Newsletter 2006 - Page 4
Centre for the Study of Canada Newsletter
Canadian Studies students have been front and centre in the media and in the TRU community this school year. Their varied activities and projects include:
* In November Canadian Studies student Alicia Jung received the 2005 Council of Canadians’ (Kamloops Chapter) Canadian Studies Award.
* Jennifer Jones was appointed to the Founding Board of Directors for the Canadian Association of Community Service Learning and traveled to Montreal and Banff in that capacity.
* Lisa Longo helped coordinate the 2nd Annual Teaching Practices Colloquium. This one-day event provides a venue for TRU faculty to exchange best teaching practices.
*Jacqueline Dolder founded the TRU Canadian Studies Club - a club for students, faculty and anyone else interested in Canadian Studies.
* Service Learning students coordinated the ImagiNative Art Exhibition – a display of Aboriginal art that encompassed the entire campus.
* Canadian Studies Service Learning students Jennifer Jones and Jessica Bowen both presented papers at the 1st Annual TRU Undergraduate conference in March.
* Maureen Rothman and Amanda Hoefsloot were teaching assistants and led a number of cultural excursions for TRU World.
* Jeffrey Preiss assisted a professor in the preparation of Canadian Studies promotional materials.
* Ellen Ramsay organized a number of TRU students to attend Model UN in Ottawa. She also had a hand in organizing the High school Model UN Conference held at TRU, which attracted over two hundred high school students from the interior of BC.
* Amanda Hoefsloot, Nicolas Bilbey, Alexei Gavriel, Jessica Bowen, and Kristine Gardner have all tutored in the TRU Writing Centre, assisting other students to improve their writing, writing, and editing skills.
*Toni Jackson assisted a local theatre company, Project X, with research and wrote an article for Mosaic, a local arts magazine.
* Kristine Gardner assisted Kathy Humphreys at the Kamloops Symphony in various capacities.
* Amanda Hoefsloot researched for the Kamloops chapter of the Council of Canadians and assisted in organizing the monthly Philosophers' Café discussions.
* In February, Jennifer Jones presented a paper at the Canadian Studies conference at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario entitled "Whose Kamloops? Which Canada? Reflections on Contested Community in Tomson Highway’s Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout".
* Nicolas Bilbey spent much of last academic year promoting the value of student volunteerism. First introduced to undergraduate service doing his time with Global Vision in Guatamala, he returned determined to spread the word by delivering public talks, student lectures, and television appearances – all in the topic of local, regional, national, and international volunteer service.
* Service Learning student James Boat was one of the student architects of ImagiNative. He helped craft exhibition press releases and information pieces for the media, in addition to assisting in the exhibition installation. He also dedicated time to the TRU Writing Centre.
* Chantal McDonald, a Service Learning student, fronted ImagiNative to the TRU community through a series of articles in the Omega. She also assisted with installing and delivering the exhibition. See more about Chantal in “TRU and Beyond.”
* Vernie Clement Jr. took Canadian Studies Service Learning to a new level as a student team member of a cultural, historic, and linguistic research project undertaken at the Kamloops Indian Band offices. Working with John Jules, Gary Gottfriedson, and Jennifer Manuel, Vernie developed his research skills while participating in that project.
* Lisa Longo participated on a panel of judges at the Student Research Poster Day.
* Michelle Meerse, a Canadian Studies Service Learning veteran, researched and helped present a series of historical exhibitions at the Kamloops Museum and Archives. She also tutored at the TRU Writing Centre.
* In the summer of 2006, Matt Keelty’s Service Learning 400 course project took him to Kenya where he worked as a volunteer teacher of English as a Foreign Language.