Adam Ghan wants to be a venue manager one day. After chatting with the junior Entertainment Management student about his experience in service-learning with The Gillioz Theatre, there’s every reason to believe he will. Level-headed, driven, and refreshingly chill about the whole future thing, Adam seems to understand that it won’t just fall into place magically. He’s strategically taking on meaningful opportunities and building relationships that will set him up for success. Service-learning has been a significant step on his path, and he’s excited to talk about how it can even lead to helping run a classic theatre during a Rocky Horror Picture Show viewing. "That’s the most beneficial part of service-learning for me – it’s just to see management, see why they make the decisions they make and see how deep it really goes" Adam makes a really good first impression. He's got a rhythmic brand of confidence that seems to be uniquely prone to people who play the drums – which he does. He ducks into the office dressed in dark, casually styled clothes with jaw-length hair and a few … [Read more...] about Community, entertainment and Rocky Horror: Adam Ghan reflects on service-learning at the Gillioz Theatre
During the fall semester 2018, the office of Citizenship & Service-Learning partnered with the Springfield Dream Center, The Fairbanks/Northwest Project, and Dr. Alex Jean-Charles and Dr. Ann Marie Daehn's service-learning students to host a brand-new program called “Around the World in 80 Days.” “Around the World in 80 Days” developed out of Dr. Ann Marie Daehn’s service-learning courses MUS 293,393 and 493 and Dr. Alex Jean-Charles EDC 345 Multi-cultural Education and Diversity class and in partnership with the CASL office. In these classes, students discussed ideas for giving back to the community with culture. Service-learning director, Dr. Kathy Nordyke was more than happy to help build this vision of using multiple departments to create a community educational event. Ultimately, education students from CFD 560/660 Family Engagement course and Professor Sarah Murray’s BMS 340 Nutrition Education students, along with a host of students from French, Sociology, Biology, Management, Psychology, First-Year Programs and the Honor's College also joined in with Music and … [Read more...] about Departmental collaboration the key to community education event