2016 Symposium by Auburn University Outreach

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2016 Symposium MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016 RECEPTION 5-7PM at Piccolo TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 & 17, 2016 8AM - 5PM AUBURN UNIVERSITY HOTEL AND DIXON CONFERENCE CENTER

Featuring Signature Events

University Presidents Speak Panel TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16 @ 2PM and

Dr. Mae Jemison

EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN LECTURE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 @ 4PM Track One: The Scholarship of Engagement Track Two: Voices from the Margins

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February 2016 Dear symposium participants, Welcome to the collaborative 2016 Symposium hosted by Auburn University Outreach and the Tuskegee Auburn Women’s Leadership Alliance. This year we decided to expand on the framework of previous AU Outreach Scholarship Symposia by partnering with the newly formed Tuskegee Auburn Women’s Leadership Alliance so that we could bring more attention to timely issues in higher education, public engagement and outreach scholarship, and the relationship between inclusivity and engagement. Our partnership allows the possibility of a new synergy that we hope showcases best practices expressed through individual concurrent sessions, symposium and poster presentations, as well as a plenary and a keynote address, the Extraordinary Women Lecture. We invite you to attend these interesting and enlightening sessions and to participate in dialogues with colleagues about many of the pressing issues impacting both communities and higher education now. We are pleased to welcome University Presidents Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey, Dr. Sharon Gaber, and Dr. Molly Esso Smith to our signature event, University Presidents Speak, and we are especially delighted to welcome our Extraordinary Women Lecturer, Dr. Mae Jemison as the symposium keynote. We hope you find the Auburn University Outreach and Tuskegee Auburn Women’s Leadership Alliance Symposium informative and engaging, and we encourage you to take full advantage of the opportunity to network with some of America’s finest scholars—right here at Auburn University. Best regards,

Dr. Chippewa Thomas Dr. Barbara Baker Director, Office of Faculty Engagement Director, Women’s Leadership Institute Auburn University Outreach College of Liberal Arts

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Agenda at-a-Glance Monday, February 15, 2016 5:00 – 7:00

Outreach and Engaged Scholars Reception at Piccolo

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

8:00 – 9:00 Registration 9:00 – 11:30 Sessions (Papers and Posters) 1-3 11:45 – 1:00 Outreach and Engaged Scholars Luncheon 1:00 – 2:00 Session 4 2:00 – 3:15 University Presidents Speak Panel 3:30 – 5:00 Networking Reception with the Presidents

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:00 – 9:00 9:00 – 11:30 11:45 – 1:00 1:00 – 3:00 3:00 – 4:00 4:00 – 5:00 5:00 – 6:30

Registration Sessions (Papers and Posters) 5-7 Lunch on your own Sessions 8-9 Session 10 and Mae Jemison Book Signing Keynote: Mae Jemison Extraordinary Women Lecture Keynote Dinner (by invitation only)

Venue – Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center

Piccolo

Pre-Function Foyer

Meeting Rooms

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University Presidents Speak Tuesday, February 16, 2016

2:00-3:15

Plenary Panel - Ballroom B

Introductions – Timothy Boosinger, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Auburn University Moderator – Vini Nathan, Dean and McWhorter Professor, College of Architecture, Design, and Construction, Auburn University

Dr. Gwendolyn E. Boyd returned to her alma mater to become the first female President of Alabama State University in 2014. After earning a BS in mathematics from ASU, she became the first AfricanAmerican to earn a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University, and she also holds the Doctor of Ministry from Howard University. She served as an engineer at John Hopkins University, where she chaired the Diversity Leadership Council. In 2000, she was elected the 22nd National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. More recently, President Boyd was appointed by Barack Obama to the Barry Goldwater Foundation for Excellence in Education and to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Dr. Sharon L. Gaber became the first woman to be named President of the University of Toledo in 2015 after having served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas since 2009. At Auburn University, Dr. Gaber served as interim provost, senior associate provost, and associate provost for academic affairs. She holds a BA in Economics and Urban Studies from Occidental College, a Master’s in Planning from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell. She has been awarded the 2006 State of Alabama Outstanding Professional Planner, and the 2009 Auburn University Woman of Distinction.

Dr. Mary Ellen Mazey became the 11th President of Bowling Green State University in 2011 after having served as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Auburn University, as dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, and as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State University. A first-generation college graduate, Dr. Mazey earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from West Virginia University and a PhD in geography from the University of Cincinnati. She serves on the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the Voluntary System of Accountability Board, and as chair of the board for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, as well as on the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Molly Easo Smith served as the 11th President of Manhattanville College and currently serves as the provost and vice president of academic affairs at Saint Martin’s University in the state of Washington. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s from the University of Madras in India, and a PhD in English Literature from Auburn University. She has held faculty and administrative appointments at Ithaca College, St. Louis University, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Seton Hall University and Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Provost Smith serves on the Board of Trustee at Farleigh Dickenson University and on the Executive Committee of the International Association of University Presidents, where she leads an initiative to develop women as academic leaders globally. ALL ARE INVITED TO JOIN THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS FOR A RECEPTION FOLLOWING THIS PANEL IN THE TERRACE ROOM. AUBURN UNIVERSITY HOTEL AND DIXON CONFERENCE CENTER.

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Keynote: Extraordinary Women Lecture Tuesday, February 17, 2016

4:00-5:00

Location - Ballroom A

Dr. Mae Jemison

• First African American Woman in Space • Currently Leading 100 Year Starship (An initiative to assure the capability for human interstellar space travel to another star is possible within the next 100 years) • Founder and President of Two Medical Technology Companies Dr. Mae C. Jemison is currently leading 100 Year Starship (100YSS)an initiative seed funded by DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to assure the capability for human interstellar space travel to another star is possible within the next 100 years. She also is founder of the technology consulting firm, The Jemison Group, Inc. that integrates the critical impact of socio-cultural issues when designing and implementing technologies, such as their projects on using satellite technology for health care delivery in West Africa and solar dish Stirling engines for electricity generation in developing countries. Dr. Jemison, the first woman of color in the world to go into space, served six years as a NASA astronaut. She flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-47 Spacelab J(apan) mission in September 1992 and was NASA’s first Science Mission Specialist performing experiments in material science, life science and human adaptation to weightlessness. Started after she left NASA, The Jemison Group also explores and develops stand-alone science and technology programs and companies. BioSentient Corporation, a medical technology devices and services company focused on improving health and human performance through physiologic awareness and self-regulation is such a company. A strong, committed global voice for science literacy, in 1994 Jemison founded the international science camp The Earth We ShareTM (TEWS) for students 12-16 years old from around the world, and founded and chairs the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence, a 501(c)3. TEWS-Space Race launched summer 2011 to improve science achievement in Los Angeles area students underserved and underrepresented in the sciences. Over four years its goal is to directly impact up to 10,000 middle school students and train 600 teachers. In October 2006 the Foundation developed the program Reality Leads Fantasy—Celebrating Women of Color in Flight that highlighted women in aviation and space from around the world. Dr. Jemison serves as national advocate for Bayer Corporation’s award winning Making Science Make Sense program. An environmental studies professor at Dartmouth College, Jemison taught sustainable development and technology design and ran The Jemison Institute for Advancing Technologies in Developing Countries. She was an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Dr. Jemison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine and is: on the Board of Directors of Kimberly-Clark Corp., Scholastic, Inc. and Valspar Corp.; a Trustee of Morehouse College; Board of Texas Medical Center; and served as Chair, Texas State Product Development and Small Business Incubator Board; Chair, Greater Houston Partnership Disaster Planning and Recovery Task Force; a member Board of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Dr. Jemison is an inductee of National Women’s Hall of Fame, National Medical Association Hall of Fame and Texas Science Hall of Fame. Among many honors, awards and honorary degrees she received the National Organization for Women’s Intrepid Award, the Kilby Science Award and in 1999 was selected as one of the top seven women leaders in a presidential ballot national straw poll. Prior to NASA, Jemison was Area Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia for two and a half years overseeing the healthcare system for Peace Corps (and State Department in Sierra Leone). Throughout Jemison has worked internationally including in a Cambodian refugee camp and with the Flying Doctors of East Africa. A general practice doctor in Los Angeles, Jemison earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and the requirements for an A.B. degree in African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University and her M.D. from Cornell University.

Dr. Jemison is a highly sought after speaker on issues of health care, social responsibility, technology and motivation and has provided commentary for the BBC, McNeil Lehrer Report, ABC Nightline, NPR and CNN. In Find Where the Wind Goes, she writes for teenagers about growing up on the south side of Chicago, cultivating her aspiration to be a scientist, experiences as a medical student in Africa and her history-making journey into space. She appeared on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, hosted the Discovery Channel’s series World of Wonder and was chosen one of People Magazine’s “World’s 50 Most Beautiful People” in 1993. Dr. Jemison resides in Houston and loves cats.

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AGENDA: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:00-9:00

Registration - Prefunction Foyer Track 1

9:00-10:00 Session 1 – Health and the Wellness Ballroom A Right

Patricia Z. Marincic, Amie Hardin and Susan Scott “Registered Dietitian Services and Patient Outcomes in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Alabama: A collaborative project between Auburn University, the Alabama Dietetic Association and Four Regional Diabetes Education Centers” Alabama has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the US, with unremitting increases in disease prevalence, morbidity, and mortality. Diabetes accounts for greater than 25% of deaths in Alabama; health disparity is evinced in markedly higher death rates of 33% for blacks compared to 24% for whites. Despite established benefits of diabetes self-management education and medical nutrition therapy provided by registered dietitians, poor reimbursement for these services limits access to care. Auburn Dietetics and Nutrition has collaborated with the Alabama Dietetic Association to address a request from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama (BCBS-AL) for outcome data documenting the efficacy of interventions. The presentation will include an overview of current reimbursement for nutrition services offered through BCBS of Alabama for the management of diabetes, pilot data from a retrospective chart review conducted at collaborating regional partner, EAMC Diabetes and Nutrition Center, and evidence-based recommendations for policy change. E. Jean Dubois and Margaret Williamson “CHIP: Community Health Investment Program” The mission of the Community Health Investment Program (CHIP) is to increase access to and enhance health care services to the underserved residents in our community through interprofessional collaboration. The objectives of the project are to: 1) develop the infrastructure for an interprofessional team that consists of nursing, pharmacy, and medicine to enhance health care to underserved populations, 2) pilot an interprofessional mobile approach that builds on the current initiatives of nursing and pharmacy and, 3) determine the impact of an interprofessional model as a means to educate future practitioners and its ability to provide sustainable outreach services.

Track 2 9:00-10:00 Session 1 Health and the Workplace Governor’s Room

Chippewa Thomas and Barbara Baker “Congruence between the Mission and the Mission Maker” This discussion offers insight into assessing an academic institution’s overall health in relation to the personal wellbeing available to members of the institution, especially faculty administrators seeking advancement to the highest echelons of higher education. Focusing on issues relevant to race and gender that have been distilled in previously published discussions of wellness, advancement, and leadership, Baker and Thomas seek to identify salient intersecting themes and illuminate them through personal narrative that is intended to serve as a healing and helpful model for future academics. Griena Knight Davis “Sisters Must Stick Together: Sexism, Marginalization, and Intra-Racial Bullying of Black Women in Academe” Black Women in academe not only have to overcome discrimination and stereotyping on the basis of race and gender but also must endure bystander behavior that can be classified as intra-racial bullying. A mentoring relationship can assist the professional women on a college campus with acclimating to what may sometimes be a hostile environment. Paula Bobrowski and Rene McEldowney “Tyranny by the Majority and Culture as Factors Repressing Women in Academia” Why in the 21st century, as highly educated women working in some of the finest academic institutions do we still find ourselves working in environments reflective of the 18th century? With all the talk and press around higher education in the United States being the center of progressive thought, why do women experience something radically different? Despite progressive thought, universities are institutions that persist to be highly hierarchical, status conscious, and female faculty are often left at the margins. The question we propose in this discussion is whether or not the current situation that female faculty experience in their academic lives might be usefully illustrated by looking at the concept of the tyranny of the majority as a metaphor. For the purposes of this discussion, we do not refer to a single tyrant, but rather a tyrannical effect that results when a group sharing characteristics such as gender and race consistently holds the majority of power and effectively makes all decisions to the exclusion of those not sharing the same characteristics.

AGENDA: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 10-10:30 Session 2 – Poster Session and Networking Break Pre-function Foyer Danielle Willkens “Early Intervention Design Education: power of creative thinking and acts of making.” With budget cuts and relentless testing, adolescents crave creative engagement and it is essential that educators, especially from the collegiate level, foster innovative design thinking and help develop the abilities needed to bring imaginative ideas to life through both visualization and fabrication. With nearly a decade of experience in youth design education initiatives, ranging from on-campus programs in two states and online platforms with the Duke University’s Talent Identification Program (TIP) to the launch of Auburn’s new summer Design Camp at the Urban Studio, it is clear that the multimodal approaches to educational delivery that can engage students of various learning types as well as the student-led discussions and research investigations found in design education help cultivate beneficial collaborative skills, as well as academic independence. The poster presentation ‘Early Intervention Design Education: the power of creative thinking and acts of making’ will showcase student work and strategies for design engagement. Loyce Hamba, Naomi Lumutenga, Margaret Khaitsa, Florence Wakoko-Stustill, Ruth Muwazi, and Irene Naigaga “Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa Empowering Rural Women in Accessing Formal Maternal Health Care in Wakiso District, Uganda” Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is the ratio of the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births during the same time period. MMR in Uganda was reported at 438 per 100,000 in 2011, and has remained high due to: low use of contraceptives, limited capacity of health facilities to manage malaria, HIV/AIDS, abortion/miscarriage complications and poor quality of healthcare services to pregnant women. A 2013 report by Save the Children Fund, on the State of the World’s Mothers’ Index ranked Uganda at 132nd position out of the 176 countries, and as one of the toughest places for mothers. To address this plight HERS-EA is collaborating with Makerere University, Department of Adult Education and Community Education (DACE), Uganda Adult Education Net-work (UGAADEN) and African Village Support to deliver adult education on maternal health. This project presents opportunities for collaborative research, training and outreach with HERS-EA. Sara Rains and Jessica Adams “Identifying Successful Community Development Practices in Ecuador” The goal of this project was to conduct a longitudinal study to evaluate the design, implementation, and success of community based health interventions. The program of interest utilizes community health training and after-school educational programs to empower mothers and equip children to overcome systemic poverty in Quito’s “El Cinturon de la Miseria”, the Belt of Misery. This mixed methods study examines the qualitative and quantitative data collected over a twenty-year period by a local non-profit organization that has partnered with residents of the area. Preliminary results of this study have shown that community support, ownership, and a long-term commitment to project success are crucial to positive outcomes and program sustainability. The findings of this study validate the efficacy of long-term communitybased development projects and provide a model for future development practices, proposing a turn from conventional short-term solutions that utilize external inputs. Wi-Suk Kwon and Dr. Veena Chattaraman “A Virtual Pharmacist: An Intelligent Agent Technology for Seniors’ E-Pharmacy Literacy Aid” E-pharmacies are an excellent e-health tool that can enhance healthcare management autonomy and efficacy among seniors. However, an age-based digital divide exists due to seniors’ cognitive aging that leads to disparities in Internet competency and health literacy. Intelligent agents can provide critical technological aids with transformative potential to enhance the usability of e- pharmacies among seniors. In collaboration with a local pharmacy and three local agencies serving seniors in Alabama, this project implemented an integrative approach to design and develop intelligent agents with cognitive aids addressing seniors’ challenges to effective use of e-pharmacies. Our project evaluation revealed that intelligent agent aids have a significant positive impact on seniors’ satisfaction with and intent to re-use e-pharmacies in the future. The effectiveness of intelligent agents in enhancing epharmacy literacy outcomes, namely, ease of processing and accurate comprehension of e-pharmacy procedures, was greater for African American seniors and lower socioeconomic status seniors.

Track 1 10:30-11:45 Session 3 – State and Local Impact in Auburn and Opelika Ballroom A Right Beth Guertal and David B. Weaver “Edamemame in Alabama: Farmer Market Links for the Introduction and Evaluation of a Nutritious and Valuable Specialty Crop” Edamame is a healthy, snack-food specialty crop with the potential to have a significant financial impact for Alabama vegetable and soybean producers. Although it is a soybean, it is a specialty crop because it is harvested green and eaten fresh, similarly to a vegetable crop. Edamame has very high nutritional benefits, and is especially high in isoflavones. Additionally, the steamed or boiled soybeans are tasty and easy to eat, and the pods lend themselves well to commercial packaging. This combination of a fresh, easy to prepare (and store) and nutritious vegetable makes edamame an excellent choice for introduction as a vegetable crop for children. Our edamame trials have identified several excellent cultivars, and with seed increases we can produce sufficient seed that we can include edamame in taste trials and preparation demonstrations. Ultimately, the objective of our project is threefold: 1) demonstrate the utility of edamame as a nutritional fresh vegetable for inclusion in school lunches and home snacks, 2) evaluate edamame cultivars via taste panels at farmers markets to select best cultivars for use in Alabama, and, 3) show Alabama growers and gardeners that edamame can be a profitable enterprise as a part of their production systems. Sean A. Forbes, Carey E. Andrzejewski, Brian Parr and James D. Spiers “Opelika Grows: Planting Seeds for Sustained Localism.” Recognizing the history of Alabama agriculture to sustain its citizens, the local challenge of food security provides opportunity to increase the human capital of local students at risk for dropping out. A comprehensive internship is offered through Opelika Grows (a non-profit partnership among AU, the Food Bank of East Alabama, Opelika City Schools and Keep Opelika Beautiful) for interested and eligible students at the Opelika Learning Center. Opelika Learning Center students interested in work-ready training will be employed as interns at the community and school gardens of Opelika Grows. Interns will receive training in vegetable production, warehouse management and food preparation; their teachers will receive professional development to incorporate agri-science into regular class curricula. The fruits of intern labor will be donated to the Community Market and sold to cooperating local businesses. Lucy White “Harvesting Transformation” Communities start with relationships. This presentation will share both research and field experience in how horticultural therapy works and the power of the growth process to engage and change a community from strangers to neighbors. We will discuss how participation shifts perception and the likely stages a community will take to eventually arrive at a harvest of sustainable change.

Track 2 10:30-11:30 Session 3 International and Transnational Implications Governor’s Room

Andrea Baldwin “Moving Forward and Looking Back: Transnational Feminist Spaces, Margins, Methods, and Modalities” I am a transnational feminist! My transnational feminist identity is based on two premises. First, as a person working, living and loving every day across socially constructed national boundaries; and second as a Caribbean born, black woman and feminist academic who understands the longstanding ties of the Western feminist academy within which I work, to colonialism, imperialism and racism and where I fit within this structure. I try to work simultaneously using these two lenses, personal and political, because they both offer me a space where I can be critical of the social, political and economic conditions of colonialism and imperialism and their connections to nationalism, race, gender and class; Even as I enjoy all of my transnational connections as daughter, sister and friend, and maintain productive and equitable social relations with and among women and men across and within borders and cultural contexts without othering or privileging space. Xi Lin and Chih-hsuan Wang “Strangers in an Unfamiliar Land” We come from Asia—the other part of the world. With totally different language and culture, we arrive in this unfamiliar land with a strong belief that we would receive good education and contribute our expertise to the world after graduation. Meanwhile, we face difficulties such as maladjustment, being stereotyped, and being misunderstood. Once in a while, we have a tough time getting involved in the mainstream culture. Everyone meets difficulties during their lives journeys, and it is just harder for us—the outliers—in this unfamiliar land. However, to explode in silence, or to die in it, once we take the first step towards our goals, believe in our competence, and attempt with efforts, we can and will obtain achievement, recognition, and respect. Kerry Baharanyi “Immigrants Students’ Experiences and Perspectives on Barriers Encountered at Auburn University” The purpose of this essay is to examine some of the barriers and challenges that many immigrant students could encounter at Auburn University. In many ways, I discuss my own experience as an immigrant student at Auburn University, which is a great institution. Auburn University enabled me to pursue higher education and to define my own American dream; it gave me the opportunity to get a good education that led me to a career as a social worker. However, the process was challenging. Using my personal experience and interviews with other immigrants such as family members and acquaintances who attended Auburn University from 2004 to 2010, I was able to conclude that Auburn University should create a blueprint of an educational system that will not only provide affordable education, but also address the gap in education. This educational system should also integrate cultural competency by taking into consideration that many immigrants students like me were or are nontraditional students who face many hurdles that could impact retention, as well as the ability to graduate.

AGENDA: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:45-1:00 Outreach and Engaged Scholars Luncheon Ballroom A Left Track 1 1:00-2:00

Session 4 Individual and Collective Impact Ballroom A Right

Christine M. Wienke-Totura, and Jan Newmanand “Pilot of an Evaluation Protocol to Assess the Uptake of Treatment Innovations within Juvenile Corrections.” Given the limited research and clinical focus on implementing innovative treatments for adjudicated adolescents with illegal sexual behavior (AISB) in Alabama, outreach activities are focused on measuring the quality of implementation for a trauma-informed treatment approach that meets the unique needs of this targeted population in the Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS) operated Mt. Meigs juvenile correctional facility. The goals of this study are two-fold,1) to develop and administer an implementation evaluation protocol for the adoption of an evidence based, trauma-informed treatment model with AISB, and 2) to understand the association between implementation effectiveness and evidence-based treatment effectiveness. The anticipated outcomes include a fuller appreciation of contextual factors necessary to support programming in juvenile justice settings that contributes to positive behavioral outcomes and reduced recidivism for adjudicated AISB in Alabama. Sola Aina-Popoola, Cordelia Nnedu, and Denisha Hendricks “The benefit of mentoring in an academic setting” Mentoring may be one way to help a new faculty flourish in academic life. The mentor-protege relationship has been a subject of discussion and research in academic worlds for many years. The beginning of a new faculty member’s academic career is filled with questions, especially concerning how one navigates and succeeds in the new setting, and whether teaching, research, and service activities can be learned through some process of osmosis. Factors such as mentor-protege matching, mentor characteristics, the roles of mentors, organizational support, and the mentoring process must be considered if a successful mentoring program is to be implemented. It should be noted that a mentor and a mentee does not have to be at the same institution.

Track 2 1:00-2:00 Session 4 Literary Resonance Governor’s Room

Trivisus Caldwell “Power: Chattel Slavery and the Professional Institution” United States Chattel Slavery is a key contributor to covert racism and gender discrimination in contemporary professional institutions. By analyzing chattel slavery as a sexual economy, my goal of identifying slippages in the space that circumscribe minority groups becomes attainable. First, I examine chattel slavery, through the lens of the film Mandingo, as an ideological state apparatus whose purpose is largely to present the liminal space of slaves as one promoting gender and race inequality through an opposing binary—such that deems men as powerful and women as docile. Second, by analyzing the interracial sex act in the film, I will demonstrate an evocable emancipatory politic through eroticism that extends to contemporary spaces. Finally, these findings will illustrate psychological burdens in the form of an inferiority complex, which discipline specific classes of people in spaces of subordination. My hope is to promote a consciousness that serves the function of combating ideological tropes that threaten to sustain patriarchal structures. Julia Tigner, “Negotiating that Space of Uncertainty in Academe as a Black Woman” Using Francis Gage’s observations of Sojourner Truth as a framing piece, I will reflect on my own experiences and draw upon similar instances from the notes written about Truth as well as other narratives of black women’s experiences to explore how I navigate spaces of uncertainty in the classroom. Leonard Towns and Desmond Delk “Examining the Impact of Stereotype Threat, the Index of Dissimilarity, and Glass Ceilings on Women within the Academy” Though academia has a significant amount of women representing the field, the workplace and jobs available are not as abundant for women. This is extremely alarming knowing that women obtain degrees at a significantly higher rate than men across a wide range of concentrations (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2012). In other words, while women account for just as many, if not more, advanced degrees as men, this number is in no way representative of the leadership positions filled by women in academia. According to Mary Frank Fox (2001), the low number of academic women in leadership positions can be attributed to the widely accepted organizational culture and social structure that supports occupational segregation and gender-typing of occupations which both ultimately perpetuates this pattern and yields stereotype threatening environments. This literature review examines the consequences of stereotype threat in women in academia and proposes research-based solutions and interventions.

Kaylee McCormack and Sarah Crim “Honors Serves” Honors Serves is an organization made up of students from the Honors College that seek to give back to the community through initiatives that promote the academic success and personal growth of students within the community. The organization has several ongoing partnerships with local high-schools as well as Auburn’s public library to provide PSAT/ACT/SAT tutoring to students who may not otherwise be able to take or afford a test-prep course. These semester-long programs are all studentdesigned and student-led by volunteers. The involved Auburn students used their past understanding and involvement in testprep courses to create a program directed at high-school juniors and seniors. They prepare for a scheduled exam date, with the primary target being improved scores to promote expanded collegiate opportunities for the students.

AGENDA: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 2:00-5:00 University Presidents Speak Plenary Presidential Panel (2:00-3:15pm) Ballroom B Networking Reception with the Presidents (3:15-5:00pm) Terrace Room

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AGENDA: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:00-9:00

Registration - Prefunction Foyer Track 1

9:00-10:00 Session 5 – Community Engagement and Partnerships Ballroom B Right Tannista Bannerjee “Effect of Discount Coupons and Healthy Food Awareness Education on Healthy Food Purchase and Obesity” In collaboration with Sylacauga Alliance for Family Enhancement (SAFE) and 2 Piggly Wiggly grocery stores serving low income families in Alabama, this project implemented healthy food purchase through healthy food consumption education among low income families in Talladega County of Alabama. In addition, this project designed and tested the effectiveness of targeted intervention in the form of targeted discount food coupons for healthy food. In doing so, this project benefited 100 low income rural families, including minority groups by improving their healthy food knowledge and food purchase habit. Results of this project will help design appropriate fiscal tools to reduce obesity in Alabama. This project will serve as a seed project that enables the investigator to seek extramural funding to pursue larger-scale outreachhealthcare intervention projects for low income families. Chris Correia and Polly Dunn “Increasing Access to Autism Evaluations in Alabama: Training Professionals on Diagnostic Procedures” Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a chronic neurodevelopmental condition that significantly impairs social and communication abilities. The prevalence of ASD has reached a zenith—affecting approximately 1 in 68 children. Through our outreach initiative, we aimed to increase access to ASD evaluation services by training Auburn University clinical psychology graduate students and faculty supervisors to administer the gold standard in Autism evaluation: the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2). After completing a two-day ADOS-2 workshop with a licensed trainer, practitioners will be prepared to conduct high-quality ASD evaluations and meet the rising need in our community.

Track 2 9:00-10:00 Session 5 Careers and the Workplace Governor’s Room

Hulya Kirkici “Best Practices: Mid-Career Women and Academic Success in STEM” In order to increase the number of women in STEM workforce, which includes STEM faculty, increasing enrollment and retention of female students is needed. There are many studies and government mandates addressing this challenging issue of increasing women and minority students in STEM fields and development of diverse a workforce. These studies can be used as the guiding resources when implementing any meaningful practice and/or policy to increase female student enrollment and retention. One of these studies resulted in what is called the “NSF ADVANCE program” which has had some success in advancement of women faculty in STEM fields. But the core issue is the complex relationship between the faculty and students and the representation of diverse faculty within a university and the student population. This talk with focus on my studies conducted during the Spring and Fall 2015 semesters, which is relevant to mid-career female faculty advancement in STEM fields. Paulette P. Dilworth, Amanda Carr, LaKerrie Mack “Moving on Up: African American Women changing the narratives on Citizenship and Career Mobility” In this session panelists will explore perspectives of African American women to examine the intersection of race, gender, citizenship, and career mobility. By sharing histories and experiences, we offer individual and collective interpretations of traditional views to frame what is missing in traditional female networks. Our goal is to broaden traditional narratives to better understand the 21st century realities of everyday life for some women. Black Feminist Thought is used as a lens to isolate some of the challenges experiences by African American women working in stratified roles in the academy Heather M. Finch “Marginal Connections: Authentication and Visibility of Women of Color” Women of color deal with authentication and visibility issues within academia that impact their work and how they navigate spaces. However, the concerns with authentication and visibility stems back to the eighteenth century experience of Phillis Wheatley, one of the foundations of American literature, whose status as a slave a woman shows how women of color get placed in the margins. Wheatley stands as a model for women working to build their own skills and achieve their own goals while challenging the racial and gender systems that still persist outside of the progressive changes the constitution has made. We learn that the exposure of the marginalized women suffering continues today in professional academic areas. My research endeavor has challenged me to listen and look closely at the archives of the eighteenth century while paying attention to my lived experience and those of other women of color in the twenty-first century.

10-10:30 am Session 6 - Poster Session and Networking Break Pre-function Foyer Irene Naigaga, Naomi Lumutenga, Ruth Muwazi, Loyce Hamba, Florence Wakoko-Stustill, and Margaret Khaitsa “HERS-East Africa, Alternative Education Initiative (AEI) and Home Based Entrepreneurship (HBE) for Women Empowerment” There is a growing reservoir of marginalized girls and women who dropped out of or never went to school. For example, Uganda’s average survival rate at primary school is the lowest in East Africa, and is estimated at 33% compared to 78% in Tanzania, 81% in Rwanda and 84% in Kenya. This marginalized woman/girl is economically poor, voiceless, illiterate/ semi-illiterate, vulnerable to disease, malnutrition, and domestic violence. To address this plight, HERS-East Africa has developed an Alternative Education Initiative (AEI) and Home Based Entrepreneurship (HBE) model to transform, and nurture this marginalized woman and girl from a subsistence entrepreneur and school dropout to a medium entrepreneur and a girl with options, respectively. HERS-EA, is an educational non-profit organization established to provide leadership and management development for women in East Africa (www.HERS-EA.org). This project provides partnership opportunities with HERS-EA. Shawndra Bowers and Betsy Gilbertson “The Impact of Race and Gender on Perceptions and Opportunities in Technological Careers within Higher Education” With the proliferation of technology in the workplace and our personal lives, there is a growing demand for qualified professionals in technology-related fields. It is no secret that technology careers have been historically dominated by white males. Therefore, being a women and/or a minority can be challenging. According to Boynton (2015), “Bias in the workplace can lead to death by a thousand cuts for women and people of color who are trying to move ahead.” We are often not respected nor are our experiences and knowledge properly valued, which impacts our career advancement opportunities and personal job satisfaction. This poster will spark discussion around this still present and relevant topic by sharing personal stories of colleagues in academia who have common experiences and challenges, as well as the ways in which they have coped and overcome these barriers. Tania McKey and Bonnie Williams “STEM is the Future: WISE Institute Takes the Lead in Preparing Our Students” Come and learn about how the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Institute, a unit in the Office of Multicultural and Diversity Affairs at Auburn University is making a difference in the lives of children. WISE is working with K – 12 students in Alabama as well as in a village in the coastal region of Kenya in an effort to challenge all students to become critical thinkers, creative problem-solvers, collaborators and effective communicators. This outreach effort is fueled by the research that we must prepare students for jobs that we don’t yet know exist. All students, regardless of where they live, what resources they have or academic level, should be exposed to inquiry-based, hands-on, problem-based learning. Throughout this local, state and international project, teachers are learning how to become facilitators of learning. Students are being asked to solve real-world problems that connect to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Chippewa Thomas and Amy Chitwood “AU 2 Cuba: Educational and Cultural Tours” Over the past year, Auburn University Outreach has hosted delegations to Cuba in order to explore and build capacity for collaborations and partnerships in Cuba. During these educational and cultural tours that have thus far taken place in the capital city of Havana, delegations have had opportunities to engage with the people of Cuba, dignitaries, officials, administrators and faculty intellectuals at Havana University and communities throughout Havana. The chief goal has been to develop understanding while experiencing the history and culture of Cuba. Delegations have been comprised of various members of the Auburn University family. Delegates have included faculty and staff from Auburn University Outreach, various AU Colleges and Schools, as well as University Alumni, and Alabama business and industry professionals and others. The focus of the information shared on the tours have included topics on the economy, health, medical and pharmaceutical industries, education, art and humanities, architecture, and agriculture: food and water security. We are currently looking forward to our upcoming 2016 engagements in April, June and October. With relations warming between Cuba and the United States, we are excited to have a role in creating opportunities to engage going forward. The future looks bright and we hope that you will join us.

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10:30-11:45 Session 7 – Science, Technology and Health in Alabama Ballroom B Right

10:30-11:45 Session 7 Historical Implications Governor’s Room

David T. King, Jr., Lucille W. Beardsley, and Beth Hickman “Science in Our Own Backyard: Investigating the Wetumpka Impact Crater.” An AU Competitive Outreach Scholarship Grant (20152016) titled “Science in Our Own Backyard: Investigating the Wetumpka Impact Crater” provided funding for in-service teacher workshops, field trips to the Wetumpka impact crater in Elmore County, Alabama, and other related outreach activities. This paper reviews work so far on this project. Working through the Alabama Math, Science and Technology Initiative (AMSTI-AU) in Opelika, teachers were provided with learning experiences, activities, and materials. In the field, teachers observed crater features in Elmore County. In the area of Earth and space science, the proposed new Alabama state science plan of study for 6th grade students in Alabama specifically mentions the Wetumpka impact crater, so this outreach effort is a timely project. This AU Competitive Outreach Scholarship Outreach Grant has spurred several external funding requests, which will be reviewed in this presentation. Outreach efforts regarding science education and the Wetumpka impact crater will continue into the future.

Caroline Gebhard and Vivian L. Carter “The History of Women’s Leadership at HBCUs: A Tuskegee Story” Tuskegee female faculty and staff have a long history of activism in the community and leadership within the ranks of administrators and faculty. Yet with the end of segregation and the rise of the modern women’s movement—which ironically involved dismantling of positions such as “Dean of Women, Tuskegee has become a different school. Although Tuskegee women faculty, staff, and administrators continue to serve as part of the vital “backbone” to the institution, women are under represented among the upper administration and full professor ranks. We propose to gather data to document this under representation and probe what challenges gender disparities pose for historically black colleges and universities such as Tuskegee University. We envision supplementing the historical discussion and analysis of present-day conditions with our personal narratives as current Tuskegee professors.

Salisa C. Westrick “Reach Out to Assist Medicare Beneficiaries” Half of Medicare beneficiaries have limited income and savings, resulting in an inability to meet basic food, housing, and medical needs. Many seniors and adults with disabilities qualify for, but are not yet enrolled in, assistance programs that could help them pay for medical care and medication costs. A collaborative initiative between Auburn University and Alabama Department of Senior Services was launched with a primary goal to increase the number of Medicare beneficiaries who are enrolled in subsidy programs. This presentation will describe how pharmacists assist Medicare beneficiaries who cannot afford their medications and the Certified Aging Resource Educated Specialist (C.A.R.E.S.) Training and C.A.R.E.S. Pharmacy Network. Constance Hendricks, Sola Popoola, Valerie Thomas, and Jennifer Wells-Marshall “Digital Messages Promote Healthy Lifestyles” An AU Outreach funded project, Auburn University: Taking “It” to the People Southern Style (AU:TIPSS) uses digital signage to provide state-of-the-science/evidenced-based health promotion self-care messages in a culturally relevant manner. Messages incorporate translational research strategies to persons frequenting 31 sites in 17 Alabama counties and 3 out of state sites. The ultimate goal is to increase awareness of state of the science/evidenced-based practices and empower persons to become more engaged in their self-care. AU:TIPSS provides tailored health messages to be streamed continuously so that persons frequenting the selected site might have the opportunity to gain information about keeping themselves and their family healthy. Reports revel reaching over 129,000 persons.

Lisa Bratton, Javanna Plummer, Linque Martin “Chloroform Your Uncle Toms! The Historical Marginalization of Nannie Helen Burroughs” Nannie Helen Burroughs (1875 -1961) was the founder and director of the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, D. C. This essay on her life and legacy has two sections. The first will correct some of the erroneously-stated history about her using United States Census data and other primary documents. The second section will examine her legacy and explore possible reasons why hers has been overshadowed by her male contemporary, Booker T. Washington, who built a comparable educational institution for African Americans who were merely a few generations removed from enslavement. Burroughs built the National Training School for Women and Girls on the belief that domestic work was worthy of the status of a profession. Her school was also based on the fact that women and girls should understand the dignity of domestic work and have a liberal arts education. David C. Carter “Women’s Anti-Lynching Activism Across the Color Line: Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s and Lillian Clayton Jewett’s Campaigns to Protest the Lynchings of Frazier and Julia Baker in 1898” The brutality of the lynching of federal postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his infant daughter Julia in Lake City, South Carolina in 1898 elicited outraged protests from across the nation. The nascent anti-lynching movement quickly sprang into action as black and white citizens, both north and south of Mason and Dixon line, demanded that President William McKinley order a full investigation that would bring the guilty parties to justice. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the well-known African American antilynching crusader, and Lillian Clayton Jewett, a previously unknown white activist from Boston, were essential to the mobilization of grassroots protest over the Baker lynching. Female anti-lynching activism in the Baker lynching case in 1898 and 1899 helped to challenge the widely held assumption in the white South and the nation at large that the national government would do nothing to stop the lynching of African Americans in the South.

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1-2:00 pm Session 8 – Transformative Narratives Ballroom B Right Paige Paquette “Story Swap: Literature and the Veteran Experience” Everyone has a story. Some stories have been written, some have been told, and some are just waiting on the opportunity. Troy University and The Alabama Humanities Foundation (AHF) have teamed up to create a community outreach reading program for Wounded Warriors at the Warrior Transition Unit on Fort Benning, GA. Now, in its fourth session (8-10 weeks per session), Story Swap: Literature and the Veteran Experience combines poetry, classical literature, military essays, and novels with the warriors’ own stories. This narrative will provide a description of the program, an example of a syllabus, feedback from participants, and discussion about the trials and triumphs of working with these heroes. The narrative will conclude with future possibilities of program expansion, including a Story Swap for Lady Warriors. Wendy DesChene “Speak Easy Listen Hard” A collection of work detailing the rich civil rights history of Tuskegee and the surrounding areas was exhibited at the university. The exhibition, created and curated by the youths (ages 6 - 13) of Safe Haven Tuskegee and students of the Social and Community Engaged Art class lead by MacArthur Fellow and Breeden Eminent Scholar Rick Lowe and Associate Professor Wendy DesChene was aimed to foster a bridgebuilding partnership between Auburn and Tuskegee. There were live performances, refreshments and local community leaders from both cities in attendance. This paper explores the process, challenges and triumphs of the art/outreach project. Tessa Carr “Identifying and Celebrating Diversity in Alabama – A community Partner initiative” This project includes a series of two-day community residencies: a school performance, a community performance, and a threehour workshop that includes multi-generational participants recruited from the performance events prior to the workshop. Mosaic Theatre Company performs a one-hour piece that addresses either a historical or cultural example of grappling with diversity. The Integration of Tuskegee High School, an original work, was adapted and directed to serve as the foundational performance for communities that identify a historical question within the heart of their diversity issues. Since this model may not best facilitate conversation in all communities, a performance of literature that is based on the work of Southeastern authors will form the foundational performance for communities that prefer a more wide-ranging discussion of diversity. Each community partner will assess and identify which performance would best serve its needs.

Track 2 1-2:00 pm Session 8 Narratives of Perspective Governor’s Room

Monique A. Gamble “Black Women, Front and Center” Although media has given us many compelling examples of Black women through characters like “Olivia Pope,” “Cookie Lyon,” and “Orange is the New Black’s “Sophia Burset,’” narratives about Black women are often still one-dimensional. Within some communities, these portrayals of powerful, transformative Black women like Pope and Burset represent elements of popular culture that are actually “weakening” the Black family, perhaps even the race. From within the Black community and outside of it, the breadth of Black girl- and womanhood is restricted, if not overlooked entirely. This is a cultural conundrum for Black women, but these limitations can be exceeded through access to more diverse Black female experiences. We need to hear more Black women’s stories. Muhjah Shakir “A Journey through a Place Called Tuskegee” This paper is about an inspired journey likened to a “calling” that I have embarked upon wanting to help facilitate greater integration/interdependence between an historic institution and the community in which it resides. It is the “town and gown” phenomena depicted throughout the U.S. where college cities/ towns exist. In urban areas the integration of town and gown has been so effective that one can readily see the impact of a variety of services and resources on the surrounding area. If the need for greater integration in the forming of community-campus partnership is self-evident – then why doesn’t it happen in the place called Tuskegee? To understand this reality, this dilemma, requires an understanding and appreciation for an expanded historical and psychosocial analysis of the African and African American history of oppression and the resulting need for “emotional emancipation” and healing as we strive to recreate a world that is awaiting rebirth. Minerva Brauss and Xi Lin “The Strength in Working with a Diverse Set of Individuals in Academia” One from Belize and one from China. Venturing out of our comfort zone by getting together, learning from each other, and helping each other, allows us to grow, expand and become role models for the next generation. The combination of diverse strengths, creativity, and support become a shield that motivates us to move forward fearlessly. This is the power of diversity. Thus, diversity and collaboration together are an integral part for the expansion of knowledge and the betterment of our communities.

Track 1 2-3:00 pm Session 9 – Intersections of Community and Engagement Ballroom B Right

Meredith Smith, Lindsey Steelman, Trey Fields, Mark Wilson, Mitch Moody, and Calvin Willborn “Expanding the Tuskegee National Forest as a Community Asset” The Tuskegee National Forest is the smallest national forest in the United States, and the 11,000-acre natural resource has a unique history and unrealized potential for ecotourism. Macon County is an ARC-distressed county, and while it is known for its county seat of Tuskegee, the Forest seems to have less public recognition for tourism and recreation than it deserves. The Auburn 2015 ATP team assisted with administering a citizen survey on knowledge and use of the forest; research and coordination for a history and culture tent at the second annual Festival in the Forest; and development and execution of two presentations on the forest to groups in adjacent counties. The survey will be beneficial for future grant applications related to activities in the forest, festival participation allowed the second annual event to grow in size and scope, and the presentations challenged students to convey the qualities of the forest to potential visitors. Felicia Tuggle “Building Effective Campus-Community Partnerships” The Youth Serving Organizations (YSO) Collaborative at Savannah State University is a successful example of a campuscommunity partnership focused on building administrative and programmatic capacity of youth serving organizations while simultaneously teaching social work students the science behind service (why and how research and theory are used in program planning, implementation, and evaluation) via supervised field placements. The collaborative provides coordinated access to human resources (e.g., faculty and students’ time, knowledge, and skills; access to peer mentors), technical resources (e.g., equipment; databases; materials and support required to implement and evaluate interventions), and other university resources (e.g., space and facilities; continuing education/ professional development opportunities, university outreach programs; transportation services). The collaborative has been instrumental in equipping students and agencies with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to effectively design, implement, and evaluate social service programs.

Track 2 2-3:00 pm Session 9 International Engagement and Partnerships Governor’s Room

Ruth Muwazi, Margaret L. Khaitsa, Florence Wakoko-Studstill, Irene Naigaga, Naomi Lumutenga, and John David Kabasa “AFRISA: A distinctive approach to university–community partnerships with a focus on women” Africa Strategic Resource Services (AFRISA) is an alternative training model to traditional formal education where students go from primary to tertiary education. AFRISA is an AcademicPublic-Private partnership (ACP) that trains and nurtures young, healthy, productive entrepreneurs through trans-formative skills, technology, innovations and community service. Using Multiple Entry-Multiple Exit (MEME) pedagogy, AFRISA reintegrates school dropouts (the majority of whom are girls) into education and production, offers affordable hands-on packages of value chain education, creates enterprises to improve livelihoods. The ACP loop provides feedback for improvement of the curricula because training harnesses the experiences of the private and public sectors. Opportunities exist for collaborative action research, training and outreach between academic institutions, private and public sectors in East Africa, Israel, US and elsewhere. This paper will share experiences where girls have been supported using this model to overcome financial and social barriers to enterprise and academic progress. Naomi Lumutenga, Meghan Millea, Margaret L. Khaitsa, Florence Wakoko-Studstill, Ruth Muwazi, and Irene Naigaga “Connecting Higher Education Institutions and Grass root Women: A HERS-EA case study of Women Empowering Women Through Re-usable Sanitary pads in Eastern Uganda” In Uganda, the average primary school completion rate is 52%; up to 40% of female teachers in primary schools missed school and 11% of the time girls missed learning due to challenges of coping with menstruation. Lack of resources to manage menstruation is a significant barrier to girls’ education that needs to be addressed. With support from Mississippi State University, Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa (HERS-EA) implemented a project “Women Empowering Women Through Re-usable Sanitary Pads” that trained rural women in Eastern Uganda to produce reusable sanitary pads and also train other women. HERS-EA (www.HERS-EA.org) is a non-profit organization established to provide leadership and management development for women in East Africa. Opportunities exist for collaborative research, training and

Jennifer L. Robinson and Jeffery S. Katz “Auburn University Brain Imaging Visiting Fellowship (AU Brain Camp)” Over the last decade, the National Science Foundation has emphasized and encouraged the growth of STEM disciplines, education, and outreach. Higher education has almost universally adopted STEM-related priorities into their missions and visions, with Auburn University (AU) being no exception. By hosting a weeklong summer camp in which high-school students will be exposed to cognitive neuroscience via a multidisciplinary approach leveraging existing collaborations between the Departments of Psychology and Electrical and Computer Engineering, utilizing the unique state-of-the-art Auburn University MRI Research Center (AUMRIRC). In partnership with local and regional high schools, AU will invite juniors and seniors to apply for the camp, prioritizing diverse and underrepresented applicants. The program will be designed to expose high school students to STEM concepts and advancements which have enhanced the methods used in cognitive neuroscience that have ultimately led to discoveries about the brain. This outreach initiative is important because we are in an era of new discovery with large federal incentives, such as the BRAIN Initiative. AU Brain Camp holds tremendous promise in facilitating transformative change along these dimensions.

Track 1 3-4:00 pm Session 10 – Culture and Community Meeting Room D

outreach between HERS-EA and other institutions (including universities) on menstruation and education of the girl child, policy development, and production of sanitary pads that are affordable and environmentally friendly. Margaret L. Khaitsa, Florence Wakoko-Studstill, Naomi Lumutenga, Ruth Muwazi, Irene Naigaga, and Loyce Hamba “Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa: The Genesis and Potential Collaborations in Research, Training and Global Outreach” Higher Education Resource Services, East Africa (HERS-EA, www.HERS-EA.org) is an educational non-profit organization whose goal is to provide leadership and management development for women in East Africa (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda). HERS-EA is a sister organization to HERS (http://www.hersnet.org/) based in the USA. Funding for HERS-EA initiative was provided by US Agency for International Development (USAID) through Higher Education for Development & the project “Capacity building in Integrated Management of Transboundary Animal Diseases and Zoonoses – CIMTRADZ” in East and Central Africa. HERS-EA has collaborated with Makerere University, Africa Institute for Strategic Resource Development (AFRISA), Mississippi State University, Columbus State University; submitted joint grants including to Africa Centers of Excellence (ACEII) by The World Bank with Mak (Uganda), and Auburn University, Auburn, AL (to US Department of State).

Track 2 3-4:00 pm Mae Jemison Book Signing Ballroom B Left

Dawn Booth and Barbara Kemppainen “The Making of a Veterinary Service and Outreach Course: Trials and Tribulations” Development of service/outreach courses has it challenges. Those associated with veterinary medicine are often unique. AU Outreach funded the development of a service learning course for 3rd year veterinary students. During its first year, the program aligned with the United Cherokee Ani-Yun-Wiya Nation located in Guntersville, with the intent to provide a “Wellness Fair” supervised by faculty veterinarians and implemented by the students. The fair provides physical examinations, core vaccinations, parasiticide treatments and basic health management to companion animals, as well as consultation regarding herd health (goats, rabbits) management. Although the tribal community has access to local veterinary services, they are largely unused for reasons ranging from financial to cultural. Large animal, goat-herd care is altogether lacking. The community enthusiastically supported and prepared for our planned activities. However, barriers preventing the 2014 visit included the need for administrative assurances and avoidance of political embroilment with skeptical local practitioners.

Meghan Durboraw, Kaylee McCormack, Ruth Dismukes, and Suzanne Hunter “Honors Congress: Engagement Outside of the Classroom” The Honors Congress has 3 pillars: education, social and community service. The Honors Congress has adopted the Lee County Human Society as their philanthropy within the local community. The Honors Congress invited their 400 student members to bring old t-shirts and come together for an evening of making dog toys. By making dog toys out of old t-shirts, Congress students were able to recycle unwanted clothes and give them to an animal that needs a toy in their life. Congress made over 100 for the dogs of the Lee County Human Society and the event was so successful that they will continue this philanthropy event every semester. Giving back to the community through the Human Society is just one of the ways the Honors Congress is making an impact on Auburn University and the surrounding area. Kaylee McCormack and Sarah Crim “Honors Serves” Honors Serves is an organization made up of students from the Honors College that seek to give back to the community through initiatives that promote the academic success and personal growth of students within the community. The organization has several ongoing partnerships with local high-schools as well as Auburn’s public library to provide PSAT/ACT/SAT tutoring to students who may not otherwise be able to take afford a test-prep course. These semester-long programs are all studentdesigned and student-led by volunteers. The involved Auburn students used their past understanding and involvement in testprep courses to create a program directed at high-school juniors and seniors. They prepare for a scheduled exam date, with the primary target being improved scores to promote expanded collegiate opportunities for the students.

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Dr. Mae Jemison Extraordinary Women Lecture - Ballroom A

AUBURN UNIVERSITY OUTREACH TUSKEGEE AUBURN WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE SYMPOSIUM

2016 Competitive Outreach Scholarship Grant Recipients Bridging the Gap: Developing and Implementing a Culturally-Relevant Model to Address Mental Health Care Needs among African American Children in Macon County Steven K. Shapiro and Amanda Chakawa College of Liberal Arts (Psychology) Translational Cancer Genetics Research Provides Telegentic Counseling Through VideoConferencing to Underserved and At-Risk Individuals in Rural Alabama Nancy Merner, Meagan Farmer, Warren Smedley, Michael Smith, and Jatunn Gibson Harrison School of Pharmacy (Drug Discovery and Development), UAB School of Medicine (Genetics, Comprehensive Cancer Center/Service Line), ADPH Division of Video Communication & Distance Learning, College of Human Science (Human Development and Family Studies) Promoting Environmental Education for K-5 Students From Under-Resourced School Districts in Rural Alabama James P. Shepard, Ms. Jennifer Lolly, and Melody Russell School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, College of Education (Curriculum and Teaching) Abilities Unlimited: A Summer Camp for Childrean and Youth with Developmental Disabilities Melissa Pangelinan, Sheri Brock, Danielle Wadsworth, and Alice M. Buchanan College of Education (School of Kinesiology) Growing O Grows: Engaging Alternative School Students in Research and Action about Food Security Hanna C. Baggett, Carey E. Andrezejewski, Sean A. Forbes, and Daniel Wells College of Education (Ed. Foundations, Leadership and Technology), College of Agriculture (Horticulture) Cultivating Community Based Research By and With LGBTQ Southerners of Color Kamden K. Strunk College of Education (Ed. Foundations, Leadership and Technology) Auburn University Brain Imaging Visiting Fellowship (AU Brain Camp) Jennifer L. Robinson and Jeffery Katz College of Liberal Arts (Psychology) Implementing Multidisciplinary Diabetes for Improved Patient Care Heather P. Whitley Harrison School of Pharmacy (Pharmacy Practice)

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Competitive Outreach Scholarship Grant Review Panel Brenda Allen Assistant Professor, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Barbara Baker Executive Director of the Women’s Leadership Institute, Professor, College of Liberal Arts LaKami Baker Managing Director, Lowder Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship Associate Professor, Raymond Harbert College of Business Mary Lou Ewald Director of Outreach, College of Science and Mathematics Christine Fleming Director, Center for Disability Research and Service David Hinson Professor and Head, School of Architecture Jennifer Kerpelman Associate Dean, College of Human Sciences Scott Kramer Endowed Professor, McWhorter School of Building Science, College of Architecture, Design and Construction Francine Parker Interim Associate Dean and Professor, School of Nursing David Riese Associate Dean, School of Pharmacy Chris Rodger Professor, College of Science and Mathematics Jared Russell Director of Student Development, College of Education Associate Professor, School of Kinesiology Peggy Shippen SERC Department Graduate Program Officer and Professor, College of Education Cheryl Seals Associate Professor, CSSE, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering

Giovanna Summerfield Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts Chippewa M. Thomas Director of Faculty Engagement, University Outreach Associate Professor, SERC Department, College of Education

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Upcoming Conferences

The Academy for Civic Engagement (ACE) at Auburn University is a three-day workshop for faculty who are interested in incorporating civic engagement/service learning practices into their courses, outreach scholarship, and P & T documentation. Sessions at the academy will explore and uncompact the topics of civic engagement, civic professionalism, service learning, outreach and their impact on research, teaching, and practice. Date: ACE will take place at Auburn University in Auburn, AL, May 10-12, 2016. Schedule: The Academy will include an invigorating schedule of workshops, site visits, and speakers, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Amy Koritz, Center for Civic Engagement, Drew University. Cost: Early bird special: If applications are received by February 1, 2016, the fee will be $900. After February 1, the fee will be $1,100 per participant. Multiple registrants from the same institution are eligible for a discounted fee. Credits: Certificates issued by the AU College of Liberal Arts and CEUs upon request. Application Deadline: February 26, 2016. Contact: Dr. Brigitta Brunner (brunnbr@auburn.edu) and Dr. Giovanna Summerfield (summegi@auburn.edu) http://www.cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/ace/

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ESC 2016 MEETING

Welcome to the 17th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium Visioning the Future of Engaged Scholarship Hosted by the North Central region The Engagement Scholarship Consortium journey continues in Omaha, Nebraska

IMPORTANT DATES: • Preconference: Sunday, October 9, and Monday, October 10, 2016 • Conference: Tuesday, October 11, and Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Call for Proposals Now open! The deadline for proposal submissions is March 15, 2016. For more information (registrations and call for proposals): https://engagementscholarship.org/conference/esc-2016-meeting

Upcoming Conferences 2017 CONFERENCE PROPOSAL

hosted by Auburn University Outreach and the Southern Regional Institutions A SOUTHERN REGION INSTITUTION OF THE of the

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA PROPOSED CONFERENCE LOCATION: BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA SEPTEMBER 23-27, 2017 SEPTEMBER 23 – 27, 2017

2017 Engagement Scholarship Conference Auburn University Proposal Office of the Vice President for University Outreach

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THANKS the sponsors of the Mae Jemison Extraordinary Women Lecture: February 17, 2016 • 4:00pm The Hotel at Auburn University & Dixon Conference Center

Access and Community Initiatives College of Education College of Liberal Arts College of Veterinary Medicine Department of English Department of History Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Auburn University Outreach Women’s Leadership Institute Africana Studies Program College of Sciences and Mathematics Community and Civic Engagement Department of Music Multicultural Center The Leahy Family/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Women’s Studies Program Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Masters of Public Administration Program School of Nursing

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