Information Sources

Information Sources - Kansas

Information Sources - Topeka, KS

Participating Faculty & Staff:

• Richard B. Ellis, Ph.D; Learning in the Community The Center for Community Service and Civic Engagement, e-mail rick.ellis@washburn.edu phone 785-670-2117
• Brooke Webb-Gennusa Undergraduate Student Intern

Courses Incorporating PolicyOptions Issue Brief Assignments: 

• Spring 2009— HS302 Social Change and Advocacy, Human Services Department, Richard B. Ellis Ph.D.
• Bonner Leaders will be developing issue briefs in teams focused on issues arising from their service projects

Completed Issue Briefs:

• Semester/Year — Issue Brief Title  (make title link to issue brief page in this wiki)

Draft Issue Briefs:

• Spring 2009: HS302 Social Change and Adocacy
  • Academic Literacy - Middle and High School
  • Access to Health Services for ALS Patients
  • Access to Higher Education for Non-Traditional Age Students
  • Bullying Policy In Public Schools
  • Domestic Violence Offender Intervention
  • Healthcare Access for Non-Traditional Couples
  • Health Outreach to African Americans
  • Job Creation 
  • Recycling

• The students in HS302 Social Change and Advocacy will be working in teams addressing the issues listed above. Student interns will be establishing meetings with the community partner whose mission is related to the issue of each team and facilitating discussion through the wiki to get input to the teams from the partners. In the next few weeks the specic issue brief title will be posted and linked to the issue brief page.