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Community Engagement And Career Development: Two Sides Of One Coin, Tori Burkhart, Kaitlin Long, Tamara Bauer Jan 2020

Community Engagement And Career Development: Two Sides Of One Coin, Tori Burkhart, Kaitlin Long, Tamara Bauer

Center for Engagement and Community Development

The Snyder Leadership Legacy Fellowship is a leadership and professional development program for students in their final year at Kansas State. One component of the Fellowship is that students serve as volunteer coaches for Manhattan Parks and Rec youth sports teams in the fall. Engaging with and mentoring youth gives students the opportunity to not only seek growth in the youth they serve, but also develop their own leadership skills. Students learn how to build a cohesive team throughout the fall by establishing positive relationships with the youth, communicating effectively, and sharing life lessons youth can use outside of their …


Reviewing The Structure And Function Of Self-Described Living Labs, Katherine Nelson Jan 2020

Reviewing The Structure And Function Of Self-Described Living Labs, Katherine Nelson

Center for Engagement and Community Development

“Living labs” have been promoted in recent years as platforms for engaged and locally-embedded research. However, the term itself is somewhat vague and applied in a large variety of contexts. Living labs have a wide variety of goals and functions and are perhaps even more varied in their organization structure. This poster provides a preliminary review of self-described living labs, characterizing both the types of functions they serve and their organizational structures, with the goal of identifying functions and structures appropriate for engaged research on and in the Wildcat Creek Watershed.


Overcoming Institutional Barriers To Service Learning, Talia Smith, Annie Zou, Grace Nelson, Ali Al-Ghaithi Jan 2020

Overcoming Institutional Barriers To Service Learning, Talia Smith, Annie Zou, Grace Nelson, Ali Al-Ghaithi

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Partnerships between universities and community organizations contribute to sustainable community development by creating networks of resources that may not otherwise exist among university faculty, students and community members. Service learning serves as a vessel for connecting and strengthening these resources; however, barriers within universities limit effective practice. University faculty members often cite time constraints, coordination challenges, and lack of support as deterrents to the incorporation of service learning projects in their courses. To overcome such barriers, universities can implement institutional structures and programs that facilitate community-engaged learning. A case study of the Service Learning Academy (SLA) at the University of …


Engaged Service Learning Shapes Students’ Individual Identities, Fostering Community Stewardship, Grace Nelson, Ali Al-Ghaithi, Haley Jessen Jan 2020

Engaged Service Learning Shapes Students’ Individual Identities, Fostering Community Stewardship, Grace Nelson, Ali Al-Ghaithi, Haley Jessen

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Service learning creates a space for transformative learning to occur, employing a framework that unites practice and theory with reflection. Service learning that gives students a sense of responsibility for outcomes and is perceived as significant enhances student efficacy. This integrative work meaningfully connects students to a deeper understanding of academia, the community, and personal identity. The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) has a Service Learning Academy (SLA) that facilitates service learning projects. We analyzed qualitative responses of open-ended questions collected from a post-survey given to UNO students enrolled in a service learning course in the spring or fall …


Special Olympic Community-Engaged Research Project, Andrew Wefald Jan 2020

Special Olympic Community-Engaged Research Project, Andrew Wefald

Center for Engagement and Community Development

For the past several years we have partnered with the Manhattan, KS Special Olympic community as an avenue to develop students’ leadership skills and spark an interest in community engagement. This semester we plan to begin a Community-Engaged research project with our partner with the goal of doing research ‘with’.Our first step is to convene all the potential stakeholders for a facilitated discussion about potential research ideas, questions, goals, outcomes, etc. as a deliberative process.


Culture Mashup: Community Engagement + Emerging Technology, Carol Sevin Jan 2020

Culture Mashup: Community Engagement + Emerging Technology, Carol Sevin

Center for Engagement and Community Development

The Sutherland Foundation Innovation Lab will be a new space in Hale Library at Kansas State University with emerging technologies including virtual and augmented reality systems, 3D printers, and recording studios. Participants will engage in creative thinking exercises to generate programming ideas or civic media projects for communities and individuals using the space. To prepare for the variety of audiences and activities in this new space, the Sunderland Foundation Innovation Lab coordinating committee has facilitated interactive presentations with audiences at venues related to research, teaching and learning, diversity and inclusion. We look forward to building on those ideas by brainstorming …


From Wicked People To Wicked Problems: Building Local Capacity For Deliberative Engagement In The Era Of Hyper-Partisanship, Martín Carcasson Apr 2018

From Wicked People To Wicked Problems: Building Local Capacity For Deliberative Engagement In The Era Of Hyper-Partisanship, Martín Carcasson

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Opening comments from Dr. David Procter, Director of the Center for Engagement and Community Development (CECD) and Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (ICDD) highlighted the public need for dialogue, the diversity of presentations in the symposium, and the contributions of ICDD to promoting civic discourse at Kansas State University. Provost April Mason underscored the need to address polarization and the constructive contributions of K-State. Dr. Carcasson, Director of the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University, presented a framework for addressing polarization through Deliberative Engagement. This framework invokes the “wicked problems” presumption, requires dealing with uncertainty, a focus …


Workshop: Depolarization Using The Intercultural Development Continuum, Aliah Mestrovich Seay Apr 2018

Workshop: Depolarization Using The Intercultural Development Continuum, Aliah Mestrovich Seay

Center for Engagement and Community Development

This workshop features an introduction to core concepts of intercultural learning, the Intercultural Development Curriculum and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). Participants develop a basic understanding of the IDI and demonstrate their own cultural self-awareness, “other” awareness, and intercultural communication skills through exercises using narrative styles of “turn-taking,” “pausing,” and “overlapping.”


Intergenerational Communication, Kiley C. Moody, Marcia C. Hornung Apr 2017

Intergenerational Communication, Kiley C. Moody, Marcia C. Hornung

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Through dialogue, people from different generations identify similarities and consider how to communicate more effectively to a shared purpose.


Reconstructing Civility After Wrongdoing: A Place For Restorative Justice, Gregory D. Paul, Michael C. Rogers, Fumilola C. Cole Apr 2017

Reconstructing Civility After Wrongdoing: A Place For Restorative Justice, Gregory D. Paul, Michael C. Rogers, Fumilola C. Cole

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Demonstration of mediation techniques that offer an alternative to retributive justice responses to wrongdoing.


Languages Divided: Segregation And The Role Of Linguistic Prejudice In Speaker Evaluation, Mary E. Kohn Apr 2017

Languages Divided: Segregation And The Role Of Linguistic Prejudice In Speaker Evaluation, Mary E. Kohn

Center for Engagement and Community Development

This talk presents research on the role of segregation in perpetuating language differences in the United States. Evidence from a 20-year longitudinal study demonstrates that participation in so-called "Mainstream American English" correlates with access to majority-white schools and neighborhoods. Given the extensive research on linguistic discrimination, I will facilitate a discussion on how linguistic differences must be considered when creating environments for civic discourse.


"Four Years Of Ramen And Poverty": Using Photovoice To Engage The Voices Of Food Insecure Students, Miranda B. Klugesherz Apr 2017

"Four Years Of Ramen And Poverty": Using Photovoice To Engage The Voices Of Food Insecure Students, Miranda B. Klugesherz

Center for Engagement and Community Development

My research employs Photovoice, a participant-led research method in which participants share their experience with a particular phenomenon through photographs, to generate understanding of the challenges faced by students who experience hunger. The photos are used to facilitate dialogue among participants, rendering it an ideal way to engage the voices of marginalized populations.


Two Modes Of Conversational Circles, Terrie R. Mccants Apr 2017

Two Modes Of Conversational Circles, Terrie R. Mccants

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Two methods of conflict transformation through group dialogue are demonstrated.


Farm To Fork Or Farm To Landfill?, Barbara L. Goode Apr 2016

Farm To Fork Or Farm To Landfill?, Barbara L. Goode

Center for Engagement and Community Development

K-State Pollution Prevention Institute (PPI) is addressing food system issues. Promoting local food means preventing excess travel, while also reducing fuel and energy needs. PPI facilitated a Salina-area food system assessment where stakeholders identified the need for local food aggregation and more opportunities for distribution. PPI also worked with rural Kansas institutions and Wichita Dillons stores to reduce food waste using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s food recovery tools. Summer interns helped grocers identify various opportunities for source reduction and food diversion. For example, instead of going to the landfill, surplus food went to hungry populations.


Common Table, Patrick Mclaughlin Apr 2016

Common Table, Patrick Mclaughlin

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Describes Common Table approach to increasing awareness and assistance to community members experiencing hunger and related economic stresses.


Harvesters - The Community Food Network, Jessica Kejr Apr 2016

Harvesters - The Community Food Network, Jessica Kejr

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Harvesters—The Community Food Network is a regional food bank and a certified member of Feeding America. Serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, Harvesters provides food and related household products to more than 620 not-for-profit agencies including emergency food pantries, community kitchens, shelters and others. Learn about food insecurity in Manhattan and Riley County, and how Harvesters collaborates with local partners through innovative models in effort to fulfill its mission to feed hungry people today and work to end hunger tomorrow.


The Flint Hills Breadbasket, Marybeth Keiffer Apr 2016

The Flint Hills Breadbasket, Marybeth Keiffer

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Describes campus and community collaboration to provide emergency food supplies in Manhattan Kansas.


Connecting The Curriculum: Departmental Approaches To Addressing Food Security Through Engaged Work, Tamara J. Bauer, Chance Lee R Apr 2016

Connecting The Curriculum: Departmental Approaches To Addressing Food Security Through Engaged Work, Tamara J. Bauer, Chance Lee R

Center for Engagement and Community Development

For over a decade, the Staley School of Leadership Studies has been addressing the issue of food insecurity through community-engaged learning. Their departmental collaboration has allowed students to grasp leadership through the issue of food insecurity, while also making progress to reduce the impact of food insecurity in the community. Examples of their curriculum include the classes LEAD 212: Introduction to Leadership Concepts, LEAD 405: Leadership in Practice, and LEAD 420: Theories of Nonprofit Leadership, where students work in partnership with the Flint Hills Breadbasket.


The Lunchbox: A Program Of Community Core, Ross M. Allen, Zev A. Allen Apr 2016

The Lunchbox: A Program Of Community Core, Ross M. Allen, Zev A. Allen

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Community CORE, a nonprofit organization out of Soldier, Kansas, works to mitigate childhood hunger in the community through “The Lunchbox,” a summer food program for students on free-and reduced-lunch.


Real Food Lunch And The Student Food Cooperative, Joshilyn H. Binkley, Matthew A. Rogers Apr 2016

Real Food Lunch And The Student Food Cooperative, Joshilyn H. Binkley, Matthew A. Rogers

Center for Engagement and Community Development

Slides from 5-minute IGNITE session


Food Deserts In The Breadbasket: A Rural-Urban Comparison, Michael J. Miller, Patrick S. Rissler Apr 2016

Food Deserts In The Breadbasket: A Rural-Urban Comparison, Michael J. Miller, Patrick S. Rissler

Center for Engagement and Community Development

This research seeks to better describe and understand rural and urban food deserts. Previous research on food deserts suggests that, as a result of discriminating structural social mechanisms like redlining and neighborhood disinvestment within large metro areas in the U.S., poor and black individuals and households tend to be at a distinct advantage in terms of healthy food accessibility and availability (Miller et al. 2015). Similar trends in grocery store disinvestment have been seen in rural areas though there has been less research attention in these areas. In this paper we analyze the differences and similarities between the dynamics that …