Category Archives: CUE Affiliates

Catherine Compton-Lilly

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Associate Professor, Curriculum and Instruction

Expertise: multicultural education, childhood studies, teacher education

[Email] [Webpage]

Project Area: Engaging to Close the Gap: Community, School District, University

Project Activities/Courses:

  • Provide tutoring program for three community centers paired with their relevant MMSD schools. [project course page]
  • Provide coordination/organizational support to nascent Parent Involvement group at BGCDC/Family Voices. [project course page]
  • Conduct formative assessments of these tutoring, family advocacy and tutor-training methods, including surveys and feedback sessions that incorporate the voices of students, families and community partners to share with MMSD and other community centers. [project course page]
  • Expand to other centers and schools; working with MMSD. [project course page]

Gloria Ladson-Billings

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Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs

Expertise: multicultural education, childhood studies, teacher education

[Email] [Webpage]

Project Area: Engaging to Close the Gap: Community, School District, University

Project Activities/Courses:

  • Provide tutoring program for three community centers paired with their relevant MMSD schools. [project course page]
  • Provide coordination/organizational support to nascent Parent Involvement group at BGCDC/Family Voices. [project course page]
  • Conduct formative assessments of these tutoring, family advocacy and tutor-training methods, including surveys and feedback sessions that incorporate the voices of students, families and community partners to share with MMSD and other community centers. [project course page]
  • Expand to other centers and schools; working with MMSD. [project course page]

Shannon Sparks

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Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies

Expertise:

  • Maternal & child health and well-being
  • Health care decision-making & treatment seeing behavior
  • Health disparities and their determinants
  • Child caregiving & alternative caregivers
  • Medical anthropology
  • Community-based participatory research
  • Ethnographic & qualitative methods

[Email] [Webpage]

Project Area: Southwest Madison

Project Course:

  • School of Human Ecology’s courses on community-based research, Fall 2012 [syllabus] and Spring 2013 [syllabus].

Brian D. Christens

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Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Community & Environmental Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Population Health Sciences
Associate Director for Research, Center for Nonprofits

Expertise: community development, youth development, health promotion, action research, community-based research

[Email] [Webpage]

Project Area: Southwest Madison

Project Course:

  • School of Human Ecology’s courses on community-based research, Fall 2012 [syllabus] and Spring 2013 [syllabus].

Sam Dennis, Jr.

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Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture

Expertise:

  • Landscape architecture (parks and park systems; urban outdoor spaces; not residential landscaping)
  • Community design (working with communities to design and build shared community spaces), Children’s environments (planning, design and evaluation of outdoor spaces where children spend a large part of their lives such as: daycare, preschool, K-12, church, hospital, museum)
  • Nature play: research on importance of free play in natural settings for health and well-being of children and youth
  • Built environment and health: research concerning the environmental supports and barriers to active living, particularly with medically underserved populations

[Email] [Webpage]

Project Area: Southwest Madison

Project Course:

Wisconsin Without Borders

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A CUE partner by virtue of our relationship with the Global Health Institute (GHI), WWB is co-chaired by Lori DiPrete Brown and Beth Tryon. WWB is the brainchild of the late Peter Bosscher, an engineering professor who worked and did research in countries such as Uganda and wondered how to maximize impact of service to those developing communities. The premise of WWB is that if the academy works across disciplines, geographic boundaries, and in the same philosophy of mutual respect as a Science Shop, more issues can be addressed efficiently for faster progress.

WWB focuses primarily on credit-bearing service-learning activities for undergraduates, graduate and professional students, with mentorship from faculty, researchers and community members. It employs principles of community based research and action and provides a conceptual framework that aims to foster synergy among existing campus programs, student organizations and community partners.

Contact:
Lori DiPrete Brown, Associate Director for Education and Engagement, Global Health Institute [email]
Beth Tryon, Assistant Director for Community-Based Learning, Morgridge Center for Public Service [email]
Website: http://www.wwb.wisc.edu/ (under construction)

CUE Projects:

  • GreenSummer Freiburg, Study Abroad and Internship
  • GreenSummer Freiburg in Madison, Summer Course

 

Slow Food UW

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Slow Food UW is a campus student organization who are interested in the question of where our food comes from, geographically and culturally. Started in 2007, Slow Food UW is part of a global movement that appreciates the stories behind the meals we eat. UW Madison is one of the first universities in the nation to start a university chapter of Slow Food. Our group builds on years of success in uniting local chefs, farmers, and students in bringing the rich traditions of slow, sustainable, and local eating to campus.

Expertise: food and health, environment, sustainable agriculture, social justice, food sovereignty

Contact:
1127 University Ave
Email: slowfooduw[at]gmail.com
Or contact specific Slow Food UW leaders
Website: http://slowfooduw.com/

CUE Projects:

Elizabeth Tryon

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CUE Program Chair and Assistant Director of the Morgridge Center

Expertise: non-profit organization, science shop, organizational development, partnership building

[Email] [Webpage]

CUE Projects:

CUE-related Courses:

  • CUE South Madison, Spring 2011
  • DELTA Best Practices, Fall 2012
  • CP620; Practices and Pedagogies for Community-Based Learning, Fall 2012

Margaret Nellis

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Manager, Academic Partnerships, University Health Services & Faculty Associate, Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Human Ecology

Expertise: Connecting key health and community development issues to the academic work of the university through place-based learning, service learning, cultural tours and community-based research. Partnering with faculty development initiatives on campus to identify and promote educational practices that foster student learning, health and well-being. Linking students and instructors with the people, places and cultural assets of South Madison to learn while contributing to the revitalization of the Park Street corridor (the gateway to campus).

[Email] [Webpage]

CUE Projects: