Scholarship Activities of UNO Faculty.

AY2007-08 Faculty Scholarship

UNO faculty members presented at the 2007 Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education Service-Learning Conference. This conference was held at the University of Nebraska at Kearney on September 27-29, 2007.

• Stuart Bernstein, "Workshop on Creating an Interdisciplinary Collaboration"
• Donna Dufner, "Service-Learning: Catching the Attention of the iPod Generation"
• Sara Edwards, Becky Pasco, and Kathy Danielson, "Literacy and Learning in the Community"
• Carlynn Hartman-Kurtz, "Engaging Strong Partnerships through Intergenerational Community Dialogues to Effectively Serve Youth in Disadvantaged Circumstances"
• Kevin Naylor, Deb Johnson of the Hope Center for Kids, and Lori Shea of Omaha North High School, "Hope Skate: Building Employment through Service-Learning"
• Paul Sather and Jennifer Reed-Bouley of the College of Saint Mary, "The Impact of Employment on Students' Response to Service-Learning at the College of Saint Mary and the University of Nebraska at Omaha"
• Paul Sather et al., "Hats Off! Service-Learning Directors Grin and Bear It"
• Alice Schumaker, "MPH Capstone Experience: A Building Block of Campus-Community Partnerships"
• Alice Schumaker and Jessica Tschirren and Jumoke Omojola of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, "MPH Program: Combining Community with Research"
• Rosemary Strasser, "Going to the dogs: Service-Learning at an Animal Shelter"
• Saundra Wetig, "Reaching the Silent Minority at the Wesley House"
• Saundra Wetig and Sheryl McGlamery, "Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Assess Student Learning through Formative and Summative Assessment"

Paul Sather and Barbara Dewey presented on Service-Learning Research as a Feedback Loop for Faculty Development in Service-Learning on October 7, 2007, at the International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in Tampa, Florida.

Donna Dufner, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, will be presenting "Service-learning in Jail: Bridging the Digital Divide" on October 18, 2007, at the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Dufner will discuss her ongoing service-learning project in which students teach computer basics to inmates at the Douglas County jail.

Paul Sather, Director of the Service-Learning Academy, Dr. David Ogden, Associate Professor of Communication, and Arturo Miranda, Cox Graduate Assistant in the Service-Learning Academy, will be presenting at the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Civic Learning at the Intersections conference, October 18-20, 2007, in Denver, Colorado.

This poster session demonstrates how the University of Nebraska at Omaha developed orientation tours to provide students in service-learning courses an opportunity to explore the community, meet community leaders, and challenge myths and misperceptions about the Latino and African-American communities in Omaha. The poster also illustrates how this crucial first step in a service-learning course facilitates the growth and development of of students in a Principles of Public Relations class who have successfully created public relations materials that led to "good news" coverage of several community initiatives and programs.

Dr. Kathe Oleson, American Humanics lead faculty member, and UNO alumnae Elizabeth Riley and Hanna Wanzenried will be presenting "Learning and Serving: 'When You Do It, You Get It,'" a presentation demonstrating the benefits for students and nonprofits of infusing American Humanics nonprofit administration coursework with service-learning pedagogy, at the 2008 American Humanics Management Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. The presentation will include an overview of AH-related service-learning projects, and Riley and Wanzenreid will speak to their transformational experiences in service-learning. The conference will be held January 3-6.

Publications

Bloom, Melanie. From the classroom to the community: Building cultural awareness in first semester Spanish. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 23:2 (2008), ??-??.

Sather, Paul, Patricia Carlson, and Barbara Weitz. 2007. Research: infusing service learning into research, social policy, and community-based practice. In Social work and service learning: partnerships for social justice, ed. Meryl Nadel, Virginia Majewski, and Marilyn Sullivan-Cosetti, 93-105. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. This volume grew out of the Invitational Conference on Service Learning in Social Work Education, sponsored by UNO in May 2003.

Sather, Paul, Barbara Weitz, and Patricia Carlson. "Engaging Students in Macro Issues Through Community-Based Learning: The Policy, Practice, and Research Sequence," Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 27:3/4 (2007): 61-79

Keller, Elizabeth and Pauline Brennan. (forthcoming) Cultural Considerations and Challenges to Service Delivery for Sudanese Victims of Domestic Violence. International Review of Victimology

Sather, Paul and Nora Bacon. "There is No Substitute for Experience," Diversity Digest, 9:1 (2005), 9,17.

Chen, Dora. "The Multiple Benefits of Service Learning Projects in Pre-Service Teacher Education," Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 70:2 (Winter 2004): 31-37.

Neathery-Castro, Jody. "Urban Partnerships for International Affairs Service Learning," Academic Exchange Quarterly, 7:3 (Fall 2003).

Eickhoff-Shemek, JoAnn. "Evaluation of a Risk Management Service-Learning Project," Exercise Standards and Malpractice Reporter

• Part I "Perspectives From Students," 16:6 (December 2002): 84-89.
• Part II "Perspectives From Community Fitness Directors," 17:1 (January 2003): 1-11.

Bacon, Nora. "Dimensions of Difference in Faculty and Community Partners' Theories of Learning," Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 9:1 (Fall 2002).

Deans, Thomas and Nora Bacon. "Writing as Students, Writing as Citizens." Service-Learning and the First Year Experience. Eds. Gardner and Zlotkowski. Columbia, SC: National Resource Center on the First Year Experience, 2002.

Bacon, Nora. "Setting the Course for Service-Learning Research," Reflections on Community-Based Writing, 2:1 (Fall 2001): 1-7.

Gascoigne, Carolyn. "Service/Community Learning and Foreign Languages Methods," Active Learning in Higher Education, (2001): 53-64.

Seaberry, Jeannette. "Engaging University Students in Community Service for Improved Educational Outcomes," National Society for Experiential Education Quarterly, 26:4 (Summer 2001): 11-15.

Bacon, Nora. "The Trouble with Transfer: Lessons from a Study of Community Service Writing," Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 6 (1999): 53-63.

Holland, Jonna. "Overcoming Obstacles to Service-Learning Implementation in Business Education: The Views of Future Employers," Journal for the Art of Teaching.

Presentations

Stuart Bernstein, David Ogden, Kathe Oleson, Paul Sather, and Arturo Miranda. Indiana Campus Compact: 2nd International Symposium on Service-Learning, Indianapolis, IN, May 14-16, 2007.

Nancy Kelley-Gillespie. The 18th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, Albuquerque, NM, March 28-31, 2007.

Lyn Holley and Julie Masters. Association of Gerentology in Higher Education, Portland, OR, March 2-4, 2007.

David Ogden, Paul Sather, Sandy Day, and Dan Evert. 2007 Governor's Conference on Community Service, Lincoln, NE, March 21-22, 2007.

Carlynn Hartman-Kurtz and Paul Sather. Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education, St. Joseph, MO, February 23-24, 2007.

Kevin Naylor. Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education, St. Joseph, MO, February 23-24, 2007.

Ana Cruz and Carlynn Hartman-Kurtz. Texas Campus Compact: National Conference on Civic Engagement, Austin, TX, February 16-18, 2007.

Donna Dufner, Paul Sather, and Peter Wolcott. Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, Coral Gables, FL, October 21-24, 2006.

Carlynn Hartman-Kurtz. Third Annual Midwest Consortium for Service Learning in Higher Education, Lincoln, NE September 22, 2006.

Paul Sather, Shelley Henderson, and Dave Ogden. Magnet Schools of America 24th National Conference (MSA), Omaha, NE, April 23-27.

Stuart Bernstein, Ana Carballal, Alexandra May, Kathe Oleson, and Paul Sather. International Conference on Civic Education: Research and Practices, Orlando, FL, January 18-21 2006.

Hartman-Kurtz, Carlynn. National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE), Philadelphia, PA, October 2005.

Deborah Smith-Howell, Paul Sather, Nora Bacon, Jody Neathery-Castro, and Hollis Glaser. Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), Los Angeles, CA, October 1-4 2005.

Maria A. Knudtson. Association of Zoo and Aquarium Docents Conference 2005 (AZAD), Washington, DC, September 27-October 2, 2005.

Paul Sather and Gabriel Gonzalez. Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education (MCSLHE), Vermillion, SD, September 22-24 2005.

Bernstein, Stuart. The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2005 Midwest Section Annual Conference, Fayetteville, AR, September 14-16, 2005.

Bernstein, Stuart, Ana Carballal, John Carlson, Dave Ogden, and Paul Sather. International Conference - Improving University Teaching (IUT), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005.

Bacon, Nora and Paul Sather. International Conference on Civic Engagement and Service-Learning, Galway, Ireland, June 2005.

Bacon, Nora, Ana Cruz, and Paul Sather. National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), New York City, NY, May & June 2005.

Sather, Paul, Barbara Weitz, and Patricia Carlson. "From Talk to Action: Connecting Students from the Classroom to the Community," Civic Education Practitioners Conference sponsored by Centre for Policy and Practice, New Orleans, LA, January 2005.

Benjamin-Alvarado, Jonathan. "Understanding Immigration and Latino Politics through Service-Learning," Colloquium of the Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education, Omaha, NE, September 2004.

Leach, Marilyn, Paul Sather, and Shireen Rajaram. "Optimizing Critical Thinking and Learning Through Interdisciplinary Service-Learning," Improving University Teaching International Conference, Bern, Switzerland, July 2004.

In addition, UNO faculty members and students presented at the Midwest Academy of Management (Louisville, KY, October 2006) and the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting (Dallas, TX, November 2006).