Winter 1997 Fellows
Left to right: Susan C. Kattelus, Joanne Caniglia, Michael Harris,
Ted. J. Ligibel, Heather Neff, Diana Pancioli
Joanne Caniglia
Joanne Caniglia an Associate Professor in the Mathematics department. She was affiliated with the Extended Programs Chair in 1997 and 1998. She was also a member of the Faculty Center of Instructional Excellence Advisory Board in 1999 and 2000. Caniglia has won two awards in her recent career, the Josephine Nevins Keil Award for Original Research, 1999; and the Michigan Governing Board Distingutished Faculty Award, 1998.
Caniglia uses academic service-learning in three classes that she teaches:
a) Math 306, Methods for Secondary Math Teachers.
This course, requires a service component. Students must volunteer at one of the following events: Science Olympiad (as an event coordinator); Reality Store (as a station leader) and Conference Assistant for the Mathematics Education Conference here at EMU. These three events expose future teachers to community needs while they can observe how students solve problems. In each case they are required to write a journal reflection of their experiences in service-learning experience.
b) Math 381, Methods for Elementary Math Teachers.
In this course, students teach in an after-school program at Estabrook elementary school. This program is a huge success. More than 150 children participate for 10 weeks while EMU students "teach" math skills. They also are required to write a reflection paper on how the children are thinking about mathematics. We cap this course off with a family math night.
c) Math 109, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers.
Habitat for Humanity is the recipient of our services. The students have a unit of study involving geometry and measurement. They create the mathematics involved, visit the site, and provide qualitative and quantitative feedback on the building site. This also is a wonderful program that helps students and Habitat. They attend the groundbreaking ceremony. It is so exciting to see how the families and students react.
Contact Joanne Caniglia at:
Phone: (734) 487-1444
Fax: (734) 487-2489
E-mail: joanne.caniglia@emich.edu
Michael Harris
Michael Harris specializes in public policy and public administration. He is a professor of political science and is currently serving as the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Eastern Michigan University (EMU).
Harris used service-learning techniques for several years. He worked at enhancing teaching effectiveness through a meaningful and substantial integration of theory and practical experience. He conducted experiments in teaching government budgeting while incorporating a service-learning element.
Contact Michael Harris at:
Phone: (734) 487-2246
Fax: (734) 487-4299
E-mail: Michael.Harris@emich.edu
Susan C. Kattelus
Susan C. Kattelus is a Professor in the Department of Accounting at EMU. She is also a certified public accountant and certified government financial manager. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of governmental and nonprofit accounting, taxation, and financial accounting.
Sue Kattelus has used academic service-learning activities in the ACC546 Public and Nonprofit Sector Accounting course for 12 semesters, since Fall 1997. She and her senior and graduate accounting students have worked with more than 30 community organizations, both nonprofit and governmental. Here are some examples of the type of work her students have done:
- Assist nonprofit organizations to establish accounting information systems that facilitate reporting to oversight bodies, donors and resource providers, as well as managers.
- Help EMU departments reconcile internal budgets and financial reports for externally funded programs with university financial reports.
- Complete Form 990s for nonprofit organizations, as well as understand the "new" public disclosure rules.
- Create accounting policies and procedures manuals for nonprofit organizations.
- Help small cities and townships understand how the "new" GASB governmental reporting model may affect their financial reporting, and what resources are available for that purpose.
Contact Susan Kattelus at:
Phone: (734) 487-3305
Fax: (734) 487-7099
E-mail: susan.kattelus@emich.edu
Ted J. Ligibel
Ted J. Ligibel is Director of Professor in Eastern Michigan University's Historic Preservation program in the Department of Geography and Geology.
Historic Preservation is a field that readily adapts to the academic
service-learning model.
GHPR 630, Documenting Historic Structures, uses students to record historic neighborhoods, structures, and entire communities, often as an aid to receiving historic designation. One such example is the Russell Woods/Sullivan area of Detroit, where for three years students inventoried the residential and commercial sections of this early twentieth century neighborhood, working with the neighborhood association and the city of Detroit. This work has led to the area's nomination as a Detroit Historic District.
GHPR 620, Preservation Research Techniques, involves the preparation of exhaustive historical and preservation-oriented research into the evolution and development of a specific site or theme. Reports are prepared for the community involved and presented at a public forum. Examples have included reports on the Ford Heritage Trail historic mills, several Huron Street properties in Ann Arbor, historic portraits of the Leslie Science Center and Wall Street (both in Ann Arbor), the River Raisin Paper Company Mill Site (site of the original French settlement) in Monroe, MI.; This report was funded by the city of Monroe and led to the awarding of a grant in the summer of 1998 to complete a historical/archaeological investigation of the 1780s Frenchtown settlement in Monroe. ; mot recently students undertook a historic Reconnaissance Survey of the areas in and around downtown Jackson, Mi. which was funded by the city, and will lead to other similar projects in that city.
Other courses in which Dr. Ligibel uses academic service-learning include GHPR 538 Historic Preservation and Tourism, GHPR 636 Historic Preservation Field Methods, and GHPR 638 Preserving Community Character.
Contact Ted Ligibel at:
Phone: (734) 487-0232
Fax: (734) 487-6979
E-mail: ted.ligibel@emich.edu
Heather Neff
Dr. Neff teaches African American Literature in the department of English Language and Literature at EMU. She has also worked with the Women's Studies Program, the Honors Program, and the AOD Program.
During the Fall 1997 semester Neff taught an honors section of African American Literature that involved an academic service-learning component. All students were required to develop and participate in a community service project in which they shared their knowledge of Black culture with the public. Along with the completion of four papers based on the literature studies in the course, all students were trequired to submit a journal, a six-page fomal report and give an oral presentation on their academic service-learning experiences.
Contact Heather Neff at:
Phone: (734) 487-4220
Fax: (734) 483-9744
E-mail: heather.neff@emich.edu
Diana Pancioli
Diana Pancioli is a Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Eastern Michigan University.
Contact Diana Pancioli at:
Phone: (734) 487-1268
Fax: (734) 487-2324
E-mail: dpancioli@emich.edu
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