[{"id":3233,"date":"2022-08-17T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/comart\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2022-08-17T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:15:31","slug":"new-york-arts-program-offering-virtual-info-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/2022\/08\/17\/new-york-arts-program-offering-virtual-info-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Arts Program Offering Virtual Info Sessions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Arts Program, a semester-long program offering advanced training and internships in New York City, will host four virtual sessions online. More information is available on the New York Arts Program website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Arts Program, a semester-long program offering advanced training and internships in New York City, will host four virtual sessions online. More information is available on the New York Arts Program website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":3075,"date":"2021-04-05T23:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/comart\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2021-04-05T23:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T03:43:26","slug":"welcome-to-allegheny-kt-shorb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/2021\/04\/05\/welcome-to-allegheny-kt-shorb\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Allegheny kt shorb!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Department of Communication, Film, and Theatre is thrilled to announce that kt shorb will join the faculty this coming fall! Professor shorb comes to us from the University of Texas where they are completing a Ph.D. in the Performance as Public Practice program. Their research focuses on how queer people of color performers create temporal pockets that can only be described as time travel. In Austin, Professor shorb is the producing artistic director of the Generic Ensemble Company, an ensemble that makes the invisible visible through bold, socially relevant, body-centered theatre. Professor shorb also holds a B.M. in Composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and an M.A. in Radio-Televison-Film from The University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

Welcome Professor kt shorb!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Communication, Film, and Theatre is thrilled to announce that kt shorb will join the faculty this coming fall! Professor shorb comes to us from the University of Texas where they are completing a Ph.D. in the Performance as Public Practice program. Their research focuses on how queer people of color performers create […]<\/p>\n

Continue Reading “Welcome to Allegheny kt shorb!”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2860,"date":"2020-08-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/comart\/2020\/08\/05\/allegheny-college-professor-emily-chivers-yochim-selected-as-mellon-periclean-faculty-leader\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:00:00","slug":"allegheny-college-professor-emily-chivers-yochim-selected-as-mellon-periclean-faculty-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/2020\/08\/05\/allegheny-college-professor-emily-chivers-yochim-selected-as-mellon-periclean-faculty-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny College Professor Emily Chivers Yochim Selected as Mellon Periclean Faculty Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily Chivers Yochim, Ph.D., associate professor in the Allegheny College Department of Communication, Film and Theatre, is one of 25 faculty members selected by Project Pericles to teach new, innovative courses in the Andrew W. Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program\"™\" in the Humanities.<\/p>\n

\"Emily<\/a>
Emily Chivers Yochim, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This program connects the humanities and liberal arts learning to challenges facing the wider campus community and society more broadly. In collaboration with community partners, Mellon Periclean Faculty Leaders (PFLs) create courses across the humanities that incorporate community-based projects addressing six grand challenges: Climate Change, Education Access, Immigration, Mass Incarceration, Race and Inequality, and Voter Engagement. Project Pericles provides a grant of $4,000 for each PFL to support these civic engagement activities on their campus and in their communities.<\/p>\n

Through the PFL program, Yochim will teach a course titled Media Ethnography. Students in the course will conduct interviews with community members to produce The Meadiaville Listening Project, a podcast featuring stories about entanglements of media and everyday life in Meadville. Upcoming seasons of the podcast will focus on the ongoing opioid crisis and Meadville\u2019s recovery community. Yochim will develop and teach this course in partnership with Meadville Calendar, an organization that provides a community platform for promoting local events and initiatives, and Not One More Northwest PA, a drug abuse prevention program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Periclean Faculty Leadership Program is a fantastic opportunity to deepen the collaborations between The Meadiaville Listening Project and the Meadville community,\u201d Yochim said. \u201cStudents in the class have loved the relationships that they have developed with Meadville community members through the Meadiaville podcast, and this grant will help us to make those relationships even stronger. I\u2019m very much looking forward to partnering with Meadville Calendar and Not One More Northwest PA to explore how local media can contribute to tackling big, complicated issues like the opioid epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Project Pericles is a consortium of more than 30 colleges and universities that promotes civic engagement within higher education and is based in New York City. Allegheny is one of the original 10 schools on which Project Pericles was founded in 2000.<\/p>\n

David Roncolato, Ph.D., is director of civic engagement in the Allegheny Gateway and the college\u2019s Project Pericles program director. \u201cThis is a wonderful initiative from Project Pericles,\u201d Roncolato said. \u201cI am thrilled that Emily applied and was selected to represent Allegheny College. She will be a remarkable contributor to this Project Pericles community of scholars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presidents and provosts on each campus nominated faculty members with demonstrated leadership potential who can make significant contributions on their campuses and in their communities. Nominations were submitted in collaboration with one or more community partners, ranging from an abbess in a nunnery to the acting assistant commissioner from the department of corrections. Community partners provided letters of support, making the vision for these courses powerful. Academic experts serving as outside evaluators then reviewed all applications before final selections were made.<\/p>\n

Project Pericles\u2019 outside evaluators were impressed with the excellent quality of the proposals and commented, \u201cThis cohort of proposals has tremendous potential to influence pedagogy on liberal arts campuses across the nation. Each in its own way pushes the envelope around what liberal learning can entail\u2014inviting new approaches to civic engagement, activist learning, and community-based education,\u201d and \u201cEach will make a difference in the lives of their students, in the quality of life of their communities, and in the teaching of the humanities.\u201d<\/p>\n

This newly selected cohort of PFLs will spend 2020-2021 in conversation with their community partners to fine-tune their community-based projects and course requirements before the courses are taught in 2021-2022. The faculty represent a diverse and dynamic group of professors from recent Ph.D.s to full professors and department chairs in a wide range of disciplines including: Asian Studies, Culture and Economy, Education, English, Environmental Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Latinx Studies, Media and Communications, Music, Peace and Social Justice Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Rhetoric Studies, Spanish, Theater, and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.<\/p>\n

This select group joins an earlier cohort of Mellon PFLs and expands the vibrant, national community of PFLs dedicated to incorporating civic engagement into the curriculum while empowering students to use their academic knowledge to tackle real-world problems. PFLs reflect together and inspire each other. As part of the program, PFLs share their pedagogical approaches, experiences, and evaluations with higher education, more generally, through scholarly presentations and publications. They have a tremendous influence on their colleagues on their campus and across the nation, exemplifying how the humanities are enhanced by meaningful campus-community relationships.<\/p>\n

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Eugene M. Lang Foundation supported this national initiative, recognizing the power of the PFL Program to highlight the relevancy of the humanities. Project Pericles shares with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation the goal of supporting the humanities, and the liberal arts more generally, in long-term sustainable ways, and in addressing real-world concerns. Prior support was provided by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations (AVDF) and The Teagle Foundation. Additionally, AVDF recently awarded Project Pericles $300,000 to launch a PFL Program in STEM and Social Sciences, complementing the Mellon PFL Program in the Humanities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Chivers Yochim, Ph.D., associate professor in the Allegheny College Department of Communication, Film and Theatre, is one of 25 faculty members selected by Project Pericles to teach new, innovative courses in the Andrew W. Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program in the Humanities. Emily Chivers Yochim, Ph.D. This program connects the humanities and liberal […]<\/p>\n

Continue Reading “Allegheny College Professor Emily Chivers Yochim Selected as Mellon Periclean Faculty Leader”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2859,"date":"2020-05-27T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/comart\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2020-05-27T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:09:00","slug":"allegheny-alumni-journalists-discuss-local-storytelling-amid-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/2020\/05\/27\/allegheny-alumni-journalists-discuss-local-storytelling-amid-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny Alumni Journalists Discuss Local Storytelling Amid the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year ago, Marley Parish, Alex Weidenhof and Ellis Giacomelli had just received their diplomas from Allegheny College. They now find themselves as community journalists working for local newspapers and covering the impacts of the worldwide pandemic that is perhaps the biggest ongoing story since World War II.<\/p>\n

All three of the 2019 graduates and former staff members of The Campus<\/em> found their callings at local newspapers \u2014 Parish works for the Centre Daily Times<\/em>, Weidenhof at the Cranberry Eagle<\/em>, both in Pennsylvania, and Giacomelli at the Watertown Daily Times<\/em> in upstate New York.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Centre Daily Times reporter Marley Parish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe only thing you can plan for in life is uncertainty, and the pandemic reaffirms that,\u201d Parish says. \u201cCovering such a complex story is a responsibility I do not take lightly. I pay attention to the numbers \u2014 how many people have been tested, the number of confirmed cases, the death toll. That data, paired with personal stories, localizes a global situation and highlights how Centre County has been impacted. I\u2019ve learned more than I thought possible in nearly three months of COVID-19 coverage. It\u2019s not easy, but I know it has and will continue to make me a better storyteller.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Weidenhof: \u201cThe Campus<\/em>\u2019 adviser my freshman year, Cheryl Hatch, always told us that reporting is about being able to adapt. This is absolutely good practice for that. In the span of a couple of months, we\u2019ve had to change all of our beats, become health reporters, then labor reporters, then move back into our beats while still figuring out how to cover the pandemic. That\u2019s at least something I can take away from this positively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the mostly rural and suburban areas they report on have not been \u201chotspots\u201d for the coronavirus outbreak, the pandemic still works its way into almost every story they cover.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a journalist, my primary role is to inform the public through storytelling, and good storytelling demands context,\u201d Giacomelli says. \u201cSo at this point, stories about school board budget proposals or hospital wing construction cannot be told without addressing how the COVID-19 crisis may have an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSince mid-March, I\u2019ve written perhaps a handful of stories that haven\u2019t in some way pertained to the virus,\u201d says Weidenhof. \u201cThe pandemic and the resulting economic impact of mitigation efforts have wormed their way into every facet of a local newspaper\u2019s pages, from work and school closures, to health worries, to municipal governments figuring out how to prepare for the ensuing drop in tax revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"
Cranberry Eagle reporter Alex Weidenhof.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These journalists have found their news sources and most of the general public don\u2019t harbor hostility toward the news media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started a year ago, I was shocked at how forthcoming and accessible most people were,\u201d Parish says. \u201cThat responsiveness has only grown. The media is no stranger to being vilified, but at the end of the day, we\u2019re storytellers tasked with reporting the truth. County commissioners, public health professionals and school administrators recognize the widespread feeling of uncertainty, and most want to provide answers. Officials aren\u2019t embarrassed to admit when they don\u2019t have them yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGauging sources is a big part of being a good journalist, and it\u2019s important to strike a balance between being sensitive to and empathetic about deeply personal stories, and advocating to sources that those stories be told,\u201d Giacomelli says. \u201cEvery source is different. Some people love to talk \u2014 about anything and everything \u2014 and others, not so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Allegheny education definitely helped them navigate a new career in rapidly changing times, they say.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Watertown Daily Times reporter Ellis Giacomelli.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAllegheny\u2019s Journalism in the Public Interest Program pushed me to honor that eagerness and develop an understanding of journalistic integrity and the essentiality of journalistic freedom in democratic systems,\u201d says Giacomelli. The small, but powerful, team of Allegheny educators committed to the JPI program has worked tirelessly to engage students in the art, history and the profession of journalism. I chose to be part of the professional journalism world because of them, and continue to learn more every day. And The Campus<\/em> showed me what a newsroom is \u2014 a collection of eccentric people, often buzzed on caffeine and always ready to tell stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Says Weidenhof: \u201cA year before this all hit, I was writing a fake article about a make-believe measles outbreak for my epidemiology final. Now, I\u2019m writing real articles about an actual coronavirus pandemic for a newspaper. This is significantly less fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAllegheny taught me to attack challenges head-on, and The Campus<\/em> prepared me for just about anything,\u201d says Parish. \u201cFormer staffers will tell you that my unofficial title as editor was \u2018crisis manager.\u2019 With computers crashing, stories falling through and technology snafus happening more often than I still care to admit, we overcame every challenge. Fortitude is the mentality I continue to live by. In the event that I forget, my office \u2014 located in a State College apartment \u2014 is decorated with framed Campus<\/em> newspapers, my Allegheny diploma, and my email usually has a message from former professors who continue to encourage me from afar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year ago, Marley Parish, Alex Weidenhof and Ellis Giacomelli had just received their diplomas from Allegheny College. They now find themselves as community journalists working for local newspapers and covering the impacts of the worldwide pandemic that is perhaps the biggest ongoing story since World War II. All three of the 2019 graduates and […]<\/p>\n

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\"Charles<\/a>
Charles Allen Ross<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Allegheny College senior Charles Allen Ross has been awarded the Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life, which annually recognizes student leaders who have demonstrated a strong passion for, and deep understanding of, civility on the Allegheny College campus and in community work.<\/p>\n

Prize recipients exhibit a depth and breadth of activities, roles, responsibilities, and years of involvement that have a significant impact on civility and respect on the campus and beyond.<\/p>\n

Ross is a community and justice studies major with minors in education studies and theatre. He has served as president of the Men of Color Advancement Association (MOCAA), an America Reads student tutor, and a member of the Allegheny football team, among many other roles on campus and in the community. Learn more about Ross on<\/span>\u00a0the Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life is modeled after the national Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life, which was established in 2011. The student prize was established in 2017 and renamed in honor of Mullen upon his retirement after 11 years of service as Allegheny\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Allen Ross Allegheny College senior Charles Allen Ross has been awarded the Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life, which annually recognizes student leaders who have demonstrated a strong passion for, and deep understanding of, civility on the Allegheny College campus and in community work. Prize recipients exhibit a […]<\/p>\n

Continue Reading “Allegheny College Senior Charles Allen Ross Awarded Dr. James H. Mullen, Jr. Student Prize for Civility in Public Life”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics-publications-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2854,"date":"2020-03-19T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/comart\/2020\/03\/19\/allegheny-faculty-members-take-initiative-for-positive-student-outreach\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:45:00","slug":"allegheny-faculty-members-take-initiative-for-positive-student-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.allegheny.edu\/communication-media-performance\/2020\/03\/19\/allegheny-faculty-members-take-initiative-for-positive-student-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny Faculty Members Take Initiative for Positive Student Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"

From offering advice on social media to holding \u201conline office hours\u201d to assembling a reading list to educate and inform, Allegheny College faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning.<\/p>\n

Allegheny students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March 25 for the remainder of the semester.<\/p>\n

Matthew Venesky, assistant professor of biology and an infectious disease ecologist, is one of the faculty members offering online guidance for Allegheny\u2019s students. He has invited students to a Twitter dialogue for those who want more information about social distancing or basic concepts related to disease transmission.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hopeful that with this being the new normal, that there are conversations between students and their families and between students and their professors about the basics of disease transmission,\u201d said Venesky. \u201cI would encourage students to reach out to faculty with their questions and concerns. We are all in this together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venesky said he is conducting a senior project group meeting with eight seniors via Google Meet this week. \u201cWe\u2019re looking to just stay in touch with one another and say \u2018Hi\u2019 and talk about things. I pitched the idea and all eight emailed back within minutes wanting to do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Eric Pallant, chair of the Environmental Science and Sustainability Department, has this to share with his students:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is a central theme for the Department of Environmental Science & Sustainability, it is that we work to solve real-world problems in our classes and make the world a better place outside of them. Our ability to be flexible and creative distinguishes Allegheny ESS majors from their counterparts at any other college or university.<\/p>\n

\u201cStay connected to your friends, classmates, and instructors while you are away,\u201d says Allegheny Professor Eric Pallant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSo here we go. The world as we know it is changing. \u2026 We\u2019ll figure it out. Together. That\u2019s what we do. It\u2019s time to apply your flexibility and creativity.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, I couldn\u2019t ask for a better family of faculty, staff, and students with whom to get through this and come out the other side the better for it. Stay connected to your friends, classmates, and instructors while you are away. Ask questions as you have them, and we will all do our best to find answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Pallant: \u201cEvery professor in my department has said over and over they will do whatever it takes to deliver the best education possible to their students. Not one of them has complained. \u2026 That includes professors teaching labs in forests and streams and professors teaching Geographic Information Systems to students who will no longer have access to the software only available in our GIS computer lab. They are all figuring out a way to make it happen. I suspect that is true among faculty across campus. What an amazing group of colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Chivers Yochim, associate professor of communication arts and theatre, said she has assured her senior advisees that their Allegheny careers will be celebrated when everyone can get together again. \u201cI\u2019ve been supporting my students in the best way that I know how \u2014 reaching out to them to let them know that I am thinking of them and that we are all watching out for their best interests,\u201d Yochim said. \u201cI\u2019ve texted and talked by phone with a few, including alumni, who are feeling at sea. And I\u2019ve emailed my advisees to let them know that I am available for video chat, texts, or phone calls at any time.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cEven
\u201cEven when I was a student (Class of 2000) I could see that Allegheny is a very caring community that\u2019s always looking out for students, and I\u2019m seeing that shine through now,\u201d says Allegheny Professor Emily Chivers Yochim.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m seeing Allegheny at its best \u2014 caring for our students,\u201d Yochim added. \u201cEven when I was a student (Class of 2000) I could see that Allegheny is a very caring community that\u2019s always looking out for students, and I\u2019m seeing that shine through now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becky Dawson, assistant professor of global health studies and biology, has kept up an exhausting schedule of media appearances<\/a> in the Erie area and serving on panel discussions about the coronavirus. She is an expert in epidemiology and global health challenges, researching disease risk factors and patterns of disease in human populations. She also has found the time to correspond with students about the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Ken Pinnow, professor of history and global health studies, is compiling a reading list that he is sharing with the Allegheny community. \u201cI have compiled a short list of readings about past epidemics as a way to promote wider thinking about our responses to COVID-19,\u201d Pinnow said. \u201cHistory can be a powerful way to not only contextualize the present but to reflect on ourselves. The readings cover a number of topics germane to the challenges that we\u2019re facing at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amelia Finaret, assistant professor of global health studies, is writing poetry and at some point will share with her students. \u201cOtherwise, I am just trying to email them a lot and stay positive,\u201d Finaret says.<\/p>\n

She shared the draft of her poem. It begins:<\/p>\n

There is no school for a while, starting this week,
\nIn the hope that this pandemic doesn\u2019t get too bleak.
\nEspecially for our elderly friends,
\nWorking together so that lives don\u2019t end.<\/em><\/p>\n

We will walk, play, and read at home,<\/em>
\nAnd remember we are lucky to not be alone.<\/em>
\nTag-team childcare, no dates with friends to play,<\/em>
\nWe will also bake a lot, so our fears don\u2019t stay.<\/em><\/p>\n

For everyone, everywhere, keeping a routine,<\/em>
\nMay be key to a bearable quarantine.<\/em>
\nWe will take a family picture every day<\/em>
\nTo remember this time in a historic way.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From offering advice on social media to holding \u201conline office hours\u201d to assembling a reading list to educate and inform, Allegheny College faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning. Allegheny students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March […]<\/p>\n

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Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Hold it and picture a field of poppies glistening in the sunlight among the rolling green hills. You are peaceful. You are floating among the clouds. Now exhale slowly and feel the love.<\/p>\n

Joshua Searle-White has dropped plenty of coin to hear gurus share visions like this in workshop settings through the years. In the process he developed a love-hate relationship with the self-help and new-age movements \u2014 some of the philosophies and practices might seem strange and nonsensical, he says, but by the end of each weekend, he\u2019s glad he stuck it out.<\/p>\n

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Joshua Searle-White in \u201cThe Weekend Workshop”<\/figcaption><\/figure>
Joshua Searle-White rehearses his one-person stage production \u201cThe Weekend Workshop.\u201d (Photos Courtesy Heather Curtis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Searle-White, professor emeritus of psychology at Allegheny College, explores that relationship in a one-person stage production that he will preview in Meadville on October 26 before taking it to the bright lights of New York City in an off-Broadway show on November 3.<\/p>\n

The play is called \u201cThe Weekend Workshop,\u201d and it\u2019s the story of a man who is pressured into going to a workshop because he is told he needs to \u201cfind himself.\u201d Searle-White describes the show as \u201csimultaneously a scathing critique of and a love letter to the self-help and new-age movements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new-age movement is low-hanging fruit,\u201d says Searle-White, who retired in 2018 after 22 years of teaching at Allegheny. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to make fun of it, but at the same time I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Weekend Workshop,\u201d the hero confronts the question: \u201cWhat is the difference between something that is just goofy and something that is utterly profound?\u201d The 90-minute production includes energetic staging, clever wordplay and lots of physical comedy.<\/p>\n

Searle-White has behind-the-scenes assistance in the production from Dan Winston, a 2010 Allegheny graduate, who is the director; LeeAnn Yeckley, the technical director of Allegheny\u2019s Playshop Theatre, who is the stage manager, and Noah Stape, a junior at Allegheny, who is the lighting operator.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Josh came to me with his idea for an original show and asked me to direct, I had no hesitations,\u201d says Winston. \u201cIt\u2019s unlike any other show I\u2019ve ever worked on or seen. Josh performs it entirely on his own, splitting himself between seven unique and fully-realized characters. You\u2019d think having only one actor on stage would make the show monotonous or that it would be difficult to have interactions between characters, but we worked really hard on fleshing out each character and blocking the show so that you feel like the characters are really alive in front of you, even when Josh is playing someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show grew out of one of the courses Searle-White taught called \u201cThe Human Potential Movement,\u201d and it takes on all sorts of new-age practices from eye-gazing to trust falls and cuddle puddles. Searle-White plays all the characters, which include the unnamed hero, Steve, Kip, Candy, Max, Star Thunder Hawk Flower (yes, that\u2019s really what she calls herself!), and, of course, the Guru. \u201cEverything that I make fun of in this play, I have done myself,\u201d he says. \u201cI love all of it. But I also resist it with my entire being. I sign up for workshops, but then when the time comes actually to go, I start making up excuses for why I shouldn\u2019t or imagine all the other things I could be doing instead. But despite my resistance, and despite the many difficulties with these workshops, I keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

The production in New York City is part of the three-month United Solo Theatre Festival, which features one-person shows and is the largest of its kind in the world. Searle-White and his crew will have 15 minutes to prepare the stage, 45 minutes for a technical rehearsal, 90 minutes for the play, and then 15 minutes to clear the stage. \u201cIt\u2019s a real challenge,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Searle-White is not new to the stage, having appeared in some Meadville Community Theatre productions. He has also taught storytelling at Allegheny. \u201cI\u2019ve always loved the creative process. I\u2019ve written stories and performed them for years, but I\u2019ve never tried a full-length show until now,\u201d he says. He currently is working on another play aimed at college students that will explore the issues of sexuality, relationships and consent, which will debut in Meadville in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Weekend Workshop\u201d will be staged at 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 26, in the Montgomery Performance Space on Allegheny\u2019s campus. The show is free and open to the public; the show is\u00a0recommended for adults only (not suitable for children). The one-time staging off-Broadway will be held in Theatre Row at 410 West 42nd St. in New York City at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 3. The theater holds about 60 patrons, and admission will be $54.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, take another deep breath. Feel the love. Namaste.<\/p>\n

Source: Academics, Publications & Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Hold it and picture a field of poppies glistening in the sunlight among the rolling green hills. You are peaceful. You are floating among the clouds. Now exhale slowly and feel the love. Joshua Searle-White has dropped plenty of coin to hear gurus share visions like this in […]<\/p>\n

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What started as an idea for a communication arts class several years ago has turned into a meaningful and engaging project for dozens of Allegheny students and residents of Meadville.<\/p>\n

It has even inspired one former student to embark on a self-made career following his graduation.<\/p>\n

The Meadiaville Listening Project is the creation of Associate Professor Emily Chivers Yochim. The course that spawned the project is in its third year, and Yochim says it is helping to change the way students view their education.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cI want them to see education as cooperative instead of competitive. Everything is so competitive nowadays, and we\u2019re all encouraged to just look out for ourselves. I want students to see that a large group of people can work collectively toward the same goal,\u201d says Yochim. \u201cMost importantly, the students are envisioning and creating the project, spending time working with each other, and learning from both one another and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three years ago, Yochim decided to bring her passion for exploring ethnography into her classroom. As a 2000 Allegheny graduate, Yochim based her senior project on ethnographic research, a qualitative method where researchers observe and interact with a study\u2019s participants in their real-life environment. She returned to Allegheny to teach in 2008. Then in 2013, she collaborated with Professor River Branch on \u201cTool City Voices,\u201d a media project that examined the up-and-down fortunes of the tool-and-die industry in the Meadville area.<\/p>\n

That led to Yochim and her students interviewing Conneaut Lake residents and sharing that information with the former Eila V. Bush Endowed Professor of Art Amara Geffen, who crafted \u201cGanesh,\u201d a sculpture installed at Fireman\u2019s Beach in Conneaut Lake in 2016, culminating a community art project two years in the making.<\/p>\n

Yochim has written two books based in ethnographic research. Her first, \u201cSkate Life: Re-imagining White Masculinity,\u201d explores how skateboarders negotiate their identities in skate culture. The second, \u201cMothering Through Precarity: Women\u2019s Work and Digital Media,\u201d co-authored with Associate Professor of Communication Arts Julie Wilson, is based on extensive ethnographic research conducted with mothers of young children in Meadville and Erie. Wilson also co-taught the Meadiaville class with Yochim during its second season. \u201cMy collaborations with Julie have been so important to both my research and teaching. She and I share teaching ideas all the time, and we\u2019ve really developed this collaborative pedagogy together,\u201d Yochim says.<\/p>\n

Yochim has also worked closely with Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA), a Great Lakes Colleges Association faculty development initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Yochim is the communications and pedagogy director of OHLA, which encourages faculty to fold community-based oral history and narrative projects into the classroom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wanted to bring this to students, to encourage them to know their community better, to do something that mattered, and then to make their work public,\u201d says Yochim. \u201cOHLA was instrumental in helping me to imagine and build this project. It connected me with a network of liberal arts faculty who are doing similar work, and it helped me to develop the teaching know-how and the digital tools to bring the project to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Project Work Led Graduate to Forge His Own Career<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a senior, Brogan McGowan was part of the Meadiaville project in the spring of 2016. Three years later, he finds himself employed as a private contractor working from Washington, D.C., and has juggled 18 consulting contracts with profit and nonprofit organizations since his graduation. His resume lists work titles from communication and marketing manager to creative strategy consultant to visual designer \u2014 all a strong representation for the versatility in skill set that ethnography in practice benefits a workplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned from Professor Yochim and the Meadiaville experience to use communications as a tool to build relationships with people,\u201d says McGowan.<\/p>\n

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Brogan McGowan, using skills developed in the Meadiaville project, started his own company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His first contracting job out of college was with WQED-TV, Pittsburgh\u2019s public broadcasting station, where he helped librarians develop and use short videos and podcasts as educational tools to bring children under the age of 5 and librarians together to document their lived experience learning together. This work concluded after three months, leading McGowan into a new direction in working with for-profit companies and organizations.<\/p>\n

McGowan also has worked with the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh as a visual designer helping craft messaging and graphics to fight stigma surrounding folks battling addiction. His most recent consulting job, where Allegheny magazine reached him on the streets of San Francisco, is observing and helping design digital advertising and community engagement strategies for The Gender Confirmation Center, an organization that works to create high-quality gender-affirming medical care for trans and non-binary individuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith almost all the contracts, I\u2019ve developed the communications plan and worked to recruit and build a team of people that can take over the project. I believe finding more people to invest in the work creates a sustainable intention,\u201d says McGowan. \u201cThere has been a lot of learning on the fly, and I\u2019ve fallen a few times, but I\u2019ve been learning from the whole experience. It\u2019s unconventional but definitely incredible work. I\u2019m being compensated for being a critical member of the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeadiaville gave me a voice for technical directions in these later projects,\u201d McGowan says. \u201cI learned project management, but more importantly how to meet people where they are in their lived experiences. I use it as a passageway to connect with people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listening Is Important<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Meadiaville Listening Project results from work done in Yochim\u2019s Communications Arts course called Media Consumption. Students prepare for their work by spending the first few weeks reading and discussing scholarship and theory about the current semester\u2019s topic. The first two seasons of Meadiaville explored Meadville\u2019s youth media makers and local community organizers. They also read work on doing ethnography and creating podcasts. To get up to speed on how to edit a podcast, Yochim turned to Allegheny communication arts alum Nick Ozorak \u201913, who lives in Meadville and hosts \u201cThe Roundhouse Railroad\u201d podcast. Ozorak generously developed a presentation on podcasting basics for the first semester of the class, and Yochim has drawn on his knowledge ever since.<\/p>\n

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Students in Communication Arts Professor Emily Yochim\u2019s Media Consumption course prepare for their Dec. 10 Meadiaville presentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students then set the listening project theme for the semester, develop interview questions, contact potential interviewees, conduct the interviews, analyze the interviews and find common themes. They use all of this material to build a mini-series of podcasts about the theme, and they share these with the community. Students are encouraged to do timelines and profiles of the interviewees as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe important thing is they are creating the course with other students, spending time with them and learning from them,\u201d Yochim says. \u201cConducting long interviews is a great way for the students to get to know Meadville. Listening to community members forges important connections between the students and Meadville. They really begin to take ownership over the project and start to feel a true responsibility for the work they\u2019re creating with the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students break into teams to handle different aspects of the project. \u201cThey start assigning themselves tasks because they are invested in the project,\u201d Yochim says. \u201cThey can\u2019t wait to share the final product. It\u2019s really the students who become inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yochim\u2019s class completed the project\u2019s third season in the fall of 2018. Over the course of 14 weeks, Yochim and her students created a website, produced podcasts, created marketing materials, and published ethnographic analyses, all grounded in communication arts theory. It culminated with the release of \u201cNorth Main Narratives,\u201d an oral-history podcast that features the college\u2019s recently retired staff and professors. The podcasts aired on WARC-FM, and the students planned and hosted a listening party in December in the Meadville Public Library.<\/p>\n

Season Three explores the lives of Allegheny\u2019s educators on campus and throughout the Meadville community. In a series of four podcasts, the season explores structural changes in higher education, employees\u2019 personal experiences as educators, and the many interactions between the College and Meadville.<\/p>\n

\u201cEthnography and oral history encourage students to listen deeply and carefully,\u201d says Yochim. \u201cSo many folks retired after Allegheny\u2019s retirement incentive last year, and so this year I wanted to give students the opportunity to learn from those retirees, to capture their voices, and to explore with them the unique lives on a liberal arts campus in a small town.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the Students Take Away<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWorking on this project has been an amazing opportunity to work with and get to know more about these retired professors and faculty members, as well as what they do in and for the Meadville community,\u201d says Emily Brady, a sophomore from Medford, Massachusetts. \u201cOverall, this project has opened my eyes to the connections Allegheny has with the Meadville community, and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy peers and I are certainly excited to have the opportunity to share the stories of those who gave many years to the college and have much to share in regard to their experiences,\u201d says Alex Hasapis, a senior from Wooster, Ohio. \u201cI think the community will be able to fully immerse themselves in these podcasts and come out with a rich perception of both Allegheny and Meadville.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visitors to the website can listen to the current season of the project and can visit anytime to find Seasons One and Two, which focused on Meadville\u2019s youth media makers and community organizers, respectively.<\/p>\n

Emily Hayhurst, a junior from La Crescenta, California, who was part of Meadiaville\u2019s Season Two, says, \u201cI think the project gives Allegheny students a unique opportunity to get to know the Meadville community while learning important skills such as interviewing, analyzing ethnographic research, and putting together a project for a public audience. I was especially excited to learn about the community because my mom grew up in Meadville and I used to come and visit every summer. I never knew a lot about the community then so I loved learning about all the awesome people and initiatives that are here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Mark Myers has worked closely with the Meadiaville project for three years, working on its first season as a first-year student in the spring of 2016 and then as a teaching assistant for the last two seasons. \u201cSince Meadiaville\u2019s first rendition, the project and its breadth have grown exponentially, and I have had the opportunity to watch as different groups of students have expanded it, and pushed it,\u201d says Myers. \u201cI look forward to seeing how the project evolves moving forward, and have no doubt that it will continue to reach new highs, and continue to reflect the experiences of those within the Meadville and Allegheny communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Meadiaville Listening Project is made possible by the Meadville community, Oral History in the Liberal Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Allegheny Department of Communication Arts and Theatre, and Allegheny College. More information on this project can be found at meadiaville.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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What started as an idea for a communication arts class several years ago has turned into a meaningful and engaging project for dozens of Allegheny students and residents of Meadville. It has even inspired one former student to embark on a self-made career following his graduation. The Meadiaville Listening Project is the creation of Associate […]<\/p>\n

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Allegheny College junior Marisol Santa Cruz has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman International Scholarship in order to help defray the costs of her participation in an Experiential Learning Seminar trip to India in May 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter conducting extensive archival research in the summer of 2018 under the supervision of Professor Ishita Sinha Roy, I was on a mission to complete my goal of being able to study abroad,\u201d says Santa Cruz, who is from Santa Ana, California.<\/p>\n

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Junior Marisol Santa Cruz has received a scholarship to study in India in 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Santa Cruz will be accompanying a group of students and faculty members to India from May 13 to June 3 to study India\u2019s experiments with globalization across its 5,000-year history. As the group treks across the Indian subcontinent, the coursework will investigate how historical sites and narratives provide the \u201ctheatrical\u201d backdrop to contemporary media events. They also will study and explore how heritage arts and crafts are being revived by global markets, while tribal villages are organizing their own forms of cultural survival. The course is titled \u201cIndia: Restaging History as a Media Event.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a Gilman scholar, I will conduct a follow-up service project that will help other students apply for study away programs and help them acquire the funding to participate in these opportunities,\u201d says Santa Cruz, a communication arts major and computer science minor.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy vision in life is to see more Mexican women, like myself, studying internationally as they take the initiative to open up opportunities for others,\u201d Santa Cruz says. \u201cThrough the Experiential Learning Seminar experience, I\u2019ll be transmitting my experiences back to the community through a research paper, presentation, a virtual journal and videos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Santa Cruz will bring diverse and fresh perspectives to the India learning experience, says Patrick Jackson, director of fellowship advising.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarisol\u2019s application was really interesting because of all the diverse perspectives she\u2019s trying to understand and incorporate with one another. She\u2019s a Mexican-American woman thinking about India through the lens of the work she did last summer on historical women here in Meadville through the Crawford County Historical Society,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cI think with this kind of background, Marisol is liable to come home with all kinds of interesting things to say and with a lot of creative ideas that she might put into action in any number of ways. Her application was classic liberal arts: open-minded and ready to connect things that don\u2019t immediately seem like they go together. I can\u2019t wait to hear what she has to say when she comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of State\u2019s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is a grant program that enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, thereby gaining skills critical to our national security and economic competitiveness. The program aims to encourage students to study and intern in a diverse array of countries and world regions. The program also encourages students to study languages, especially critical need languages (those deemed important to national security).<\/p>\n

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Allegheny College junior Marisol Santa Cruz has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman International Scholarship in order to help defray the costs of her participation in an Experiential Learning Seminar trip to India in May 2019. \u201cAfter conducting extensive archival research in the summer of 2018 under the supervision of Professor Ishita Sinha Roy, I was […]<\/p>\n

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Allegheny\u2019s Communication Arts and Theatre Department students will release the third season of the Meadiaville Listening Project, called \u201cNorth Main Narratives,\u201d an oral-history podcast that features the college\u2019s recently retired staff and professors, with a listening party planned for Monday, Dec. 10, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Meadville Public Library, 848 N. Main St. The event is free and open to the public.\"\"<\/p>\n

Community members also can tune in to WARC 90.3-FM for a preview of the podcasts on December 6 from 6 to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Meadiaville Listening Project is a podcast series that illuminates everyday life in Meadville, focusing on how media thread through daily experience here. Season Three explores the lives of Allegheny\u2019s educators on campus and throughout the Meadville community. \u201cNorth Main Narratives\u201d traces the changing contours of a liberal arts education, featuring the voices of recently retired professors and staff. In a series of four podcasts, the season explores structural changes in higher education, employees\u2019 personal experiences as educators, and the many interactions between the college and Meadville.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the podcasts is a website<\/a> about Allegheny life, including explorations of its history and culture. An interview with President James H. Mullen, Jr., who is set to retire in June 2019, will be added to the site by mid-December.<\/p>\n

The Meadiaville Listening Project is produced in its entirety by students in an ethnographic methods course in Allegheny\u2019s Communication Arts and Theatre Department. Designed to teach students ethnographic and oral history methodologies, the course ultimately moves students to engage in deep conversations with community members and to spend time learning about the Meadville community. Through this experience, students not only explore their lives at Allegheny College and changes on campus, but also their lives in Meadville and before making the community their home.<\/p>\n

\u201cEthnography and oral history encourage students to listen deeply and carefully,\u201d said Emily Yochim, associate professor of Communication Arts. \u201cSo many folks retired after Allegheny\u2019s retirement incentive last year, and so this year I wanted to give students the opportunity to learn from those retirees, to capture their voices, and to explore with them the unique lives on a liberal arts campus in a small town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students have spent the semester researching the changing shape of higher education, and their interviews with professors and staff have shown them how those changes have impacted the Allegheny community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking on this project has been an amazing opportunity to work with and get to know more about these retired professors and faculty members, as well as what they do in and for the Meadville Community,\u201d said Emily Brady, a sophomore. \u201cI was surprised to learn that even though many of the people we interviewed have retired many of them are still teaching classes and doing work for the school. Overall, this project has opened my eyes to the connections Allegheny has with the Meadville community, and vice versa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visitors to the website can listen to the current season of the project beginning on December 10, but can visit anytime to find Seasons One and Two, which focused on Meadville\u2019s youth media makers and community organizers, respectively. The website can be found at meadiaville.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy peers and I are certainly excited to have the opportunity to share the stories of those who gave many years to the college and have much to share in regards to their experiences,\u201d said Alex Hasapis, a senior. \u201cI think the community will be able to fully immerse themselves in these podcasts and come out with a rich perception of both Allegheny and Meadville.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dec. 10 kickoff event will offer listening booths featuring all three seasons of the project, children\u2019s activities and light refreshments. Interested attendees will also be invited to participate in mini-interviews in the library\u2019s new mediaLAB, which features a podcasting booth and green screen technologies.<\/p>\n

About the Meadiaville Listening Project <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Meadiaville Listening Project is imagined and executed annually by Dr. Emily Yochim and students who enroll in her course Media Consumption. The class began with 18 students in January 2016 and has since expanded to create a new season each year with a new set of students and teaching assistants from seasons previous.<\/p>\n

Over the course of 14 weeks, Yochim and her students conduct interviews, create a website, produce podcasts, create marketing materials, and publish ethnographic analyses, all grounded in communication arts theory. The Meadiaville Listening Project is made possible by the Meadville Community, Oral History in the Liberal Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Department of Communication Arts and Theatre, and Allegheny College. More information on this project can be found at meadiaville.com.<\/p>\n

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Allegheny\u2019s Communication Arts and Theatre Department students will release the third season of the Meadiaville Listening Project, called \u201cNorth Main Narratives,\u201d an oral-history podcast that features the college\u2019s recently retired staff and professors, with a listening party planned for Monday, Dec. 10, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Meadville Public Library, 848 N. Main […]<\/p>\n

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