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Harry Potter And Zones Of Shade: Using Contemporary Literature To Examine The Impacts Of Social Control, Garrison A. Crews, Gordon A. Crews

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

•Using the story of childhood wizard Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling to examine how “Zones of Shade” impact anti-social and criminal behavior in American society. •This examination is conducted through the eyes of political theorist Michel Foucault (Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975). •Examples from the Harry Potter series will be presented and examined to explain many current social ills in America. •Special interest will be given to connections with political and social rhetoric about crime and justice.

Community Engagement & Information Literacy: A Case Study, Gretchen Keer, Jeffra Diane Bussmann

The Colloquium on Libraries & Service Learning

This session is a case study describing our exploration of community engagement and information literacy over four quarters in LIBY1210: Introduction to Information Literacy. Our module introduces students to new ways of viewing the production of knowledge by asking them to participate in a community-based participatory action research scenario. Typically, unless librarians can attach instruction activities to existing service learning courses, we are not able to assign such projects. However, if we shift our focus from a service learning/volunteerism paradigm to a broader community engagement model, there are opportunities to expand into a more social justice based approach.

Bite-Sized Assessment For The Library One Shot, Mary Broussard

The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use

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A Learning By Giving Student Grant--Alfond Youth Center Rebound To Success Program: Opportunity, Prevention, Focus, Kayla Turner, Rebecca Forgrave, Thalia Giraldo, Amber Ramirez

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The Alfond Youth Center in Waterville, Maine is the only combined Boys and Girls Club and YMCA in the country. This organization meets the needs of the central Maine community by providing an after school program on a sliding scale based of family income, pay-for-play recreational opportunities, and other services such as dental care and counseling when needed. Rebound to Success, another Alfond Youth Center-sponsored program, is a juvenile diversion program for first time offenders aged 11-18 in Kennebec and Somerset Counties. Most of the crimes the participants have committed are drug defined or related offenses (ie. possession or use, …

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When Counting Is Inadequate: The Failure Of Quantitative Measures To Demonstrate True Impacts Of Service-Learning Projects, Jack Atherton

Academic Summit

Since the degree in Unified Public Service Administration was created, seniors in the capstone course have been encouraged to engage in service-learning projects, bringing together aspects of core curriculum, producing a product available for use, and benefiting the public safety of communities in the state, and serving the population as a whole. Traditional measures of service-learning activities are generally quantitative and do not reflect the merit and benefit of these student endeavors. This project examines through illustrations of current and past student projects, the shortcomings of current measures used to evaluate service-learning participation, and covers qualitative measures of evaluation that …

Brooklyn's Thirst, Long Island's Water: Consolidation, Local Control, And The Aquifir, Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Publications and Research

The creation of greater New York City in 1898 promised a solution to the problem of supplying Brooklyn and Queens with water. In the 1850s, the City of Brooklyn tapped ponds and streams on the south side of Queens County, and in the 1880s, dug wells for additional supply. This lowered the water table and caused problems for farmers and oystermen, many of whom sued the city for damages. Ultimately, salt water seeped into some wells from over-pumping. By 1896, Brooklyn’s system had reached its limit. Prevented by the state legislature from tapping the aquifer beneath Suffolk’s Pine Barrens, the …