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| C O N T E N T S ACADEMIC PROGRAM |
Master's Degree in Applied Community Change and Conservation This program prepares students who are part of communities. Some students are regional leaders, others work with non-government community, faith-based, and environmental organizations, while others are staff from government agencies. Students are committed to improving and expanding upon the processes of change in their respective communities. Blended Learning Curriculum Each student joins an international peer cohort of 20 to 30 students from a dozen countries or more. Students participate in three primary modes of learning: |
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| Four Term Schedule Term I – how to start community change Two-months computer-based study of core concepts One-month residential in two states of India One-month return to comprehensive computer-based study Term II – how to sustain community change Term III – how to scale-up community change Term IV – how to evaluate and monitor community change |
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| Student Profiles
Sixteen students from twelve countries make up the first cohort. Community practitioners from Afghanistan, Australia,Canada, China, Ethiopia, India,Peru, Nepal, Nigeria,Mozambique, the United States,and Zambia bring a wide rangeof professional skills to this collaborative learning process.Here’s a sampling of their leadership: Bruce Mukwatu works in Zambia as the CommunityEmpowerment Manager for theHealth Communication Partnership, a nationwide community-based program covering 73 districts. Shannon Bell of the Cabin Creek Community HealthCenter in West Virginia organized a photovoice project to empower the shy women of Kelly Brown, a community leader and salmon fisheries leader for the Heiltsuk Nation of British Columbia, works with his people to secure equitable Ikwo Udoh of Lagos, Nigeria is beginning volunteer service in the area of community change among marginalized communities in the Niger Delta. Pratima Singh works in the northern India state of Uttaranchal on a district-wide program for integrated youth development and conservation. James Patterson, president of the West Virginia Partnership of African American Churches, engages 16 congregations in a process of community change. To learn more, click here < Partnership of African American Churches> > The cohort of 2005 welcomes you to be a peer and co-mentor. |
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| Faculty Profiles Our international faculty members have extraordinary field experience. They have researched,designed, and led development, health, and conservation projects for a combined total of two and one-half centuries! Endowed faculty: Henry Perry, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of Equity and Empowerment for Health. He has fifteen years’ experience in community-based health programs in Bangladesh, Bolivia, and Haiti, and continues to monitor the field of international public health. Dr. Perry consults with international organizations such as BRAC, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, the Comprehensive Rural Health Program in Bolivia,and World Relief. Robert L. Fleming, Ph.D., is professor of Equity and Empowerment for Conservation. As one of the world’s most knowledgeable Himalayan biodiversity specialists, his thirty years’ field work includes exploring the 2200-mile-long Himalayan Mountain System, as well as most of the biologically distinct regions of Asia. Dr. Fleming has also studied the biodiversity of ten eastern and southern African countries and thirteen Pacific and Indian Ocean island groups. Teaching Faculty: Carl Taylor, M.D., Ph.D., is professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and was chairman of the school’s Department of International Health for twentythree years. Dr. Taylor has Daniel Taylor, Ed.D., is President of Future Generations and has devoted fifteen years to the design and establishment of nature preserves in China, George Taylor, M.S., is Director of Program Operations at Future Generations, and prior to this spent twenty-two years in forestry resource management and policymaking in Mali, Nepal, Niger, and Bolivia. Dan Wessner, J.D., Ph.D.,M.Div., has eleven years’ experience in international relations, education development, and post-war reconciliation in Vietnam. Dr. Wessner is Director of Academic Programs at Future Generations and associate professor of international and political studies at Eastern Mennonite University. Adjunct Faculty: Mike Rechlin, Ph.D., has taught and practiced sustainable forestry in the United States and Nepal for thirty years. Dan Robison, Ph.D., and Sheila McKean, Ph.D., have spent fifteen years in Columbia at the Center for Tropical Agriculture and now in Bolivia as protected area consultants. Chris Gingrich, Ph.D., teaches economics and has consulted Nepali and Haitian communities in agriculture and microfinance. Laura Altobelli, Ph.D., has thirty years of experience in the field of maternal and child health and nutrition in developing populations, with twenty years of fieldwork in Peru. |
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| Applying to the M.A Program The Admissions office works closely with each applicant. We encourage you to email or call for assistance in completing your application. To download application requirements and forms, click on the following links: Current Program Catalog Available in Adobe pdf format by clicking the following link: < CATALOG > To Download the Application in Adobe pdf format, please click here: To Download the Viewbook in Adobe pdf format, please click Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. The next cohort will begin September 2007. The application deadline is March 2, 2007. The cohort size is limited. Early applications are encouraged. Admissions requirements include: ■ Bachelor’s degree ■ English proficiency (575 TOEFL or alternative demonstration of language ■ Significant community-based field experience ■ Current commitment to work within a community, non-governmental organization, government agency, faith-based institution, tribal council, or educational system engaging with communities. For more information contact: Dan Wessner, J.D., Ph.D. Judith Hollowood |
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Interactive Online Instruction - internationally experienced faculty guide students as they master core concepts through comprehensive online materials and interactive exchange. Through this instruction, each student also increases his or her inter-cultural communicative competence by acquiring stronger second-language skills.