1. Community & University: A Duquesne University Honors Seminar
Dr. Evan Stoddard
Community & University
Benjamin Shopland
Getting to Know the Community
Jamie White
Selecting & Planning the Project
Juliane Murphy
Executing and Reporting
Allison Pogue
Project Assessment

2. Community & University
Dr. Evan Stoddard

3. Community & University
Honors Seminar
Substitutes for a core writing course
Writing-intensive

4. Course Objectives Know and love the community
Research a community and its needs
Learn important skills
Writing proposals
Project management and budgeting
Writing reviews
Work productively in a diverse team
Contribute to the community
Contribute to the national dialogue on service-learning

5. The Class Professor: Resource and Coach
Course: Expression of Duquesne’s Mission
First Day: We get started!
The semester is short to do all we want to do.

6. Getting to Know
the South Side
Benjamin Shopland

7. Southside is well-known to DU students
Lots to do close to campus
1,000 commuting students live on Southside

8. A Fresh Look at Southside
Our First Three Assignments:
-Personal Observations
-Research
-Group Report
-using wiki technology with
Blackboard
-update old report
-collage of our interests
What can we offer Southside?

9. Get Out There: The Importance of Knowing the Community
Project must have value in Community
Community investment
Sustainability
Community Partners

10. Two Goals of Service Learning:
Service: Benefit to Community
Learning: Benefit to Students

11. Selecting & Planning the Project
Jamie White

12. The Project: Revitalizing South Side Park
Beautification
Trail Mapping

13. Project Selection
Storyboarding

14. Gantt Chart & Budget

15. Gantt Chart & Budget

16. Project Proposal
Purpose and Result

17. Community Partners South Side Local Development Company
South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association
PA Cleanways
Pittsburgh Public Works
Pittsburgh Trail-building Advocacy Group
Dr. Nancy Trun, DU Biology Dept
Peter Greninger, REI
Esser’s Floral
DU Honors College
DU Volunteers
Aramark

18. Executing & Reporting
Juliane Murphy

19. Funding
Seed fund
$100
Fundraisers
Pizza sale
T-shirt sale

20. Organizing the Class Class groups Work Groups Fundraising Volunteers
Community Partners
Advertising
Work Groups
Beautification
Trail-mapping

21. Project Results Removed 300 trash bags 65 tires 2 refrigerators
Several mattresses
Car engine

22. Project Results Planted Flowers Improved and mapped a major trail
Made community connections

23. Reporting: The Wiki

24. Reporting: Online Archive
1.Click here
2. Type keyword
3. Click here
4. View results

25. Project Assessment
Allison Pogue

26. Lessons Learned Sustainability Realistic Project Choice
Time Management
Fundraising
Teamwork & Leadership
Grading

27. Role of the Instructor - Encouraged student responsibility
- Granted freedom
- Valuable resource

28. Student Reactions
“I will take away a great experience from this course, and I am happy to have become friends with the members of our small class. I think this project effectively personalized our class with the community of the South Side and made us more aware of the people that live there and the concerns of their community.”

29. Student Reactions
“I’ve learned a lot about the South Side and Pittsburgh communities in the past few months. I feel more connected to this area than ever before. It was tough to feel this way being from out of state and unfamiliar with the area.”

30. Student Reactions
“As I look back on this class five years from now, I think I will remember what a great impact we were able to have on the community around us. I never realized how willing people were to help others out. The community was very willing to donate their time and money to our project.”

31. Thank you for attending our session!
Any Questions?