Compass Step 1 Community Service

CCESL enjoyed a celebratory year, with the 10th anniversary of HWS Votes, the 20th anniversary of “Day of Service” and the 25th anniversary of literacy programming. It served as an opportunity to reflect on how these civic endeavors arose, allowed us to highlight progress made and partnerships formed, and look toward additional milestones. We found video footage of the inaugural Day of Service in the fall of 1994, which featured students and community partners working side-by-side in a manner that speaks to one of the initial intents of this long-standing effort. A similar theme of collaboration was celebrated with the 25th anniversary of America Reads. Building on the Student Literacy Corps efforts of students and faculty members since 1988, Federal Work Study support

program has enabled an estimated 75,000 books and reading activities to occur between local youth and HWS student tutors. On the younger side of anniversaries, this academic year represented the 3rd annual visit from Geneva Middle School 6th and Geneva

High School 9th graders. A 9th grader commented in an evaluation “You said we’d come back in three years, and you kept your promise.” With the addition of the entire West Street Elementary School 2nd grade, along with 2nd graders from St.

Stephen’s, it will be exciting to see what they remember when they

return as 6th graders in a few years. This annual report serves as a “Happy Anniversary” to all the alums as well as current students, faculty, staff, and community members who collaborated and continue to work with CCESL to address community-identified opportunities.

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Service Learning (CCESL)Annual Report 2013-14

Education Professor Charlie Temple, one of the co-founders of the Student Literacy Corps, now called America Reads.

Students help celebrate HWS Votes 10th anniversary.

Charlie DeBenedetto ’16.

Charlie DeBenedetto ’16 was awarded the Drum Major for Service Award for his commitment to service. DeBenedetto was involved in a number of initiatives in support of literacy, including America Reads and Geneva Reads Book Fest. This award is bestowed on students who have a dedication and commitment to service, and was presented to DeBenedetto during the MLK Jr. Day of

Service. “There is a sense of community involved in volunteer work that I don’t find in any other aspect of my life,” says DeBenedetto. “Throughout my time at America Reads, I see the progress of my students, see them breeze through words that they couldn’t even begin to pronounce when we first started working together, and know that I am making a positive impact on this small child’s life.”

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Barn Sale raised $8,254 (new record) for a cumulative total of $47, 862 over nine years.

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Madeline Buckley ’15 prepared a meal for the Community Lunch Program (CLP) at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Geneva. Each semester, students, faculty and staff volunteered weekly to provide those in need with warm meals. The new director of the CLP is former Geneva Mayor and HWS Community Partner of the Year recipient, Stu Einstein.

Statesman DeAndré Smith ’15 threw a pass to children at Happiness House where the Hobart football team volunteered.

“Bigs” and “Littles” who are paired together through Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteered together in April at the Spring Day of Service.

JB Robinson ’96, Jeremy Cushman ’98, Richard Solomon ’75, Assistant Vice President for Advancement Jared Weeden ’91 and Michael Orth ’74 participated in the Day of Service by doing some spring cleaning in Geneva.

The eighth annual HWS Community Barn Sale was a record-breaking event this year, raising $8,254 for the United Way of Ontario County and the Geneva 2020 Initiative. Since 2006, the Barn Sale has raised more than $47,000 for the community. HWS students, faculty, and staff, as well as Geneva High School students in the New Visions program, sorted through hundreds of items donated by the HWS and Geneva communities and also worked during the sale, which was held on Thursday, May 22. The sale drew hundreds of people throughout the day.

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Barn Sale raised $8,254 (new record) for a cumulative total of $47, 862 over nine years.

Compass Step 2 Civic Engagement

Charlie DeBenedetto ’16 St. Stephen’s Fall 2013 - Oct

Hilary Fenner ’16 Trinity Church (Tues/Thurs) Fall 2013 - Oct

Amanda Rimsa ’15 West Street Elementary (Tues/Thurs Fall 2013 - Oct

Shani Saul ’15 Lafayette Elementary School (a.m. program) Fall 2013 - Nov

Karly Wagner ’16 West Street Elementary (Mon/Wed) Fall 2013 - Nov

Kelly Craig ’16 Lafayette Elementary School (p.m. program) Fall 2013 - Nov

Stacey Davis ’15 Trinity Church (Mon/Wed) Fall 2013 - Nov

Gina Giambruno ’14 Lafayette Elementary School (a.m. program) Spring 2014 - Feb

Sophie Halter ’16 West Street Elementary (Mon/Wed) Spring 2014 - Feb

Liv Mertens ’14 Trinity Church (Tues/Thurs) Spring 2014 - Feb

Rachel Newcomb ’15 Trinity Church (Mon/Wed) Spring 2014 - Mar

Eli Jarvis ’14 St. Stephen's Spring 2014 - Mar

Juliet Holme ’16 West Street Elementary (Tues/Thurs Spring 2014 - Apr

Hilary Fenner ’16 Lafayette Elementary School (p.m. program) Spring 2014 - Apr

Charlie Debenedetto ’16 Hobart Tutor of the Year

Emily Nason ’17 William Smith Tutor of the Year

Justin Richardson ’14 America Counts Tutor of the Month Fall 2013 - Nov

Andrea Proctor ’15 America Counts Tutor of the Month Spring 2014

Zico Gaeffke ’16 America Counts Tutor of the Month Spring 2014

160 America Reads and America Counts partnered with local children at four local schools, please help us congratulate the Tutors of the Month.

Assistant Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning Jeremy Wattles presented the Roteract Award to Rose Sollenne, who accepted the award on behalf of her grandson Ryan Sollenne ’15, who spent the spring semester studying abroad in Budapest. Ryan has been actively involved and took leadership in Roteract, which is the college club sponsored by the Geneva Rotary Club, throughout his time at Hobart and William Smith.

9,300 hours were completed by students in the Federal Work Study, America Reads and America Counts programs or through employment in CCESL through College Work Study.

HWS is 16th in the nation among liberal arts colleges for Federal Work Study expenditures on community service related employment (ie. America Reads/Counts)

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25 students travelled to four locations during spring break to contribute 875 hours of service.

Approximately 1/3 of HWS students completed more than 20 hours of service throughout the year, aligning with the best practice of sustained community engagement and thoughtful learning opportunities.

HWS Votes 10th Anniversary “The organization’s impact is felt in its continued engagement with a diverse number of politically-minded student groups on campus, from College Democrats to Americans for Informed Democracy, in order to educate the HWS community on the issues they will be voting on come Election Day,” says Olivia Lowenberg ’15, who serves as co-civic leader with Josh Weinstein ’17 for HWSVotes!

Donna Davenport recognized as Civically Engaged Faculty Member at 6th annual Engaged Scholarship Forum In presenting the Civically Engaged Faculty Member award to Professor of Dance Donna Davenport, President Mark D. Gearan explained Campus Compact defines a civically engaged faculty member as one who has demonstrated “exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good.” Davenport was nominated by Susan M. Pliner, associate dean for teaching, learning, and assessment and director of the Centennial Center

for Leadership, Associate Professor of Psychology Julie Kingery and Associate Professor of Education Mary Kelly. Pliner nominated Davenport in recognition of her “unwavering commitment to student learning where she embeds experiential

learning in meaningful ways that engage students in deep reflection of their purpose, knowledge of the community in which they live and learn, and practical application of the scholarship they study.” Davenport is the adviser of the Social Justice Studies minor and taught SJSP 101 last year, which involved thoughtful learning around the Geneva Community Compact and the Geneva Community

Lunch Program. Additionally, she redesigned Arts and Education as a service-learning course to benefit children in after-school programs in Geneva, for undergraduate and MAT students.

Provost Titi Ufomata, Professor Donna Davenport and President Mark D. Gearan.

David Luna ’14, featured right, was selected for the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship.

Compass Step 2 Civic Engagement

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Compass Step 3 Civic Leadership

CCESL’s Team of Civic Leaders read “Giving: How each of Us Can Change the World” by former President Bill Clinton and reflected in small group discussions throughout the year on relatable ideas between the book and their responsibilities.

Now in its fourth year, Summer of Service paired HWS students with local organizations where they performed at least 300 hours of community service over the course of the summer.Jenna Klicker ’15, Ryan Mullaney ’15, Alison Switzer ’15 and Devon O’Brien ’15 spent the summer volunteering at local organizations and working in the CCESL office, contributing “in significant ways to the goals of Geneva 2020 through their dedication to local youth, which is a theme to the 1,200 collective hours they dedicated to the Geneva School District and the Boys and Girls Club of Geneva,” Flowers says.• Klicker spent the

majority of her summer working at Geneva Middle School with Principal Robert Smith. Her primary duties included inputting data based on the state test results that will be used to create the school improvement plan for next year.

• Mullaney worked with HWS Academy and supported Geneva 2020 collective impact efforts through CCESL.

• O’Brien worked at the Boys and Girls Club, as well as with the USDA Summer Food Service Program for Children, which was established to ensure that children continue to receive nutritious meals while school is not in session. O’Brien delivered meals, prepared at the West Street School, to children at the Goodman Street Boys and Girls Club, the Teen Center and The Salvation Army.

• Switzer served at the Boys and Girls Club, as an art instructor for more than 50 students. Switzer is from Geneva and gave back to her hometown community again. As part of the position at the Boys and Girls Club, Switzer also facilitated transportation for the Reading Buddies program which pairs Genevans with local youth to read together at the Geneva Public Library.

Three WS students in Jack Harris’ “Sociology of Community” course developed teacher and family discussion guides for the Geneva Reads

Community Reads Month selections, which share the themes of the outdoors and self-reliance. The discus-sion guides enriched the students’ reading experi-ence through the creation of activities that highlighted vocabulary and thematically relevant reading and writing activities. In addition to the student generated guides, the College Store co-spon-

sored Books and Brunch, Geneva 2020 co-spon-sored a speaking engagement with the sister of the main character from “Into the Wild,” Health Professions Adviser Scott MacPhail and Elizabeth Lunderman ’16, presented “Life and Death in the Last Frontier” to GHS students, and Professor Beth Newell hosted a session on “Wild Inedibles” at the Geneva Presbyterian Church. To download a copy of the guides, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/genevareads/home/community-read

Danielle Mueller ’16, Joy Gitter ’16 and Chiara Favaloro ’16

165 students tutored in America Reads and America Counts, 43 of which tutored for both semesters.

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Compass Step 3 Civic Leadership

During her time at HWS, Abby Tills ’14 interned at the Ontario County Youth Court in Canandaigua, N.Y., for three years, working to make a positive impact on the community’s youth. Deb Holland, director of the Ontario County Youth Court, explains that youth courts exist as an alternative to the traditional criminal justice system for youths that have committed minor offenses. The peer-driven program runs on positive peer pressure, which encourages offenders to take responsibility for their actions. Holland speaks highly of all the HWS interns she has worked with, saying, “I’ve never had interns as wonderful as the ones from HWS.”

Students fundraised $38,000 for local, national, and international non-profit agencies. Events including Relay for Life, the Polar Plunge, and Touchdowns and Tackles for Happiness House.

There were 31 service-learning courses which engaged nearly 740 students.

Students, faculty members, and community partners were recognized and their work highlighted at the sixth annual Community Engaged Scholarship Forum. Students also presented their work via posters, videos and demonstrations during the hour-long forum. • Community Partner of the Year: Geneva Head Start• Civically Engaged Faculty Member of the Year: Professor Donna

Davenport• Engaged Student Scholar of the Year: Daniel Budmen ’15

(featured in picture with Provost Titi Ufomata, Professor Craig Rimmerman, and President Mark D. Gearan)

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HWS Faculty, Staff, Students…gained insight and information at national community engaged learning conferencesSix HWS community members attended a New York Campus Compact workshop held at Syracuse University. The event included two half-day workshops, “Developing a Premier Service-learning Course,” and “Getting Service-Learning Research and Community-Engaged Scholarship Published,” led by Jeffrey Howard, the founder and editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

Compass Step 4 Engaged Citizenship

Collaborations and Celebrations

To honor the Colleges’ work on the Geneva 2020 Initiative, the board of Success for Geneva’s Children recently presented HWS with the Community Partner of the Year award. The award was presented by president of Success, the Rev. W. James Gerling L.H.D. ’09 at the annual leadership breakfast on Friday, June 13 in Albright Auditorium. “Hobart and William Smith Colleges, under the guidance of Mark D. Gearan, have taken bold action to help us establish clear community goals and make improvements to the success of every child,” said Gerling as he presented the award. “Hobart and William Smith Colleges have been organically connected with Success since its inception.”

Anna Dorman ’14 joined AmeriCorps, working with the Hawaii Alliance for Community Based Economic Development in Honolulu. As an AmeriCorps VISTA position, she will develop a program to increase saving habits among at-risk youth populations and provide access to financial education resources for their families. “In particular, I feel really prepared for this opportunity because of the CCESL Civic Leaders program and I think that experience is what gave me an edge over other applicants,” says Dorman. “I am really excited for this opportunity and feel that it is the perfect convergence of the interdisciplinary program I took at HWS. There is a great confluence of political science theory and economic theory in a real world setting that makes this an awesome first job.”

More than 500 Geneva City School District 2nd, 6th, and 9th graders participated in Geneva 2020 college exposure days.

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Eleven HWS representatives attended the annual Imagining America Conference in October at Syracuse University. Pictured: Faculty members Chris Woodworth, Heather May, Marie-Helene Koffi-Tessio, CCESL Assistant Director Jeremy Wattles, Acting Chair of Writing and Rhetoric Margueritte Murphy, and Professor Beth Belanger.

In the Vandervort Room, candidates for the various positions in the town and city of Geneva gathered for an election forum hosted by the Geneva League of Women Voters and the HWS Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning. The panel was moderated by Professor Judith McKinney.

NY Engagement Academy attended by five HWS faculty and staff members. Alejandra Molina, Beth Belanger, Laurence Erussard, Katie Flowers and Margueritte Murphy.

Nicole O’Connell ’16 and Meaghan Mahoney ’14 were among ap-proximately 1,000 undergraduate students from around the world selected to take part in the Clinton Global Initiative University this year. Former President Bill Clinton launched the University in 2007, modeled after the Clinton Global Initiative which brings together world leaders to take action on global challenges. The organization annually convenes undergraduate students to tackle the same issues and to train the next generation of world leaders. This year, students represented 80 different countries and all 50 states at the event that took place at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

Collaborations and Celebrations

During the 2013-2014 academic year, 31 service-learning courses engaged 740 students.

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Dollian Garo ’15 represented Geneva 2020 at the Community Baby Shower at the Geneva Community Center.

SUNY’s Office of the Education Pipeline is establishing a series of systemic and sustainable regional education networks across the state and bringing together partners who have signed on to strengthen this educational continuum. SUNY’s partners include leaders in Pre-K-12 schools, higher education, business and industry, community organizations, government leaders, parents and other stakeholders who are committed to helping children succeed from birth through careers. Geneva 2020 is the only initiative in the Finger Lakes to coalesce around the collective impact theory and work directly with SUNY’s Cradle to Career (C2C) Alliance. Honorary degree recipients and Geneva 2020 Committee members, Jim L.H.D. ’09 and Jane Gerling L.H.D. ’09, attended the C2C convening in Manhattan in June.

“Being a part of the Geneva and other local schools over the past three years as taught me a substan-tial amount about effective communication, problem solving, as well as the “little joys” that students and tu-tors can bring you in un-expected ways. I certainly plan to utilize the skills I have learned throughout fu-ture experiences, including my fall internship with the Center for Child Advocacy” Jessica Kemp ’15.

Many Community Based Research Projects archived on the City of Geneva’s Civic Innovation Website, a testament to the quality work of HWS students and a nod to the legacy they leave after graduation. www.ideasgeneva.com.

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As part of the Geneva 2020 initiative, nearly a dozen professionals from throughout the community hosted Geneva High School students for job shadowing experiences. The program, held on Wednesday, April 16, gave students a view of careers across a number of professions, including graphic design, law, radio news media, educational administration and the nonprofit sector. The program was organized by the HWS Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) in partnership with the Geneva City School District. “Career readiness is an important part of the Geneva 2020 initiative,” says CCESL Director Katie Flowers. “Today, ninth-grade students from Geneva High School had the opportunity to learn about careers from community members who are engaged in Geneva 2020. This was ’collective impact’ in action, students finished the job shadowing experiences knowing more about prospective careers, and equally important, that their success in school is important to all of us.”

Maxwell Malbouf ’14, E. Zhao ’14, and Hannah Meyer ’14 met with Dr. Leonard Brock of RoctheFuture, Rochester’s Collective Impact Initiative which share similar goals with Geneva 2020.

Bill Warder, senior associate director of admissions and GHS graduate, shared key information with GHS 9th graders when they visited campus as part of Geneva 2020.

Collaborations and Celebrations

Hours contributed to local, national, and international programs: 84,000 – according to www.independentsector.org/volunteer_time the dollar value of a volunteer hour in NYS is $26.45. That’s more than $2.2 million of service.

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When the 2nd graders from West Street Elemen-tary and St. Francis-St. Stephen’s visited in May, we asked them what they might like to be when they grew up. Their wonderful illustrations will be safely kept in CCESL until fall of 2017 when we will return them and ask them what they might need to be thinking about to accomplish that career path (if it’s still the same!)

Results from the Community Based Learning scorecard: More than 90% of the student respondents agreed or strongly agreed that the service-learning takes place over a sustained period of time and reflected via written assignments what they learned, these are consistent with best-practices of community engaged pedagogy and 80% felt that they had important responsibilities in their service-learning projects.

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Center for Community Engagement and Service LearningTrinity Hall

Geneva, NY 14456

Phone: (315) 781-3825E-mail: serve@hws.edu

www.hws.edu/academics/service

Through HWS Compass students are encouraged to explore the many facets of service to society. A four-step program, Compass provides experiences in Community Service, Civic Engagement, and Civic Leadership that chart the course to a life of Engaged Citizenship. Students are connected with service and engagement opportunities on-campus, in the area surrounding Geneva, outside the local region and even internationally. These experiences are meant to help students develop citizenship skills such

as leadership, self-awareness, and recognizing societal needs while making a material change that will help meet identified community needs.