program booklet - Shippensburg University

P A G E 10Ship Connect Service-Learning ProjectsWelcome to the Second Annual Service-Learning Project Day!Many of you may have participated in community service duringhigh school, so you may wonder why Shippensburg University placesso much importance in service-learning. Service-learning goesbeyond community service by providing powerful educational learningexperiences for those involved. Classroom lectures are certainlyessential components of your academic training, but examining authenticproblems and issues in the field as well helps learning comealive! Service-learning is one part of your education that will allowyou to gain knowledge in your discipline and experience deeperlearning while making valued contributions to the community. Lastyear’s freshmen students found this event to be a worthwhile investmentof their time. You won’t want to miss this opportunity tobuild positive connections to your new university community in afun learning environment!Co-chairs: Dr. Karen Johnson and Dr. Gretchen PierceA Game of Basketball with People of Different AbilitiesThis is an ideal service project for students of every major, but students fromSocial Work may find it particularly appealing! Come and enjoy a game ofbasketball with a team of people who have different abilities at SouthamptonTownship Park in Shippensburg. This service activity offers the opportunity tointeract with people who have different abilities and enjoy a good game ofbasketball. This group of basketball players, who are very welcoming to Shipstudents, includes individuals of both genders from ages 13 and up. Don’tdelay in registering for this event as only ten students will be able to participate!For additional information about this venture, contact Dr. Marita Flaglerat mnflagler@ship.edu or Dr. Cheryl Zaccagnini at chzacc@ship.edu.Senior Center Lemonade SocialIf you are interested in social work, sociology, or psychology, have stronginterpersonal skills and like helping people, this service-learning project is foryou. Luther Ridge residential home will host a lemonade social for its residentson August 27 at 2:00 PM. By volunteering, you will be able to interactwith senior citizens, learn about their life experiences, and understand howcommunity relations work at a residential home. For more information, contactDr. José Ricardo at jgrica@ship.edu.Burd Run Stream Clean-UpIf you are interested in getting your hands dirty with an environmental cleanupproject, then this activity is for you! We will spend a morning cleaning upa section of Burd Run, a small stream that runs through the Ship campus.This stream and a nearby wetland were recently restored, and students atShippensburg have been helping to keep it clean ever since. It is a beautifularea with lots of wildlife and an interpretive trail that explains important aspectsof stream and wetland ecology. This project will appeal to students withan interest in environmentalism. Since the environmental ethic spans acrossall disciplines, all majors/programs are welcome. This project is led by Dr.Claire Jantz, the faculty advisor for SU's environmental club, and current officersfrom the environmental club will also be out helping. This will give newstudents the chance to learn more about the environmental club and environmentalinitiatives on campus. For more information, Dr. Jantz can be reachedat cajant@ship.edu.Brighten Up Katie's PlaceAre you interested in helping people? Do you want to know more about thesocial services that are available in Shippensburg? Want to be part of an excitingnew venture that will help serve community members and offer aunique partnership with the university? Come help brighten up Katie’s Place!We need help painting, cleaning and generally helping to “spruce up” Katie’sPlace, an former bakery building that is now a central spot for social andyouth services on Penn Street in Shippensburg. You’ll have the chance tomeet community members who currently work out of the building to providemuch needed services to families such as fresh produce and financial assistance.Someday when the building is renovated and serving as a central spotfor social services and youth services, you can say, “I was part of that!” Foradditional information, contact Dr. Liz Fisher at eafish@ship.edu.Community Sustainability at the Corn FestivalAs part of a new initiative to form a Shippensburg University Labor Center,the purpose of our project is to explore community sustainability as exemplifiedby the Annual Shippensburg Corn Festival. This annual festival attractsthousands of visitors and over 300 vendors. During this project you will spendtime at the Corn Festival interacting with vendors and observing and/or samplingtheir merchandise. You will record your observations of the Festival andalso responses to selected questions that you can ask vendors and attendeesof the Corn Festival. You will help generate questions which is somethingresearchers do in many disciplines including business and psychology. Severalissues will be raised such as the importance of the Corn Festival to the localeconomy as well as to individual vendor(s), comparing Corn Festival foodvendors to corporate fast food (on aspects such as price, ingredients, sustainability,etc.), and making similar comparisons among product vendors. Fromthis project, students will be able to form a body of research necessary toestablish a new Labor Center on campus. For more information contact Management& Marketing Professor Dr. Jerry Carbo atjacarbo@ship.edu or Psychology Professor Dr. Steve Haase atsjhaas@ship.edu.Starting a Bluebird TrailInterested in birds? Want to learn more about bluebirds? This project willteach you about Eastern Bluebirds, conservation threats and how ordinarypeople are helping these birds rebound. You will have an opportunity to helpplace nest boxes around campus after determining what makes a good nestbox location. If you are a Biology, Earth Science, or an Undecided major whojust enjoys working outside, then this project is for you! For more information,please contact Dr. Nathan Thomas at nethomas@ship.edu.A C A D E M I C D A Y 2 0 1 1 , P R O G R A M SVoter Registration DriveCome learn about voter registration in Pennsylvania and Shippensburg, getinvolved with other students, and meet both young and old borough residentsat the 2011 Corn Festival. Understand the need for student awareness andcivic engagement, and work to fight complacency. A thriving democracy requiresan active citizenry! Join us in creating a successful voter registrationdrive. This service learning project will interest:-those who are curious about grassroots political movements, whether TeaParty Libertarian, Left-Wing Democrat, or anywhere in between.-those who want to get engaged in making a better world, whether throughactivism in education, the environment, the economy, foreign affairs, GBLTissues, you name it.What’s that slogan? “You’ve got a VOICE, you’ve got a CHOICE.” Helpingpeople, town or gown, to register to vote, offers everyone a choice as fellowcitizens. We will go over the basics of voter registration as a community service,and then have fun at the Corn Festival, meeting people and offeringthem this service. For more information, contact Dr. Katy Clay atcbclay@ship.edu.Assist Shippensburg’s PMI Pregnancy Resource CenterJoin Roxanne Dennis, SU's Catholic Campus Minister, and Robin Kell, Directorof the Shippensburg PMI Pregnancy Resource Center, on a community servicemission at the Pregnancy Resource Center. This ministry is within walkingdistance of Ship's campus and full of opportunities for service! Students willparticipate in organizing inventory and providing a thorough spring cleaning ofthe center. This project would provide insight into the challenges faced byorganizations that are working with limited resources and ways they are ableto meet community needs. A maximum of 15 students will be allowed for thisproject. For more information on this service-learning project opportunitycontact Roxanne at rmdenn@ship.edu or Robin Kell at pmiship@gmail.com.How Big is a Cornfest Crowd?Last year comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart hosted the “Rally toRestore Sanity and/or Fear” in front of a large crowd of people on the NationalMall. However, estimates of crowd size were greatly varied; CBS news reportedthat 215,000 people attended, while the hosts of Myth Busters estimatedthe crowd to be 150,000 and others said attendance may have barely reached100,000. Why are these numbers so different? Is it really that hard to countpeople? Work on this project and you can find out for yourself. Math, ComputerScience, and Accounting majors may be interested in this project whichwill focus on investigating how many people actually attend Shippensburg’sAnnual Cornfest through the use of various crowd size calculation methods.After collecting data, we will compare answers, discuss how and why differentapproximations (may) exist and what the numbers tell us about the effect ofthis event on the community. Dr. Ben Galluzzo can provide additional informationat bjgalluzzo@ship.edu.