Department Name |
Team Leader |
Team Members |
Project Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Social Work, Duluth | Evie Campbell, Assistant Professor |
Lynn Bye, Professor Janet Haynes, Assistant Professor Melanie Shepard, Professor |
The mission of this department’s project is to identify and address unmet needs in the community that could increase department-wide civic engagement among students and faculty. This project will serve as a learning platform for students while collaborating with St. Louis County and other social services and community groups. |
| Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, Twin Cities | Todd Sorensen Associate Professor |
Bob Cipolle, Professor Christina Cipolle, Clinical Pharmacist at Community-University Health Care Center Eric Hung, Pharmacy Resident Chrystian Pereira, Assistant Professor Linda Ridlehuber, Quality Improvement Specialist for the Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers Charles Taylor, Senior Associate Dean |
This department is planning to advance the practice of pharmaceutical care and its role in the health care system for the benefit of patients and society throughout education, research, and service. The department will collaborate with leaders form health care organizations – large systems, safety-net organizations in small rural communities and diverse urban underserved communities, and state and national organizations committed to serving individuals with certain chronic illness. |
| Department of English, Twin Cities | Paula Rabinowitz, Department Chair and Professor |
Beverly Atkinson, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Evelyn Ch’ien, Associate Professor Eric Daigre, Lecturer Maria Damon, Undergraduate Studies Director and Professor Geoffrey Sirc, Professor Charles Sugnet, Associate Professor Terri Sutton, Informational Representative Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Assistant Professor Michael Walsh, English Course Coordinator |
The Department of English seeks to develop an integrated curriculum around public engagement that will lead students from introductory to capstone courses, with extracurricular opportunities for teaching and mentoring. They also aim to strategically promote this integrated curriculum to attract increased participation from students, faculty, University departments, community partners, and funding sources. |
| Department of Music, Twin Cities | Keitha Hamann, Associate Professor |
Doug Geers, Associate Professor Laura Krider, K-12 Outreach Coordinator; Student Services Assistant Scott Lipscomb, Associate Professor Jerry Luckhardt, Associate Professor David Myers, Professor Kathy Romey, Associate Professor Wendy Zaro-Mullins, Associate Professor |
The Department of Music is planning to create model opportunities that demonstrate potential for community engagement, to enhance learning opportunities and research within the School of Music, and to foster a culture of community engagement and advancement of progressive urban engagement that serves as a model for other universities, arts organizations, and communities. |
| Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, Twin Cities | Jamie Stang, Assistant Professor |
Linda Harris, Graduate Student Wendy Hellerstedt, Associate Professor Julia Johnsen, Director of Outreach for the Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Health Program Michelle Parke, Graduate Student Joan Patterson, Associate Professor |
The mission of this department is to develop an educational module and curriculum guide on Community Engaged scholarship for use by faculty and students in EpiCH, School of Public Health, the Academic Health Center, the University as a whole, and interested community partners. This educational module will prepare students for effective fieldwork with diverse communities nationally and globally and will help faculty to initiate their community engagement activities. |
| Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, Twin Cities | Heidi Barajas, Associate Professor |
Linda Buturian, Senior Teaching Specialist Kris Cory, Senior Teaching Specialist Tabitha Grier, Assistant Professor Barbara Hodne, Senior Teaching Specialist Rashne Jehangir, Assistant Professor Amy Lee, Associate Professor Na'im Madyun, Assistant Professor Bob Poch, Fellow Sue Staats, Assistant Professor Jill Trites, Senior Teaching Specialist |
The Engaged Department Grant will enable PSTL to build on their strengths, to take a leadership role within CEHD and the larger university, and to create an undergraduate major entitled: Multicultural Community Engagement (MCE) and department that can become a national model for the engaged department. |
| Environmental Studies program, Morris | Karen Mumford, Assistant Professor |
Sheri Breen, Assistant Professor David Fluegel, Community Program Specialist Troy Goodnough, UMM Sustainability Coordinator Arne Kildegaard, Associate Professor Argie Manolis, UMM Coordinator of Service-Learning Dorothy Rosemeier, Executive Director of the West Central Regional Sustainable Development Partnership Pete Wyckoff, Associate Professor |
This program aims to establish community engagement as a hallmark of the interdisciplinary major Environmental Studies at the University of Minnesota Morris. They are planning to integrate service-learning activities into their core introductory courses, infuse community engagement into student-faculty collaborative research efforts, and explore opportunities for further engagement in required capstone courses. |