Dr. Adams Androne is an Assistant Professor of English and an Affiliate in the Black World Studies and Women's Studies Programs at Miami University Middletown, Ohio. Dr. Adams Androne teaches composition, African American literature from 1746 to the present, and introduction to women's studies courses. Her research focus is on African American and Chicano/a literature and culture, and ritual.
Judy Chesen
Judy Chesen is a faculty member in the department of history and has taught at Miami University for four years. Her research interests include immigration, ethnic, gender and culinary history. Her teaching interests focus on United States History and Oral History. She has held a variety of academic positions and has been Assistant Curator at Carillon Historical Park She has conducted a number of important oral history projects including “Russian Immigrants to Dayton, Ohio” and “Fifty Years of Carillon Historical Park.” Her interest in connecting history and the community has motivated her to create a major oral history project for the students in her introductory history courses. This project allows students to learn history first-hand from community members.
Jeanne McIntosh
Jeanne McIntosh is presently part-time faculty teaching Educational Psychology. She has done research on music and brain learning, and is presently a member of the Brain Learning Committee. Her educational background experience is in preschool, elementary education, and in teaching music in Parochial schools. Her interest in community-based learning has been implemented in the classroom through an assignment at the Franklin and Springboro libraries in the students assisting in storytelling and craft time for children. She is also integrating CBL into a class that will enable students to watch the development of children in learning to read.
Eric Melbye is an Assistant Professor of English teaching creative writing along with first-year English courses, and editor of Segue online literary journal. His research and pedagogical interests include fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy. In the field of community-based learning, his interest lies in developing creative writing courses that interact with the local community and with Internet communities.
We are an interdisciplinary group of instructors who teach at Miami University-Middletown. We formed the Community-Based Learning Initiative in the fall of 2004 with the goals of researching CBL, developing CBL courses in our own disciplines, and creating this web site, which will include a resource database for instructors, staff, students, and community agencies to use for research and collaboration on CBL projects.
In addition, we are planning several events for the upcoming year in order
to share our experiences and help others explore CBL, including information
seminars, panel discussions, “meet and greets” for instructors
and community agencies, and more.
If you are an instructor or staff member interested in learning more about CBL or joining us in our efforts, we would love to hear from you. No experience necessary!
Eric Melbye, CBLI Project LeaderMiami University-Middletown
Middletown, OH 45042
melbyee@muohio.edu
513/727-3248