Staff
Meet the MCSP office
staff, find out what they do and how to contact them.
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Director |
David
Schoem |
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| Associate
Director |
Wendy
Woods |
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Administrive Assistant |
Amanda Hooper
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| Community
Coordinator |
Jaimie Philip |
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| Special Projects
Coordinator |
Takisha Lashore |
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| Coord.
of Academic Support |
Kate Gallup |
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| Research
Coordinator |
Lumas Helaire |
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| Coord. Alumni and Events |
Gabriel Slabosky |
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| "Doctor in the House" |
Dr. Terry Joiner |
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| Engineering Liaison |
Lorelle Meadows |
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| LUCY
Director |
Percy
Bates |
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| LUCY
Associate Director |
Joseph
Galura |
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| LUCY
Progam Associate |
Rodolfo
Palma |
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- David
Schoem
As the MCSP Faculty Director, I look forward to getting to know you, as well as each and every MCSP student. Please stop by to say hello whether you see me in my office, in the Couzens cafeteria, in the classroom, or on campus! I have served as the Faculty Director of the Michigan Community Scholars Program since 1999, and I also teach in the Sociology Department.
I teach the MCSP First-Year Seminar, "Conversations on Identity, Diversity, Democracy, and Community," and upper level sociology courses on intergroup relations, education and the American Jewish Community. I have served in the past as LSA Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and UM Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs. My most recent book is College Knowledge: 101 Tips.. I am also co-editor with Joe Galura, Penny Pasque and Jeff Howard of Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity and Learning Communities, a book co-authored in large part by MCSP's faculty, students, staff and community partners. I also edited with Sylvia Hurtado, Intergroup Dialogue: Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community and Workplace.
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- Wendy
Woods
Wendy Woods is the Associate Director of the Michigan Community Scholars
Program and teaches UC 102 and UC 103. She is a former member of the Ann
Arbor City Council and represented the Fifth Ward on the west side
of the city. On the City Council she served on the Parks Advisory Commission,
the Downtown Residential Task Force, and the Energy Commission. She
is a member of the University's Women of Color Task Force, the Board
of Directors for the Huron Valley Girl Scout Council, the Negro Business
and Professional Women's Clubs, and The Links, Inc. Each of these
groups is involved in addressing social ills, engaging the community
in participation, and making Ann Arbor a more livable and vibrant
community. She warmly encourages each student to get to know and to
enjoy Ann Arbor. Her door is always open!
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- Amanda Hooper
Amanda is a recent UM graduate and MCSP alum (Peer Mentor and Advisory Board Member) and has work experience as a community organizer, research assistant, and residence hall desk clerk. She has extensive leadership experience in community service work. In addition to various academic honors at UM, Amanda was a recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award and the Ginsberg Center Award for Service and Social Action.
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Jaimie Philip
Jaimie, a graduate student at the School of Social Work , is returning for her fifth year of involvement with MCSP. She graduated with Honors from Michigan in April 2008 with a BA in Sociology. Jaimie entered MCSP as a first-year student. She returned the following year as a Programming Board Peer Advisor. After a trip to the FCJ Refugee Center in Toronto during the MCSP Alternative Spring Break (ASB) trip, her sophomore year, Jaimie decided to become more involved in SERVE and became a site leader the MCSP ASB trip her junior year. The same year she was MCSP Resident Advisor. During her senior year, Jaimie returned as a MCSP RA and was also on the lead team for SERVE's Alternative Weekends, helping to facilitate service-learning experiences. She also wrote her honors thesis on immigrant experiences of empowerment, reflecting her continuing goal of working on issues affecting immigrant communities.
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Takisha Lashore
Takisha has been with the Michigan Community Scholars Program since her freshmen year at the University of Michigan. She graduated with the first MCSP class in 2003 and is now a Masters student in the School of Social Work. Her areas of interest are Interpersonal Practice/ Children and Youth Services and International Social Work. She is returning as the MCSP Special Projects Coordinator.
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- Kate Gallup
A Master's student in Materials Science and Engineering, Kate is in her fifth year at Michigan . She entered the MCSP program as a Freshman and became a Peer Adviser for Community Service her sophomore year. She worked with the LUCY program to help bring students to campus, and also participated in Alternative Spring Break, in addition to the acting troupe SHOCK (Students Helping Others Choose Knowledgeably) and various other community service activities. She was also president of the multicultural council in Couzens, CAMEO, hosting hall-wide events to spread awareness of issues affecting diversity and multiculturalism. Her junior year she became involved with Habitat for Humanity and was a Minority Peer Adviser Assistant in South Quad. Her senior year she returned to Couzens as the MPA. Her other activities include a member of the Division of Student Affairs Advisory Board and the community relations officer in the Society of Women Engineers. She is very excited to work with programming board and be a resource to MCSP students during the 2008-2009 school year!
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Lumas Helaire
Dr. Lumas J. Helaire is a program manager for the Office of Academic and Multicultural Initiatives at the University of Michigan. He specializes in developing curriculums for pre-college and college programs. He is lead coordinator for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. GEAR UP is a federally funded state-wide initiative aimed at increasing the number of students from low-income areas that attend and succeed in higher education. He is co-coordinator of Leaders and Best (LAB) college mentoring program at the University of Michigan. He is also are co-founder Obvious Inc. They work to enhance positive youth development with adolescent males and enhance the professional and personal growth of young adult males by training males in college in mentoring middle school boys. Dr. Helaire received his Ph.D. in Education & Psychology from the University of Michigan and his B.S. with honors from Morehouse College, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate.
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Gabriel Slabosky
Gabe graduated from the University of Michigan in the Spring of 2008 with a B.A. in Economics. After graduation, Gabe organized an organic garden at a summer camp in Three Rivers , MI , where he grew vegetables and built a composting WC. As an undergraduate he spent three years in MCSP as both a Community Service Peer Advisor, a Resident Advisor, and intergroup dialogue facilitator. Gabe also spent a summer performing a community needs assessment with MCSP partner Focus: HOPE. In the future he hopes to travel and live on a commune before settling down to graduate school and beyond.
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Dr. Terry Joiner
Dr. Terence Joiner will be leading the new “Doctor in the House?program this year at MCSP. Dr. Joiner is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. Throughout his career, he has had an interest in serving underserved children. Dr. Joiner started his career at a community health clinic with the Wayne County Health Department. In 1987, he moved to the Henry Ford Health System, where he worked in Ann Arbor and Detroit . In 1993, he founded the Pediatric Free Clinic at the University of Michigan . In 1993, this clinic was renamed the Marshall H. Becker Memorial Clinic. In 1994, Dr. Joiner helped establish Ypsilanti Pediatrics. This was a collaborative program with the Washtenaw County Health Department. The primary goal was to serve underserved children in south Ypsilanti. Presently, Dr. Joiner has taught in the Michigan Community Scholars Program since 2002. He has been a guest lecturer for classes in the Health Sciences Scholars Program. He also teaches medical students in the medical school.
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Lorelle Meadows
Dr. Lorelle Meadows is Coordinator of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and a research scientist in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. She serves as MCSP's advisor/liaison for our engineering students. To contact Lorelle, call 734-647-7035, email lmeadows@umich.edu or visit her at:
Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center
1221 Beal Avenue, Room 2466
Her primary research focus is nearshore marine hydrodynamics and she is the director of the University's Ocean Engineering Laboratory, the environmental laboratory and field research branch of the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory. For the past three years, she has served as a primary technical instructor for Engineering 100 and has introduced engineering design challenges into her section to meet the needs of community based organizations in southeast Michigan in an environmentally and socially sustainable way. In addition, she has co-taught Engineering 490: Engineering for Community in which students from across campus at all levels interact to design solutions to engineering problems facing community based organizations both here and abroad.
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Percy Bates
Professor Bates is the Director of the Lives of Urban Children and Youth Initiative (LUCY). He is also Director of Programs for Educational Opportunity (PEO) in the School of Education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A psychologist and special educator, he is a Professor of Education at Michigan, where he has been a faculty member since 1965. During his tenure at Michigan, he has served as an Assistant Dean, Chairperson of the Special Education Program, and Division Director for Curriculum, Teaching and Psychological Studies in the School of Education. He has also served as the Chair of the Higher Education Commission of the National Alliance of Black School Educators and has had a tour of duty as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Education in the Department of Education in Washington, DC.
Percy has authored or co-authored several scholarly books on desegregation, and has served as an expert witness with the U.S. District Court, the U.S. Department of Justice, and also acted as a member of the Secretary of Education's Title IX Commission on Opportunities in Athletics. Percy has worked with dozens of school districts assisting them with assessing educational programs as well as dealing with equity, gender, and desegregation issues that teachers and administrators encounter on a day-to-day basis.
Dr. Bates has represented U of M for more than 15 years as their faculty athletics representative to the Big Ten Conference and the NCAA and is the past Chair of the Division I Management Council.
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Joseph
Galura
A member of the First-Year Seminar Faculty in LS&A and Co-Director of LUCY: The Lives of Urban Children and Youth Initiative (a two-year curricular pathway for students interested in teaching, urban and community studies, or both), Joseph also serves as the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning's Director of Project Community (peer-facilitated service-learning courses in Sociology). Additionally, he is a Faculty Associate in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, and a Field Instructor at the School of Social Work. Recently Joseph's articles have been published in Teaching Sociology (2006), Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans (2006), Michigan Journal of College Student Development (2005), and Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universities (2000). His latest books are Filipino Women in Detroit: 1945-1955, with Emily P. Lawsin (2002), Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities, edited with Penny A. Pasque, David Schoem and Jeffrey Howard (2004), and Tapestry: Filipinos in Michigan, 1900-1950, also with Emily P. Lawsin (forthcoming).
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Rodolfo Palma
Rodolfo Palma has worked with the LUCY program for the past 3 years. He is trained as a community organizer, and is also a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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Faculty
MCSP has its very own faculty
that teaches first year seminars in the close and comfortable rooms
of Couzens Hall. Meet them and find out more about the broad range of
knowledge and opportunities they have to offer.
- Faculty
from various schools and colleges teach our sought after First Year
Seminars
- English
faculty members teach our English 124/125 courses in our MCSP community
- GSI teaches
our community service course
- First year
students facilitate small sections of community service courses.
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Naomi Andre
Naomi André is Associate Professor in Women's Studies and the Residential College at the University of Michigan . She received her BA in music from Barnard College and MA and PhD in musicology from Harvard University . Her research focuses on nineteenth-century opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race. Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, and women composers. Her book, Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera was published by Indiana University Press (2006). Her current research interests extend to constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity in opera. She is co-editing an essay collection on how blackness is represented in opera; this book is under contract with the University of Illinois Press.
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Charles
Behling
At Michigan, in addition to being a member of the Psychology Department, Charles is co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations, a program which offers dialogues, courses, and workshops on issues of racism, sexism, heterosexism, anti-Semitism and other religious discriminations, and other issues of social justice. Before coming to Michigan, Charles was for 20 years professor and department chair at Lake Forest College , and then for seven years professor and director of undergraduate studies at the University of Buffalo. At both Lake Forest and Buffalo, Charles won awards voted by the student body for excellence in teaching, and at both institutions, he won awards for the promotion of multicultural diversity.
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George
Cooper
George is a Lecturer in the Department of English and teaches primarily in the Department's Sweetland Writing Center. Through the Writing Center, Mr. Cooper works with students and their writing in a variety of venues. He works one-to-one with students in the Center's Writing Workshop, a service for students in LS&A courses who seek feedback with their writing. He co-coordinates and teaches in the Peer Tutoring Program, a program of well-trained and diverse undergraduate writing tutors who consult with their peers. And Mr. Cooper teaches the first year writing requirements, Practicum, for students desiring an undergrad, writing intensive course, and Introductory Composition.
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Jim
Crowfoot
Jim is an emeritus professor of natural resources and environment. He is former dean of the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at UM and former President of Antioch College. Jim's current living and work focuses on contributing to environmental and social sustainability. His past teaching and research has been in the areas of environmental advocacy and dispute resolution, organizational theory and management and strategies and processes for reducing sexism and racism. Jim Crowfoot also received the "UM Teacher of the Year: Golden Apple Award" for the Year 2007-2008.
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- Patricia Gurin
Patricia Gurin is the Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor, Emerita, of Psychology and Women's Studies. She was an expert witness for the University's defense of its affirmative action policies. She has written extensively on the political and psychological implications of group identity as well as the educational benefits and challenges that diversity presents. Now retired from the Psychology Department, she served as its department chair for ten years. She now directs a ten-university research project examining the effects of intergroup dialogue and the processes that go on within dialogues that account for their effects.
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Janet Hart
Janet Hart is an Associate Professor of Anthropology. Recently, she has taught courses on cities, oral histories, social movements, and anthropological approaches to Europe, as well as on problems of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and globalization. She has written about resistance movements, political prisoners, gender in relation to nationalism, and the black presence in Europe. Her current research considers questions of kinship and belonging among black French citizens of Caribbean origin in Paris, France.
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Ken K. Ito
Ken Ito is an associate professor of Japanese literature. He works on the connections between texts and social contexts in 20th-century Japanese fiction. He is currently researching the portrayal of families in melodramatic novels.
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Christine Modey
Christine Modey is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Sweetland Writing Center , where she teaches Writing Practicum and Writing Workshop. She holds a B.A. in chemistry and English from Hope College , in Holland , Michigan , and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware . She has taught first-year writing courses on the themes of art and technology; suffering, justice, and community; physicians and their patients; and the history of the book, but this is her first course taught for the Michigan Community Scholars and her first attempt to bring together two of her favorite subjects: writing and food.
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Louis Nagel
Louis combines an active concert and teaching schedule and is noted for his lecture-recitals for musicians, school children and retirees. He has performed in highly acclaimed solo recitals and concerto concerts in major American and European cities. On the piano faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music, he has also taught at the Amalli Coast Festival in Italy, The National Music Camp in Warsaw, Poland and the Adamant Music School in Adamant, Vermont. Dr. Nagel is a sought after presenter and clinician at state and national conferences. Louis Nagel holds three degrees in piano performance from The Juilliard School where his teachers included Rosina Lhevinne, Josef Raieff, and Joseph Bloch. Subsequent studies were with Vladimir Ashkenazy. His CD, "Four Centuries of J.S. Bach" has been praised by Murray Perahia and David Dubal. Dr. Louis Nagel is a Steinway artist.
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Luis Sfeir-Younis
Luis Sfeir-Younis is a lecturer in sociology and teaches a 200-level sociology course in MCSP at Couzens Hall. He is a very popular professor, much-loved by his students and colleagues.
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