Campus Name
Tusculum College
Greeneville, TN (see Serve 2.0 Mini-Grant Map)
Campus Contacts
Laura Rees / lrees@students.tusculum.edu / 423-367-7838
Wanda Rahm / wrahm@tusculum.edu / 423-636-7300 x5256
Robin Fife / rfife@tusculum.edu / 423-636-7300 x 5777
60 Shiloh Road, PO Box 5041 • Greeneville, TN 37743
http://bonnernetwork.pbwiki.com/
Issue Focus Area(s)
Youth Development and Enrichment & Diversity
Brief Overview
This project will address issues of Youth Development and Enrichment, Diversity and the use of Technology to Enhance Civic Engagement on and off Campus.
As an issue, the Tusculum College Bonner Leaders Program has chosen to focus our efforts on raising awareness about diversity. Although the problem is slowly diminishing there are still people that exhibit racial, ethical, gender, sex, religious, etc. slurs in today’s society With the Serve 2.0 initiative, our program goals are to increase awareness of the mutual respect that all people should hold of the diversity that is part of our campus. We also want to reach out to other campuses with our open-mindedness. The George-Clem Multi-Cultural Association (GCMA), a local African-American organization, will serve as our primary community partner to work with us in organizing and promoting diversity events on and off campus and strengthen our campus-community awareness.
Key Community Partners
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The George-Clem Multi-Cultural Association (GCMA), a local African-American organization, will serve as the primary community partner to work with Tusculum in organizing and promoting diversity events on and off campus and strengthen our campus-community awareness.
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The Mission of the GCMA is to: Provide enrichment for and raise awareness of the historical and cultural contributions of the African-American community in Greeneville, TN. The GCMA supports inclusiveness and the voice and empowerment of all people.
The GCMA has been working for years to develop a program for youth. Through our community partner and Youth Enrichment Project we will address issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, economic inequality, homelessness, food security and homelessness.
(see Serve 2.0 Mini-Grant Map)
Social Media Tools to Be Used
*YouTube*
*Wikis*
*Blogs*
Link to Campus Organizing Strategies
Our main goal of using technology is to give those around our campus and community a sense of understanding about the joy helping others and being diverse will give them. We plan on using the videos to challenge people to search out diversity within their life and open up their minds. We hope to start a routine of making videos at each event and project site so that those coming into our Program will continue on with our inspirations and see how the campus and community grow. The blog we intend to start will give the campus and community the chance to be open and ask questions freely.
Goals of Initiative
We plan to immediately start taking action on creating videos. Our Program meets every Tuesday evening and will begin preparation for the first video to be recorded and edited within the next two weeks. After the initial video, we plan on creating a new skit every two to three weeks, according to our block schedule (students will not be on campus during block break which occurs every three and a half weeks). A monthly newsletter is being implemented and will be a part of the Program’s wiki. After the first monthly newsletter is released for February, we will begin work on the implementation of the blogging system and how it will be processed. We currently have a Facebook page and more information will continue to be posted on that page.
Key Activities and Timelines
Summer 2009 – Bonner Student and Director attend GCMA monthly meetings to collaborate, plan and share ideas.
Fall 2009 – Bonner Students form enrichment program committee to formulate specific activities and dates.
-Youth are selected
Fall-Spring 2009-2010 -Youth attend Bonner meetings and extra activities
Spring 2010 – Program is evaluated
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