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For more information, please contact [email protected]. , Northern Iowa Today The University of Northern Iowa magazine • Summer 1998 erVIce• If tM rent Hlt/Jtz?ft!r tYtn, -Marian Wright Edelman Northern Iowa Today Contents The University of Northern Iowa magazine 2 Service learning Volume 82, Number 2 Education branches out to link community needs with Summer 1998 students' learning. Executive Editor: Susan M. Chilcott Managing Editor: usan M. Chilcott provides valuable Copy Editor: Janeen Stewart 7 Teacher Helpline Art Director: Elizabeth Conrad LaVelle link for first-year teachers Technology brings college resources closer to graduates. Photography: Jeff Martin, Gerald Anglum Other Contributors: Gerald Anglum, usan Cornell, Gwenne Culpepper, Vicki Grimes, Bradley Halverson, Jennifer Peterson, Dewayne 8 Helping communities decide Purdy, Carole Shelley Yates IDM serves the state from border to border. Class Notes Editor: Jennifer Peterson, '97, '98 ~9 Cover Photographs: Jeff Martin 14 Sharing what means the most ew scholarships will benefit education and Director of Alumni Relations: library science students. Noreen H ermansen Northern Iowa Today, distributed to all alumni, parents, faculty and staff, and other friends of 10 Portfolio: 1998 Student Art Exhibit U I, is published four times a year in the Showcasing some of the award winners from Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter by the Office of Public Relations, 127 Gilchrist Hall, this year's show. University of orthern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0017 and the Division of Development. The Office of Public Relations (319) 273-2761 invites letters to the editor, as well as 12 Emeritus faculty profile: Saul and Joan Diamond suggestions and contributions for articles and class notes. Giving back is what counts. Send address changes to Northern Iowa Today, Office of Alumni Relations, 204 Commons, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 13 Alumni profile: Thomas Phillips 50614-0284. Third class postage paid at Cedar Knowing when to change your plans makes a difference. Falls, Iowa 50613. The University of Northern Iowa is a member of CASE, the Council for the Advancement and College & University Support of Education. orthern Iowa is an 17 equal opportunity educator and employer with a comprehensive plan for affirmative action. 22 UNI Alumni World Including Alumni Association news and Class otes. On the cover: As part of their service learning experience, UNI students participate in the (clockwise from top) Volunteer Day cleanup, 36 Perspective: The role of community service at UNI Habitat for Humanity and America Reads UNl's Don Doerr comments on service learning. programs. Inside front cover: U I students Roger Brannon (top photo) and Teresa Kaune Visit the university via the World Wide Web: www.uni.edu participate in tutoring programs. INDA AND OTIIERS roles in it. Plus, it gives them an m her class spent a chunk opportunity to a pply the concepts they of an April Saturday are studying which can help them painting deposit boxes for a understand those more thoroughly." non-profit agency. Besides The U I Office of Experiential a s light sunburn, she and Learning works to encompass both her University of Northern Iowa service learning a nd volunteer classmates gained firsthand opportunities on campus and in the applications o f some class theories on community. Don Doerr, U I's how non-profit organizations work. experiential learning coordinator, That's just one of many examples works to e ncompass both service called service learning- an organized learning a nd volunteering service activity that meets community opportunities o n campus and in the and students can ask them questions outgrowth of the 1997 Presidential needs and helps students reflect on the community. Doerr acknowledges the about volunteer possibilities. Forty-five Summit held in Philadelphia to by Carole Shelley Yates activity to gain further understanding valuable c ontribution students make to agency representatives attended the implement the promise that all local in their academic coursework. The the community through service most recent fa ir, and over 100 students youth have access to resources that number of students involved in service learning a nd volunteering. "More U I registered with an agency. The fair will allow them to grow physically and learning has significantly increased in students a re getting exposure to the originated as a student Psychology mentally. President Koob serves on the the last few years s ince the u niversity benefits of service because at UNI and Club project to connect members with Cedar Valley Summit as well as the em raced the idea of experiential in the community more o ptions a nd agency opportunities related to a Iowa Summit as a volunteer because learning, connecting in-class pathways are now open for this to psychology major. Now it attracts of his desire to open to more young experiences with experiences o ut of happen," Doerr states. "From what I've students from a variety of majors and people the advantages that come from c\ass. Many avenues are now open for seen, once students get involved in interest areas. education. "The more a community is students to actively engage in their service learning or volunteering, they Project VIP also coordinates other healthy, safe and stimulating, the more own education, making lifelong can't get enough." campus volunteer activities. Last spring likely its young people are to benefit connections with other students, their One way for students to find out MDrttlNI 75 students were recruited for the from the opportunities education communities, and the world outside about service opportunities is to attend Connect Cedar Valley, Community­ offers," Koob expresses. the classroom. the fall and spring Volunteer Fair, Wide Volunteer Day. This is an ~are U I President Robert Koob, a organized by Doerr's office through community volunteer himself, explains Project VIP (Volunteers are I mportant and later at the Juvenile Home for youth ages 13-18 in Toledo. his view of service learning: "One People). The office works in Baloun, a general studies major, says she's an avid volunteer who has worked ~ objective of a college education is conjunction w ith the Volunteer Center with Big Brothers/Big Sisters and other programs all through college. 'Through the developing good citizen skills. Service of Cedar Valley that has contacts with Academic Skills Achievement Program I was able to volunteer, help the community, 6X/}fJdarefl!!k learning raises students' awareness of over 70 agencies. Agency their community and their · ous representatives participate in the fair and earn the credits I needed to graduate at the same time. Both of my assignments were very different, but rewarding and well worth my time." bt.flf WV/& Baloun's sites are only two of many. Others include middle schools, high schools, ea star in a child's life! urges a brochure explaining how Northern Iowa students from any major can receive academic credit for tutoring students in the Waterloo Schools' Education Discipline Center, the Meskwaki Indian Settlement bt'f4114t av t/NI the metro area. Kathy Peters, Office of Academic Achievement, in Tama, and the Iowa State Training School in Eldora. coordinates the 16-year-old program while Charles Means, associate vice Service learning through this tutoring class and tn 1k president of academic affairs, instructs the course that offers an comes in several ways, Petersnotes. "Some students opportunity to provide a valuable community service. do make career choices from their tutoring Every semester some 75 students (5 at each of 1S sites) register for the experiences. But they all have a real impact on the otJmlnlHttfff mt/rt course offered under the Department of Educational Psychology and students they tutor. The elementary students Foundations. They come from many majors with a common desire to remember their UNI tutors for years-they have o/)/UJlt4fand help youth in any academic area. University students learn tutoring skills made an impression and made a difference." from reading faculty while speakers on multicultural sensitivity and tutoring expectations help prepare them for their assignments. The /J~areJttJW schools or agencies involved match the tutors with the youth. Bea For 10-12 weeks each semester tna University star of Northern Iowa students o/)6H for //tl4t flt spread out across northeast Iowa, tutoring students once a week, working with teachers to learn a student's needs, and working with fltttd ~ lift graduate assistant supervisors on site to prepare tutoring lessons. Liz fta/l/J6H, Baloun tutored for two semesters-once at Lowell Elementary School in Waterloo 2 3 , OR VOUJNI'EER DAY, NORTHERN Iowa students participated in clean-up projects like painting the inside of a Waterloo school, picking up trash along pproximately a year ago President Clinton announced a 35 percent increase University Avenue in Cedar Falls, A in financial aid work-study funds and encouraged universities to allocate half painting the basement of the Senior of their increase to fund tutors for America Reads programs to help improve Citizen Center, and cleaning up a literacy in the country. The University of Northern Iowa moved quickly to apply for section of Hickory Hills County Park.