLFE@uticaschools.org 
• Yoko O'Hara, 805-798-7895, yohara@hamilton.edu 
  • Underground Cafe Contact: Ellen Jamison, 315-792-2205,  ejamison@uticaschools.org
• Liam Ronan, 215-620-0452, lronan@hamilton.edu 
  • Thea Bowman Contact: Sandy Wright, 315-735-6995, sewwhat581@verizon.net 
• Stefanie Russell, 518-593-4759, srussell@hamilton.edu 
  • Catholic Charities Kernan Afterschool Program Contact: Dianne Dimeo, 315-527-0090,  ddimeo@ccharityom.org
• Caroline Pantazis, 908-591-5106, cpantazi@hamilton.edu 
  • YWCA Y-Girls Coordinator Contact: Brenda Fudge, 315-732-2159 ext. 224, bfudge@ywcamv.org 
• Isabelle Van Hook, 518-813-6987, ivanhook@hamilton.edu
•           Utica City School District ESOL for Newcomers Program  Contact:  Amy Gamboa, 315-792-2258, agamboa@uticaschools.org.
• Miriam Ballout, mballout@hamilton.edu 
•           American Red Cross, Restoring Family Links Outreach Initiative  Contact:  Jay Starr, 315-733-4666, starrj@redcrossmv.org.

Resources

Overview of Familty and Community Connections at Kernan (a group that helped devise the idea for the Adopt-a-Class Program): http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=7dbe6331a0&view=att&th=1219c32d5ae99ac1&attid=0.1&disp=vah&realattid=f_fvf9rtfo0&zw

Harvard Family Research Project: http://www.hfrp.org/

Out of School Time Research and Evaluation Bibliography http://www.hfrp.org/out-of-school-time/ost-database-bibliography/bibliography