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Four IU Bloomington faculty receive inaugural fellowships to teach classes in service-learning
May 11, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Four professors at Indiana University Bloomington have been awarded the inaugural Chancellor's Service-Learning Fellowships, and will use their awards to teach college courses that involve partnering with community-based organizations in Monroe and Owen counties.
The Chancellor's Service-Learning Fellowships are funded through a grant from the USA Group, the nation's largest student loan guarantor and administrator. The projects must connect faculty professional life to the communities in which they live. It is a new program.
Recipients must teach a service-learning course within the grant year, perform professional service with a partner community organization, and create a presentation, workshop or document to share with the rest of the campus and community. Professors may receive up to $4,000 through the program. The Office of Community Partnerships in Service-Learning helped to create the fellowship program.
Receiving the fellowships are:
• Laurel Cornell, IU associate professor of sociology and gender studies, who will teach the course "Sociology 101: Envisioning the City," in partnership with Bloomington Restorations Inc. Students will learn visual methods for identifying and solving urban problems and will identify historic houses suitable for renovation as affordable housing. Using the Prospect Hill area of Bloomington as the site of their investigations, students will research the factors used in designating a neighborhood as historic, how properties are classified as "rundown," which persons need affordable housing, and what political and economic factors make BRI projects possible.
• Edmund McGarrell, chairperson and associate professor of criminal justice, who will teach "P411: Criminal Justice Management," in partnership with the Bloomington Juvenile Correctional Facility (BJCF) and the Indiana State Police. Students will either mentor a youth in residence at BJCF to help them develop a plan for transition back into the community or support Indiana State Police officials' efforts to build relationships with the community by surveying the community and planning a seminar for officers.
• Whitney Schlegel, assistant professor of physiology and biophysics, who will teach an elective course, "Healing Outreach," in IU's Medical Sciences Program, in partnership with V.I. Paws and Meadowood Health Pavilion. Students will team up with a volunteer from the therapeutic pet program and visit Meadowood residents to observe the connections between the health benefits of animal therapy and traditional medical practices.
• Thomas Tai-Seale, assistant professor of applied health science, who will teach "C501: Health Program Planning," in partnership with the Owen County Health Department. Students will assess individual and community needs for health education, plan effective health education programs, and communicate health education needs in this community chosen by the Indiana State Department of Health.
USA Group, based in Indianapolis, is a nonprofit company and premier provider of education loan services. The company supports other student loan guarantors and services student loan accounts for lenders, and operates one of the nation's largest student loan secondary markets, USA Group Secondary Market Services Inc.