Center for Community Action and Research Annual Report: 2018-2019
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1. Pace students taking a break from preparing meals at God’s Love We Deliver, a Manhattan nonprofit. 2. Student Development and Campus Activities staff member Erika Schmidt (L) stocking supplies for the Pace University and Feeding Westchester Mobile Food Pantry partnership. 3. Students traded their swimsuits for paint suits on the Alternative Spring Break trip in March 2019. 4. Gardens in NYC? Students find a bit of green space helping New Roots to prepare community gardens for refugees. 5. CCAR Pleasantville student staff member Shaniya Francis '24 (bottom row, second from right) leads student volunteers at a Rockefeller State Park trail clean-up.
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Welcome to the Center for Community Action and Research
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Stepping toward Success, through Active Citizenship
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Spotlight on Civic Engagement
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Pace Votes and Vote Everywhere Pace Students in Service Addressing Food Insecurity Pace Students against Gun Violence
Alternative Spring Break Campus and Community Impact Awards and Recognitions Jefferson Awards for Public Service Project Pericles Civic Engagement and Public Values Faculty Fellowship Grants National Periclean Faculty Leaders Program
Focus on FACES By the Numbers
2018-2019 Metrics Civic Engagement Courses by the Numbers
Civic Engagement and Public Values Courses A Glimpse into Research Initiatives
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2018-2019 CCAR Staff Members CCAR Affiliations www.pace.edu/ccar
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Welcome to the Center for Community Action and Research
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Since 1991, the Center for Community Action and Research (CCAR) has supported civic engagement, social responsibility, and reciprocal partnerships with the community, resulting in enriched learning for positive change. Housed within the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, the CCAR’s mission is to enrich the educational experiences of students, faculty, and staff in a manner that is consistent with Pace’s mission to cultivate tomorrow’s leaders and citizens for active participation in the larger life of their communities, the nation, and the world.
Civic Engagement at Pace University
CCAR student-staff members Karen Soliz '21 (L) and Kadijatu Shaw '22 (R) spreading the word about the Center
A national leader in community outreach and civic engagement as a strategic priority, Pace is currently home to dozens of programs and projects committed to addressing community needs. The University is a founding institution of New York State Campus Compact and Project Pericles and has made a significant academic commitment with the Civic Engagement and Public Values undergraduate requirement in the core curriculum.
Pace University President Marvin Krislov (center) celebrates the kickoff of the Mobile Food Pantry with Feeding Westchester
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CCAR: 2018-2019 Annual Report
Areas of Focus Present service and civic engagement events that provide opportunities for the Pace community to actively engage with timely issues and practice active citizenship through community service, civic action, and social activism.
Facilitate lectures, round table discussions, and skills development workshops on issues of social importance.
Create and implement opportunities for student leadership and mentoring through substantive student-staff positions, task-based committees, and programming. Provide infrastructure needed for the development, support, and assessment of Pace’s Civic Engagement (CE) course requirement. CE courses at Pace are three to six credit courses that utilize the pedagogy of community-based learning, are rooted in a discipline, apply material to real-world community issues, and reflect upon the notion of citizenship. The CCAR supports faculty collaboration with community organizations, assists students in finding service placements, and connects community partners with Pace students.
Facilitate and conduct research to further our knowledge of topics related to civic engagement and social justice.
Coordinate national service and civic engagement initiatives including Project Pericles, the Andrew Goodman Foundation’s Vote Everywhere program, the Jefferson Awards, and the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement.
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Stepping toward Success, through Active Citizenship The CCAR supports students who seek to incorporate service and civic opportunities into their education. Here are two examples of how current students are doing just that.
Kamari Stewart
Digital Journalism '19
Summer 2018
Kamari wins an Undergraduate Faculty Research grant with Heather Novak and Tyler Kalahar. In conjunction with Volunteer New York!, CCAR, and the Michaelian Institute, she conducts a study on the capacity of volunteers in Summer 2018 Westchester County and presents Kamari is offered a Faculty her findings at the Student Assistants for Civic Engagement Success Undergraduate (FACES) grant by Professor Heather Research Day. Novak to work as a teaching assistant
for POL 110: Leadership and Advocacy. In this position, Kamari mentors students through the process of finding Fall 2017 a community partner and Kamari enrolls in helps track student service POL 110: Leadership and hours spent in Advocacy. As required by the the community. course, she applies for a civic engagement internship with the CCAR. Here, she focuses on registering voters and rallying against gun violence.
Laurianne Gutierrez Political Science '20
Spring 2018
As part of their submission Spring 2018 to the Project Pericles Letter In response to the mass to an Elected Official competition, shooting at Marjory Laurianne and David coauthor a Stoneman Douglas High School letter to Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) in Parkland, Florida, the CCAR urging him to repeal the Dickey Amendment, creates several educational programs Spring 2018 which effectively prevents the Centers for around the issue of gun violence. Along with CCAR studentDisease Control from funding gun Laurianne attends these staff member, David Le ’19, violence research. The project is events and comes to she helps coordinate a Take one of five to receive funding the CCAR looking Action! In Support of Extreme to create a campaign to do more. Risk Protection Orders, which to engage their peers. establishes a court process in New York for removing firearms from individuals who pose a serious threat.
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Kamari continues to hold the FACES position for Professor Novak’s POL 110 course.
This semester, Kamari holds two FACES teaching assistantships. The first is with Dr. Julia Eisenberg, where she Fall 2018 supports the professor and students Kamari works with of MGT 366: Leadership Principles the Residence Hall and Practices. The second is, Association on a monthonce again, for Professor long supply drive for afterNovak’s POL 110 course. school programs at Lifting Up Westchester.
Outside of the CCAR, Kamari has also interned at the Brennan Center and VH1 Save the Music. She is a fellow of the Emma Bowen Foundation, an organization that places promising students of color in multi-year paid internships at some of the nation's leading media, public relations, and technology companies.
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Laurianne, with the support of the CCAR, starts Pace Students Against Gun Violence (PSAGV). She holds informational sessions and recruits Pace affiliates to take Spring 2019 Fall 2018 action and sign petitions Laurianne and Laurianne is hired sent to New York PSAGV collect over as the CCAR’s Student government officials. 1,000 petition signatures Projects Coordinator. that they deliver to the She plays an important offices of key lawrole in recruiting for and Fall 2018 makers via Spring 2018 implementing CCAR Laurianne helps lobby visits. Laurianne is programs on the organize the CCAR’s selected to represent NYC campus. service trip to God’s Love Pace at Project Pericles We Deliver, where she and National Debating for other volunteers prepare Democracy meals for those unable Conference. to prepare meals for themselves.
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SPOTLIGHT ON
Civic Engagement
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Pace Votes and Vote Everywhere
Pace Students in Service
Voter registration, education and engagement has become a staple of the Center’s work—not just during a presidential election, but every year. With generous support from the Andrew Goodman Foundation, Vote Everywhere Ambassadors Kealy Costigan '20 and Cecilia Smith '22 registered and trained more than 400 students last year on the New York Campus.
Each year, the Center works with our students and community to plan direct service group experiences for the Pace community. These service projects give students the chance to learn more about the organizations in our community, the community’s needs, and post-event involvement within those organizations. Over the last year, the Center sponsored 17 community service projects, such as: Rebuilding homes that were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy Packing food for distribution by a local food pantry Removing invasive vines at a nearby park Painting murals and organizing classrooms at a New York City elementary school
The Pace Political Action Team in Pleasantville, led by Alexis Curcio '19 and Florence Lubash '22, trained student leaders to register others to vote; supported correct completion of registration forms and absentee ballots; co-sponsored a visit from filmmaker Christina Woodhouse, who debuted and discussed One Vote, her documentary on voter engagement; and provided transportation to the polls on election day.
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Prepping a neighborhood garden that serves a refugee community in the South Bronx
CCAR: 2018-2019 Annual Report
The Center for Community Action and Research supports students as they participate in the larger community by
empowering them to engage in issues that are important to them.
Whether it is through community service projects, advocacy opportunities, or educational workshops and trainings,
the Center provides a pathway for Pace students to explore and address the obstacles facing our communities.
Addressing Food Insecurity
Pace Students against Gun Violence
The Center for Community Action and Research collaborated with campus partners Student Development and Campus Activities, Multicultural Affairs, student researcher Fatima Majors '20, the campus radio station, WPAW, the Setters Leadership Program, and community partners including Feeding Westchester, to address this issue of food insecurity on the Pace campuses.
In fall 2018, Laurianne Gutierrez '21 founded Pace Students against Gun Violence (PSAGV) with the support of the CCAR. The goal of PSAGV was to build a coalition of students to take action to repeal the Dickey Amendment, an amendment that effectively limits government funding of research on gun violence in the US.
In Pleasantville, the University's first-ever mobile food pantry was made available to eligible Pace students, staff, and community members. Preparations are in progress for a brick-and-mortar pantry on the New York City campus, scheduled to open in fall 2019.
After holding student information sessions in the spring and fall of 2018, Laurianne and fellow PSAGV students Kealy Costigan '20, Selini Drakos '20, Tyra Hemans '22, Duke Huang '20, Devyn Reidy '22, David Tang '19, and Erin Wilson '21 collected over 1,000 petition signatures and met with the offices of New York Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Charles Schumer (D-NY), urging them to take action. Student organizations including the Peace and Justice Club, He for She, and Vote Everywhere sponsored and staffed tabling events to gather signatures.
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Alternative Spring Break Sixteen students traveled to Ocean County, New Jersey for Pace’s Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program. Although Superstorm Sandy struck more than six years ago, those hardest hit have struggled to rebuild, and many families have not yet returned home. The public eye has turned, but Pace University has made a commitment to disaster response, returning for the sixth year to help rebuild homes flooded by Sandy.
Students on Alternative Spring Break 2019 Front row: (from L to R) Julianne Marder, Ashley Alahakoon (Graduate Student Supervisor), Emily Harnarain, Noelani Rivera, Wa Mau Chin, Alex Agbulos, Jaida-Lee Colley, Karen Soliz, Blake Yarak. Back row: Breana Battles, Tyler Kalahar (Program Coordinator), Kristina Parise, Brett Dalrymple, Jackie Fleury, Sandra Yang, Madeline Florio, Rachael Summers, Samantha Ericson
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While working on the house with my fellow college students and teammates, I started to think deeper about certain aspects of life ... This trip reminded me that there are people that still need help. They’re not getting the help they need. - Jaida-Lee Colley '22
Students participating in the ASB program painted walls, mudded dry wall, tiled floors, and more. In addition to physical work, each day included discussions, videos, and presentations on a particular theme: disaster recovery, race and class, climate change, and disaster response. They were then assigned to reflect on that day’s theme and write a post for the CCAR blog.
Alumni Reflection
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Tyler Rodriguez '19 ASB Volunteer 2016
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Participating students were also required to implement a post-trip project. The goal of these projects was to bring the ASB experience back to Pace and their fellow students. Projects included organizing a return service trip, presenting to clubs and student organizations about the program, and writing letters to elected officials relating their experiences and urging additional support.
In the pursuit of knowing the [long-lasting effect a disaster can have on a community], every detail should not be overlooked, every encounter valuable, and every connection made incredible as each gives me an incredible view on understanding a disaster. - Blake Yarak '21
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ASB has become one of the highlights of my college life. Not only did it make me more aware of how much extra help a community may need after a huge disaster, but it helped motivate me to give a hand and participate in community service activities whenever I’m able to.
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Campus and Community Impact Attendance for CCAR Events
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Student Service Hours by Topic
Service Events
Hunger and Food Insecurity
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Children
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Environment and Climate Change
Total Students
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Disaster Relief
Education Events
Education
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2018-19 Financial Support for Civic Engagement and Public Values Faculty
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21 students were employed by the CCAR during the 2018-19 academic year. These students worked to implement the CCAR's civic engagement and social justice programming, assisted faculty in their Civic Engagement and Public Values courses, and more.
Events by Topic Gun Violence
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Working with the Differently Abled First Generation Students Combating Racism
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Total Events
LGBTQ+ Issues Helping Underserved Children Environment and Climate Change
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Refugees and Immigration Hunger and Food Insecurity
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Awards and Recognitions
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2018-19 Jefferson Awards for Public Service Each year, the Jefferson Awards for Public Service looks for the unsung heroes who make the world a better place through selfless volunteering and community service efforts. Twelve members of the Pace University community were recognized with Jefferson Awards for Public Service Bronze medals for 2018-19. 2018-19 Bronze Medal Winners: Nicolette Carbonetto Elementary Education '20 Nicolette has a passion for serving young people in her home town of Toms River, New Jersey. She has been a volunteer in the long-term care unit at Children’s Specialized Hospital, and at her local library, and she has continued her work while here at Pace with the nonprofit organization Read Ahead.
Marie Lourdes Charles EdD, RN, College of Health Professions Marie has nearly a decade of experience as a volunteer and board member for AHRC New York, an organization that supports individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. She is also dedicated to serving the people of Haiti, traveling there more than 15 times to organize and participate in mobile clinics that have served over 1,000 patients daily over the past 6 years.
Jane Collins Associate Professor of English, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Cariel Clarke Childhood Education '20 Cariel’s early experiences with educating others about environmental conservation inspires her service. While at Pace, Cariel has volunteered with Teatown Lake Reservation, the Westchester Parks Foundation, and the Greenburg Nature Center, while also serving as the Service Vice President for the Eta Tau chapter of the Gamma Sigma Sigma national service sorority.
Jane has a consistent record of creating educational experiences that engage students both in the classroom and in the community. She has created five service-learning courses for Pace in Pleasantville and directs Dyson College’s Dyson Scholars in Residence program, which provides educational opportunities through hands-on experiences blended with academics.
Vanessa J. Herman Government and Community Relations (GCR) In 2014, Vanessa led development of a partnership between GCR, the Seidenberg School of CSIS, and One Hundred Black Men of NYC’s Junior 100 Pathways to Success Program, serving at-risk high school juniors and seniors. She also provides volunteer public relations services to select charitable organizations as president and founder of Millennium Strategies Consulting.
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Caitlin E. Grand '12 Office of the Provost, Pace Path Since her mother was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2009, Caitlin has been an advocate for knowing your family’s health history and improving support for patients and their families through her work with Fight Colorectal Cancer, the Colon Cancer Foundation, and Michael’s Mission. She is also a longtime volunteer with TRIO Upward Bound at Pace, working to support first-generation, low-income students.
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Isabella Lupo Peace and Justice Studies '19
Fatimah Majors Applied Psychology and Human Relations '19 Fatimah’s work in researching food insecurity at Pace was instrumental in the creation of the University’s first mobile food pantry. In collaboration with the local nonprofit Feeding Westchester, the initiative debuted in fall 2018 and provides the community with fresh produce and promotes healthy living for academic success.
SPOTLIGHT
Through her volunteer work with the Spruce Street after-school program, Chatty Child, Read Ahead, and the Peck Slip School, Isabella discovered a career path focused on civic engagement. She also empowered NYC high school students to facilitate change in their communities through her work with Pace’s chapter of Generation Citizen, serving as a democracy coach and as president for one year.
Professor Grant Kretchik '02, associate director of the Pace School of Performing Arts and director and creator of the BFA Acting Program, was selected by the Jefferson Awards to represent Pace at the Multiplying Good Gala in Washington, DC. Along with his husband, Lance Williams, Kretchik coadministers The LanMar Fund, a charitable fund whose primary focus is advocating for and supporting endangered species and conservation projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Some of these projects include the Lion Recovery Fund (founding supporter), the Elephant Crisis Fund (founding supporter), WildAid, and the Wildlife Conservation Network.
Jessika Pietryka Information Systems, Lubin '20
Professor Kretchik at the Multiplying Good Gala in Washington, DC
Matt Renna Human Resources
Jessika has been volunteering since high school, informing her belief that we should treat others how we want to be treated. During the 2018-19 academic year, she was the Service Vice President for Gamma Sigma Sigma, the national service sorority, on the Pleasantville campus. She regularly volunteers more than 20 hours a semester with a range of organizations including Feeding Westchester, Teatown Lake Preservation, and Sunrise Senior Living.
Matt’s commitment to service is reflected in both his personal and professional life. In his role as vice president of human resources at Pace, he has championed fair pay policies and affordable healthcare and serves as a mentor to University students. Additionally, he has volunteered for several nonprofit organizations, including Feeding Westchester, Island Harvest, the Epilepsy Foundation, and Autism Speaks.
Connor Wills Applied Psychology and Human Relations '20 Connor has made a lifelong commitment to service, starting at the age of four with raising a seeing eye dog alongside family members. Since then, Connor has helped raise eight dogs and continues to volunteer regularly at senior centers, the Special Olympics, Pennridge Food Pantry, and other organizations. An active member of Pace’s community service sorority, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Connor spent more than 50 hours mentoring indigenous students in Australia while abroad.
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Awards and Recognitions are continued on the next page.
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Project Pericles Civic Engagement and Public Values Faculty Fellowship Grants Without Pace faculty developing civic engagement courses, the Civic Engagement and Public Values course requirement would not be possible. With generous support from the President’s Office, Project Pericles Civic Engagement and Public Values Faculty Fellowship Grants are awarded to faculty who are developing a new or retooled Civic Engagement and Public Values course. 2018-19 recipients of this award include:
Julia Eisenberg MGT 366: Leadership Principles and Practice
Melanie LaRosa MCA 397U: Multimedia Storytelling: Service Learning through Media Production Peter McDermott TCH 296FE/EDU 696E: Ecuador with a Cause: Service Learning and Cultural Program
Joanne Singleton CHP 270: Canines Assisting in Health
Sally Marik BIO 296C: Neurobiology of Alzheimer's Disease
National Periclean Faculty Leaders Program The National Periclean Faculty Leaders Program is a leadership and course development program dedicated to incorporating civil dialogue, civic engagement, and social responsibility across the undergraduate curriculum. As part of our national Project Pericles affiliation, Pace faculty are eligible to apply for this competitive national award. Each winning instructor is paired with a winner from another Project Pericles campus and receives financial support for the development of a civic engagement course. This year's winner is Melanie LaRosa, PhD, for her MCA 397U: Multimedia Storytelling: Service Learning through Media Production course.
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Focus on faculty assistants FACES (for civic engagement)
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For more than a decade, the Center for Community Action and Research has offered a limited number of stipends to support student assistants working for faculty members teaching Civic Engagement courses. These faculty/student pairings provide unique opportunities for students and faculty to work together on everything from tracking student service and providing mentoring and support in finding community partners to assisting with research.
2018-19 FACES Awards include: Inbal Abergil
Julia Eisenberg
Jessica Magaldi
Duke Huang '20
Kamari Stewart '19
Priscilla Omisore '19
ART 188: Art as a Vehicle of Social Commentary
MGT 366: Leadership and Management Principles
LAW 101: Business Law
Eric Kessler
Heather Novak
Kamari Stewart '19
Priscilla Omisore '19
MGT 380: Leadership Principles and Practice
Sophie Kaufman
Miranda Baldo '20
SOC 226: Community Service in New York City
POL 110: Leadership and Advocacy (Summer I 2018, Spring 2019)
Matthew Bolton
Susan Maxam
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Daniel Boudon
Michelle Boccia '21
CHP 180: Mindfulness and Cultural Intelligence
Emily Welty
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Duke Huang '20
INT 198S: Global Politics of Peace and Social Justice
Francis Bonenfant-Juwong
Carina Draper '19 Marla Teixiera '18 (Fall 2018)
PJS 101: Peace and Justice Studies
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Jessica Duque '19
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By the Numbers
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$1,439,796*
Total Dollar Value of Service to Community Partners (Includes CCAR service programming and Civic Engagement and Public Values courses)
Students per College/School Enrolled in CE Courses
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Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
2,142 Total Students
Section Numbers per Campus
New York Campus
529
112
Total Sections
Seidenberg School of CSIS
22 Online
31
Pleasantville Campus
School of Education
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Lubin School of Business
College of Health Professions
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Based on a valuation tool provided by Independent Sector
(Includes tabling and presentations promoting CCAR)
PLV TOTAL
Education Events Students Education Events Students
Education Events Students
76 2,807 54 611
130 3,418
NYC
(Workshops, presentations, and discussions promoting civic engagement)
Outreach Presentations
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TOTAL PLV
Outreach Metrics
NYC
Civic Education Metrics
Outreach Presentations
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Outreach Presentations
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Service Metrics (Community service projects sponsored by CCAR)
Enrollment Metrics
Sections Students Sections Students
Sections Students
31 631
NYC
Students
59 1,127
Students Community Service Hours Service Events
PLV
Sections
Education Events
Students
22 384
112 2,142
Community Service Hours
TOTAL
TOTAL ONLINE
PLV
NYC
(Civic Engagement and Public Values courses)
Service Events Students Community Service Hours
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6 82 528 11 578 2,540
17 660 3,068
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Civic Engagement and Public Values Courses Course Number and Title
2018 2019 Instructors
School of Education TCH 201: Education 1: Understanding Schools
Susan Altman Sharon Medow Shobana Musti Tanya Wiggins
TCH 296Z: Ecuador with a Cause
Tasha Darbes
Lubin School of Business LAW 101: Business Law I
Jessica Magaldi
MGT 208: Travel and Tourism Management
Andrew Coggins
MGT 366: Leadership Principles and Practice
Julia Eisenberg Eric Kessler
Seidenberg School of CSIS CIS 102Q: Problem Solving Using Lego Robotics
Pauline Mosley
CIS 102W: Web Design for Non-Profit Organizations
Peta-Gay Clarke Antonio De Azevedo Sodre Daniel Evans Iris Hershenson Keith Hockaday James Lawler Nathifa Lewis Pauline Mosley Wilfredo Pena Cynthia Penchina
CIS 102Y: Topic: Design Thinking and Innovation
Andreea Cotoranu James Lawler
COM 297Q: The Dark Side of Communication
Adam Klein
TS 105: Computers for Human Empowerment
Judith Bukofser Julia Nomee
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Course Number and Title
Instructors
College of Health Professions CHP 180: Mindfulness and Cultural Intelligence
Sophie Kaufman/Susan Maxam
CHP 270: Canines Assisting in Health
Joanne Singleton
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences ART 188: Art as a Vehicle of Social Commentary and Political Progress Inbal Abergil BIO 205: Concepts of Environmental Science
Joshua Schwartz
BIO 296C: Neurobiology of Alzheimer's
Sally Marik
CRJ 331: Strategies in Corrections Administration
Kimberly Collica-Cox
ECO 272: Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution
Walter Morris
ENG 223F: Writing about Cultures
Jane Collins
ENG 302: Composition Theory and Practice
Meaghan Brewer
ENV 201: Animals and Society
Tracy Basile
INT 198S: Global Politics of Peace and Social Justice
Matthew Bolton, Emily Welty
INT 200Q: Dyson Scholars in Residence Seminar
Jane Collins
INT 296W: Children in Urban Society
Yvonne Rafferty/Roger Salerno
INT 299J: Environmental Clinic I
John Cronin/Michelle Land
LAS 201: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the World
Daniel Greenberg/Kier Hanratty
PAGE 273: Theater of the Oppressed
Reginald Flowers
PJS 101: Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies
Francis Bonenfant-Juwong
POL 101: Leadership and Advocacy
Daniel Botting Heather Novak
POL 257: Latinx Politics in the U.S.
Aileen Cardona
POL 297L: Global Politics of Disarmament
Matthew Bolton
PSY 233: Psychology of Civic Engagement
Stacy Casden Elizabeth Colon Samantha Lee Amy Levin Elizabeth Tesoriero Christopher Walther
SOC 221: Juvenile Delinquency
Mario Astarita Daniel Boudon Jacques Hyzagi
SOC 226: Community Service in New York City
Daniel Boudon
WS 115C: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Marie Grynbal
WS 280: Internship in Women's and Gender Studies
Emily Bent
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A GLIMPSE INTO
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Research Initiatives
2019
In 2018-19, the Center for Community Action and Research named two student research fellows who undertook research initiatives connected to issues of civic engagement and social justice. Both were awarded a 2018-19 Undergraduate Research Grant from the Office of Student Success, worked with the CCAR staff to complete their projects, and presented their findings at the annual Undergraduate Research Day on their respective campuses.
College Students and Food Insecurity
Volunteerism in Westchester
Food insecurity is a major concern for many college students across the nation. The Center for Community Action and Research, working with student Fatimah Majors '20, Applied Psychology and Mental Health Counseling, received a grant to collect data on food insecurity and homelessness on the Pleasantville campus. The data is being used internally to help make policy decisions regarding how to best tackle food insecurity among Pace students. It has already been instrumental in the creation of the University’s first mobile food pantry, which debuted in fall 2018 in collaboration with the nonprofit Feeding Westchester.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, New York state ranks 49th in the country for volunteer engagement. To gain an understanding of the nature of the need in Westchester County, data was collected in coordination with the Center for Community Action and Research, the Edwin G. Michaelian Institute for Public Policy and Management, and Volunteer New York! to ascertain if the reported needs of nonprofits were being met. Kamari Stewart '19, Digital Journalism, assisted with the data collection and the production of the report given to Volunteer New York!
“Joining the Center for Community Action and Research was one of the greatest decisions I've ever made. I was able to work with an amazing team and push myself to new limits to acquire new skills and knowledge.”
“This was the first research project I’ve ever worked on, and it was an experience that I’ll carry with me for a long time. Working with the Center on this project, I had the opportunity to contribute to, what I feel, is very important research for our community.”
Fatimah Majors '20
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Kamari Stewart '19
CCAR Staff Members
Mary Ann Murphy, PhD Director
Heather Novak, MPA Associate Director Pleasantville Campus
Daniel Botting, MPA Associate Director New York Campus
Tyler Kalahar, MA Program Coordinator Pleasantville Campus
Student Staff Team (New York) Kealy Costigan Childhood Education '20 Vote Everywhere Ambassador
Carina Draper Peace and Justice Studies, Political Science '19 Vote Everywhere Student Projects Coordinator
Laurianne Gutierrez Political Science '21 Student Projects Coordinator
Cecilia Smith Undeclared '22 Vote Everywhere Ambassador
Breonna Taylor Communication Studies '20 Student Outreach Coordinator
Marla Teixeira Peace and Justice Studies '18 Vote Everywhere Ambassador
Shaniya Francis Political Science '23 Student Outreach Coordinator
Kadijatu Shaw Marketing '22 Student Marketing Coordinator
Karen Soliz Political Science '21 Student Projects Coordinator
Student Staff Team (Pleasantville)
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1. Students at the CCAR cosponsored Advocacy Fair showing off their tabling props. 2. CCAR Staff Karen Soliz and Kadijatu Shaw registering volunteers at Feeding Westchester’s Miles for Meals. 3. Thumbs up! Nothing matches the excitement of finally filling your bucket with weeds as you help prepare a garden plot for refugees settled in the Bronx by the International Rescue Committee. 4. Pace students assembling meal packages for the hungry with New York Common Pantry. 5. Pleasantville Program Coordinator Tyler Kalahar celebrating the end of a successful year with student staff, volunteers, and university partners.
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