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This is what we do:
Michigan Community Scholars Program Components
Community Service Opportunities LUCY - The LUCY program (Lives of Urban Children and Youth) integrates traditional academic coursework with personal reflection and community involvement. Our goal is to help university students understand the effects of social history, culture, and the social identity of children and youth. This will prepare students to be effective, caring, and engaged workers in urban settings in our nation's cities. More About LUCY SHOCK
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entirely student-run program, SHOCK (Students Helping Others Choose
Knowledgeably) began under the name of the MCSP Drama Troupe during
the 2001-2002 year as a way to get MCSP students involved in the greater
Ann Arbor community. Using original skits focusing on substance abuse,
SHOCK travels to Ann Arbor fifth grade classrooms encouraging students
to remain drug free. More About
SHOCK The Michigan Community Scholars Program believes in students. We trust our students’ good will and optimism. We value our students’ opinions. We depend upon our students’ leadership and energy. We marvel at our students’ talents and ideas. We take seriously our students’ intellectual curiosity and critical analysis. And we admire our students’ commitment to working in communities and helping to build a more just society. College is a time of personal growth, exploration and independence. But growth, exploration and independence require a supportive community to give us both the safety and the challenge to move forward productively and successfully. It takes people who care about us to both help us remember the values and ideals we grew up with and to broaden our vision to see new perspectives and ideals. The Michigan Community Scholars Program, through its courses, programs, and staff, strives to be the kind of community in which you will have the opportunity to assert your independence and search for meaning and purpose in your personal life, your social relations, and your professional pursuits. Community, however, is about more than just personal growth. Community also is about groups of people and relationships. What are the responsibilities of one person to the next – as friend, roommate, neighbor, study partner, classmate? Expanding one’s comfort zone and learning to live and befriend people who come from different backgrounds is an important part of community. And while celebrations may bring communities together, learning how to manage conflict and disagreement in a fair manner may have even more long lasting implications. Students in the Michigan Community Scholars Program tell us that it is the close bonds built among diverse groups of students that have been the most meaningful aspect of their college experience. Community also is about issues of social justice. What is our responsibility as individuals, as groups, as citizens to address issues of inequality and intolerance? What should we know and how should we act when we enter someone else’s community to do service? To what extent should our community service work be beneficial to the community we are serving, to our own learning and understanding, and/or to the personal satisfaction that comes from helping? Do we do the most good by serving food to the homeless, by lobbying city hall for new policies, or by being a productive member of a strong economy? These are questions and issues that students in the Michigan Community Scholars Program think and study about with leading faculty in small, discussion-based seminar classes. And then there is the question of grades, the decision of choosing a major, and thinking about a career. The Michigan Community Scholars Program first helps students make the transition from high school learning to college level learning. It helps students adjust to the new environment, the new independence, and the new academic demands. It also helps by setting a tone of collaboration among students, whereby our expectation is that every student will succeed and excel in their studies at Michigan. We offer outstanding faculty, mastery study groups, academic advising, and various workshops. We are there to help students think about their lives today and their lives tomorrow. Finally, this is a fun program. With students organizing and leading activities, heading off to do community service projects, playing sports together, debating critical theories with world class research faculty, staying up late to study with a neighbor, taking a seminar with a friend, eating pizza in the hallway after midnight, going to the theatre as a group, eating dinner with a faculty member -it’s what an undergraduate, scholarly community is supposed to be. We welcome you to MCSP's Fall semester and wish you a personally and intellectually fulfilling semester!
The Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP) opened its doors to students in Fall 1999 under the sponsorship of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and University Housing. LSA Interim Dean Patricia Gurin met with students during the prior winter semester and responded to requests that a living learning program be established with an emphasis on community. David Schoem, Faculty Director, and Penny A. Pasque, Program Director, were the founding directors of MCSP together with Rosa Maria Cabello, Administrative Assistant. The program quickly developed and put into practice a broad set of courses, programs and initiatives related to the evolving goals and mission, which today reads, in part “The Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP) is a residential learning community emphasizing deep learning, engaged community, meaningful civic engagement/community service learning and intercultural understanding and dialogue. Students, faculty, community partners and staff think critically about issues of community, seek to model a just, diverse, and democratic community, and wish to make a difference throughout their lives as participants and leaders involved in local, national and global communities.” MCSP is distinguished by its outstanding cross-disciplinary faculty, its unequaled student leaders, its dedicated community partners, and its exemplary staff. All who participate in the MCSP community seek to lead lives of commitment and make a difference in the world. MCSP has been recognized on campus for its superior retention rates and its highly diverse student body, both of which exceed campus rates. It has been recognized by the Ginsberg Center as the Outstanding Program of the Year, and its staff have won awards as Outstanding Staff Person of the Year (Wendy Woods) and LSA Spotlight Award (Rosa Maria Cabello). Students have been recognized as New Outstanding Student Leader (Amy Borer), Outstanding New Student Organization (MCSP Programming Board), and Outstanding Student Program (SHOCK). MCSP faculty and students are leaders on campus in areas of community-university partnerships, public scholarship, community service-learning, diversity and multiculturalism, student government and other university committees, and undergraduate education. Nationally, MCSP and its faculty and students have been recognized by CNN, Newsweek, and in many scholarly and public newspapers and TV (see below). MCSP has been highlighted at numerous academic conferences with presentations by faculty, staff, and students alike. MCSP faculty, staff, students, community partners, and national colleagues participated together in authoring the book, Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities, edited by Joseph Galura, Penny A. Pasque, David Schoem, and Jeffrey Howard published by OCSL Press. The Lives of Urban Children and Youth (LUCY) has been a critical component of MCSP. Founded by Stella Raudenbush, along with Joe Galura, it has filled an important role in higher education to prepare students for work and understanding in partnership with urban communities for the benefit of urban children and youth. Past and Present MCSP Community The MCSP community has been served by its outstanding staff, faculty, student leaders, and community partners. We salute all of them and list them here below. Director David Schoem 1999 – presentProgram Director Penny A. Pasque 1999 – 2002 Interim Program Director Carly Southworth 2002 – 2003 Associate Director Wendy Woods 2003 – present Administrative
Assistant Community
Coordinator Academic
Support Coord. Special Projects Coordinator Evaluation/Research
Coordinator Academic
Advisors Engineering Liaison LUCY
Staff Couzens
Hall Directors MCSP
Advisory Board (all years): Resident
Advisors Krishna
Chandran 2000-2001 Danny
Asnani 2001-2002 Danny
Asnani 2002-2003 Lindsay
Bozicevich 2003-2005 Lindsay
Bozicevich 2004 -2005
Raymond Chai 2005-2006
Deena Marshall 2006-2007
Gabriela Cobb 2007-2008
Jelani Bayi 2008-2009 Peer
Advisors Amit Agarwal
2000-2001 Aisha
Benton 2001-2002 Akshay
Bajpaee 2002-2003 Orly Coblens
2003-2004 Garbriel
Slabosky 2004-2005
Richard Lam 2005-2006
Ariste Sallas-Brookwell 2006-2007
Christina Hong 2007-2008
Anna Berry-Krumrey 2008-2009 Peer
Mentors Andre
Brown (Lead Peer Mentor) 2002-2003 Andre
Brown (Lead Peer Mentor) 2003 -2004 David
Kornfield (Lead Peer Mentor) 2004-2005 Krystal Marie Lepoudre-Johnston (Lead Peer Mentor) 2005-2006
Garrison Paige (Lead Peer Mentor) 2006-2007
David Hines 2007-2008
Jessica Best 2008-2009 Technology
Assistants/Webmaster Ginsberg
Grant Staff
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