page 3 Rae Review 17 Feb. recommendations 2005 focusYour connection to news at Canada’s Outstanding Small University trent in the news The Globe and Mail in a $ January 15 investment article “House in1million sparrow in Aisle community connections 2” featured Prof. Erica Nol and her study of Trent Centre for Community Based Education birds that to expand its mandate inhabit big box stores. HOW TO PUT EDUCATION into project-based learning into Peterborough This Week ran action? How to make the leap second and first-year studies. an article about student Seamus from coursework to community The plan will continue to build Murphy on December 29. work? How to strengthen the ties on the success of the community- Mr. Murphy is a varsity rugby between the University and the based research program which player and one of 40 Trent surrounding community? finds students, such as fourth students recognized as an Fortunately those answers year Geography/History major Academic All-Canadian for participating in varsity sports today are much clearer thanks to Armida Gnagnarella, gaining and achieving an academic the philanthropy of the J.W. credit by developing a family average of 80 per cent or higher. McConnell Family Foundation. guide for the Art Gallery of The Foundation recently donated Peterborough (AGP). $965,000 to help the Trent The experience has given Ms. Centre for Community Based Gnagnarella more than just a Education (TCCBE) expand its personal appreciation for the arts. mandate in the region. She tackles the challenge of The grant, which will be rolled out over a five-year period, means the TCCBE can further The Examiner profiled the extend the hand of support to a research of Prof. Jim Parker in growing number of non-profit the February 7 article “Trent organizations and become a research to help addicts of model program for community Left: The Art Gallery of Peterborough’s gambling.” Prof. Parker based education in Canada. This recently received a multi-year Deirdre Chisholm and TCCBE’s generous gift will help to bolster grant from the Ontario Problem Natalie Warner plan for future collaboration. new programs and services Gambling Research Centre. within Peterborough and These funds will be used to Above: Fourth-year student Armida Gnagnarella study the link between various Haliburton Counties, and help at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. emotional competencies and pave the way for new initiatives gambling behaviours in in The City of Kawartha Lakes developing children’s program- effort that addresses issues affect- importance of working with local adolescents at risk for a variety and the city of Oshawa. ming that applies aspects of her ing development work in Jamaica agencies and undertaking of mental health problems. Renowned for its community- social, historical and cultural for Jamaica Self-Help’s awareness community action. based research and experiential geography coursework. Further, programs; an evaluation of the Associate Dean of Teaching learning, the TCCBE program she’s learning how to integrate effectiveness of agency programs and Learning, Professor David helps students gain academic community education into her for the New Canadians Centre in Poole believes this cash infusion credit by working with organiza- intended career as a teacher. Peterborough; a Canadian Studies will confirm the TCCBE’s role as tions within the community. “I now see how empowering student is compiling a history of a model program throughout This hands-on approach gives The Registered Nurses art can be for children,” says Ms. Ontario Hydro in Haliburton Canada. “Its strong university- students invaluable work-related Association of Ontario publica- Gnagnarella. “It’s so important County, while another is community co-management tion, Registered Nurse Journal experience which helps to that they’re introduced to it at an conducting research on one-room structure and mode of program profiled Trent student Barbara smooth the transition from early age.” schoolhouses which will comple- delivery is very much unique. Longland in the article school to career. Education and Programming ment the work of the Fourth Line Others will look to us for advice “Zimbabwe ‘trip of a lifetime’ Currently, the program Director for the AGP, Deirdre Theatre’s playwright-in-residence. on how to set up similar for Trent University nursing features 51 students working with Chisholm, finds the program – The grant will also help to programs.” The program will student”. Ms. Longland departed 32 organizations, 18 professors now in its third year at the create new initiatives such as a enjoy a further boost when for Howard Hospital in and eight academic departments. Gallery – a shared success. “The Community Development the TCCBE hosts a national Zimbabwe on January 17 for her With this funding commitment, research that these participants option, which will encourage conference on service learning independent practice placement. the TCCBE estimates by the end develop is continually revisited,” students to work more indepen- at the midpoint of the Newswatch @ 5:30 host Teresa of the five-year plan the program she notes, “and as an educational dently with organizations. A McConnell grant. Kaszuba practiced with the will boast 200 students working tool, it clearly enhances the expe- Community Service option will “Ultimately,” says Prof. Poole, varsity fencing team for a seg- with 70 organizations annually. rience of visiting the gallery.” be open to all students and “students, faculty, Trent ❦ ment that aired on February 1. It may also by then introduce Other notable TCCBE projects provide an alternative to “project- University, and community include: a two-student research based” efforts, emphasizing the organizations will all benefit.” ❦ economic nationalism – alive and in Trent Professors co-author new book print ASAFORCE, the dynamics of glob- alization resonate on many levels – the economic, social, political and cultural aspects being most visible. Given the emerging possi- bilities of exchange and interac- tion with different parts of the world, the common assumption is that as globalization ascends, nationalism erodes. Trent profes- sors Eric Helleiner and Andreas Pickel would prefer to suggest otherwise. As co-editors of the new book Economic Nationalism in a Prof. Andreas Pickel Globalizing World, Prof. Helleiner and Prof. Pickel have assembled Prof. Eric Helleiner a collection of ten essays that “Strangely, political economists and scholars of nationalism contend nationalism remains a don’t talk. This book is an attempt to merge both fields.” potent force in influencing The book evolved out of a – Prof. Helleiner economic policy. workshop hosted at Trent The authors explore whether University in 2002 which was nationalism is an outdated phe- funded by the Canada Research have been able to overcome.” economic policy-makers, parts of nomenon by examining a range Chairs program, the Trent Further, because “national the book will also find their way of geographical contexts and International Political Economy cultures and national identities into Prof. Pickel’s course curricu- issues: European Union food Centre (IPE Centre) and a SSHRC are deeply anchored in modern lum. In fact Prof. Pickel, from the policies, post-Soviet economic Aid to Small Universities grant. societies, they become an arena Department of Political Studies, reforms, East Asian development The event gathered leading in which collective energies are heads up a research group on strategies, and monetary politics specialists from Canada, the U.S., “Strangely, political econo- created.” economic nationalism in Latin in Quebec and Germany, to New Zealand and Germany to mists and scholars of nationalism This “banal nationalism”, America, which represents a name a few. Professor Derek Hall address the role of nationalism. don’t talk,” says Prof. Helleiner, which he maintains is ubiqui- continuation of the project. of Trent’s International The intent of the workshop who is Canada Research Chair in tous, “can quickly turn into Economic Nationalism in a Development Studies and Politics was to actually develop this vol- International Policy Economy. militant nationalism, as events Globalizing World is now available department also contributed a ume, so the ten participants who “This book is an attempt to merge in the United States since 9/11 through Cornell University Press. paper to the collection titled, eventually contributed to the both fields.” demonstrate.” Understandably, the co-editors “Japanese Spirit, Western publication arrived at the work- Prof. Pickel suggests that, Aimed at a broad audience in hope the book reaches a Economics: The Continuing shop with a draft of their paper in “Nationalism today is misunder- the scholarly world, but likely respectably large global Salience of Economic hand, prepared to present and stood as an affliction that more finding interest within a variety of audience. ❦ Nationalism in Japan.” discuss their ideas. modern and developed countries the social sciences as well as with investing in and exercising their influence upon corporations. He also called for people to “demand the revolution that governments do the right of thing; to fight for change so that responsibility your kids will live in a better world than we do today.” Similarly, behind Mr. Bakan’s Third annual Tapscott-Lopes Business and Society Lecture droll delivery is an unmistakable ardour that advocates fundamen- a worrisome trend as he sees it, afternoon while, the night before, tal change – change