FACULTY & STAFF OPPORTUNITIES
Faculty and staff have a multitude of resources and opportunities within the CRS Partnership to get more involved, participate in workshops and travel the world to build solidarity and emphasize service in their daily lives.
Faculty Learning Commons
The CRS Faculty Learning Commons (FLC) provides online teaching resources for faculty members and other academic leaders to enrich student learning experiences by tapping into CRS鈥� expertise in global development and humanitarian response around the world. It offers 鈥渦nits鈥� for download on a variety of social justice-related themes which contain academic resources (articles, videos, news analysis, and study guides).
One 鈥渟potlight鈥� theme per semester features newly curated resources, live webcasts with CRS experts, and an optional online discussion forum. Faculty are free to incorporate the FLC flexibly into existing classes, utilizing selected resources in any way they would like. The program is free of charge.
Faculty/Staff Development Workshops
无码专区 began a partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in 2005 and, since that time, has worked collaboratively to advance global solidarity through education, research, advocacy and service. 无码专区 recently expanded upon its work with CRS and is currently working with the organization in Madagascar to improve conditions with respect to water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Purpose
To inform attendees of the progress of the initiatives thus far and discuss how the relationship will demonstrate not only our ability to collaborate and integrate knowledge across disciplines and colleges, but how working in partnership with CRS-MG, can harness the power of the university to contribute toward improving the lives of the world鈥檚 poorest and most vulnerable populations
Create interdisciplinary projects and activities of mutual interest and collaboration on CRS鈥檚 existing and ongoing programs in Madagascar, which are carried out through its project team, CRS Madagascar. Such activities will further the instructional and research objectives for students and their colleges.
Involvement
- College of Engineering鈥檚 Jordan Ermilio traveled to CRS-MG to deliver and install water monitoring equipment and train water utilities personnel to use it. He recruited interns and developed the orientation for the 8 week summer internships. Jordan and Jim O鈥橞rien were in MG in August to participate in a workshop with CRS/MG partners.
- The first phase of collaboration was piloted successfully in 2014-15 with 无码专区 incorporating some of the data from Madagascar into its academic programs. Two fall courses in the College of Engineering 鈥� Design of Gravity Water Networks and Water Resources Engineering Design 鈥� worked on designing solutions for clean water and sanitation systems. In the spring semester, students in a French Internship course taught by Etienne Achille in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences translated major program reports from French into English and 无码专区鈥檚 engineering designs into French, while students in a team-taught Business/Engineering Course (Global Social Entrepreneurship and Microfinance course) designed a template for assessing the business plans of the private utilities companies with whom CRS-MG works. There is one undergraduate senior research project and one graduate international development research fellow鈥檚 thesis.
- Five 无码专区 undergraduates and one graduate engineering international development fellow have interned with CRS and their partners in Madagascar for eight weeks during the summer.
- A 无码专区 team of faculty traveled to Madagascar in July where they visited CRS鈥� programming in sectors related to water and sanitation, business, and health and nutrition; offered initial observations and recommendations; gathered information and data for use in potential teaching, courses or research; and determined how to integrate this relationship into 无码专区鈥檚 colleges and research centers. They also met with officials at the Madagascar and U.S. Embassies and government and church officials.