April 2013 Articles

On Sunday, my co-instructors, Sarah Twill and Hunt Brown and I leave for our week-long service trip to Athens County, Ohio.  It is the "capstone" experience in our Honors course Ethics of Sustainability in Appalachia. While I will try to blog while I'm away, computer access will be limited.  So, another way to keep us with us is to follow our twitter hashtag:  #WSUinApp2013 It's been a great group of students this semester, so we're looking forward to serving with them and with our community partners: …

Yesterday afternoon, Harry C. Boyte, civic engagement expert and Senior Fellow at University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, spoke at Wright State University.  He is well-known for promoting public work and citizen professionalism, among other related topics.  His message was loud and clear: each individual has the ability to and SHOULD express their citizenship through their everyday WORK.  In other words, this citizenship should not just be practiced "on the side" through volunteering for a cause for a couple of hours.  He stressed that we live in a culture of…

Thanks to those of you who may be visiting this blog because you attended the session "From research to action: Pairing Information Literacy and Service-learning" at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) conference last week.   My co-presenters (Dr. Maggie Stevens, Executive Director, Indiana Campus Compact; Jennifer Nutefall, University Librarian at Santa Clara University and Dr. Sarah Twill, Associate Professor of Social Work at Wright State University) and I were thrilled to have such an engaged audience with good questions and general enthusiasm for service-…