A SENCER-based Great Lakes stewardship strategy:

Blue green algae (microcystis or cyanobacteria)

washing up on the eastern shore of Pelee Island, Sept.

4, 2009. (Photo credit: Thomas Archer)

Conversation (class discussion, case studies)

Collaboration (advocacy,

shared resources & community leadership)

Application (‘deliverable” class projects; service

learning; community-based research)

Contact (guest speakers, field

trips)

Typology of Civic Engagement in Higher Education

Opportunities for undergraduate

involvement (research and outreach)

Recycling of toxins and nutrients

Eutrophication (from urban stormwater and agricultural

runoff )

Endocrine disruption in fish(attributed to personal care products)

Conversation (class discussion, case studies)

Collaboration (advocacy,

shared resources & community leadership)

Application (‘deliverable” class projects; service

learning; community-based research)

Contact (guest speakers, field

trips)

Typology of Civic Engagement in Higher Education

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Community

interaction

Background

www.ncsce.net www.cns.gov

Funding Source:

Learn and Serve America Higher Education

program of the Corporation for National and

Community Service (CNCS)

(CNCS is better known for highly-visible

programs like AmeriCorps/VISTA)

SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR NEW CIVIC SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR NEW CIVIC SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR NEW CIVIC SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR NEW CIVIC ENAGEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIESENAGEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIESENAGEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIESENAGEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

SENCERSENCERSENCERSENCER is a comprehensive faculty development and science is a comprehensive faculty development and science is a comprehensive faculty development and science is a comprehensive faculty development and science education reform project funded by the National Science education reform project funded by the National Science education reform project funded by the National Science education reform project funded by the National Science Foundation. It is the signature program of the Foundation. It is the signature program of the Foundation. It is the signature program of the Foundation. It is the signature program of the National National National National Center for Science and Civic EngagementCenter for Science and Civic EngagementCenter for Science and Civic EngagementCenter for Science and Civic Engagement, based at the , based at the , based at the , based at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

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GLISTEN Vision

Integrating Great-Lakes-stewardship-focused

civic engagement into undergraduate

coursework in the STEM disciplines

Aligned with SENCER (Science Education for New

Civic Engagements and Responsibilities), an

NSF-funded program of the National Center

for Science and Civic Engagement

www.sencer.net

GLISTEN Goal

Build the capacity of STEM faculty and

departments to

• significantly increase their undergraduates’

understanding of the STEM disciplines

byengaging them in direct action (i.e., service-

learning) and community-based research

benefiting resource-strapped governmental

and community-based organizations

GLISTEN Goal (cont.)

• better prepare those students for “green”

professional opportunities likely to result from

President Obama’s $5 billion pledge to restore

the Great Lakes, and

• provide them with the basic scientific

knowledge necessary to become enlightened

stakeholders who exhibit proactive

stewardship behaviors in their private lives.

GLISTEN National

NCSCE- “housed” Project Director

GLISTEN National

Advisory Board - national/regional conservation

organizations

GLISTEN Advisory Board (Cont’d)

- higher education curricular and resource

specialists

- students (stewardship liaison representatives)

GLISTEN Collaborative Clusters

2- and 4-year higher education institutions

(regional councils/collaboratives/

consortia, where applicable, e.g., WNYSLC)

Resource Conservation and Development

Councils (representation from county

commissioners, county planning commissions,

and soil and water conservation districts)

Local non-profit and governmental agencies, and

AOC (Areas Concern) representatives

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Duluth/Superior

Milwaukee

Chicago

Gary

Grand

Rapids

ToledoCleveland/Akron

Erie

Buffalo

Brockport/Rochester

Saginaw

Erie Collaborative Cluster Under

the Spell of the Cosmic Fish

GLISTEN Stewardship Liaisons

- Advanced undergraduates

- Part-time AY, full-time summer

- Curriculum development, logistical support,

community partner advocacy, peer leadership

- Project-wide liaison network

Jahnke and Lisdahl, biology majors at the University of Wisconsin-Superior,

conduct the first plant survey in 50 years on Wisconsin Point, the long

finger of beach, dunes and forest separating Superior Bay from Lake

Superior. Their work will guide other students in learning more about the

point's dune environment, and help future efforts to manage the area and

rid it of invasive plant species.

Environmental science major Kandice Spera, left, records

measurements of Beauty Creek on the west side of Valparaiso,

Indiana. She’s recording flow rates that could affect the health

of living species – plants, fish and other organisms.

"This is real field work ... you have to go in and get dirty to get the data,"

said Spera. "We take the water samples back to Valpo labs to find the

phosphorous concentration levels and to labs at IU-Northwest where

testing is done to measure suspended solids (sediment) in the water."

Spera said she is motivated by knowing that her work can help make a

difference in protecting the natural environment.

"There are many species of these little creatures that live in the bottom of

the stream, and if there's too much sediment they won't be able to live,"

said Spera.

Observation of a brown field with environmental consultants

Students calculating canopy at Burr Oak with Shirley Heinze Land Trust

Stream Monitoring with Save the Dunes Conservation Fund

Plant identification with NIRMI

Color satellite photo produced from NOAA-14 AVHRR satellite imagery (channels 1, 2, and 4) collected

on June 21, 1995 at 18:48 GMT (about 2:48 pm local time). GLERL, G. Leshkevich, 1995.

Current Clusters

Duluth/Superior

Chicago

Gary

Toledo

Cleveland/Akron

Clusters in planning

Milwaukee

Grand Rapids

Erie

Buffalo

Brockport/Rochester