Coleman Fellows

Dennis Koch, Final Report

Written by Dennis Koch Friday, 18 May 2012 09:33

FINAL ACTIVITY REPORT – COLEMAN FELLOWSHIP 2011-12

Dennis W. Koch, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Kinesiology

Canisius College

For my Coleman Fellowship project, I incorporated entrepreneurship principles into HHP 582 Functional Conditioning, one of my graduate classes in our M.S. program in Health and Human Performance. This semester, there were 17 students enrolled in the class, which is just about 45% of the students in the program. This class is a core class required of all students before they can graduate from the program. As the program director, I am very interested in identifying potential job opportunities for our graduates. The Coleman Fellowship encouraged me to push students towards at least considering prospects for self-employment.

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CRW3113: Special Topics in Creative Writing: Compiling a Chapbook: From Drafting to Polishing and Pu

Written by Sara Lamers Friday, 18 May 2012 07:52

Submitted by Sara Lamers, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication; Lawrence Technological University

Course: CRW3113: Special Topics in Creative Writing: Compiling a Chapbook: From Drafting to Polishing and Publishing

This was a traditional Creative Writing course in which students intensively drafted, revised, and polished original poetry.  Further, we examined a specific type of publication: the poetry chapbook.  The term “chapbook” grew from English “chapmen,” peddlers who sold inexpensive pamphlets throughout the late 1500s up until the mid-1800s.  These small pamphlets contained poems, ballads, stories, or folklore; because these pamphlets were cheaply produced they were affordable for masses.  Today a chapbook is a short collection of poetry of 16 – 25 pages (as opposed to a full-length collection, which is 50 – 80 pages long).  Typically the poems are linked by a clear theme, though this is not always the case.  The chapbook is generally still modestly produced, but it is a respected publication in the poetry world.  It’s often a way to get a “foot in the door,” as many poets publish a chapbook before pursuing a full-length collection.

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Seventeen Colleges and Universities to Award Coleman Fellowships for 2012-2013 Academic Year

Written by Clark McCain Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:14

The Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows program will continue into a fourth year in an effort to extend self-employment education across 17 university and college campuses.  Including funding for new and returning Fellows, the Coleman Foundation has committed $303,000 to the 2012-2013 academic year program.

Faculty Fellows are typically professors from outside the school of business at their institution.  They engage in the development of courses and leadership of projects in support of entrepreneurship education on their campus, inspiring students in non-business disciplines to gain self-employment skills and experience.  For the 2012-2013 academic year, 49 Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows from departments all across campus will create new courses within their disciplines or modify existing ones to incorporate elements of self-employment education.

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Final Report - Event Management

Written by Peter Böhm Thursday, 17 May 2012 11:22

• COLEMAN FELLOWSHIP
• 2011-2012
• D. Peter Böhm
• Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Associate Professor of German

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LEARNING

The project “Center for International Learning“ addresses several areas of importance incurred by the process of globalization: language learning, cultural understanding, ethical awareness, internationalization and adaptation, processes and goals, et al.

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Interim Report

Written by Bethany Benson Burns Friday, 04 May 2012 06:25

Already present in many of my courses is the opportunity to create objects for sale. This is a concept that is introduced and experienced first-hand by any student enrolled in an art course at Juniata who chooses to sell their work at the bi-annual student sales. A registered student organization with an interest in ceramics, the Mud Junkies, is responsible for the advertisement and coordination of the events (reserving spaces, tables, obtaining a “bank” to draw from, etc.), while the artists are responsible for set-up, physical sales, and break-down. Participating artists retain 80% of their sales, the remaining 20% is given as a commission to the Mud Junkies for their efforts to facilitate and host the event (acting as any gallery/commercial space would).

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