http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/ Allegheny Serivce Network is a student-run umbrella organization focused on bringing service leaders together to meet real community needs. The organization seeks representatives from all groups on campus that are involved in service programs and events; all student groups doing service are encouraged to have a voice. ASN adds organization to the service movement by providing a place where students can ask for help with service projects and can bring up concerns. Allegheny Service Network is an organization who serves to unite people interested in service with service leaders, and service opportunities. Our goal is to create a unified network of individuals and groups that can together create a stronger community. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:48:24 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Everyone on campus is invited to come have a discussion about service! Student organizations, service leaders, and college staff will be present to socialize, and network. Come meet new people and learn about exciting opprotunties in service!!! Date: Thursday December 4th Time: 6:30PM - 8:00PM Location: Reis Hall Rotunda For more information, or if you have questions please contact Janine N. Grant at clearing@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/allservice_meet_greet.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/allservice_meet_greet.html Service Opprotunities Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:48:24 -0500 Overview: The Davies Community Service Leader will work in the community agency on the research, management or service project agreed on between the agency and the Allegheny College Center for Experiential Learning (ACCEL). The student is expected to complete 300 hours of service over a seven or eight week period. The schedule of weeks and breakdown of hours is to be determined in collaboration with the on-site supervisor. In addition the Davies Leader is expected to meet with the other Davies Community Service Leaders and ACCEL staff on a regular basis. One-on-one meeting with on campus supervisors will be scheduled every other week while involved in the program. Contact: Jessica Zinz http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/davies_service_leaders.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/davies_service_leaders.html Student Organizations Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:46:13 -0500 Overview: The Bonner Leader Program is a campus-based student service program partnered with more than 30 Meadville social service organizations to address education, human needs, public safety, and the environment. Bonner Program students also participate in regular training and enrichment opportunities focusing on issues of social justice, civic engagement, diversity, spiritual exploration, international perspective and community building. We are currently accepting applications for Summer and Fall start positions. Contact: Jamie Williams at jwilliam@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/bonner_program.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/bonner_program.html Student Organizations Bonner Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:42:49 -0500 Name: Ashely Brandebura Position: President Organization: Peace Coalition Contact: brandeba@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/ashely_brandebura.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/ashely_brandebura.html Student Contacts Coailtion Peace Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:40:28 -0500 Overview: Above all else, we, the members of Allegheny College's Habitat for Humanity aim to adhere to the idea of being a good neighbor to the community of which we are a part. In doing so we will fulfill the three main functions of a Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter which includes educating the campus and community about housing issues, providing labor for work projects, and raising money for our local affiliate. In accomplishing these tasks we can help those in need in the surrounding areas and provide opportunities for students to work together with each other and members of the Meadville community in an educational and fun atmosphere. Contact: Ashely Brandebura at brandeba@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/peace_coalition.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/peace_coalition.html Student Organizations ACPC Coailtion Peace Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:38:39 -0500 The Collegiate Leadership Conference is a well-established leadership development experience for upperclass students. Recognizing the opportunity to capture students early in their careers at Allegheny, the Emerging Leaders Retreat was created in 1999. It has become a crucial piece of the leadership program and an excellent stepping-stone for first year students to get connected into the greater Allegheny community. The overnight retreat takes place at an off site location prior to the start of Spring Semester each January. Topics of discussion include exploring sense of self, introduction to leadership theories including the Servant Leadership and Social Change models of leadership, and skills development programs. Contact: David Roncolato at droncola@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/emerging_leaders_retreat.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/emerging_leaders_retreat.html Training Opprotunities Emerging Leaders Retreat Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:35:39 -0500 Overview: The Service-Learning Challenge (SLC) is a student-led movement at Allegheny College that brings students and faculty together to work toward integrating service-learning into course throughout the various disciplines. Service-Learning combines community service and academic learning with equal emphasis, while meeting a real community need. Each component enhances the other for the increased benefit of all involved. In 1999, two students had an idea to get every Allegheny student involved in service through the course of the year. They soon realized that this was not a feasible idea and decided to start an organization in which students would help professors implement service-learning into their courses. SLC Student Service Leaders (SSLs) are paired with professors to help with the planning and implementation of service-learning. SSLs have extensive experience with the local community, and therefore have a good grasp on community needs. This allows the students to be placed at service-learning sites where their service and learning will be optimized. The professor, on the other hand, offers expertise for the academic learning that takes place, and also creates the learning objectives for the course. The collaboration between SSL and professor, therefore, is ideal because it allows for each to bring his/her expertise to the equation. In the spring semesters of 2002 and 2003, SSLs were part of a class in which they learned about service-learning while they worked with a professor. Courses recently partnered with the SLC: Taking it to the Streets (FS 102) Public Policy (Political Science 582) Health Care Policy & Politics (Political Science 196) The American Family Farm (FS 102) Technical Writing (English 208) Introduction to Women's Studies (Women's Studies 100) Women's Spiritual Autobiographies (Religious Studies 191) Contact: Richard Schindler rschindl@allegheny.edu or Dave Roncolato droncola@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/servicelearning_challenge.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/servicelearning_challenge.html Acedemic Contacts Service-Learning VESA Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:33:21 -0500 Name: Richard Schindler Position: Values, Ethics and Social Action Minor coordinator Organization: VESA Location: Doane Hall of Art Contact: rschindl@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/richard_schindler.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/richard_schindler.html Acedemic Contacts Schindler VESA Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:31:21 -0500 Overview: A minor offered at Allegheny that challenges students to understand the complex roots of social problems, explore models of change for the common good, get to know a community from the inside and develop skills for effective social action. An interdisciplinary minor which draws on courses in social sciences and philosophy or religion to offer students an intellectual framework for understanding social action and its ethics. INTDS 160, Intro to Values, Ethics and Social Action, and INTDS 560, Capstone Seminar in Values, Ethics and Social Action, are required, as well as a service leadership position. Requires 24 credits. Contact: Richard Schindler at rschindl@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/vesa_minor.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/vesa_minor.html Acedemic Contacts Action Ethics Justice Schindler Social Value VESA Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:26:48 -0500 overview: The local college chapter of an International service organization affiliated with Kiwanis International. Their motto is, "Help yourself through helping others!" Contact: Chelsea Di Nino http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/circle_k.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/circle_k.html Student Organizations Circle K Clubs Kiwanis Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:25:44 -0500 Overview: A national co-ed service fraternity, APO is committed to the principles of leadership, fellowship, and service. APO's chapter has served the Allegheny and Meadville community for 35 years. The organization hosts blood drives, an annual holiday party for Big Brothers and Sisters, and does many other service projects during the school year. Contact: http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/alpha_phi_omega_apo.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/alpha_phi_omega_apo.html Student Organizations Alpha Phi Omega APO Leadership Service Fraternity Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:24:44 -0500 Overview: A student organization that works closely with the affiliate in Meadville to provide decent housing for those in need. Allegheny volunteers build access ramps, paint homes, and do other repair projects most Saturdays. This group has been fundraising for a Habitat house to be built for a family right here in Meadville, a long-term project that may lead to construction beginning in 2003. No construction skills are necessary to volunteer. Contact: habitat@allegheny.edu. http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/habitat_for_humanity.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/habitat_for_humanity.html Student Organizations Building Construction Habitat Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:23:46 -0500 Please write your thoughts about service, and the following quotes and questions. Feel free to write your own quotes, questions, thoughts, and opinions. What do you do that involves service? How has service changed your life? Have you changed others lives? If you could change the world in one way what would you change? Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein What others do you live for? The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman … What do you consider to be you’re real job? A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. – Albert Schweitzer How do you obey that compulsion How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank … Start NOW! To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. – Felix Adler … How have you ethically developed at Allegheny College? We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. – Herman Melville …. Do you feel connected? Or are you alone? Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity – Horace Man If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – Margaret Fuller … Whose candle have you lit? Who has lit yours? Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time. – Marian Wright Edelman …. Did you pay your rent this month?? ]]> http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/quotes_and_questions.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/quotes_and_questions.html Thought Provoking Discussion Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:17:34 -0500 Name: Linda Litzinger Position: Secretary for Community Service & Service-Learning, ACCEL Organization: ACCEL Location: Reis Hall Contact: llitzinger@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/linda_litzinger.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/linda_litzinger.html ACCEL Office Contacts Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:21:06 -0500 Name: Abby Juhasz Position: AmeriCorps VISTA Project Coordinator for Erie & Crawford Counties Organization: Americorp Location: Reis Hall Contact: abby.juhasz@allegheny.edu http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/abby_juhasz.html http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/asn/weblog/2008/12/abby_juhasz.html ACCEL Office Contacts Americorps Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:18:20 -0500