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Dominican University of CaliforniaSL Program Updates Spring 2016Contents
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News FlashMural Installation in Boyd ParkDominican Community Engaged Art class and Downtown Streets Team debuted their collaborated mural project in Boyd Park. The historic Boyd Park was only recently reopened after the City of San Rafael closed it to the public in 2015 due to homeless camping, theft, and drug activities in the park. Read feature article on Marin Independent Journal. Visit project website built by Dominican students. 
From left to right, Julia van der Ryn (DUC Faculty), Pam (former DST Member), Cherie (DST Member), Jesse Bodony (SL Student), Michael Ensign (SL Student), Mekdi Yilma (SL Student), Peattie Hadi (SL Student), Min Sohn (SL Student), Lynn Sondag (DUC Faculty), Isabella Rosen (SL Student). |
Service-Learning SymposiumThe Service-Learning Symposium took place on May 4 with a full audience of students, faculty, and staff. The theme this semester was “Issues That Matter.” Student representatives from each service-learning course this semester presented on the ways that their perspectives have expanded through work with community members and the learning that occurs through intentional connections with course content. Several community partners also shared the very real issues present in Marin County, including the disparities in education, healthcare, and the stereotypes that negatively impact the homeless. |
Jenny Bray with the first panel: Madison Ekin (SL student leader), Amber Hardy (SL student), Carlos Garcia (CP Mentor from Catholic Charities Kids Club), Victor Brancati (SL student), Michael Gomez (SL student), and Aly Maun (CP Mentor from Canal Alliance UP!) |
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Upcoming Events at DominicanElection Debates Student Delegates Training in Dominican Campus in June More than 135 students from colleges and universities throughout the United States have been selected as College Debate 2016 delegates. These delegates will lead a national conversation around the key issues that resonate with younger voters. Delegates will attend a June 1-3 planning and training session on the Dominican campus in San Rafael, California, to organize issue-focused events and outreach on their home campuses. The programming will focus on promoting civil discourse, understanding responsible digital citizenry, and avoiding stereotypes and assumptions while focusing on the issues rather than party politics. Learn more. Democracy and Equity Initiative in 2016-2017, with focus on Youth Justice, kicks off on September 21: screening of Romeo is Bleeding with appearance by Donté Clark. Learn more. |
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Stats at a GlanceBetween 2005 and 2016 , the Dominican Service-Learning Program has supported:
SL Program SpotlightsProgram Superstar: Jenny BrayThis Spring marks the 10th year that Jenny Bray has been with the Service-Learning Program! As many of you who know her, Jenny has been the rock of the program. Amongst many of her responsibilities, she organizes the SL student orientation in the beginning of the semester, the SL student symposium at the end of the semester, and works with the SL student leaders to make sure that the students, faculty, and community partners are all supported in the communal learning process. In past the two years, Jenny also became the in-house Expert Extraordinaire of GivePulse, the platform the SL program has adopted to manage and organize student Service-Learning activities. Read more. 
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Faculty Spotlight: Cheramie LeoThis school year, we welcomed Prof. Cheramie Leo onboard to teach English composition courses with Service-Learning: ENGL 1004 Expository Writing: Literacy and Power in the Fall 2015 semester, and ENGL 3200 Advanced Writing and Research in the Spring 2016 semester. Beyond working with students to become better writers and familiarizing them with the academic research process and standard MLA and APA citation systems, Prof. Leo focused her courses around the issue of academic achievement gap within the Marin community. Specifically, she led students to explore the problems of institutionalized racism, the root causes of teenage gang activities, and articulate the complexities of the school-to-prison pipeline in our society. Read more. Guest Speaker Spotlight: Jimmy Wu 
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On April 27, Dominican hosted a presentation and writing workshop led by Jimmy Wu, whose experiences as an inmate in the juvenile detention system were chronicled in Mark Salzman's True Notebooks. Jimmy's journey from incarcerated adolescent to reform advocate testifies to the transformative potential of creative writing and of the true power of restorative justice. Read more. |
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Student SpotlightsLuyi Xu (Business ’18) is enrolled in two Service-Learning courses this semester. For BUS 4032 Taxation: Business Perspective taught by Prof. Daniel Carraher, the students work with Tax-Aid, a non-profit that offers free tax return preparation for low income families. For CLQ 3430 Power Structure of Forgiveness with Prof. Emily Wu, Luyi chose to work with the Comfort Women Project, a collaboration between Asian American Alliance of Marin and Dominican Service-Learning Program, where SL students participate in an intergenerational traditional Korean drumming team that performs to raise awareness of the history of WWII Comfort Women in the Asia-Pacific. Read more. 
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Jesse Bodony (Humanities ’17) is enrolled in ART 3010 Community Engaged Art co-taught by Profs. Lynn Sondag and Julia Van der Ryn. This semester, the class collaborated with members of the DownTown Streets Team, an organization that works with the homeless population in San Rafael, on a mural that is installed in Boyd Memorial Park. Jesse reflects on the experience: Until you get the chance to spend an extended amount of time around those considered “homeless”, “homeless” is just an idea. It is a concept that we understand to varying degrees, but we ultimately cannot empathize completely because most of us to not live that reality. |
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Spring 2016 Service-Learning Student Leaders
Front row from left to right: Avni Ghandi, Sophie Miller, Elaine Arciaga. Back row from left to right: Jenny Bray, Madison Ekin, Julia Hills, Julia Sayavong, Julia van der Ryn. Read more about the Student Leaders. SL Courses in Fall 2016
For detailed course descriptions, link here. |
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Questions or Comments?Visit Dominican University of California Service-Learning webpages: http://www.dominican.edu/academics/serviceContact SL Program: service.learning@dominican.edu |
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