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This page features stories and events involving our faculty, staff, students, and community partners.
- Department of Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences
- Methods in Cultural Research
- Community partner: Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program of the St. Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
Save the Dates!: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 and Thursday, March 26, 2015.
The Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships is pleased to announce that we will be bringing Dr. Paul Gorski to USF Tampa this spring semester (March 25-26).
Dr. Gorski is Associate Professor of Integrative Studies in George Mason University's New Century College and specializes in social justice and multicultural education. A nationally renowned and highly sought after presenter, he has spent nearly 20 years working with schools and other educational organizations on building equitable learning environments. He is also the founder of EdChange, a coalition of educators and activists providing professional development on educational equity, creating free resources for fellow educators, social service professionals, and activists, and modeling a commitment to moving beyond celebrating the joys of diversity and toward equity literacy in schools and communities. An oft-cited critic of the "culture of poverty" and other stereotypes about people in poverty, he also offers effective instructional strategies for teaching students from low-income families using an equity literacy approach to close the "opportunity gap" in schools.
Dr. Gorski's visit is being co-sponsored with the Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Office; United Way Suncoast; GSARN (Graduate Student Applied Research Network); the Humanities Institute; the Anchin Center; and the Department of Anthropology. More information and details coming soon!
Dr. Gorski is the author of Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap, in which he draws from decades of research to deconstruct popular myths, misconceptions, and educational practices that undercut the achievement of low-income students. Carefully describing the challenges that students in poverty face and the resiliencies they and their families draw upon, this book provides specific, evidence-based strategies for teaching youth by creating equitable, bias-free learning environments. He is also co-editor of Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education (with Seema G. Pothini), The Poverty and Education Reader: A Call for Equity in Many Voices (with Julie Landsman), and Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne are Destroying Our Schools (with Roberta Ahlquist and Theresa Montaño). Descriptions of these books can be found below.
Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education offers pre- and in-service educators an opportunity to analyze and reflect upon a variety of realistic case studies related to educational equity and social justice. Each case, written in an engaging, narrative style, presents a complex but common classroom scenario in which an inequity or injustice is in play. These cases allow educators to practice the process of considering a range of contextual factors, checking their own biases, and making immediate- and longer-term decisions about how to create and sustain equitable learning environments for all students. The book begins with a seven-point process for examining case studies. Largely lacking from existing case study collections, this framework guides readers through the process of identifying, examining, reflecting on, and taking concrete steps to resolve challenges related to diversity and equity in schools. The cases themselves present everyday examples of the ways in which racism, sexism, homophobia and heterosexism, class inequities, language bias, religious-based oppression, and other equity and diversity concerns affect students, teachers, families, and other members of our school communities. They involve classroom issues that are relevant to all grade levels and all content areas, allowing significant flexibility in how and with whom they are used. Although organized topically, the intersection of these issues are stressed throughout the cases, reflecting the multi-faceted way they play out in real life. All cases conclude with a series of questions to guide discussion and a section of facilitator notes, called points for consideration. This unique feature provides valuable insight for understanding the complexities of each case.
Through a rich mix of essays, memoirs, and poetry, the contributors to The Poverty and Education Reader bring to the fore the schooling experiences of poor and working class students, highlighting the resiliency, creativity, and educational aspirations of low-income families. They showcase proven strategies that imaginative teachers and schools have adopted for closing the opportunity gap, demonstrating how they have succeeded by working in partnership with low-income families, and despite growing class sizes, the imposition of rote pedagogical models, and teach-to-the-test mandates. The contributors—teachers, students, parents, educational activists, and scholars—repudiate the prevalent, but too rarely discussed, deficit views of students and families in poverty. Rather than focusing on how to "fix" poor and working class youth, they challenge us to acknowledge the ways these youth and their families are disenfranchised by educational policies and practices that deny them the opportunities enjoyed by their wealthier peers. Just as importantly, they offer effective school and classroom strategies to mitigate the effects of educational inequality on students in poverty. Rejecting the simplistic notion that a single program, policy, or pedagogy can undo social or educational inequalities, this Reader inspires and equips educators to challenge the disparities to which underserved communities are subjected. It is a positive resource for students of education and for teachers, principals, social workers, community organizers, and policy makers who want to make the promise of educational equality a reality.
Assault on Kids: How Hyper-Accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne are Destroying Our Schools:Hyper-accountability, corporatization, deficit ideology, and Ruby Payne's preparation of teachers to comply with these and other atrocities are not merely markers of philosophical shifts in education. They are manifestations of a neoliberal remaking of public schooling into a private and corporate enterprise. Collectively, these trends are seen not just as an imposition, but as an assault on quality pedagogy; an assault on democratic ideals of equity and social justice; and an assault on kids compelled to participate simply because they are public school students. This edited collection is a response by critically-minded educators, activists, and scholars - both a reaction to and a call to action against these vilifications. It is critical reading for students, professors, administrators, and policy makers involved in public education.
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Lauren Shweder Biel, Director of DC Greens, to present keynote at the USF Sustainable Food Conference
By Bonnie Silvestri, OCEP Director of Strategic Communications
"Collaboration is where it's at – that's how we are going to make this happen; we need to carry out a collaborative will for amplified impact," said Lauren Shweder Biel, Executive Director of DC Greens, the keynote speaker for this year's Research that Matters conference called Sustainable Food: People, Policy and Practice. The conference will take place on January 30, 2015 from 8:30am-4pm at the Patel College of Global Sustainability at the University of South Florida.
A small group of researchers and local community group members, known collectively as the USF Community Gardening Collaborative, have been coalescing around the topic of sustainable food and organic gardening for the past few years. And, this year's Research that Matters conference is an opportunity to galvanize these forces to have a greater impact on local food and gardening in the Tampa Bay region.
Faculty, students, and community members will present on topics ranging from service-learning contributions to a community garden for refugees; the role of craft beer in social movements; a discussion of food banks, food deserts, and food security; and even the connection between meat consumption and climate change.
Biel said she views her role at the conference to be "putting up the bat call to anyone in the region who wants to come out and share" the work that they are doing to move the needle on sustainable food at the local level.
Read moreService-Learning High-Impact Practice Grant Program Fall 2014 Awardees
Service-Learning High-Impact Practice Grants are designed to provide funding for courses incorporating service-learning. Service-learning is considered a "high-impact practice" (HIP), or "an investment of time and energy over an extended period that has unusually positive effects on student engagement in educationally purposeful behavior" (Kuh 2010: vi). A HIP is effective with students because it allows them to interact with faculty and peers about substantive matters; increases the likelihood that students will experience diversity; provides frequent feedback about their performance; offers opportunities for students to see how what they are learning works in different settings, on and off campus; and brings students' values and beliefs into awareness, helping them to better understand themselves in relation to others and the larger world (Kuh 2008: 14-17).
Roberta Baer, Ph.D.
This project will involve students enrolled in Methods of Cultural Research, in the Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program of the St. Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The church is implementing a "Tampa Garden" to provide gardening opportunities to 35 newly-arrived refugees, primarily from the Burmese community. The garden consists of agricultural land, an area for chicken raising, and ponds suitable for aquaculture. A pilot garden was implemented over the last several years, with approximately 10 families. This phase of the program is a scaling up of the project to include more refugee families. The goals are to promote greater food security and financial security among the refugees, and to accelerate self-sufficiency and integration into the larger community. This class project will include collaboration with the Tampa Bay Garden and the Tampa Bay Burmese Council. The students in this class will do a follow-up project based on the last service-learning class I taught, Anthropology of Food, which focused on weekend food consumption. This project will focus specifically on elementary and high school aged youth, and what they eat during the week. We will also collect data on heights and weights of the youth, and conduct focus groups to learn about their attitudes to food, ideas of body image, etc.
Read moreFrom Victim to Advocate: How a Service-Learning Student Found Her Passion by Helping Others
by Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
When USF senior Joy Pedrow signed up for Tasha Rennels' Communications, Culture, and Community service-learning class last spring, she had no idea that she would unlock a part of herself about which she had previously had difficulty communicating. For the first assignment, Tasha asks her CCC students to reflect about their passions. Joy wrote about her interest in ministry and her involvement with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru); but she also wrote about her desire to help women.
Based on their journals about their passions, Tasha presciently suggested to Joy and another student Brianna Palumbo, that they complete their service hours with NITE (Network Improve Transform Empower), the USF campus organization focused on consciousness-raising about student safety. NITE organizes two major events on campus each year, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, where men don high heels and march to stop rape, sexual assault, and gender violence, and Take Back the Night, a march followed by a "Speak Out" to combat the prevalence of sexual violence on campus and in the local community.
Read moreTasha 2.0: An Inside Look at an Award-Winning Service-Learning Instructor
"For me, it is such an important part of the class—going out into the community and creating community in the classroom," reflected Tasha Rennels, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication, on her Communication, Culture, and Community class. "Community is both in the service and the learning," she continued.
Late this summer, Rennels completed the second iteration of her service-learning course (click to read Life is Better Together for Service Learning Students, about the spring 2014 version of the course).
Rennels was new to the service-learning pedagogy when she embarked on teaching her course earlier this year; and she is now a true believer in its benefits. As a tribute to her efforts, she was recently honored with the 2013-2014 Provost Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant for her engaging teaching style, her creativity in developing service-learning opportunities for her students, and her ability to help her students reflect on that service in unique ways.
When she taught the CCC course over the summer, she looked at what worked and what could be refined, and she scaled some parts of the course back to fit the curriculum into the tighter six-week summer schedule proving that service-learning is a flexible and adaptable educational model.
Read moreDr. Roberta Baer has been sowing the seeds of engagement for years
by Bonnie Silvestri, Director of Strategic Communications
"I've been doing these kinds of classes for years, even before it was called service-learning," said Anthropology Professor Roberta Baer, who seamlessly weaves service-learning pedagogy and community-based research into her ongoing work with Burmese refugees.
Baer, who has been with University of South Florida since 1984, said the campus was relatively barren in the early years—devoid of trees and lacking in community-based activities. She slowly and methodically built up connections with the larger community. All the while, she raised two children, who are now teenagers, and managed to continuously find new ways to improve the community through her research.
Of late, she has added to her list of community-based accomplishments working on the development of a community garden, where Burmese and other refugees can supplement their income and their diets with traditional herbs and vegetables.
She began by working with a small group of Burmese refugees who were seeking "an indication of the condition of the community and [its] needs" in order to develop an ethnic-based community organization that would meet federal guidelines. Prior to her association with the burgeoning group, she had worked in Mexico and with local migrant farm workers, but had no connection to Burmese refugees. "It was fortuitous," she added.
Read moreThe Gulf-South Summit Announces its Upcoming Events
Registration for the 2015 Gulf-South Summit is now open, click here to register.
The 2015 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning & Civic Engagement through Higher Educationwill be held in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 11-13, 2015, hosted by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Clinton School of Public Service.
Proposals may be submitted for individual presentations, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and posters; deadline for submission is October 17. Click here for more details.
Award Nominations
The Gulf South Summit is proud to present five awards recognizing the hard work and dedication of outstanding people and programs in the field of service-learning and civic engagement in higher education. Please take the time to think of those especially dedicated and competent colleagues you have working around you and nominate one or more for a coveted Gulf-South Summit Award!
· Outstanding Practitioner Contributions to Service-Learning in Higher Education
· Outstanding Community Partner Contributions to Service-Learning in Higher Education
· Outstanding Faculty Contributions to Service-Learning Instruction in Higher Education
· Outstanding Student Contributions to Service-Learning in Higher Education
· Outstanding Service-Learning Collaboration in Higher Education
Recipients of each award will receive a plaque in recognition of their accomplishments, and a $500 monetary award.
Nominations for awards are due November 5, 2014. Award Nomination Form
OCEP Publishes New Magazine Featuring USF-Community Engagement
We are delighted to announce the publication of the OCEP magazine, which is designed to help readers better understand the work we do through stories of our faculty and community partners. You will read about service-learning opportunities and the wide-ranging research and projects in community engagement.
Click here to download a pdf of the magazine. We are happy to furnish you with copies of the magazine to share with constituents, colleagues, and co-workers who want to know more about the work of OCEP.
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Professor David Himmelgreen Featured with Feeding America Tampa Bay on Channel 8 News
USF Professor David Himmelgreen (Anthropology) was recently featured on Channel 8 News with Feeding America Tampa Bay (FATB), which redistributes food to those in need throughout a 10-county span of west Central Florida . The story discussed the prevalence and severity of hunger and food insecurity in the Tampa Bay region. Himmelgreen, a national research expert on these topics, was interviewed on site at FATB'S main warehouse along with Thomas Mantz, director of FATB. Click here to view Channel 8's report.
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No Filter: a Visually Arresting Campus–Community partnership
By Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
"I am still trying to negotiate and work out the experience and how it has affected me," said Elizabeth Plakidas, a Graduate Community Scholars Fellowship recipient regarding her summer project funded through the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships. The culmination of Plakidas's summer collaboration was an exhibition entitled No Filter at the William and Nancy Oliver Gallery in the USF Fine Arts Building.
Plakidas, a graduate student in the Master's of Fine Arts program, spent the summer working twice a week onsite at Pyramid, Inc., a community-based arts center for people with severe disabilities. The Tampa-based Pyramid is one of six throughout Florida focused on working with adults to create art in all forms.
Following a visit to a Pyramid show, Shane Hoffman, Visual Arts Coordinator at Pyramid, said, Plakidas became "enthralled by the work," because the artists work like she wish she worked—free of critique and painting for pleasure. Plakidas left the event with a work of art by one of the Pyramid artists, Marquis L. in tow.
"Nothing holds them back, they make what they want and seem to have no self censor. Whatever comes out comes out. Masterpieces are produced on a daily basis," said Hoffman, who is also an alumnus of the USF MFA program.
Read morePepin Students Come for the Fun and Stay for the Learning with USF Pre-Service Teachers
by Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
Pepin Academy and the USF College of Education have a unique partnership that is both a model for a reciprocal educational relationship and a boon for our local community. Three USF College of Education faculty, Dr. Stacy Hahn, Dr. David Allsopp, and Dr. David Hoppey have worked with Pepin to build up a strong year-round connection culminating in a free, four-week summer institute for interested Pepin students.
The summer institute program allows special education pre-service teachers from the USF College of Education the unique opportunity to develop and implement, with the guidance of their professors, an academic summer school curriculum. As Allsopp emphasizes, "It's not a camp, it's school."
Read moreWelcome Dr. Harold Keller!
Dr. Harold Keller has been involved with the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships since it was merely a gleam in the eye of the founders, and now he has joined OCEP as the first Faculty on Assignment for the next two years.
Keller was co-chair of the Provost's Task Force on Community Engagement, when USF decided it was time to determine, as he said, "how the university could be committed to really doing this."
Read moreFaculty Fellow Dr. Iraida Carrion Engages the Community Locally and Overseas
by Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
Upon entering the Bangla Saheb Sikh temple in Delhi, India, Dr. Iraida Carrion, watched as people from all walks of life sat together on the floor sharing a meal, which is provided daily for free to anyone who wishes to join. "I felt a pang in my stomach—I need to add a service component to this course," Carrion, Associate Professor of Social Work, said of her study abroad course, which she co-taught earlier this summer with Dr. Manisha Joshi, Assistant Professor of Social Work.
Following this epiphany, Carrion and Joshi with RIWATCH and other community partners in Arunachal Pradesh coordinated a day of tree planting at a local school and cleaned the maternity ward at a local hospital alongside members of Enjalu Menda Women's Empowerment Forum.
Joshi, a native of India, whose two-month old daughter accompanied the fifteen students on the trip (and, as the students joked, earned her six credits), said that the partners in India found the chance to host the visiting students to be remarkable for them as well. Joshi said of her and Carrion's study abroad class, "Oh my God, it was a big deal!"
Read more"No Filter" - a USF/community collaboration opens on campus
By Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
"I am still trying to negotiate and work out the experience and how it has affected me," said Elizabeth Plakidas, a Graduate Community Scholars Fellowship recipient regarding her summer project funded through the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships. The culmination of Plakidas's summer collaboration is an exhibition opening this Friday, August 1st at the William and Nancy Oliver Gallery in the USF Fine Arts Building.
Plakidas, a graduate student in the Master's of Fine Arts program, spent the summer working twice a week onsite at Pyramid, Inc., a community-based arts center for people with severe disabilities. The Tampa-based Pyramid is one of six throughout Florida focused on working with adults to create art in all forms.
Read moreUSF Students Help Older Adults Age in Place
by Bonnie Beth Silvestri, Director of Strategic Communications
We all love having a place to call home that feels special and reflects our identity; but as we age, our homes may someday become a hazard. A second floor may become inaccessible or a seemingly innocuous lower cabinet may become a threat to our health and safety. Nonetheless, the vast majority of adults approaching late-life wish to remain in their homes for as long as possible.
Dr. Brianne Stanback, Instructor and Internship Director in the School of Aging Studies, has taken the next step by creating a service-learning course called Aging in Space and Place in partnership with Florida Presbyterian Homes, a continuing care retirement community that offers a variety of choices for independent living and assisted living. She received a mini-grant from the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships to support the implementation of the course.
Read moreDr. Sarina Ergas and her students help make our local water supply safe and healthy
By Bonnie Beth Silvestri, Director of Strategic Communications
When asked about her lifetime of work enhancing the communities in which she lives, Dr. Sarina Ergas, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the USF Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering said with a lilt in her tone, "Liz says I'm the poster child for community engagement," referring to the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships Director Dr. Elizabeth Strom.
Ergas's capstone engineering design course, which she teaches every spring, is a hallmark of community engagement, because the students are involved in local projects that have a lasting impact on various aspects of the Tampa Bay region's environment. She co-teaches the course with Tom Cross, a local professional engineer with McKim & Creed, who she said is "plugged into a lot of the different projects in the local community" related to environmental and water resources engineering.
Each year, the capstone design class has a different local partner agency; past partners have included the City of Tampa, the City of Clearwater, Hillsborough County, and the City of St. Petersburg, each of which is that semester's "client" for the project. Senior level and graduate civil engineering students begin the course by meeting the client and taking a tour of the facility. They then sketch out a plan and develop a scope of work, which Ergas said is essentially a "bid" for the project.
In the past, students have worked on resolving issues such as "beaches that are closed down because of fecal bacteria," an excess of "algal blooms in storm water," as well as methods to improve wastewater and drinking water treatment processes. Ergas described these as "interactive" projects. "It's not just a small part of the class, it is the class."
Read moreDream becomes a Reality for Immigrant Students in Florida
by Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
Dr. Elizabeth Aranda, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology, and her research assistant, Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez, are deeply involved in community-based research about the lives of immigrants and undocumented young people. Aranda regularly shares her research findings to help guide the political discussion of immigration reform.
Most recently, during the week the Florida Senate was debating legislation that would permit undocumented young people, commonly referred to as "dreamers," who attended high school in Florida, to access in-state tuition rates for their college education, Aranda published an informative and forceful opinion piece, one of several she has written on the topic.
She said, "You don't know what impact it [the op-ed] has" on public opinion and lawmakers. She shared her research on the devastating effect that denying young people access to in-state tuition has on them, their families, and the country as a whole because of what she referred to as "wasted talent," (also the title of her opinion piece). She said her editorial is "not just an opinion that I have, [it's] rooted in my research. Research that can benefit the community."
Read moreFrom "the Projects" to Gray's Project: A Profile of Louis Gray
By Bonnie Beth Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
"Just call Louis."
Louis Gray is the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships "go-to" person in USF Registrar's Office, helping OCEP fulfill its mission to support the service-learning curriculum on campus. Gray, the Registrar's Office's Academic Services Administrator, has been working behind the scenes, under the leadership of his supervisor Tony Embry and USF Registrar Angela Debose, coding each service-learning class offered on campus in Banner, the university's administrative information system.
Once the courses are coded, students are able to easily find service-learning offerings in OASIS; and OCEP can calculate the number of service-learning course sections and students enrolled. During the last academic school year, there were 188 sections of service-learning courses coded in the system, and over 4,000 students enrolled in these courses, which is a significant increase thanks to outreach efforts by OCEP and the Registrar's Office.
And, it is no surprise that OCEP can count on Gray to help with these efforts, because he "gets it," and he lives it. A natural connector, Gray said, "I'm the type to bring the community together."
Read moreService-Learning Champion Dr. Kelly Page Werder Puts Research into Practice
By Bonnie Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
Dr. Kelly Page Werder, Associate Professor of Mass Communications, has fully integrated service-learning into her coursework. She firmly believes it is crucial for students in her courses to gain real-world experience and to feel a sense of civic responsibility for the Tampa Bay community. Over the past several years, her students have developed strategic communications plans for over eighty local and campus organizations.
Werder realized early on in her teaching career that her field, an applied discipline, which prepares students to become public relations and advertising professionals, is ideally suited to the service-learning pedagogy. Rather than assigning students hypothetical case studies of organizations, she gets them involved in examining real, current issues faced by local organizations in our community.
Read moreFeatured Student: LaDonna Gleason on Field Experiences, Service-Learning, and Undergraduate Research
by Julia Poholek, Humanities Internship Program
In the grand scope of experiential learning, it seems that most courses are tailored to intrigue the student and teach them valuable lessons through on-site projects and interactions. However, the results of such courses prove to be all the more profound when they end up shaping the student's entire field of study. Such is the case with LaDonna Gleason, a recent graduate with a bachelor's degree in psychology. LaDonna participated in the 2014 USF Undergraduate Research and Arts Colloquium, where I sat down with her to hear her thoughts on experiential learning courses and their potential impacts on students.
"I didn't set out as an undergrad saying I really wanted to research suicide, mental illness, and the problems inherent in those subjects. I realized, 'Hey, I really love psychology. Let me learn more about that,'" LaDonna recalls fondly. "I met a TA who said they needed a research assistant for their lab. Within six months, I was hooked." Through this new, unexpected interest, she encountered a hands-on opportunity to delve deeper into the practice of helping those in need.
Read more"Uncommon Practice" exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art was a community-engaged triumph
by Bonnie Silvestri, JD, Director of Strategic Communications
The USF Institute for Research in Art is an umbrella entity on campus that includes the Contemporary Art Museum ("USFCAM"), Graphicstudio, and the Public Art program, each of which engages in important work connecting USF with the community, which we will be highlighting in an ongoing Art and Society series.
USFCAM recently collaborated with the Tampa Museum of Art to form a unique partnership to exhibit the outstanding work that has come out of this very special, research-based atelier located right on USF campus. The partnership for the exhibition entitled "Uncommon Practice: Graphicstudio at USF" was unprecedented, and was an important acknowledgement of the significance of the work of Graphicstudio, taking place right here in Tampa Bay.
Graphicstudio began in 1968 as the brainchild of Donald Saff, who developed what Peter Foe, Curator of the Collection of the USF Contemporary Art Museum, calls the "premiere house for experimentation in printmaking." Because it is located on the campus, Graphicstudio offers artists easy access to interdisciplinary research facilities throughout the campus as well as some of the finest facilities and master printmakers in the world.
Read moreOpportunities to intern in the nation's capital, the state's capital, or here at home are easily accessible and available to USF students
Dr. Joan Pynes, Professor in the School of Public Affairs, is the faculty liaison to three major internship programs. She strongly believes every student should seriously consider applying for at least one during his or her time at USF.
The Washington Center Internship Program
The Washington Center is a marquee program enabling college students to live and work in the nation's capital during the fall, spring, or summer semester. Pynes emphasizes that The Washington Center is a wrap-around program, giving students an opportunity to take unique classes with Center faculty, live onsite, develop a self-selected civic engagement project, and work in a professional internship in any one of 1,000 sites in the DC area.
Read moreFacts and Data Carry the Day in the Fight Against Poverty
More than fifty attendees piled into the conference room eager to continue working collectively on alleviating poverty as a follow-up to the January The Poverty of Poverty Intervention: Doing More with Less meeting sponsored by the USF Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships.
"It is wonderful to see gathered here so many people who are so passionate about something so depressing," said Dr. Lance Arney, OCEP Associate Director.
Arney announced that the Reporting Back to the Community report released on April 22nd was the direct result of feedback from the community; and he stated that among the strongest recommendations was the need to create action groups. He said that participants reiterated, "Let's actually do something" outside the scope of convened meetings.
The Poverty Action Groups represent an opportunity for faculty and community members to think on a larger scale about the structural inequities leading to widespread poverty experienced in our community. The time has come to consider how we might coalesce around major issues to make changes in legislation and policy.
Read moreConvening Internship Directors
Faculty and staff who are responsible for helping to connect students with internship opportunities gathered to discuss best practices on April 30, 2014. As was noted at the event, internship opportunities differ across disciplines with variables ranging from whether or not the internship is credit-bearing to whether it is paid or unpaid. What all internships have in common is that they are an important part of a student's education.
Diane Mellon, a career counselor who coordinates the Co-Operative Education Program in Career Services, gave a presentation on Risk Management and Legal Concerns. Among her suggestions was that internship directors and coordinators focus on "matching" students with opportunities rather than "placing" them. The greater the university's involvement in determining where a student will intern, the greater the risk should the opportunity be less than fruitful for the student and/or the organization with which the student is placed. However, internship directors should feel free to do their best to help shape the most optimal internship opportunities that they can for their students and vet the organizations to ensure they are an appropriate place for students to intern.
Read moreLife is Better Together for Service-Learning Students
"None of you look like you are on the verge of a panic attack," communications professor Tasha Rennels wryly declared, as her Communication, Culture, and Community students prepared to present to their classmates and community partners the results of their semester-long service projects. She kept the proceedings light as each group shared their experiences working with local not-for-profit organizations, which in many cases clearly had a transformative effect on these students.
Collectively, the class served 425 hours in ten local community groups ranging from Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful to Kids Charity of Tampa Bay to Support our Troops. Early in the semester, the students wrote in their service journals about their passions, career goals, and personal interests; and Rennels paired them in small groups to work with organizations that suited their objectives. This was Rennels' first service-learning class, and by all accounts, it was a huge success. In fact, she is already offering the course again in the 2014 Summer B session beginning in late June.
"I am incredibly proud of the work they have done and grateful to the community partners who are here," said Rennels. "This is an opportunity to share what the students have done, and not keep it to themselves.
In fact, end of the semester presentations are a central part of a service-learning course. It is important to celebrate the work of the students as well as to help spread awareness about the often-unsung services provided by our not-for-profit sector. It also, as Rennels said, gives students a chance "to reflect on what they've gained" and may impact their career or the kinds of service to the community they choose to provide in the future. End of semester presentations, with community partners in attendance, can help elevate the importance of service-learning as well as the quality of work service-learning students can provide.
Read moreOCEP Graduate Community Scholars Fellowship Program, summer 2014 awardees
Congratulations to the following graduate students, whose community engaged research proposals were awarded funding through our Graduate Community Scholars Fellowship Program!
Read morePoverty, Inequality & Community Engagement Action Groups Meeting
(Follow-up to the Poverty of Poverty Intervention event. To read our Reporting Back to the Community report, click here. To read the executive summary of the report, click here.)
We would like to remind everyone that our first Poverty, Inequality & Community Engagement Action Groups Meeting is this Thursday, May 8th. If you plan to participate, please RSVP at your earliest convenience (to RSVP, click here). We will be providing light refreshments and will need a close estimate of the number of participants when we place our food order.
Read moreTelling Our Stories: Exploring Fanni Green's Community Engaged Production of "the road weeps"
USF Theatre professor Fanni Green may have thought that a production of Marcus Gardley's the road weeps, the well runs dry would be impossible to stage on campus, but she "fell in love with his words" and didn't let the impossible stand in her way. On a bit of a lark, she applied for a grant from the Lark Play Development Center, and she got it.
Read moreFeatured Student: Melissa Ortiz on Service-Learning
by Julia Poholek, Humanities Internship Program
Ever wondered what it would be like serve your community while earning college credit at the same time? Just ask Melissa Ortiz, a senior here at USF. She's no stranger to service-learning courses, having been in two of them during her time as an undergrad. I sat down with Melissa to get a fresh take on the world of experiential learning outside the classroom and gain a better understanding of this high-impact* method of education.
Read moreFeatured Student: Erika Kozak on Internships
by Julia Poholek, Humanities Internship Program
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be involved with preserving some of the most powerful stories in history? What about doing such important work and getting academic credit at the same time? Erika Kozak is more than familiar with the experience. As an undergraduate student here at the USF, she's scheduled to graduate this Spring with her BA in Humanities and Cultural Studies and a certificate in Film Studies. For the past two semesters, she's been an intern at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. While a position at the Florida Holocaust Museum holds a variety of unique opportunities for learning about museum and curator work, it's not all about the academics for Erika.
Read moreFeatured Student: Daniel Ross on Field Experiences
by Julia Poholek, Humanities Internship Program
When you think of Elementary Education, you might assume that the most effective learning method for student teachers would be to actually go to a school and see how things work from a firsthand perspective. After all, a classroom is where they'll presumably end up in the future, given their chosen major. The benefits of such an opportunity are inarguable – an impact that Daniel Ross, a sophomore at USF, can still feel after having taken a field experience course in the Spring 2013 semester.
Read more"Semesterly" Service-Learning Workshop for Community Organizations and USF Faculty (April 7, 2014)
You spoke and we listened. In an effort to help facilitate partnership building at a grassroots level, the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships ("OCEP") responded to feedback from current and potential community partners and inaugurated a new program called a "Semesterly" Service-Learning Workshop for Community Organizations and USF Faculty.
Read moreCareers in Aging: "An event that serves so many purposes"
The School of Aging Studies is among the many departments on our campus with demonstrated highly effective community-engagement programming. Perhaps because the school itself is interdisciplinary with faculty specializing in a range of disciplines, year after year, they seem to outdo themselves in their efforts to engage faculty and students with the local community.
Read morePublic Sociology: What Role Should Sociology Play in Justice?
What role should sociology play in justice? This question and the concept of "public sociology" were the topics of discussion in a recent gathering convened by the Sociology Department on November 12 as part of its colloquium series. The event was hosted by Dr. Jim Cavendish, Associate Professor of Sociology, and featured guest speakers Dr. Stephen Turner, Distinguished University Professor in the Philosophy Department, and Dr. Susan Greenbaum, Professor Emerita in the Anthropology Department. The event was held in the stately Grace Allen Room in the USF Library. Close to fifty faculty and students were in attendance.
Read moreLatino Communities in Old and New Destinations: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives to Assessing the Impact of Legal Reforms
On Friday, November 8, students, faculty, and community activists gathered at the Vinoy Renaissance Saint Petersburg Resort & Golf Club for the Latino Communities in Old and New Destinations: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives to Assessing the Impact of Legal Reforms conference. Dr. Elizabeth Aranda from the Sociology Department at USF hosted the event. Faculty from all over the country gathered to discuss and share their presentations on the inequalities Latin American citizens face in America and the growing need for immigration reform.
Read moreService-Learning Day, March 6, 2014
Sponsored by the Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships (OCEP), the Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE), and the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement (CLCE).
Second Annual Service-Learning Day
Join us on Thursday, March 6, from 8:45am-1:00pm!
Marshall Center, Room 3711
Read morePoverty and Inequality: A Forum on Research, Action, and Community Engagement
What are the challenges involved in poverty research and activism? How do we counter misinformation and misleading stereotypes about poverty? How can the university engage with the community in constructive dialogue about the causes, consequences, and best ways to alleviate poverty?
Two panels of USF researchers and educators pondered these questions in the context of their own work studying poverty, inequality, and related problems in the areas of health, housing, employment, criminal justice, and education—the last with a focus on disparities in educational access by low-income children in poorly resourced schools. Poverty and Inequality: A Forum on Research, Action, and Community Engagement succeeded in bringing together close to 50 USF faculty, staff, and students, in addition to 12 panelists and moderators. They discussed ways to begin a multidisciplinary research-to-action program at USF that engages non-profits, elected officials, public agencies, and community residents, as well as to establish resources for teaching, research, and community partnerships that are evidence-based and reflective of local history and circumstances.
Read moreThe University Experience course: Cultivating engagement in first-year students
The most valuable aspect of this class was learning about different service opportunities in the community and doing the service-learning project. It felt really good to do something for someone else.
The service project was really fun and connected me to my class.
To me, the most valuable learning exercise was when we had to do a service project.
The course is titled University Experience (UE), and these are but a few examples of positive feedback UE students gave about the service component of the course. UE is a two-credit elective course designed specifically for first-year students to welcome them to USF, and it helps them explore the overall building blocks needed for success in college and in life.
Read moreResearch that Matters: Community Engaged Research Poster Session and Contest
A pdf of the following instructions and guidelines can be downloaded by clicking here.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Patel Center for Global Solutions, Auditorium (Room 131), 1st Floor
Competition open to all degree-seeking USF graduate
The Office of Community Engagement has initiated an annual conference series entitled "Research that Matters." This year the theme is Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Economic Impacts of University–Community Engagement. The conference will take place on Tuesday, October 22, from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, in the Patel Center for Global Solutions. Posters need to be put on display between 8:30-9:00 am. The graduate student poster session and contest will be held from 11:30 to 12:30. The contest is open to all graduate students, and winners will receive awards. It is not necessary for the posters to be about the specific theme of the conference, but they do need to be about community engaged research, on any topic, being done by USF graduate students. We hope that the poster session will further strengthen our community engaged network of graduate students and faculty.
Read moreResearch that Matters: Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Economic Impacts of University–Community Engagement
A pdf of the following instructions and guidelines can be downloaded by clicking here.
Request for Roundtable Proposals
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Patel Center for Global Solutions, Auditorium (Room 131), 1st Floor
Research that Matters (RtM) is the research initiative of the University of South Florida's Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships. We seek to support and spotlight academically rigorous research that addresses the causes and consequences of real world problems, that seeks solutions to these problems, and that is carried out in partnership with community stakeholders. Our Research that Matters annual conference series brings together university researchers and Tampa Bay area practitioners to discuss pressing regional concerns, focusing on how research can support practice in a variety of fields.
Read morePoverty and Inequality
A Forum on Research, Action, and Community Engagement
Thursday, September 26, 2013
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
BSN 225 (Multipurpose Room)
What are the challenges involved in poverty research and activism?
How do we counter misinformation and misleading stereotypes about poverty?
What are the best ways to engage with residents, funders, and service providers?
Read moreUSDA makes site visit to Sulphur Springs community initiative
On July 15th, the Sulphur Springs community was honored by a visit from Kevin Concannon, the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under Secretary Concannon's office became aware of Creating a Healthier Sulphur Springs for Kids (CHSSK) through information found on the internet and was interested in learning more about CHSSK and efforts to improve food security in Sulphur Springs. CHSSK is a coalition of service providers that formed after the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA was awarded an Embrace a Healthy Florida grant in 2010 from the Florida Blue Foundation to promote healthy living in Sulphur Springs through programming that addresses childhood obesity.
Read moreNew library will feature African American research archives and cultural arts
The Robert W. Saunders, Sr. Public Library, located at 1505 North Nebraska Avenue, adjacent to Booker T. Washington Elementary School, will be torn down this fall and replaced with a larger, two-story facility that will house an African American Research Library and an African American Cultural Arts Center. Four public meetings have already been held in order to allow the community to provide input into the design of the building. Construction on the new library will begin in early 2014; it is scheduled to open in December 2014. A grand opening, with a nationally renowned guest speaker, is being planned for March 2015.
Read moreMajor plans underway at the Ybor City Museum Society
The Ybor City Museum Society (YCMS), founded in 1982, will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year, hosting an Anniversary Gala at the historic Italian Club on September 28. The YCMS's mission is to preserve, promote and celebrate the unique cultural heritage of Ybor City and to support the Ybor City Museum State Park.
The YCMS has several major programs and projects under development, including a new permanent Cultural Exhibit on the five immigrant ethnic groups that settled Ybor City and the mutual aid societies those immigrants founded. The Cultural Exhibit opens on October 17th.
Read moreYbor Youth Clinic reaches out to youth who are homeless, GLBTQ, or HIV-infected
The Ybor City area, with its vibrant nightlife and entertainment venues, attracts many young people from diverse backgrounds. Among the usual flow of visitors are youth who are living in difficult circumstances, including homelessness. The GLBTQ-friendly establishments of the GaYBOR business district also provide a welcoming social atmosphere for youth who face rejection elsewhere because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status. Indeed, sometimes these populations overlap: according to a national study produced by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law in 2012, of the clientele served by homeless youth organizations, 40% identify as GLBTQ, with family rejection being the most common contributing factor to homelessness.
Recognizing the need for a welcoming and respectful place for underserved youth in Tampa Bay who might not feel comfortable in traditional health care settings, the Ybor Youth Clinic (YYC) opened last year to provide health care to HIV positive and high-risk youth; gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth (GLBTQ); homeless and street youth; and sexually exploited youth. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was led by Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, County Commissioner Kevin Beckner, and other high-level public officials.
Read moreCasa Chiapas: Community engagement through a Plaza Comunitaria
Casa Chiapas opened its doors just over a year ago, and already it has outgrown its present facilities due to the need for more services in the local community. Located in the heart of the University Area, Casa Chiapas provides English and Spanish classes for adults, GED preparation, computer classes, and much-needed assistance with immigration and health care paperwork, all free-of-charge for the Spanish-speaking population of Tampa. Casa Chiapas also celebrates Chiapan culture and helps to maintain community and transnational ties.
Read moreUSF History Department holds workshop with high school social studies teachers
The fourth Professional Development Workshop for high school teachers ("La Retaguardia de Tampa: The Spanish Civil War and Its Impact on Florida, U.S. and World History") was held at USF on May 15, 2013.
Conducted by USF's Dr. Fraser Ottanelli and Dr. Peter N. Carroll (Stanford University) the workshop was jointly sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) and the USF Department of History with the support of the Hillsborough and Pasco County School districts.
Read moreSchool of Aging Studies hosts Careers in Aging networking event
On the afternoon of March 20th, over 100 faculty, students, and community partners mingled in the Atrium Lobby of the Behavioral and Community Sciences Building during the annual Careers in Aging networking event, hosted by the School of Aging Studies and organized by Dr. Brianne Stanback (Instructor and Internship Program Director).
Not only the turnout was impressive; the collegiality that permeated the socializing was invigorating. The success of Careers in Aging demonstrates the wealth of returns that can come from a significant and sustained investment in partnership building—an art that Stanback has clearly mastered, if not perfected.
Read moreThree 2012-2013 Challenge Grants use engaged research to study food, diet, and health
Three Graduate Student Research Challenge Grant projects selected for funding in 2012-2013 used community engaged research methods to study food, diet, and health. The Graduate School and the Office of Research and Innovation award Challenge Grants in an effort to build leaders through excellence in collaborative graduate education and research. A team of students submits proposals for one-year projects; at least two of the students must be from two different colleges. The collaborative projects provide students with opportunities to develop research skills that will allow them to excel in their chosen fields.
Towards Sustainability in Food Service: Food Waste Reduction and Recycling for Energy and Fertilizer Use at an Environmental Charter School involved constructing and operating a pilot anaerobic digester to recover the nutrients and energy from the food waste at the cafeteria of Learning Gate Community School in Lutz. The mission of Learning Gate is to promote academic excellence, community service, and environmental responsibility, making it the perfect partner with which to develop an innovative learning platform for sustainable food waste management.
Read moreUSF Engineering students address local environmental issues, win recognition
Under the direction of Dr. Sarina Ergas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, two student teams have been awarded first prize by the Florida Water Environmental Association, and they will go on to represent Florida in a national competition.
The USF environmental team consisted of Erin Morrison (PM), Caitlin Hoch, Josh Becker, Miki Skinner, and Brett French. They investigated storm water improvements to alleviate nitrogen over-enrichment in the Booker Creek Watershed in St. Pete.
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15 And the Lord said to me, "Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd. | 15 Then the LORD said to me, "Take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
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Browns Are Insanely Asking Prospects About Paper Clips At NFL Combine
"How many different things can you think of that you can do with a paper clips?" was an actual question.
Listen: Are Bears Leaning Toward Drafting A D-Lineman In 1st Round?
Kony Ealy, Louis Nix and Timmy Jernigan are three names to keep an eye on.
NFL Combine: How Potential Bears DB Targets Fared
(CBS) The NFL Combine is wrapping up today in Indianapolis with the defensive backs working out for scouts and executives from across the league. That makes it a big day for the Bears, who are […]
Watch: Notre Dame's Louis Nix Takes Funny Fall At NFL Combine
Apparently, feeling much sexier means you tend to lose your balance sometimes.
RB Muema Leaves NFL Combine Because God Told Him To
You "can't go wrong with God," Adam Muema explained.
Hoge: Kyle Long Supporting Former Teammate Colt Lyerla In Comeback Effort
Colt Lyerla is looking to put his past behind him.
Hoge: NFL Teams Concerned About Record Number Of Underclassmen Entering Draft
It's difficult for front offices to evaluate underclassmen who they didn't expect to declare.
Hoge: Everything You Need To Know From Bears' NFL Combine Press Conferences
From Julius Peppers' future to retaining Mel Tucker to free agency, here's the latest Bears news.
Philbin Promises Better Work Environment In Miami
Dolphins coach Joe Philbin says he will look under "every stone" to change the culture.
Baffoe: I Took The Stupid Wonderlic Test
Tim Baffoe can only look inward after failing to outscore Blaine Gabbert on the Wonderlic test.
TTYM: NFL's 'Gay 'Ol Time' And Erin Andrews Disses 50 Cent
If you are remotely related to the world of sports and wanted to get your name out there this week – all you had to do was weigh-in on the gays in the NFL discussion. […]
Florio: NFL Teams Want To Know If Manti Te'o Is Gay
According to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, NFL teams are still wondering if Te'o is indeed gay and they want to know the answer.
Te'o Doing Tough Balancing Act At NFL Combine
Manti Te'o wants everyone to know he's over the embarrassment of an online hoax, and he's ready to focus on football.
Hoge: Bears Could Use McClellin As A Linebacker In Some Situations
While the Bears didn't reveal much Thursday at the NFL Combine, the team did expose some of their plans for last year's first-round pick, defensive end Shea McClellin.
Leshoure Ready For Illini Pro Day
Mikel Leshoure worked nonstop to prepare for the NFL Combine, and that hard work payed off. Now Leshoure is a day away from his pro day, and another chance to impress the NFL scouts and coaches.
Carimi Thinks He's The Best Tackle In The Draft
The Chicago Bears will undoubtedly be pursuing an offensive tackle during April's NFL Draft. The player at the top if their wish list might be Wisconsin's Gabe Carimi, who some, including himself, think is the best tackle in the draft.
'Hard Work Paid Off' For Martez Wilson At Combine
Martez Wilson is among three former Fighting Illini players expected to be taken high in the NFL Draft. Unlike his former teammates, Wilson needed a big combine to solidify himself in the NFL Draft.
Thompson: What To Make Of NFL Combine
The poking, prodding, measuring, weighing and timing of future NFL commodities is over. Well not quite, players still have pro days and individual workouts to showcase their talents, but the NFL Scouting Combine is finished.
Mock Draft Has Bears Taking SEC Tackle In Round One
The NFL Combine is wrapping up Tuesday, and as the April draft approaches we'll slowly get a clearer picture of what the Bears might do. One published mock draft as them going with an offensive tackle from the SEC.
Leshoure: Combine Experience Was 'A Dream Come True'
Former Illinois running back Mikel Leshoure will check in with the Mully and Hanley Show each week to give updates as he prepares for April's NFL Draft.


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Though its got a slow start, The girl with the dragon tattoo gets better and better....adding more and more clues, incidents, and questions, and drawing the reader in. Stieg Larsson, a Swedish author, is incredibly talented in this area, following all the clues and even adding smaller side stories in the sequels to this book. I felt like I was reading a real, live, emotionally gripping and intelligent book. Whereas most crime novels jump from fact to scene to fact, taking those journey's in between for granted, Larsson follows each character, each fact, each side fact, til he gets to where he needs to go. This sounds exhausting, but really i feel like Larsson is insisting his readers be intelligent too. he knows what he is talking about.
This is the book that got me into crime novels, and i havent found other books like it. Mikael Blomkvist is hired to investiage a forty year old crime, and he enlists a rebellious young compuer genius woman named lisbeth salander to help him. Together they solve the crime and unlock a dirty family secret.
these characters are very well developed, though you dont learn more until you finish all three books. THough a large part of the narrative follows Blomkvist, Salander is the major character who undergoes a character arc by the end of the story. Though she acts like a tough chick, and trust me she is, she is super intelligent, but like a wounded dog not sure if everyone around her is going to hit her or comfort her.
Great books, perfect for men and women, young adults and up. Great film adaptation too, though its in Swedish. you can probably find some english subtitled ones online, and an english adaptation is in the works.
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7 The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge. | 7 The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. |
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As the people of Scotland prepare to vote on their independence Sept. 18, UK Prime Minister David Cameron warns that the divide would result in a devastating blow to Scotland's economic viability. ... more
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24 And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day. | 24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. |
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Former DreamWorks Animation executive to lead the development and production of original material as well as current and future franchises.
Former head of production also to oversee transition of SPA's newly-appointed president, Kristine Belson.
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India-based animation company extends its presence in New Zealand and Australia with dedicated local operation headed by Mark Nicholls.


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Session 1: July 21, 2014
Session 2: July 22, 2014
Session 3: July 24, 2014
Session 4: July 25, 2014
Session 5: August 20, 2014
Orientation is one day of fast-paced programming designed to introduce you to campus life, resources on and off campus, academics and most importantly to introduce you to your fellow classmates. Orientation is required. YES, we are forcing you to have fun!
At Orientation you will be part of a small group of 20 students led by an Orientation Leader (OL). OL's serve as the 'know it all's' of campus. They will answer any and all questions about Purchase, help you find your way around campus and encourage you to make friends.
RISE AND SHINE! You and your Parents should plan to check in between 8:00a-8:45am on your designated date. Follow the signs on campus directing you to check-in at the Performing Arts Center. Orientation will wrap up by 3:30pm that afternoon.
GETTING HUNGRY? You will definitely work up an appetite at Orientation. Don't worry; we've got you covered. Breakfast and lunch are provided at Orientation for all who attend. Special dietary needs are no problem; just make sure to let us know so we can make special arrangements.
8:30 - 11:30am: Residential Check-In - Residence Halls
8:30 - 11:30am: Orientation Check-In - Main Dining Hall
10:30am - 12pm: Brunch - Main Dining Hall
12:30 - 1pm: Welcome - Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
1 - 1:45pm: (Students) - Small Group Meetings
2 - 2:45pm: (Students) - Academic Program Meetings - Various Locations
3 - 3:30pm: (Students) - Your Purchase Community - Music Building Recital Hall
3:30 - 4pm: (Students) - PC Essentials - Music Building Recital Hall
4 - 5pm: (Students) - Purchase Fair
5 -7pm: (Students) - Dinner - Main Dining Hall
8:30 - 10:30pm (Students) - Ice Cream Social - Main Dining Hall
8:30 - 11:30am: Residential Check-In - Residence Halls
8:30 - 11:30am: Orientation Check-In - Main Dining Hall
10:30am - 12pm: Brunch - Main Dining Hall
12:30 - 1pm: Welcome - Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
1 - 1:45pm: (Parents) - Academic Program Meetings - Various Locations
2 - 2:45pm: (Parents) - Parent Q & A with SOLs - Social Science Classrooms
3 - 3:30pm: (Parents) - PC Essentials - Music Building Choral Hall
3:30 - 4pm: (Parents) - Your Purchase Community - Music Building Choral Hall
4 - 5pm: (Parents) - Purchase Fair - Red Room
3 - 3:30pm: (Parents) - Your Purchase Community - Music Building Recital Hall
3:30 - 4pm: (Parents ) - PC Essentials - Music Building Recital Hall
4 - 5pm: (Parents) - Purchase Fair
To RSVP for one of the Freshman Orientation dates, please follow these instructions:
- Click on the Orientation date that you wish to attend, below.
- Click "Register" to register for that date.
- Create a new account to register. ***Please note that you current purchase.edu username and password WILL NOT WORK to register for orientation. You will have to create a new account.***
- Fill out the registration form and click "register."
- You will receive a confirmation email to confirm your registration.
Session 1: July 21--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 2: July 22--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 3: July 24--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 4: July 25--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 5: August 20--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Sending your student off to college can be an exciting and frightening experience. We hope to alleviate some of your concerns through our Parent Orientation program that runs parallel with our Student Orientation dates. Parent Orientation is, a one-day program, designed to introduce parents to campus life, on and off campus resources, academics, and to also meet faculty, staff, and other parents. Parents will receive a hard-copy letter in the mail in early July with more information on Parent Orientation.
Please find the parent schedule above, in the "Schedule" section.
There is a $75 fee per parent to attend Orientation. This includes the meals for the day, giveaways, and presentations.
Parents can pre-register for Orientation here:
Session 1: July 21--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 2: July 22--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 3: July 24--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 4: July 25--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Session 5: August 20--CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
All new students can participate in Welcome Week from August 21-24. Welcome Week is filled with opportunities for social connections, academic exposure and integration into the community.
We are so excited about your arrival, and looking forward to welcoming you to our Purchase community!!!
Below are some Welcome Week event highlights! We hope that you attend all of the events. Good times are sure to be had by all!
Complete schedules will be given out upon your arrival.
Thursday 21st:
8am-1pm: Move-in/Check-in
12pm-2pm: Welcome Week BBQ
3:30pm-4pm: Family Farewells
4pm-5pm: 1st Floor Meetings
4pm-5pm: Commuter Student Kickoff
8pm-11pm: Game Show Extravaganza
Friday 22nd:
1pm-2pm: **FYE Open Mic Discussion – Junot's Diaz's Drown
2pm-3:30pm: The More You Know
3:30pm-5pm: #FieldDayThrowback
9pm-11pm: Welcome To The Space Jam: Outdoor Movie Night
**First year Experience
Saturday 23rd:
12pm-5pm: Exploring Your Community/Scavenger Hunt (Campus and the city of White Plains)
7pm-8pm: RAVue
8:30pm-11pm: Party Around The Clock!
Sunday 24th:
12pm-5pm: *From Dusk till Lawn (The Great Lawn)
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Following a series of costly repairs at the Sportsplex due to vandalism, the Municipality is installing 14 surveillance cameras to catch those responsible.
"In my term on council, we've replaced the front door (of the Sportsplex) three times," said Mayor Peter McIsaac during the regular meeting of council held Oct. 2.
The Sportsplex doors are just part of the issue.
According to police, on July 1, a rented tent set up near the ball field for the municipality's Canada Day celebration was vandalized, leaving so much debris and damage that a clean-up crew was required.
"They physically pulled the pegs out of the ground and pulled it so the bars got bent and the (fire-retardant) tarp was ripped," said facilities manager Mike Heasman.
He said the tent was rented from the agricultural society and cost $1,000 to replace.
On Aug. 15, snow fencing on the property was moved and damaged, as was the sign for the park, which was donated by the Powassan Lions Club.
"It's disappointing," said Lions Club President Paul Wilson. "It's sad to see the vandalism."
Wilson said he is happy to see the cameras go up even though he isn't sure they will make much of a difference.
"Mischief is going to happen," he said, noting vandals always seem to find a way around the deterrent. "You'll find a few bad apples that will always do these things."
Wilson said he wonders if alcohol could have been a factor in the mischief.
So far no one has been identified despite having witnesses to at least one of the incidents.
"There were a couple of people that witnessed kids pulling the letters off of the 'Welcome to Powassan' sign at the ball park, but it was too dark for them to identify who the kids were," said Heasman, who confirmed McIsaac's comment on the multiple replacement windows purchased for the front doors.
"We've had people going by throwing rocks through the glass," he said. "I don't think people realize what is involved when they do this damage and what the cost really is to the municipality, not only in replacements but in man-hours."
Months ago, council approved the purchase of a set of surveillance cameras intended for the exterior of the building, but they have yet to be installed because it turned out they won't function in cold weather. Those cameras are now being installed in the interior of the building and new cameras are being purchased for the outdoor perimeter.
Heasman said he hopes the cameras will act as a deterrent for future mischief. He said the indoor cameras are being installed this week and the outdoor versions soon after.
"Hopefully that covers everything, but if there are some blind spots we will be adding more," he said.
In total, the Sportsplex property is being equipped with seven indoor cameras and seven outdoor at a total cost of about $8,000. Council approved $1,000 of that cost which was used for the purchase of the indoor cameras.
During the Oct. 2 council meeting, council discussed the $7,000 price tag for the seven outdoor cameras.
"It seems like a lot of money, but we've already lost $7,000 in vandalism just in our term (on council)," said Coun. Todd White during the meeting. "Worst case, if it happens again we can at least identify who it is and put an end to it."
Another concern brought forward by council is the legal liability of people breaking into the outdoor pool after hours.
"If someone breaks into the pool and drowns, suddenly $7,000 isn't going to seem like a lot of money," he said.
McIsaac agreed.
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When we look back at the short but storied history of consumer 3D acceleration we can pick out several defining moments. The first is the introduction of the Voodoo1, the early forerunner in the 3D card craze. Accelerating apps such as Tomb Raider and Quake, the Voodoo 1 was bar none, the most popular and coveted piece of computer equipment back in the day. Early competitors back then started catching up to the Voodoo 1, one of them being the infamous Nvidia RIVA128 which could rival the Voodoo 1 in speed, but was hampered by poor image quality. The introduction of the Voodoo 2 set the bar for a new generation of products. Not only did the Voodoo 2 more than double the performance of the Voodoo 1, 3dfx introduced the world to SLI - scan line interleave mode which would use not one but two Voodoo 2s in parallel to double performance. Maybe it was crushing the competition both in terms of games support and flat out performance that lulled 3dfx into a sense of security, but never again would 3dfx command such a performance lead. The Voodoo2 is arguably the pinnacle of 3dfx before its slow but steady fall into bankruptcy and obsolescence.
This last generation of video cards also provided huge jumps. Both Nvidia and ATi managed to roughly double their performance compared to the performance leaders of the previous generation. Nvidia proudly claimed that this was their largest performance jump between new architectures ever.
During E3, Alienware dropped the bomb on the online community with the announcement of their Video Array technology. Alienware along with Intel, developed a proprietary product that could take two PCI Express graphics cards from any company and have them work in parallel, similiar only to 3dfx's SLI as a dual videocard processing solution. Unfortunately, this particular implementation is only available through Alienware and reportedly there would be roughly 100 units a month available. This seemed like a major coup for Alienware at the time as it seemed unlikely that any other system integrator had the resources that Alienware did with the development of their Video Array.
Last week I got a cryptic message from Nvidia asking if I would be around the next day for a tech briefing- it was somewhat of a surprise as a new product from them was not expected; afterall the 6800 is still next to impossible to get a hold of in retail and it is still brand new as far as products go. The next day I received a call from the man, the legend himself, Brian Burke. Nvidia was bringing back SLI.
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Alternate or Complimentary Therapies for Macular Degeneration
Macular Degeneration
Related Terms
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
Not Effective Treatments
The lens of the eye focuses an image of the world on a portion of the retina called the macula, the area of finest visual perception. After cataracts, damage to the macula is the second most common cause of visual impairment in those over 65. Smoking, high blood pressure, and atherosclerosis are associated with macular degeneration. Bright light also appears to play a role by creating damaging natural substances in the eye, called free radicals. Gradual deterioration of the macula is called macular degeneration.
In the most common form of macular degeneration (dry
macular degeneration), a substance known as lipofuscin accumulates in the lining of
the retina. A much less common form of macular degeneration involves the abnormal
growth of blood vessels (wet macular degeneration). This can be treated
very successfully, if attended to soon enough, but may lead to irreversible blindness
if left untreated. For this reason, medical consultation in all cases of macular
degeneration (or any other type of vision loss) is essential.
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
Note: The treatments described in this section are intended as supports to standard ophthalmalogical care, not as a substitute for it. All studies refer primarily to the more common type of macular degeneration, dry macular degeneration.
Zinc and Antioxidants
Growing evidence suggests that a mixture of zinc and antioxidants can prevent or slow the progression of early macular degeneration of the most common type.
A double-blind,
placebo-controlled trial evaluated the effects of zinc
with or without antioxidants on macular degeneration in 3,640
individuals in the early stage of the disease.1
Participants were randomly assigned to receive one of the
following treatments: antioxidants (vitamin
C at 500 mg, vitamin
E at 400 IU, and beta-carotene
at 15 mg), zinc (80 mg) and copper
(2 mg), antioxidants
plus zinc, or placebo. The results indicate that zinc alone
or, even better, zinc plus antioxidants, significantly slowed
the progression of the disease.
Note: Zinc at doses of 80 mg and higher
daily can be harmful. One of the problems is that high-dose zinc supplementation
impairs copper absorption. That's why extra copper was provided in the study described
above. However, there may be other risks as well. Physician supervision is advised. For
other dosage and safety issues, see the full Zinc
Smaller studies of zinc for macular degeneration have found
mixed results.3,4
Note that it's not clear how much the antioxidants in the
mixture contributed to the benefits. A 4-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
of 1,193 people with macular degeneration failed to find vitamin E alone helpful for
preventing or treating macular degeneration.16
Lutein and Other Carotenoids
Observational studies suggest that higher intake of dietary carotenoids is associated with a lower incidence of macular degeneration.5,6 Carotenoids are a group of substances that are found in many fruits and vegetables, especially yellow-orange and dark green ones. Beta-carotene is the most famous carotenoid. However, observational studies prove little about cause and effect. To determine whether carotenoids can actually prevent or treat macular degeneration, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies are necessary. (For information on why this is the case, see Why Does the Natural Pharmacist Rely on Double-blind Studies?) One such study failed to find any benefit with beta-carotene (taken along with vitamin E and vitamin C).15
The less well-known carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin have
also been investigated for a possible role in preventing
macular degeneration (as well as cataracts).
These carotenoids, principally found in corn and dark green
leafy vegetables, are found in high concentrations in the eye.
It has been suggested that they may protect the macula from
light-induced damage by dyeing it yellow, thereby acting as a
kind of natural sunglasses. They also act in the usual
antioxidant fashion by neutralizing free radicals.9
Hopes were somewhat dampened by one observational study that
failed to find much association between the extent of macular
degeneration and the intake of either lutein or
However, they rose again after the completion of a preliminary
double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of lutein.18
This study enrolled 90 people with dry ARMD and followed them
for 12 months. The participants received either lutein (10
mg), lutein plus antioxidants and a multivitamin/mineral
suppplement, or placebo. At the end of the study period,
participants who had taken lutein alone or lutein plus the
other nutrients showed improvements in vision, while no change
in vision was seen in the placebo group.
While these are promising findings, further study is needed
to establish the apparent benefit of lutein for ARMD. For more
information, see the full Lutein
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
Flavonoids are another group of naturally occurring chemicals, found in many plants, that may offer a variety of beneficial effects. Weak but interesting evidence suggests that bilberry and OPCs, both rich in flavonoids, may prevent or treat macular degeneration.11-13
The herb ginkgo
biloba also contains many flavonoids, and is additionally
thought to increase circulation. In a 6-month, double-blind,
placebo-controlled study of 20 people with macular
degeneration, use of ginkgo at a dose of 160 mg daily resulted
in improved visual acuity.12
Furthermore, positive results were seen in a 24-week,
double-blind study of 99 people with macular degeneration that
compared ginkgo extract at a dose of 240 mg per day against
ginkgo at a dose of 60 mg per day.17
Vision improved in both groups, but to a greater extent with
the higher dose. This study would have been more meaningful if
it had included a placebo
group, but nonetheless, "dose-related" effects of this type
are good indications that a treatment really works.
Moderate wine consumption might also help prevent macular
Like these herbs, wine contains high levels of flavonoids.
1. Age-Related Eye Disease Study Research Group. A randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of high-dose supplementation with vitamins C and E, beta carotene, and zinc for age-related macular degeneration and vision loss: AREDS Report no.8. Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:1417-1436.
3. Newsome DA, Swartz M, Leone NC, et al.
Oral zinc in macular degeneration. Arch Ophthalmol.
4. Stur M, Tittl M, Reitner A, et al. Oral
zinc and the second eye in age-related macular degeneration.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1996;37:1225-1235.
5. Seddon JM, Ajani UA, Sperduto RD, et
al. Dietary carotenoids, vitamins A, C, and E, and advanced
age-related macular degeneration. Eye Disease Case-Control
Study Group. JAMA. 1994;272:1413-1420.
6. Mares-Perlman JA, Brady WE, Klein R, et
al. Serum antioxidants and age-related macular degeneration in
a population-based case-control study. Arch Ophthalmol.
7. Landrum JT, Bone RA, Kilburn MD. The
macular pigment: a possible role in protection from
age-related macular degeneration. Adv Pharmacol.
8. Hammond BR Jr, Wooten BR, Snodderly DM.
Density of the human crystalline lens is related to the
macular pigment carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin. Optom
Vis Sci. 1997;74:499-504.
9. Snodderly DM. Evidence for protection
against age-related macular degeneration by carotenoids and
antioxidant vitamins. Am J Clin Nutr.
10. Mares-Perlman JA, Fisher AI, Klein R,
et al. Lutein and zeaxanthin in the diet and serum and their
relation to age-related maculopathy in the Third National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Am J
Epidemiol. 2001;153:424-432.
11. Scharrer A, Ober M. Anthocyanosides
in the treatment of retinopathies [translated from German].
Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd. 1981;178:386-389.
12. Lebuisson DA, Leroy L, Rigal G.
Treatment of senile macular degeneration with Ginkgo
biloba extract. A preliminary double-blind, drug versus
placebo study [translated from French]. Presse Med.
13. Caselli L. Clinical and
electroretinographic study on activity of anthocyanosides [in
Italian; English abstract]. Arch Med Intern (Parma).
14. Watson V. Wine consumption decreases
risk of age-related blindness. Medical Tribune, June 5,
15. Age-Related Eye Disease Study
Research Group. A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical
trial of high-dose supplementation with vitamins C and E and
beta carotene for age-related cataract and vision loss: AREDS
report no. 9. Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:1439-1452.
16. Taylor HR, Tikellis G, Robman LD, et
al. Vitamin E supplementation and macular degeneration:
randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2002;325:11.
17. Fies P, Dienel A. Ginkgo extract in
impaired vision-treatment with special extract EGb 761 of
impaired vision due to dry senile macular degeneration.
Wien Med Wochenschr. 2002;152:423-426.
18. Richer S, Stiles W, Statkute L, et
al. Double-masked, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of
lutein and antioxidant supplementation in the intervention of
atrophic age-related macular degeneration: the Veterans LAST
study (Lutein Antioxidant Supplementation Trial).
Optometry. 2004;75:216-30.
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