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DUC SL Community-Engaged Projects, Presentations, & Publications
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NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE
See our program newsletters since 2010: Center for Community Engagement Newsletter Archive
STAFF & FACULTY-LED PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Radical Imagination in Action: Re-Visioning and Co-Creating Community Engagement
Presenters:
Julia van der Ryn, Executive Director, Center for Community Engagement
Emily Wu, Ph.D, Assistant Director of Community Outreach and Project Development Service-Learning Program
Jocelyn Gomez, Ph.D, Community Engagement Student Initiatives Manager
Institutional Transformation through Community Engagement
Presenters:
Leah Ozeroff, Director of Educational Effectiveness
Julia van der Ryn, Executive Director of Center for Community Engagement
Marin Context and Cultural Wealth
Presenters:
Julia van der Ryn, Executive Director, Center for Community Engagement
Emily Wu, Ph.D, Assistant Director of Community Outreach and Project Development Service-Learning Program
AB60 Support in the Canal
Dr. Lucia León (La Vida Dominican Program Chair and Faculty Lead) and some of her students in the Latino Studies minor worked closely with lawyers from Marin Legal Aid and Canal Alliance Legal Department to research on the barriers in the existing process for undocumented immigrants to apply for California Driver’s License.
Voces del Canal City Council Presentation
During Dr. Jennifer Lucko's sabbatical, she worked with Canal community leaders, Voces del Canal. With the assistance of service-learning students, Voces del Canal conducted participatory-action research to address community concerns. Here is the group presenting their work to the San Rafael City Council.
#Marin80 Exihibition
Prof. Lynn Sondag took her Art Fundamentals class to work with kids at Performing Stars in preparation for the #MarinCity80 exhibition. Read more about the exhibition, organized by Marin City advocate Felecia Gaston, in partnership with Dominican University, that resulted in the publication of a book on the history of Marin City, the founding of the Marin City Historical and Preservation Society, and now the creation of Marin County school curriculum that will include the legacy of MarinShip.
Service-Learning: Community at the Center
Dr. Emily Wu and Dr. Jocelyn Gomez highlight the Dominican Service-Learning program's collaboration with Canal Alliance and the Canal community overall.
SL PROGRAM SURVEY REPORTS
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS
Jennifer Lucko. "Centering Community Voice and Knowledge through Participatory Action Research" Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Vol. 30 Iss. 1 (2024)
Jennifer Lucko. "Reframing Success: Participatory Impacts of Storytelling in PAR Collaborative with Latinx Middle School Students" Educational Action Research (2019) p. 1 - 18
Emily S. Wu. "Crossing Boundaries with Narratives: Making Space with Oral History in Community Service-Learning" Interreligious Pedagogy: Reflections and Applications in Honor of Judith A. Berling (2018) p. 41 - 57
Jennifer Lucko. ""We didn't have courage": Internalizing Racism and the Limits of Participatory Action Research" Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 49 (2018) p. 246 - 261
Emily S. Wu. "Teaching Asian Religions from Within Asian American Community" Religious Studies News Iss. Spotlight on Teaching: Teaching Asian American Religions and Religiosities (2014)
Julia Van der Ryn, Jennifer Lucko, Tom Wilson, Omar Carrera, et al. "Voces Del Canal: Building Safe Communities Through Strong Partnerships in the Canal" (2014)
Laura Stivers. "Spotlight on Teaching: Environmental and Economic Injustice" Religious Studies News (2011)
Lynn Sondag. "Adjusting the Lens: Creating an Aesthetic Awareness of Local Environment" International Journal of the Arts in Society Vol. 5 Iss. 6 (2011) p. 79 - 88
Julia Van der Ryn. "The Dominican University Honors Program and Service Learning: Case Studies Focusing on Engaged Learning and Social Responsibility in Diverse Communities" Setting the Table for Diversity (2010) p. 115 - 134
Julia Van der Ryn. "Thinking and Action: Preparing Students to Engage Complexity within Themselves and in the World" The Journal of College and Character Vol. 9 Iss. 2 (2007) ISSN: 1940-1639
Julia Van der Ryn, Jenny Bray, et al.. "Marin County Youth Focus Group Project: Youth Perception Regarding Access and Barriers to Equitable Education and Careers" (2007) p. 1 - 17
OTHER FACULTY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Emily S. Wu. "Community-Centered Anti-Racist Learning in the Digital Age: Reflections on Pedagogical Priorities." Part of a panel on Pedagogies in the Digital Age. Annual Conference of International Communication Association. June 25, 2024.
Emily S. Wu, Louis Knecht, Felecia Gaston, Suz Blunk, Cece Trifoso, and Jeanette Egenlauf. “Celebrating 80 years of Marin City: Resistance of Historical Erasure and the Archival Collaboration between Performing Stars of Marin and Dominican University of California”, Society of California Archivists Conference. April 7, 2023.
Lucia Leon, Julia Van der Ryn, and Emily S. Wu. "Decoding DEI: Liberatory Practices Grounded in Community" Diversity, Equity, and Student Success: Can We Handle the Truth, Association of American Colleges and Universities. March 10, 2023.
Julia Van der Ryn and Emily S. Wu, with Elaine Ikeda. "Centering Community: Engaging Faculty in Critical and Asset-Based Theory and Practice" Association of American Colleges and Universities. January 19, 2023.
Jennifer Lucko and Voces del Canal. “Canal Lighting Project.” San Rafael Leadership Institute. November 17, 2022.
Jennifer Lucko. “Avoiding the ‘Gotcha’ Moment: Participatory Action Research as a Methodology for Civic Engagement.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November 9–13, 2022.
Emily S. Wu and Stephany Vallejo. "Cultural Humility as an Approach to Racial Equity Education: Multimedia Learning/Unlearning for College Students and the General Public (with Minimal Academic Readings)" 12th International Conference on Education & Justice. October 8, 2022.
Julia van der Ryn, Emily S. Wu, and Lynn Sondag. “Grounding Ourselves in Community: A Critical Practitioners Guide to Not Knowing (Everything).” Campus Compact Western Region annual Continuum of Service Conference. March 6-8, 2019.
Julia van der Ryn, Robert Franco, Gabriela Gamiz, and Sefa Aina. "University Participation in Preparation of Census 2020." Campus Compact Western Region annual Continuum of Service Conference. March 6-8, 2019.
Lynn Sondag and Julia van der Ryn. "Inside Out: Facing the Gap: Community-Based Participatory Public Art Project" School of the Visual Arts National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artist. October, 2013.
Jennifer Lucko, Julia van der Ryn, Omar Carrera, Douglas Mundo, et al.. "“There's No Participation in ‘Our’ Participatory-action Research Project”: Overcoming Hierarchies in Service-learning Partnerships" International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement Conference. September 29, 2013.
Julia van der Ryn and Lynn Sondag. "Beauty in the Struggle: Realizing Full Access to Higher Education" Imagining America Conference, New York University. October 5, 2012.
Julia van der Ryn and Kendra Woodglass. "Beauty in the Struggle: Embracing the Dynamic Tensions in Transformative Education" Annual Western Regional Campus Compacts' Continuums of Service Conference: Creating the New Vision for Higher Education. April 12, 2012.
Julia van der Ryn and David Donahue. "Making the Most of Dilemmas in Service-Learning" Annual Western Regional Campus Compacts' Continuums of Service Conference: Creating the New Vision for Higher Education. April 12, 2012.
Julia van der Ryn. "Engaging Faculty in a Critical and Creative Process of Assessing Gen Ed Components Which Use Service-Learning Pedagogy" Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference on General Education and Assessment: New Contexts, New Cultures. February 24, 2012.
Julia van der Ryn. "Service-Learning Assessment: Engaging Faculty in a Critical and Creative Process" Annual Continuums of Service Conference: Maximizing Impact Higher Education Strategies That Address Today's Critical Issues. April 28, 2011.
Julia van der Ryn and Thomas Burke. "Assessment as Critical and Creative Engagement: A Service-Learning Model for Meaningful Growth of Pedagogy and Program" Pathways for Civic Engagement Conference, Elon University. February 10, 2010.
Julia Van Der Ryn and Thomas Burke. "An Evolving Service-Learning Model of Critical Engagement for the Assessment-Phobic: Striving towards Meaningful Growth of Pedagogy and Program" Assessment Institute, Indiana University, Purdue. October 26, 2009.
ON-GOING COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PROJECTS & INITIATIVES
AB60 Outreach with Marin County Public Defender’s Office: AB60 was signed into California’s law in 2013, where the Department of Motor Vehicles was directed to issue Driver’s License to eligible California Residents regardless of their immigration status. Dominican faculty Lucia Leon and some of her students in the Latino Studies minor worked closely with lawyers from Marin Legal Aid and Canal Alliance Legal Department to research on the barriers in the existing process for undocumented immigrants to apply for California Driver’s License. Spanish-speaking Dominican students started to support AB60 community outreach events in the summer of 2023, and the work still continues..
Voces del Canal: Latino Studies and Social Justice faculty Lucia Leon guided her Latino Studies minors to support VdC ongoing advocacy. (Read more about this initiative HERE)
Y-PLAN x Youth in Arts: Bridges & Pathways from Laurel Dell Elementary to Dominican. (Read more about the project HERE.)
PAST COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PROJECTS & INITIATIVES
2023. MarinCity80 with Performing Stars of Marin City: In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of Marin City, Performing Stars partnered with Dominican University in its MarinCity80 initiative. The initiative’s activities started with the exhibition of artifacts from Marin City History Archive “The Legacy of Marin City, A California Story, from 1942 to 1962” at Marin County Civic Center from August 20, 2022 to November 1, 2022. The Marin Historical and Preservation Society was launched with the exihibition. Also, a book entitied “A Brand New Start…This is Home: The Story of World War II Marinship and the Legacy of Marin City” was published in early 2023. (Read more about this initiative HERE.)
2022. Canal Lighting Project was a community participatory research project focused on improving public safety in the Canal, an issue first identified as one of three central concerns among Canal residents in a previous PAR collaboration with Dominican University of CA (Voces del Canal, 2012).Professor Jennifer Lucko, who teaches Dominican’s Community-Engaged Research class, worked with Voces del Canal to design and implement the project during her sabbatical. Over the course of the 2021–2022 academic year, nine Canal community residents and seven undergraduate Dominican students met weekly to design the research, collect and analyze data, and develop their presentation to the San Rafael City Council. (Read more HERE.)
2020-2021. Digital Literacy Family & Bilingual Support program was developed in the summer of 2020 in response to the need of parents from the Canal who wanted to learn how to navigate their computers to support their children. The program opened new opportunities for parents in the Canal and allowed Dominican students to connect their lived experiences with their education. Through the program, bilingual, Spanish-speaking Dominican students got the opportunity to use their linguistics and cultural wealth.Along with our community partner, Parent Services Project Executive Director, Balandra Fregoso, and Andrew Raphael, Family Engagement Coordinator, Service-Learning program staff, Emily Wu and Julia van der Ryn, and the San Rafael City Schools designed a unique way to support parents in navigating Google Classroom and other web-based skills, leveraging the cultural knowledge and linguistic skills of Dominican students. In September 2020, the SL program was able to bring on another part-time staff person, Jocelyn Gómez, to coordinate the student cohort and work with parents. The Marin Independent Journal wrote a story in its’ early development in Fall ’20 when 26 bilingual Spanish-speaking students began building and implementing the Digital Literacy Family Support Program (renamed Impacto Tecnológico). Read more HERE.
2020. Leyendo Juntos was a partnership between Dominican University and the San Pedro Elementary school in the Canal community of San Rafael, where many students are low-income, recently immigrated English Language learners. Twice a week, the Dominican students meet with young San Pedro students in virtual Zoom breakout rooms, where they read, practice comprehension, and play games together. Family members such as parents and siblings also join in from time to time. Read more HERE.
2019-2020. Everyone Counts: Census 2020 Initiative was a campus wide community engagement initiative aimed at supporting a full count of all Marin County residents, especially “hard-to-count” communities and people. In partnership with the Marin Complete Count Committee, this fall 2019, eleven faculty members embedded census projects in their classes to support census outreach, messaging, and access.
2016-2017. Democracy & Equity Initiative. Campus-wide participation to engage in presidential election process.
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