September

September 19, 2012, 5-6:15pm, Reflect & Connect serise, will cover Civil Discourse. Dr. Gregory Paul will facilitate the discussion using What Makes a Successful Place, by PPS Project for Public Spaces. The reading can be found at http://www.pps.org/reference/grplacefeat/. Light refreshments will be served. This event is FREE and located in the Ford Atrium of McComsey Hall.

April

April 18, 2012, 5-6:15 p.m., Reflect & Connect Series will cover global rights and human rights. Dr. Tim Shea from the English Department will facilitate a discussion using two short films from Stories of Human Rights, called Impasse by Bram Schouw and What About Me? This film and others are available on YouTube. Light refreshments will be served.

March

March 21, 2012, 5-6:15 p.m., Reflect & Connect Series will cover women's rights; Dr. Karen Rice from the Department of Social Work will be the facilitator.  Light refreshments will be served. The literature can be downloaded now: Out of Body Image and Girl Hate. 

February

February 22, 5-6:15 p.m., the Reflect & Connect series will host a session covering volunteering and health & wellness. Circle K will facilitate.  Light refreshments will be served. The literature can be picked up at Huntingdon House, or you can download them now: "Volunteering does a body good" and "Volunteer finds place in her heart for animals"

November 14, 2011, Reflect & Connect Series, 5-6:30 p.m. in SMC 24

Facilitating a discussion on the issue of homelessness will be Dr. Daniel O'Neill. Download the text for the reading and the supplemental reading.

November 2, 2011, Engaged Scholars Spring Symposium

Engaged Scholars Spring Symposium will feature a keynote speaker and presentation of the 2010-2011 Engaged Scholars projects.

For more information, please send an email to the Center for Public Scholarship.

October 26, 2011, Reflect & Connect Series, 5-6:30 p.m. in Ford Atrium (McComsey Hall)

Facilitator: Dr. Caleb Corkery

Select passages from Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazaria will be used. Download the reading or mark the following specific passages to read for the event:

1. Beginning on p. 17: "Come home" Lourdes's own mother begs her on the telephone." Ending on p. 19: "I’ll be back next Christmas," she tells Enrique.
2. Beginning on p. 53: "It is night. He is riding on a freight train." Ending on p. 55: "He recalls sleeping...."How will they know where I have died?"
3. Beginning on p. 239: "Wednesday. The smuggler calls at 1 P.M...." Ending on p. 240: "Rosa Amalia lifts Jasmin onto the hood of her car. ....Adios, mami."

September 14, 2011, Reflect & Connect Series, 5-6:30 p.m. in Ford Atrium (McComsey Hall)

Facilitator: Dr. Gregory Paul, assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Theater

The reading for the event is "Our Civility Deficit" by Gregory Rodriquez. Download the reading.

April 20, 2011, Reflect & Connect Series

Facilitator: Ms. Gabi Kime and the Millersville University Circle-K Club

March, 23, 2011, Reflect & Connect Series

Facilitator: Dr. Timothy Shea, Department of English

February 16, 2011, Reflect & Connect Series

Facilitators: Mr. Joe Moore and the Millersville University chapter of the American Meteorological Society

November 10, 2010 at 6:30 pm, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "The Pleasures of Eating," by Wendell Barry

Facilitator: Dr. Carole Counihan, Department of Sociology/Anthropology

October 27, 2010, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: Zen and the Art of Community Service will be centered on the chapter “Cleaning Kitchen is Cleaning Mind” from Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Lesson in Living a Life that Matters by Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields. Facilitators: Dr. Ken DeLucca, Professor of Technology Education at Millersville University & Dr. Edward “Sangetsu” Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics & Finance at Lebanon Valley College and a Dharma Holder in the White Plum Lineage of Zen. Both facilitators are members of Lancaster’s Red Rose Sangha.

September 29, 2010 at 6 p.m., first session of Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "Doing Good Badly" by Nancy Gibbs

Facilitator: Dr. Kirsten Bookmiller, Director of Global Education and Partnerships & Professor, Department of Government and Political Affairs

April, 2010, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "The Benefits for Cherishing Others," Geshe Kelshang Gyatso

Facilitator: Dr. James Bowman, Education Program Coordinator for Kalpa Bhadra Kadampa Buddhist Center

March, 2010, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "He Sits Down of the Floor for a School for the Retarded," Alden Nowlan

Facilitator: Dr. Tom Neuville, Department of Special Education

February, 2010, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "The Sweetness of Charity," Maya Angelou

Facilitator: Dr. Gregory Paul, Department of Communication

February 18, 2010, Engaged Scholars Workshop

This workshop addressed practicalities as how to generate and get community-based research and scholarship published. Featuring, Trisha Thorme, the Assistant Director for Community-Based Learning at Princeton University who presents nationally on community-based research and scholarship.

November, 2009, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," Ursula LeGuin

Facilitator: Dr. Barb Stengel, Department of Education

October, 2009, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service," Adam Davis

Facilitator: Tom Richardson, Department of Student Affairs

September, 2009, Reflect & Connect Series

Reading: "Theme for English B," Langston Hughes

Facilitator: Dr. Timothy Shea, Department of English

February 26, 2009, Faculty Forum

Forum to educate participants and discuss the current economic crisis, including stimulation packages and bailouts. Featuring Dr. Mike Gumpper, Millersville University’s Department of Economics; Dr. Ken Smith, Millersville University’s Department of Economics; and Eric Blazer, Millersville University’s Department of Business Administration. Forum precedes CCERP’s major Policy Conference: Sustaining an American Middle Class in a Globalized Economy.

Time and location: 5:30 p.m. in University Room in Gordinier

November 20-21, 2008, Community-Based Teaching and Learning Workshop

Workshop held for faculty to discover community-based teaching and learning for the first time or find out more about community-based teaching and learning. Featured Nadinne Cruz, an internationally respected speaker, author, and consultant of community-based education and distinguished scholar of service-learning.

November 19, 2008, Symposium

Symposium held for faculty and students to learn more about the Darfur conflict. Featuring Dr. Osman Suliman, Department of Economics, speaking on the research he conducted during his recent trip to the Sudan and Darfur on the political economy of the Darfur conflict.