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COMMUNITY &

C IVIC ENGAGEMENT

A Word of Welcome from

Dr. Giovanna Summerfield

Community Spotlight – Dr. Mark Wilson

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Faculty Spotlight……………………………………………page 2 1

Upcoming Events…………………………………………..page 3 2

Student Highlights ………….…………………………….page 4 3

Research…………………………………………………………page 5 4

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Welcome to the fourth issue of the College of Liberal Arts' Community and Civic Engagement Initiative newsletter for the 2014-2015 academic year. Our international outreach continues to prosper. After having taught an upper-level course, titled “East Meets West: Sicily, A Case Study at the Crossroads” where students used iPads and innovative methods of study to learn about the Mediterranean and about possible comparisons with the current socio-political events in the United States, AU faculty, students, and alumni presented at the first Mediterranean Studies Symposium organized by Auburn University, University of Catania, and Paris Ouest, Nanterre, in Catania, Italy. It was a great success, connected now with Mediterranean Seminar, an interdisciplinary forum for the development of research and teaching on the Mediterranean region and leading initiative in the emerging field of Mediterranean Studies based at the University of California with 800 associates, which will be followed by another annual symposium in Paris, at the end of May 2015.

This coming Fall, while hosting three Italian exchange students, we are also bringing the world to Auburn through a series of international films set in the world sites of our CLA abroad programs. In Fall, the programs highlighted are Aberystwyth, Wales (CLA brand new interdisciplinary program for all undergraduates), Seville, Spain (CLA/FLL internship site), Vienna, Austria (CLA/FLL summer study program); in Spring, the sites we will visit through film screenings are Dublin, Ireland (CLA/CCE Internship site), Prague, Czech Republic (CLA/Health Administration internship site), Rome, Italy (CLA/Art summer program), and Beijing, China (CLA/CCE/FLL internship site). As you can see, our calendar is packed again with stimulating events: from film series, to lunch and learn discussions, workshops, keynote speakers, and our annual celebrations for National Arts and Humanities Month and National Italian American Heritage Month.

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During the Fall 2013 semester, CCE Club President Mary Afton Day (’13) organized students for children’s programming with Auburn Public

Housing at the Ridgecrest Community under the direction of Charlotte Mattox, Family Self Sufficiency Coordinator for APH. Day prepared and led

activities on leadership and positive self-expression, and as a culminating activity, participants captured positive elements of their world in

photography and written descriptions. The framed student creations now hang in the hallway of the administrative offices of Auburn Public Housing.

Ms. Mattox and CCE minor student Maggie Moore continued the project in the Spring 2014 semester at the Sparkman Community with several

children who enjoyed learning alongside college students. Mary Afton, Maggie, and Ms. Mattox spoke about the project at the 2014 Gulf-South

Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement in Higher Education.

The work grew over the course of the academic year and included social work intern Erin Gray, who planned and coordinated activities for

Senior Citizens. CCE minor Laney Payne (’14) coordinated ACT Prep and Work Skills classes for adults in the community, with help from student

volunteers and graduate assistant Blake Evans (’14). Ms. Mattox spoke to the 2014 Academy for Civic Professionalism regarding the many

collaborative opportunities with CCE students, and we look forward to many, many more. Ms. Mattox had much positive feedback to share about

the collaborations with the Auburn CCE students: “After working with the Auburn University students in various classes in the Auburn Housing

Authority communities, there is no question that our future is in good hands.”

All these initiatives would not be possible without the assistance and enthusiasm of our students, faculty, and staff, and above all our great CCE Fellows. This academic year we are happy to welcome Alyssa, Lydia, and Joy. We are looking forward to working with you all this year. In particular, Lydia will be our trait d’union between Imagining America and our AU graduate students. We are going to organize and attend many interesting seminars at the upcoming IA Annual Conference in Atlanta, Oct 9-11. Auburn University College of Liberal Arts will be highlighted in two seminars, “Civic Professionalism: Innovative Driver of Change or Impossible Dream?” and “How do Cultural Shifts towards Greater Public Engagement on Campuses Actually Happen?” Our College’s CCE will also offer an institute in May, focusing on civic professionalism and collaborative leadership. Last June, Auburn was represented at Emory’s institute on grassroots and cultural organizing strategies to begin telling a “story of self” and “story of now” related to higher education and civic engagement. Many things were learned and will be shared during the coming months.

CCE is looking forward to leading some new programs focused on the book Good Kings Bad Kings by Susan Nussbaum, proposed by our College Diversity Committee. It is a powerful collection of stories told by a cohort of teenagers with disabilities. Keep your eyes open for activities that will center around this great book during our Spring semester. And do not miss our No Impact Week in March…We are bringing back Colin Beavan as our keynote speaker, the No Impact Man himself. Have a great 2014-2015!

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Faculty Spotlight – Barb Bondy

Faculty Develops New Continuing Education Program

Barb Bondy serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Art and has been promoted to full professor effective Fall 2014. She has served as an Imagining America Research Fellow, and as Breeden Scholar Chair, which involved outreach projects with the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities. Bondy has been on faculty at Auburn since 2003, served as exhibitions and lectures coordinator for Biggin Gallery through 2012, and teaches art courses at the undergraduate level. Bondy frequently develops community and civic engagement projects to expand learning experiences and to provide professional development in the arts for students.

Over the last few years, Bondy has worked with the CLA, the Department of Art, faculty, staff, and community partners to determine community needs for professional skills development in community arts for individuals and arts organizations in Alabama. This effort culminated in a well-attended workshop in Summer 2013 and subsequently led to the development of a new continuing education certificate program designed to address community needs that was launched this Spring.

The certificate program titled, “Professional Skills Development in Community Arts,” offers six modules that provide 20 contact hours of professional skills development education relevant to community arts management and individual careers. Course emphasis is on providing practical skills and tools in the areas of media skills development and application, fundraising, public relations, copyright, leadership, and grant proposal development for community arts development with some professional networking opportunities. The program is offered over six months, August 2014 through January 2015, on the Auburn University campus and will offer refresher courses (see page 6 for more information about this opportunity).

Bondy earned her B.F.A. in visual art at the University of Windsor (2000) and her M.F.A. in visual art at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2003). Her creative research interests are explored primarily through drawing and photography. She exhibits her artwork in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. In 2007, Bondy was recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship. In addition to teaching in the department of art, Bondy has taught with Auburn University’s Human Odyssey Program and the Alabama Prison Art and Education Project.

Student Spotlight – Mary Beth Snow Student Engages with Local Hispanic Community

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Mary Beth Snow was involved in Living Democracy the summer after her freshman year, living and working in Collinsville, Alabama for ten weeks in a partnership with the local public library. She helped with downtown beautification projects, worked with local high school students, taught free introductory Spanish classes for adults, and ran a bilingual summer reading program for children of Spanish speaking immigrants in the community. She loved every moment of living in Collinsville. This experience is the focus of her senior thesis, centered around immigrant integration in the rural south. Snow still maintains close relationships with her host family and friends and returns to visit whenever she can!

For her CCE capstone project, Snow developed a resource packet targeted for Hispanic community members in the Auburn area and distributed it to several community centers. The packet had information about ESL classes, disaster preparedness, health and nutrition, and voting rights. In some ways it was an extension of her time in Collinsville, where she discovered that necessary resources already existed in the community, but were not always connected to those who needed them.

Snow is graduating in August 2014 and will spend the next academic year teaching English in a public school in Galicia, Spain. She will return in May and move to Houston, Texas, where she has been accepted to Teach for America and will hopefully be able to work as a bilingual elementary school teacher in Houston inner city schools. She is grateful for her time in the CCE minor because it helped her discover more constructive ways of addressing the needs she saw and encouraged her by putting her alongside other like-minded people who were motivated to do the same. According to Snow, “Of all of the things that I have been involved in at Auburn, CCE has, without a doubt, had the most positive impact on where I am headed in the future. War Eagle!”

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CCE Events August 28 – Welcome (Back) International

Tigers Luncheon 11:00 am – Tichenor Hall 310 September 10 – Africana Studies, CCE, and

Women’s Studies Minors Open House

10:00 am – Haley Concourse September 16 – Lunch-n-Learn with CLA

Engaged Scholar Nan Fairley 11:45 am – Tichenor Hall 310 *Bring your lunch and join us* September 17 – Constitution Day Event 11:00 am – Student Center

Ballroom September 17 – Study Abroad Fair 9:00 am – Haley Center Lobby

*Come learn about CCE abroad* October 1 – Arts and Humanities Month

Kickoff: CLA BBQ and Kite Flying 12:30 pm – Cater Lawn October 5, 12, & 26 – National Italian

American Heritage Month Film Festival 2:00 pm – JCS Museum

October 27 – Closing speaker for Arts and

Humanities Month, Dr. Leon Botstein 5:00 pm – AUHCC Auditorium

November 3 – Lunch-n-Learn with CLA

Engaged Scholar Sridhar Krishnamurti

11:45 am – Tichenor Hall 310 *Bring your lunch and join us* November 11 – Veteran’s Day Program and

Reception at RBD Library 3:00 pm – RBD Auditorium 0016 January 20 – Lunch-n-Learn with CLA

Engaged Scholar Brigitta Brunner 11:45 am – Tichenor Hall 310 *Bring your lunch and join us* March 8 – 15 – No Impact Week. April 7 – Lunch-n-Learn with CLA Engaged

Scholar Panel 11:45 am – Tichenor Hall 310 *Bring your lunch and join us* April 17 – Visit to the Magic of Marble

Festival in Sylacauga, AL Details TBA May 11 – 14 – Academy for Civic

Professionalism

www.cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/

UPCOMING EVENTS

The College Of Liberal Arts’ Community and Civic Engagement Initiative

Global Citizenship International Film Series

Travel with us to the CLA world sites as we show films highlighting CLA abroad locations!

September 16 Hinterland, Aberystwyth, Wales. directed by Gareth Bryn. October 21 Blancanieves, Seville, Spain. directed by Pablo Berger. November 4 Before Sunrise, Vienna, Austria.

directed by Richard Linklater.

*Additional films will be shown in the spring semester that take place in Dublin, Ireland, Prague, Czech Republic, Rome, Italy, and Beijing, China. Visit www.cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/calendar for

more information about the films and the CCE international programs.

2014 Italian Film Festival Presented by the College of Liberal Arts’ Community and Civic Engagement Initiative to Celebrate National Italian American Heritage Month

October 5, 12, & 26 Free admission and open to the public.

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art

October 5 Zoran, il mio nipote scemo (Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot) directed by Matteo Oleotto

1:00 pm - Opening reception 2:00 pm – Film in Museum Auditorium

October 12 La mafia uccide solo d’estate (The Mafia Only Kills in Summer)

directed by Pierfrancesco Diliberto 2:00 pm – Film in Museum Auditorium

October 26 La Sedia della felicita’ (The Chair of Happiness)

directed by Carlo Mazzacurati 1:00 pm – Reception with exhibition

scavenger hunt and prizes 2:00 pm – Film in Museum Auditorium

*Films are co-sponsored by Miami General Consulate, Cinema Italy, and the Office of International Programs at Auburn University.

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Global Citizenship Project

This year the College of Liberal Arts' CCE Initiative

sponsored its third annual GCP Retreat to the Magic of Marble Festival in Sylacauga, Alabama. The retreats give students and faculty the opportunity to personally engage with the cross cultural communities in Alabama. For this retreat, faculty, staff, and students traveled to Sylacauga, Alabama, on April 16, 2014 and met with mayor Doug Murphree who offered a warm welcome to Sylacauga. The participants visited Auburn alumni who work at the Imerys Offices and the observation point of the historic quarry site, where art students sketched, and then interacted with sculptor Craigger Brown and other artists at the Marble Festival sculpting site.

For the past five years, Sylacauga has hosted the Marble Festival celebrating the rich heritage of marble in the community by inviting an Italian sculptor for 2 weeks to mentor international and national visiting artists. The quarries in Sylacauga date back to the 1830s, and Alabama marble has been used in the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, the U.S. Supreme Court Building, and other cities nationwide.

CCE Fellows 2014-2015

This year, the Community and Civic Engagement Fellows program has created several new positions for students. Fellows are selected to work alongside faculty and administrators on projects that fulfill the CCE mission. The CLA’s Initiative is excited to introduce our 2014-2015 Student Fellows:

Alyssa Bolin, CCE Fellow for Social Media: Originally

from Camden, South Carolina, Alyssa Bolin, “Aly”, is

a senior majoring in Political Science and minoring

in Community and Civic Engagement

Lydia Ferguson, CCE Graduate Student and

Imagining America PAGE Fellow: Lydia E. Ferguson is

a PhD student in the Auburn University English

Department, researching 19th-Century American

Literature, American Studies, Culture and

Performance Studies, and Teaching Composition.

Joy Porter, CCE Fellow Liaison to City of Auburn

Public Housing: Originally from Nashville,

Tennessee, Joy Porter is a senior majoring in History

and minoring in Political Science and Community

and Civic Engagement.

CCE Student Updates

Six students participated in the 2013 Appalachian Teaching Project, which included a symposium presentation in Washington, D.C.

Four students participated in the Living Democracy project in summer 2014, which included ten-week residences in Elba,

Collinsville, Linden and Selma. Ten students participated in the spring 2014 Practicum in Liberal Arts course, which included a living-

learning experience in Appalachia over spring break. Two students presented at the 2014 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning

and Civic Engagement in Higher Education.

Connor Butterworth is the Associate Sports Director at Tuckahoe YMCA in Virginia.

Chardae Caine is working for Teach for America in Houston, Texas.

Stephanie Cashin has been participating in The World Race, an organization where she travels to 11 countries in 11 months.

Mary Afton Day is the Blueprints Coordinator for Alabama Possible.

Blake Evans is earning a master of public administration from Auburn University and working as a CCE graduate assistant.

Michael Gutierrez is working as a multimedia specialist for the Office of External Affairs in Auburn’s College of Liberal Arts.

Stephanie Grant is working as a process improvement manager for eAudit Solutions, a medical software company.

Kaleb Kirkpatrick is earning a master of public administration from Auburn University.

Andrew Odom is in his final year of legal study at the Thomas-Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery.

Marian Royston is studying community development at Queen's University, Belfast as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.

Alexis Sankey is the Community Education Prevention Specialist at East Alabama Mental Health Center.

Addie Schoen is working for Teach for America.

Anne Smead is a Selma High School Algebra and Geometry teacher; 2012 Teach for America Alum.

Kadedra Smith is earning a master of public administration from Auburn University.

Mary Beth Snow will be working as an English teaching assistant at a Spanish primary school in Galacia, Spain starting fall 2014.

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In collaboration with the University of Catania and the University of Paris X, Nanterre, the Mediterranean Studies Research Group of Auburn’s College of

Liberal Arts organized a Mediterranean Studies Symposium that took place on May 30th in Catania, Italy (see photos below). Several Auburn faculty and students traveled to Catania to present a wide variety of research lectures related to the Mediterranean. The research group hopes to make this an annual event, and plans are currently in place to hold the symposium at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, in Paris France in the spring of 2015. To learn more, visit: cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/initiatives/mediterranean-studies-symposium/

The Spring 2014 presentors included: - Joyce de Vries, “Art History of Early Modern Italy and its Place within Mediterranean Studies” - Beth Givens, “Travelers to Sicily: Oscar Wilde and a 21st Century American College Girl” - Cailyn Gray, “The Arabic Flavor Invasion” - Melani Landerfelt, “Immigration in Sicily and its Effects on Health and Well-Being” - Melani Landerfelt and Giovanna Summerfield, “East Meets West: Sicily, a Case Study at the Crossroads – Crossing the Mediterranean on iPads” - Collin Perciballi, “The Erasmus Programme and European Identity: Effects of the European Crisis upon the Erasmus process in Catania” - Cathryn Schartung in collaboration with Ray Lessig and Kirk Simpson, “Sicily's Impact on Mediterranean Trade” - Giovanna Summerfield with Claudia Karagoz (Saint Louis University), Pinella di Gregorio and Iolanda Lanzafame (Universita’ di Catania), and Lina Insana

(University of Pittsburgh), “Roundtable: Sicily and the Mediterranean Intercultural Encounters and Developments”

In the spring of 2015, Brigitta Brunner and Giovanna Summerfield will lead an Imagining America Institute hosted by the College of Liberal Arts. The three-day workshop will focus on civic professionalism and collaborative leadership for the liberal arts and allow academics and community members to discuss the process of transformative culture change in and beyond higher education using Marshall Ganz’s concept of public narrative. Participants will develop a plan for building civic professionalism at their home institutions and will also have mentoring and networking opportunities. To learn more, contact Brigitta Brunner (brunnbr@auburn.edu), Giovanna Summerfield (summegi@auburn.edu), or visit cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/imagining-america.

Research

In May of 2014, the College of Liberal Arts held a series of workshops to mentor and train instructors interested in offering online core courses. Now you can take Auburn with you wherever you go! The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce that the following online core courses will be available starting in the summer of 2015:

Anthropology (ANTH 1000)

Art (ARTS 1510)

Communication and Journalism (CMJN 2100)

Economics (ECON 2020/2030)

English (ENGL 1100/1120/2200/2210)

Foreign Languages (FLGC 1150)

History (HIST 1010)

Music (MUSI 2740)

Philosophy (PHIL 1020/1100)

Political Science (POLI 1090)

Psychology (PSYC 2010)

Theatre (THEA 2010)

Consult the page cla.auburn.edu/distance/coming-soon for updates.

New Distance Education Core Courses Offered

CCE Project Support Grants Announced

Associate Dean for Educational Affairs Giovanna Summerfield invites College of Liberal Arts’ faculty to apply for funding in the amount of $1,000 to support community and civic engagement projects associated with faculty teaching and research. Projects must include non-university collaborators, and the funds may be used for any university-approved expenditure related to the project. Funding may be renewable for an additional year based on the viability and merit of the project.

Two-page applications should include the following:

Description of the project, including timeline, participants involved and intended outcomes (research and/or learning; community outcomes).

Role of community collaborators in the project.

Statement of the faculty’s past experience with related projects.

Budget describing anticipated expenses.

A few tips and guidelines:

Projects must be completed by the end of the 2015 Spring semester and reported at the 2015 CCE Academy for Civic Professionalism.

Present a project plan that is detailed and organized.

Describe how the project aligns with the mission of CCE, as well as student learning or faculty research.

Describe how community collaborators will be more than recipients of a service or project.

Particularly welcome will be projects in collaboration with “NEW” local and global community partners and with an interdisciplinary perspective that include collaboration with faculty and students from other CLA departments, outside from immediate discipline.

Applications and the applicant’s two-page CV must be submitted by email to clacce@auburn.edu by 5:00p.m., Friday, August 29, 2014.

A faculty committee will review applications based on the criteria presented above. Applicants will be notified by September 15, 2014.

Mediterranean Studies Symposium

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SENCER Summer Institute August 2014 Asheville, NC

Community Arts Certificate

Academy for Civic Professionalism

The 2014 Academy for Civic Professionalism was a huge success! The 2014 Spring Academy included an invigorating schedule of speakers, workshops, working sessions led by Engaged Scholars from Auburn University, and campus project site visits. This year we had the opportunity to hear from Maria Luisa López Segura, a professor from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico, who attended the 2013 academy and applied what she learned about civic professionalism into one of her courses. Maria Luisa offered a very informative presentation detailing the creation and implementation of her civic engagement course project. For her project, Maria Luisa organized a group of students who went out into local impoverished communities to help several family owned businesses find ways to improve their productivity and services. It was especially inspiring to hear about her students’ excitement and their own creative expression that came out while working with the community members. Maria Luisa was presented with a special award by the ACP organizers for the successful integration of civic professionalism into a college course. Details for the 2015 Academy for Civic Professionalism: DATE: ACP will take place in Auburn, Alabama from May 11-14, 2015. COST: The fee is being determined, but will include instructional materials, on-site faculty coaching, access to planning tools and resources, community partner site visits, a pre-Academy reception, and breakfast and lunch each day. LOCATION: TBA APPLICATION: Download the application at: cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/acp/ INFORMATION: For more information, contact Dr. Giovanna Summerfield, Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, email:summegi@auburn.edu, phone: 334-844-2890

A team of faculty and administrators from the College of Liberal Arts and Office of Sponsored Programs will attend an intensive SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) summer institute hosted by the University of North Carolina Asheville from July 31 – August 4, 2014. The program for the institute will include plenary sessions, workshops on effective pedagogies, examples of successful campus and community applications, and opportunities to network with educators from across the country who are interested in contributing to a civically engaged society and the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

After the SENCER institute, and upon receiving a SENCER NSF subaward, the CLA will work towards the development of a music and science course that has been approved as a new general education course for the university core curriculum. In Spring 2015, this course will link with CCE capstone students and Innovation in Healthcare students. Future plans are to partner also with k-12 outreach and to participate in the Imagining America Annual Conference. To learn more, visit: sencer.net/Symposia/summerinstitute2014.cfm

The College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University is launching a Professional Skills Development in Community Arts Certificate that will be offered over six months, August 2014 through January 2015 on the Auburn University Campus. The Community Arts Certificate offers six modules that provide 20 contact hours of professional skills development education relevant to community arts management and individual careers in a supportive learning environment. Courses are developed and facilitated by professional experts with extensive experience in their fields. Individuals may register for the full certificate, or for individual modules. TUITION: Tuition for 20 contact hours and 2 CEUs in the six-module certificate program is $1,000.00. Modules may also be taken individually, prices vary per module. SCHEDULE: Certificate I: Social Media - Aug. 8, 10am-12pm & 1:15-3:15pm & Aug. 9, 8am-12pm Certificate II: Social Media - Sept. 13, 2 hrs, online with instructor Certificate III: Public Relations & Copyright - Oct. 3, 1-3pm Certificate IV: Fundraising - Nov. 7, 1-3 pm Certificate V: Leading Your Team - Nov. 7, 3:30-4:30pm Certificate VI: Proposal Development - Jan. 31, 2015, 10am-3pm

To learn more and to register for the certificate visit the Pebble Hill website: auburn.edu/communityarts