Service Learning - Engaged Faculty
2012-2013 FACULTY FELLOWS
Below are the Service-Learning Faculty Fellows for this academic year. They will be completing a series of workshops to create a new or enhance an existing service-learning course:
Professor Jennifer Amaya, Music
She organizes service-learners into groups to plan and execute a music-based service-learning project (from learning scales to making tambourines to creating digitally recorded music) as part of Music 394S Music Studies Integration course. This year’s partners include the School of Arts and Enterprise, Boys and Girls Club & Kingsley Elementary of Pomona Unified School District. A video of her project can be found here: watch?v=khNc3Dwqd_w.
Professor Gwen D’Arcangelis, Interdisciplinary General Education
She teaches IGE 222S Ways of Doing Technology and Human Purpose where students will learn about the environmental issues surrounding technological development. Students engage in policy research, oral interviews and community organizing with the non-profit API Equality Los Angeles which advocates for the fair treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people and marriage equality.
Professor William Foley, Accounting
He trains Cal Poly Pomona students as volunteer income tax preparers under the IRS program known as Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA). The purpose is to provide students with a polytechnic experience by preparing tax returns from low income and elderly taxpayers from the communities with surround Cal Poly. Accounting students in 434S Service-Learning in Taxation serve various sites such as the Boys and Girls Club of Pomona Valley, YMCA Pomona and the Pomona Public Library. They also conducted a Tax Day on the Cal Poly Pomona campus.
Professor Rennie Tang, Landscape Architecture
In Professor Tang’s Landscape Architecture 499S course, she will coordinate students to design interactive games and hands-on activities as learning tools to engage children with topics like storm water, watersheds, urban agriculture and neighborhood planning. This course will partner with Clover Elementary School, a LAUSD public school in the Mar Vista neighborhood of West Los Angeles, and provides a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with teachers and children from 1st to 5th grade.
2012-2013 MINI-GRANT AWARD RECIPIENTS
Congratulations to the following faculty members who received funding for their service-learning projects and/or research for 2012-2013:
- Estela Ballon, Liberal Studies
- Michael Brown, Biological Sciences
- Lisa Kessler, Human Food and Nutrition
- Peg Lamphier, Interdisciplinary General Education
- Bernardo Solano, Theatre
2012 SOCAL GAS GRANT AWARDEES
Professors Kyle Brown, Mike Brown and Gerald Herder were awarded funding from the SoCal Gas Company for energy efficiency courses and learning communities. They will implement their projects this year. For more information about this program, visit the press release from the Chancellor's Office of Community Engagement at http://www.calstate.edu/pa/news/2012/release/SoCalGas.shtml. Congratulations!
2011-2012 SERVICE-LEARNING FACULTY LISTING
Cynthia Aguirre, Kinesiology & Health Promotion
Estela Ballon, Liberal Studies
Corina Benavides, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Christopher Brown, Biological Sciences
Michael Brown, Biological Sciences
Christina Chávez-Reyes, Liberal Studies
Julianna Delgado, Urban & Regional Planning
Sandy Dixon, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Aubrey Fine, Teacher Education
William Foley, Accounting
Carolina Garza De Luna, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Hend Gilli-Elewy, Interdisciplinary General Education
Terri Gomez, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Aleida Gordon, Human Nutrition & Food Science
Barbara Harmer-Garcia, Kinesiology & Health Promotion
Lisa Kessler, Human Nutrition & Food Science
Mariappan Jawaharlal, Mechanical Engineering
Anita Jain, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Dohyung Kim, Urban & Regional Planning
David Kopplin, Music
Edward Merritt, Hospitality & Restaurant Management
Kimberley Miller, Food Marketing & Agribusiness
Laurie Miller, Kinesiology & Health Promotion
Kimble Morton, Kinesiology & Health Promotion
Richard Navarro, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Jocelyn Pacleb, Ethnic & Women’s Studies
Lori Pullman, Urban & Regional Planning
Ruth Purpero, Teacher Education
Dennis Quinn, Interdisciplinary General Education
Michele Rash, Animal & Veterinary Sciences
Bernardo Solano, Theatre
Gerald Taylor, Landscape Architecture
Abhishek Tiwari, Urban & Regional Planning
Gwen Urey, Urban & Regional Planning
Perky Vetter, Kinesiology & Health Promotion
Eileen Wallis, History
Anne Wohlcke, History
Daniel Yuhasz, Regenerative Studies
Richard Zimmer, Urban & Regional Planning
