Five faculty members have received mini-grants to support applications of service learning in their teaching and research. Winning proposals targeted existing courses altered to include service-learning components, new courses involving such activities or the creation of opportunities for students to take on leadership roles in service-learning courses and projects.
Faculty members who received mini-grants are: Nancy Welch, associate professor of English; Sheila Weaver, lecturer in math and statistics; Jacqueline Weinstock, assistant professor in education; Kathleen Liang, assistant professor in community development and applied economics; and Mary Canales, assistant professor of nursing.
Students in Welchs Investigating Literacy course spent the summer developing a volunteer training manual for people in the UVM community working with the King Street Youth Center.
This fall, the students in Weavers statistics class will complete a survey for a local community agency and compile the data into a report.
Students enrolled in the Small Business Planning course offered by Liang will work directly with local entrepreneurs.
Weinstock will redevelop the service-learning component of her first-year seminar for Human Development and Family Studies majors.
Canales will use her grant in the Issues in Womens Health course, in which juniors and seniors will better serve the COTS agency.
The mini-grants come on the heels of two successful years of Faculty Fellowships for Service-Learning, which awarded faculty $1,000 stipends while learning how to inject service-learning pedagogy into their curricula. Planning and Implementation Grants were limited to those faculty who had already received a Fellowship. Information on both grants: Courtney Lamontagne, coordinator of the Service-Learning Internship Program, at 656-3450, or Chris Koliba, research assistant professor in the John Dewey Project, at 656-3772.
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