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Rutgers' core mission is to serve the public good and future of New Jersey. The University can enhance its overall mission of advancing and transmitting knowledge by active engagement in public scholarship, service learning and existing disciplinary programming recognizing the synergy between teaching, research, and service.
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StAFF
The Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships Program is located at:
191 College Ave,
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
phone: 732-932-8660
fax: 732-932-1207
• Dr. Maurice Elias (http://www.psychology.rutgers.edu/people/elias.html)
Director
rutgersmje@aol.com
• Amy Michael
Senior Program Administrator
amymic@rci.rutgers.edu
• Richard Rodriguez
Service Learning Research Coordinator
rdr30@rci.rutgers.edu
• Stella Baldev
Principal Secretary
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HISTORY TIMELINE
Rutgers University President Edward J. Bloustein in 1988 proposed that community service be an integral component of a liberal education; The Board of Governors endorsed the idea and Rutgers University dedicated itself to citizenship, service, and diversity. Over the years Michael Shafer, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers led the program combining an academically rigorous curriculum with a strong service ethic. Under his directorship and administrative leadership of Yvette Murry, the CASE program helped over 15,000 students to deepen their classroom learning by serving in over 400 health-related, community, governmental, and educational non-profit organizations. Through the program, students provided over 780,000 hours of service to the people of New Jersey valued at over $5 million dollars. The program received several awards over the years including the President Clinton Service Award bestowed by the President on his visit to Rutgers in 1993 and more recently the program received a special recognition award from the American Red Cross for its First Responder Directories which aided its efforts during the flooding caused by the 2007 Nor'easter.
• 2007: The CASE Program is transitioned and renamed the Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships program and Dr. Maurice Elias, Rutgers Professor of the psychology department is named academic director of the program.
• 2007: American Red Cross awards the CASE program for the statewide dissemination of First Responder Directories which aided its efforts during the flooding caused by the 2007 Nor’easter.
• 2006: Committee on Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship co-chaired by Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships Isabel Nazario and Dr. Jerome Kukor was convened to align service learning with the goals of Transforming Undergraduate Education Report.
• 2004: CASE partners with Rutgers University Dining Services and Alumni Relations to bring Molto Mario of the Food Network to participate in a fundraiser for Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen.
• 2004: CASE partners with Rutgers University Center for American Women & Politics to bring Carol Moseley Braun to speak at Rutgers University
• 2004: The first annual CASE Service Awards are held at Winants Hall recognizing Director Dr. D. Michael Shafer, three faculty and three community partners (hyperlink to article).
• 2004: Rutgers President Richard McCormick once again publicly renews the commitment of Rutgers University to service to the people of New Jersey through the establishment of a faculty award for service excellence.
• 2004: New Jersey First Responders Directory puts the non-emergency contact information for any and every police, fire, EMS squad and hospital in New Jersey just one click away, is launched.
• 2003: $4 million of service is rendered to the New Jersey community, bringing the total to more than 730,000 hours of service.
• 2002: Hosts the first annual Public Relations Institute for non-profits at Rutgers.
• 2001: Redbook is launched: an interactive site for service-learning at Rutgers University.
• 2000: $3 million of service is rendered to the New Jersey community.
• 2000: Mayor Sharpe James and the city of Newark, NJ declares April 11, 2000 "njserves.org Day
• 1999: New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman recognizes njserves.org as "New Jersey's largest comprehensive source of information about civic and service organizations".
• 1998: $2.6 million of service is rendered to the New Jersey community.
• 1998: njserves.org: New Jersey's one-stop shop for civic sector information and connectivity is launched.
• 1997: CASE opens in Rutgers Newark.
• 1995: CASE is selected as an AmeriCorps service site; 70 CASE classes are offered, more than 2000 service-learning students.
• 1994: Michael Shafer, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers is named director of the CASE Program. Under his leadership the CASE program offers its first Community Partner Conference.
• 1993: President William Clinton visits Rutgers University to recognize the CASE program as a model for all colleges and universities across the nation.
• 1989: Community Service House is opened, offering an opportunity for students to share their community service ideas and passions.
• 1988: Rutgers University President Edward J. Bloustein proposes community service as an integral component of a liberal education; The Board of Governors endorses this idea and Rutgers University dedicates itself to citizenship, service, and diversity.
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FACULTY SERVICE FELLOWs
José Camacho Associate Professor
Department Chair-Spanish & Portuguese
Carpender Hall 303, Douglass Campus
Phone: (732) 932-9412 x 32
E-mail: jcamacho@rutgers.edu
M.A., Ph.D. University of Southern California. Professor Camacho's research covers theoretical syntax and second language acquisition/contact. He currently has projects on the syntax of Spanish and Pano languages (spoken in Peru and Bolivia), with particular emphasis on null subjects, switch-reference and evidentiality. He is also working on a project on the acquisition of idiomatic expressions and the representation of null subjects in Spanish in contact with Shibipo.
Maurice J. Elias, Professor
Psychology Department
E-mail: RutgersMJE@AOL.COM.
Academic Director of Rutgers Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships program, Coordinator of the Internship Progam in Applied, School, and Community Psychology, President of the international Society for Community Research and Action and Division of Community Psychology (27) of the American Psychological Association, Director of the Rutgers Social -Emotional Learning Lab and the Developing Safe and Civil Schools (DSACS) prevention initiative ( www.rci.rutgers.edu/~melias/ ), and Founding Member of the Leadership Team for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (www.CASEL.org). Among his writings are Emotionally Intelligent Parenting (2000), Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers (2002), Engaging the Resistant Child Through Computers (2002, author), the Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving Curricula for Elementary and Middle School Students (2006, www.researchpress.com), Bullying, Peer Harassment,and Victimization in the Schools: The Next Generation of Prevention (Haworth, 2003), The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom (Corwin Press, 2006), and Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Character, and Resilience (2008, Hamilton Books). Dr. Elias is a licensed psychologist, an approved provider of professional development for educators in NJ (#697), and is married and the father of two children.
Daniel Goldstein, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Office: RAB 303, Douglass Campus
Phone: (732) 932-9887
E-mail: dgoldstein@anthropology.rutgers.edu
Dr. Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Latin American Studies program at Rutgers University. Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1997, where his dissertation research was funded by awards from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Fulbright IIE. While an Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, Goldstein received a Grant for Research and Writing from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a Richard Carley Hunt fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, which he used to complete his work on the book The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, published by Duke University Press in 2004. Goldstein joined the Anthropology Department at Rutgers in 2005.
A political and legal anthropologist, Dr. Goldstein studies the effects of political democratization, economic globalization, and the law on poor, indigenous residents of a Bolivian city, exploring the often unintended consequences of global processes for the daily lives of these people. Currently, his work focuses on problems of insecurity for urban residents and market vendors in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and the impacts of crime and violence on local lives and livelihoods. This research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, programs in Cultural Anthropology and Law and Social Science. Goldstein is the co-editor (with Desmond Arias) of a collection titled Violent Democracies in Latin America, forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Peter J. Guarnaccia, Professor
Professor, Department of Human Ecology
Investigator, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging
Research Cook Office Building, Cook College
Phone: (732) 932-9153 x312
E-mail: guarnaccia@aesop.rutgers.edu
Peter Guarnaccia (Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, Connecticut, 1984) is Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and Investigator at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. His research interests include cross-cultural patterns of psychiatric disorders, family strategies for coping with mental illness, and cultural competence in mental health organizations. He was a member of the NIMH Task Force on Culture and Diagnosis which contributed cultural material and guidelines to DSM-IV. He was also a member of the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council's Behavioral Science Workgroup recommending future directions for translating behavioral sciences research into public mental health outcomes. His current research examines mental health among Latino individuals in the U.S. and in Puerto Rico as part of the National Latino and Asian American (NLAAS) mental health study funded by National Institute of Mental Health. He recently published "Are Ataques de Nervios in Puerto Rican Children Associated with Psychiatric Disorder?? in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2005, with I. Martinez Pincay, G. Canino & R. Ramirez). He is past Co-Editor-in-Chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.
Ellen Idler, Professor I
Department of Sociology
Office: Lucy Stone Hall, A334, Livingston Campus
Phone: 732-445-6109
E-mail: idler@rci.rutgers.edu
Ellen Idler (Ph.D., Yale, 1985), is currently Acting Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the department of Sociology and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. She maintains a research program on the impact of health perceptions on mortality and disability in middle-aged and elderly populations and has broader interests in the psychosocial resources that determine health status, including a special interest in religion. She received the FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education in 1998 and the Citizenship and Service Education Faculty Award in 2004. She is a collaborator with other Rutgers and UMDNJ investigators on two current NIH-funded projects, one a study of religiousness and spirituality as factors in recovery from open-heart surgery, and the other a five-year Mind-Body Center where she is involved in projects on end of life decision-making, and a second project on health perceptions and illness representations in primary care. She is a Fellow and current Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America, a 2007-08 Fellow of the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis.
Angela O'Donnell, Professor
Department: Educational Psychology
Office: Grad Sch of Ed, Rm 325
Phone: (732) 932-7496 ext. 8317
Email: angelao@rci.rutgers.edu
My research interests include cooperative and collaborative learning, text processing, and learning strategies. I am interested in understanding the conditions in which students learn best from one another. My research focuses on how and what students learn from one another and what teachers can do to support this kind of learning.
Joanna Regulska, Professor I
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Dean of International Programs, School of Arts and Sciences
77 Hamilton Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: (732) 932-1675
E-mail: regulska@rci.rutgers.edu
Joanna Regulska is a Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, and Geography. She is currently serving as the Dean of International Programs, School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers. She is the founder and director, since 1989, of the Local Democracy Partnership (formerly Local Democracy in Poland) Program. In 1996-98 she was a co-director of the Program on Gender and Culture at the Central European University, Budapest. Most of her research and teaching concentrates on women's agency, political activism, grassroots mobilization and construction of women's political spaces. She has also conducted extensive work on the impacts of political and economic restructuring on the process of democratization, citizens' participation and decentralization in central and eastern Europe. Her current NSF funded project focuses on the livelihood strategies and everyday practices of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Georgia. Dr. Regulska has published over 90 articles, chapters and reports and have presented over 100 papers at national and international meetings of learned societies. She is an author and co-author of five books, most recently Women and Citizenship in Central and East Europe with Jasmina Lukic and Darja Zavirsek, (Ashgate Publisher, UK 2006). Her co-authored volume (in Polish) Cooperation or Conflict: State, Union and Women is forthcoming form the Wydawnictwa Profesjonalne i Akademickie, Warsaw, Poland. She is working on two other collaborative book manuscripts: Shaping Women's Agenda and Public Discourses in the Enlarged Europe and with B. Smith, Reinventing Gender of Europe. For her contributions to the development of local democracy, local government reform and empowerment of citizens, in particular women, she has been awarded, by the President of Poland, in 2004 the Knight Cross of the Order of Restitution of the Republic of Poland and in 1996 The Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In 1996, she received also the Presidential Award for the Distinguished Public Service from the President of the Rutgers University.
Keith A Wailoo, Professor
Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History, Department of History
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Phone: (732) 932-8419
E-mail: kwailoo@ifh.rutgers.edu
Keith Wailoo (Ph.D. 1992, University of Pennsylvania) joined the Rutgers faculty in July 2001 as Professor of History jointly appointed to the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. He was named the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History in 2006. Previously, he spent nine years on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of several books examining how patterns of disease change over time in America, and focusing especially on the ways in which scientific and technological understandings have interacted with health care politics, racial and ethnic relations, and cultural politics to inform responses to disease in the 20th century and into the 21st century.
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