honors books to kenya

8/8/2019 Honors Books to Kenya

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This thing is gettin nasty. Ill see what I can do about it.


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can get anytime.

10/19 Linda Hofmann 12:30 Fret 265C Jordan

10/27 Jan Rieman 1:00pm 265-A David

Any MWOct 25

Betsy Cochran 12:30-21:30-2

Fret 250B Susan

Any TRbeginning on10/28

Sue Diehl 9 am-2pm

Fret 245-N Joel

M btwn 1-4and most of T

Tony Scott (email to set uptime--he will probably havea lot of books, since he isthe Director of

Composition & Rhetoric)

[email protected]

Fret 276-B Two peoplecan sign upbut gotogether.

[Chasiti]Well, ifnobody hasdone this, Iguess I willtoday.(Matt)

W 11/10orR 11/11

Mary Ellen Muesing W 1-4:00_______R before9:30 am

Fret 265-D Two peoplecan sign upbut gotogether.[Chasiti]

I am signing up for these so that we know they are being picked up. If you want to take

care of a few, please let me know by E-MAILING mejordan .shuping @ gmail .com

- OK, if you take over one of my pick-ups, be sure to change your name on this

document so that everybody knows and I dont keep getting e-mails. Thanks =)

Service hours for moving books from Arnolds Fretwell 285-F to Cone

Center 369-C (in the Honors College)--ask Monica or Kathy in the English

Department to let you into my office. Only transport the books that arestacked on the floor. Please let me know how long it takes you to move a

boxful of books from one office to the other, so I can decide how many

volunteer hours to assign to the task. More than one person can sign up for

this, since there are a LOT of books in my office now.
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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How many service hours are allotted to moving books from the professors

office to yours? Is that where we take the books initially, then at another

time move them to the Cone center?

Any day--- Robert Arnold ANY TIME ---Fret 285-F Student Names

W11-12 and after 4:00 p.m.After 5

Joel

MWT

Before 2Before 2,After 5After 12:30

Jordan

Matt

MW

TRF

After 5

3-5Anytime

Clair

David

Priority #2 (Fundraiser & Box Pick Up):

1) Movie clip project to show during the entertainment session of the fashion show.

Contact Joel first if you would like to help with this. [Clair]

2) UNC Charlotte Recycling says heavy-duty cardboard boxes are placed by the

loading dock at the Friday building on a daily basis. Quote: They are in a hole in the

wall. I need several people to volunteer to get boxes TODAY or before class time on

Thursday. I was told that if there are no boxes there, there will be soon. Bring the boxes

to the UHP and place them in my office. [David]

3) We also need a scale to weigh the boxes of books on Thursday. Im thinking a

bathroom scale should work fine. Anyone have a bathroom scale? More than one

person can bring one, so we have a back up and so we can accomplish more at one

time. [Your names here]

______________________________________________________________________

______


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List of donors

Name Books Funds

Mr. Jeannot XDr. Meg Morgan X X

Ms. Tonya Wertz-Orbaugh X

Steve Lazenby X

Linda Hofmann X

Verda Jaroszewski X X

Leon Gatlin X

Sue Diehl X X

____________________________________________________________________

Volunteer Tasks:

Place your name in brackets next to the task you are working on. Keep track of your

hours by writing them on your volunteer log.

We currently have: Honors Money + $250 + $150

1) Fund Raising (possibly a committee to throw around ideas and organize/recruit

volunteers)

We should throw around ideas soon.[Joel] [ Ben ] [ Clair ] [ Jordan ] [Susan] [Matt] [Brooke][Chasiti] [Shanice] [David]

-You think you can change the world? (YTYCCTW) Challenge

Write proposal

-Possible Fundraising Ideas:

October

- Haunted House


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Talk to Venture.

By donation. Can we charge?

Sandy Kohn.


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have essentials. However, that goal has now become much more

ambitious, has the title ofKenya Writing Center Project, and is being run

by the students in my Honors community service course. On their behalf, I

am asking for your help through book and/or monetary donations.

Book donations:

Specifically, the AIU will need book resources for the Director of the

writing center, the tutors, and the students who use the center. Some

texts, such as those specifically geared towards the Director, will need to

be purchased, but we would be glad to accept any composition/rhetoric

textbooks, style and grammar guides or handbooks, dictionaries, thesauri,

and/or texts that address ESL concerns. The publication dates of the

books are irrelevant (unless they are outdated style guides).

You have several options for donating books:1) Mailbox formsuse the form that will appear in your campus mailbox

within a few days to schedule a time for students to stop by your office, 2)

Bring your books to me at Fretwell 285-F or Cone Center 369-C (in the

Honors College). If Im not in my office, you can have someone unlock it

for you; there is a shelf for the books.

Financial donations:

Funds will be needed for several different aspects of this project: to mail

all of the donated books to New York, (where they will be placed on a

shipping container already headed to Nairobi, a huge savings onshipping), to purchase any packaging materials that might be necessary,

and to purchase computers for the center. (Our priority is on providing

books, but we hope to obtain enough financial resources to buy a few

computers for the center.)

Your options for making a financial contribution to the Writing Center:

1) Give any donations of cash to me, and I will provide you with a receipt,

or

2) Make a donation through the Honors Program website at

http ://uhonors .uncc .edu / by clicking on the Make a gift link on the left-

hand side of the web page. Under Gift Designation in Step 2, select

Honors College. This is a fund dedicated exclusively to student

community service projects in the University Honors Program. We will be

disbursing all donated monies collected between Oct. 6 and Nov. 15, 2010
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[Done]

- Facebook group [Clair Hilliard]

-Mailbox form [Clair Hilliard]

Kenya Writing Center Project

Our University Honors Program Community Service class is collecting books and

raising funds to send to the Africa International University (AIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, for a

writing resources center. The AIU currently has about 450 students, and 180 of them

are in newly expanded undergraduate programs. There are no first-year writing courses

or other types of writing services available at the university, so the need is great. The

establishment of a writing resource center and academic writing courses will have a

great impact on the university and the region, as many of these students take up

prominent leadership positions in schools, churches and NGOs (dealing with a variety ofissues, including poverty, AIDS, conflict, reconciliation and trauma healing).

For your convenience, we can collect books directly from you. (You can also

drop off your books with our instructor, Robert Arnold, in Fretwell 285-F or Cone Center

369-C.) If you would like us to stop by your office, please fill out the following form and

send it to Robert Arnold in the English Department. We can begin accepting your

donations on Friday, Oct. 8th, with an end date of Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2010. Please

provide us with several days notice.

Name: _______________ Date: __________ Time: __________ Office: __________

[Done]

Flyer Design Draft

- Design fliers [ Shelvasha ] [Susan] [Shanice]


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- Talk to bookstores about donations [David-perhaps][Matt, also maybe]

3) Composing Project Documents

Press Release

[Clair Hilliard] [Joel Fitzgerald]


The Africa International University in Nairobi, Kenya is in critical need of a

writing resource center. A writing resource center will help the students at the

University to become better educated leaders and potential workers for NGOs. As

the NGO capital of the world, Nairobi serves every major crisis area in east Africa.


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Also, a better educated middle class could eventually lead to a better quality of life

for a larger number of people. Many students from the Africa International

University go on to become prominent leaders, start schools, and find ways to

combat major issues including poverty and AIDS. Quite a few wind up doing

significant work in peace and reconciliation and trauma healing. Peter Okaalet is

just one great example of how students from this school impact the community.This individual was featured in Time Magazine for his approach to dealing with AIDS

in Africa. You can read this article at:

http :// www .time .com /time /magazine /article /0,9171,1124322,00.html

Our contact, Ben Byerly is a doctoral student at The Nairobi Evangelical Graduate

School of Theology (NEGST), which is tied to the AIU. Ben is in charge of setting up

the center and will initially serve as its director. There several key elements

necessary for starting a writing resource center; books, funds, and training for the

resource center tutors. We are soliciting funds from UNC Charlotte faculty, and we

are accepting monetary donations, in conjunction with the Office of University

Development, through the University Honors Program website. We have already

collected hundreds of books, and are still collecting to date. We have raised $600

out of an estimated $1000 for costs we will incur. This money will mainly go

towards shipping the books from North Carolina to Nairobi, Kenya. Our fellow

honors students are putting on a fashion show. All proceeds are going towards this

project.

Dear Colleagues,

A childhood acquaintance of mine, from my days in Bouak, Cte d'Ivoire, recently

sent me an email. He is currently a doctoral student in Nairobi, Kenya (He is anAmerican who has only ever lived in the U.S. for short periods of time), and was

given the task of setting up a writing center at Africa International University (AIU)

in Nairobi. He is trying to do this with very limited resources. I discovered that the

only copies of writing texts, dictionaries, style manuals and grammar guides he has

are his own!

The AIU currently has about 450 students, and 180 of them are in newly expanded

undergraduate programs. There are no first-year writing courses or other types of

writing services available at the university, so the need is great. The establishment

of a writing resources center and academic writing courses will have a great impacton the university and the region, as many of these students take up prominent

leadership positions in schools, churches and NGOs (dealing with a variety of issues,

including poverty, AIDS, conflict, reconciliation and trauma healing).

When it became clear to me the AIU would first need help obtaining some basic

resources just to start the center, I hoped to collect just enough grammar and style

guides to give the center the most basic, must-have essentials. However, that goal
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has now become much more ambitious, has the title of Kenya Writing Center

Project, and is being run by the students in my Honors community service course.

On their behalf, I am asking for your help through book and/or monetary donations.

Book donations:

Specifically, the AIU will need book resources for the Director of the writing center,

the tutors, and the students who use the center. Some texts, such as those

specifically geared towards the Director, will need to be purchased, but we would be

glad to accept any composition/rhetoric textbooks, style and grammar guides or

handbooks, dictionaries, thesauri, and/or texts that address ESL concerns. The

publication dates of the books are irrelevant (unless they are outdated style

guides).

You have several options for donating books:

1) Mailbox formsuse the form that will appear in your campus mailbox within a

few days to schedule a time for students to stop by your office, 2) Bring your books

to me at Fretwell 285-F or Cone Center 369-C (in the Honors College). If Im not in

my office, you can have someone unlock it for you; there is a shelf for the books.

Financial donations:

Funds will be needed for several different aspects of this project: to mail all of the

donated books to New York, (where they will be placed on a shipping container

already headed to Nairobi, a huge savings on shipping), to purchase any packaging

materials that might be necessary, and to purchase computers for the center. (Ourfirst priority is to provide books, but we hope to obtain enough financial resources to

buy a few computers for the center.)

Your options for making a financial contribution to the Writing Center:

1) Give any donations of cash to me, and I will provide you with a receipt, or

2) Make a donation through the Honors Program website athttp :// uhonors .uncc .edu /

by clicking on the Make a gift link on the left-hand side of the web page. Under

Gift Designation in Step 2, select Honors College. This is a fund dedicatedexclusively to student community service projects in the University Honors Program.

We will be disbursing all donated monies collected between Oct. 8 and Nov. 15,

2010 to this project. We can begin accepting your donations on Thursday, Oct. 7th,

with an end-date of Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2010.

Thank you for your help! I will be sure to let you know what we accomplish so you

can share in the satisfaction of this outreach project.
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Best,

Robert

THE REVISED/EXPANDED PROPOSAL (IN BLUE) (sent to Dalen 10/21/2010)

[Clair Hilliard] [Joel Fitzgerald] [Also, people who answered his questions greatly contributed tothis proposal expansion]

In Nairobi, Kenya, the Africa International University is in great need of a writing

resource center. This writing resource center will help the students of the University to develop

critical writing skills that will enhance their education and future careers. It is our goal to help

contribute to Kenyas socioeconomic development through the power of education. Specifically

our goal is to provide Africa International University (AIU) with the resources necessary to set

up a writing resources center and first-year writing courses.

In order to create a Writing Resource Center, we are collecting grammar, rhetoric, and

composition textbooks from various departments throughout the University of North Carolina

at Charlotte (mainly the English department). We optimistically hope to obtain around 300 of

these textbooks, and enough boxes to ship the books. We will also be collecting cash and

electronic donations through the UHP website for shipping costs and to purchase

supplementary texts essential for running a writing center, such as the Writing Center

Directors Manual. We will be shipping the books to the AIM office in New York, where the

books will be placed in a large container and shipped to Nairobi, Kenya. Another goal of ours is

to raise enough money to purchase a desktop computer in order to enhance the writing skills of

students and to increase the organization and productivity of the Writing Resource Center. We

have sent out a general interest email to the English department here and have received lots of

positive feedback and almost immediate support. Based on the feedback from the English

department, we expect to collect over 200 textbooks.

Anticipating issues is an important part of any planning process. We have looked over

every aspect of our plans for this project and have come across three main potential issues we

may incur. First, collecting all of the books and packaging everything is a potential issue. With

packaging and shipping, we have to calculate the cost, and in order to calculate cost we need to

figure out how many books we will be sending and estimate the weight. We can then calculate

the shipping cost. Considering that weve set a goal of 300 books we should be able to find the

cost. Also, Faculty in the English department have been contacted through listservs and will

receive a form in their mailboxes to schedule book-collection appointments. We will sign up for

collection times. For packaging, we will hold packaging events, where several hours, or a

morning or afternoon, will be set aside for this purpose.Raising enough funds for shipping and computers is also a potential issue, however,

since this will be done using excess funds, this will rely on how much shipping costs and we will

consider various fundraisers if need be to remedy this problem. Also, We are soliciting funds

from faculty through the listservs, and we are accepting monetary donations, in conjunction

with the Office of University Development, through the University Honors Program website.

Our third main issue is figuring out which computers to get, where to buy them from, what

software we will need, and how to ship them. We are currently in the process of researching all


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of this information. Our research data, for the sake of brevity, can be found on the google

document to which you have access.

The main reason Nairobi and the AIU were selected for this project is because we were

presented with the universitys need by our contact person, Ben Byerly. Mr. Byerly is an

American who has lived in Africa for the vast majority of his life and has worked on numerousprojects in the past. He is a doctoral student at The Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of

Theology (NEGST)--tied to the AIU--has been charged with setting up the center and will

initially serve as its Director. His role, in combination with his long acquaintance with our

instructor, Robert Arnold, means he can be trusted to use the resources we provide honestly and

efficiently. An equally important reason for choosing to aid a university in Nairobi is its status as

the NGO capital of the world, serving Somalia, Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eastern Congo,

Rwanda, and every other crisis area in East Africa. Plus, it's got one of the fastest growing

economies in Africa. Better educated leaders, and workers for NGOs, who can write better

proposals and organize better food-distribution services, will be able to save more peoples lives.

Also, it can be argued that a better educated middle class will eventually lead to a better quality

of life for a larger number of people.We are in between planning and the collection stages of our project. We are also

considering various fundraisers to supplement the donations. All of our planning has taken

place online and through our Community Service class, taught by Robert Arnold. Also, we have

been keeping in contact with Ben Byerly in Africa who is in charge of setting up the Writing

Resource Center at the University. Connie Rothwell has also contributed to the beginning stages

of this project. We have been keeping records of our planning process through the use of Google

Documents.

We look forward to starting our own project from the ground up. It will be something

exciting and new for us and we look forward to seeing the benefit of our hard work,

contributions, and dedication.

Thank you for your consideration.

Dalen sent Joel a few questions for the Initial Proposal (see the text of the Initial Proposal below

these questions) submitted for the You think you can change the world? Challenge (YTYCCTW

Challenge). These revisions are due Nov. 4--Nov. 8. Place your name in brackets next to any question

you help respond to. Please dont change what someone else writes without first writing comments,

questions or suggestions in parentheses next to the already-existing text. Also, feel free to respond to

these questions by pillaging or plagiarizing anything that I or Ben wrote in the emails included at the end

of this document.

1) What are the goals?

To provide Africa International University (AIU) with the resources necessary to set up a

writing resources center and first-year writing courses.

2) What are the concrete objectives that will deem success in terms of your goals?

1) Collect around 300 books from faculty members for the center.

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2) Collect monetary donations for shipping and other costs.

3) Purchase any texts the center will need, such as the writing center Directors manual.

4) Package and ship all of the books and other materials.

3) What are your 3 biggest foreseeable issues?

1) Collecting all of the books and packaging everything.With packaging and shipping, we have to calculate the cost, and in order to

calculate cost we need to figure out how many books (the weight). We

can then calculate the shipping cost. Considering that weve set a goal of

300 books we should be able to find the cost.)[Shelvasha]

2) Raising enough funds for shipping and computers.

(This will be done with excess funds so its dependent on the cost of everything else)

3) Figuring out which computers to get, what software they need, and how to ship them.

What about buying locally (Kenya)...is that an option? -DAlen

Looking at dells refurbished site, its better to buy a new dell.

I have the link here: DellPCs. The good thing about this is that the

operating system comes pre-installed, and all of the manuals would be there.The downside is that they would need monitors.[Shelvasha] Monitors can

range from $69 and up; if we get them through the Dell website,[Brooke] Ok

so if we consider the $299 and minimum of $69, were looking at about $368

(I know its more) per computer. Thats really not too bad. No, considering

they will have pre-installed technology. That and itll all be new. [Shelvasha &

...]

I think the biggest cost will be shipping for computer . Also, are we shipping this to NY

as well? [Joel]

Boxing and driving to NY would be much cheaper to ship separate computers altogether.

i know the bigger the box, the more money it will be. Gas would be cheaper. [Brooke]I think it depends on how soon we acquire them I know that book donations end in

November. So Ill assume the same time.[Shelvasha]

I think we should do an example of a package in class. Based off of that, we should be

able to come up with an estimate of how many books we can fit in a box and its weight.

Also, how many boxes we will have in the end going off of our 300 book goal. You can

get an estimate on the UPS site. [Chasiti]

Wed have to do a sample package, figure out how many books will be available, and

then UPS. [Shelvahsa]

The only problem with boxing and driving - in NY it tends to snow. We just need to

watch out for fun weather problems. [Jordan] >> if you color code things, it is easier to

follow conversations.4) What are your plans for overcoming those issues?

1) Faculty in the English department have been contacted through listservs and will

receive a form in their mailboxes to schedule book-collection appointments. We will sign

up for collection times. For packaging, we will hold packaging events, where several

hours, or a morning or afternoon, will be set aside for this purpose.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fus%2Fp%2Finspiron-570%2Fpd%3Fc%3Dus%26cs%3D19%26l%3Den%26s%3Ddhs%26~oid%3Dus~en~29~inspiron-570-anav5~~%26redirect%3D1%26redirect%3D2&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHWIHBqjsPYMuHpK4GSTgWgi0IbEghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fus%2Fp%2Finspiron-570%2Fpd%3Fc%3Dus%26cs%3D19%26l%3Den%26s%3Ddhs%26~oid%3Dus~en~29~inspiron-570-anav5~~%26redirect%3D1%26redirect%3D2&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHWIHBqjsPYMuHpK4GSTgWgi0IbEghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fus%2Fp%2Finspiron-570%2Fpd%3Fc%3Dus%26cs%3D19%26l%3Den%26s%3Ddhs%26~oid%3Dus~en~29~inspiron-570-anav5~~%26redirect%3D1%26redirect%3D2&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHWIHBqjsPYMuHpK4GSTgWgi0IbEghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dell.com%2Fus%2Fp%2Finspiron-570%2Fpd%3Fc%3Dus%26cs%3D19%26l%3Den%26s%3Ddhs%26~oid%3Dus~en~29~inspiron-570-anav5~~%26redirect%3D1%26redirect%3D2&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHWIHBqjsPYMuHpK4GSTgWgi0IbEg


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2) We are soliciting funds from faculty through the listservs, and we are accepting

monetary donations, in conjunction with the Office of University Development, through

the University Honors Program website.

3) Some of us are researching computer costs and software requirements.

5) Why Nairobi? Why Kenya?The main reason Nairobi and the AIU were selected for this project is because we were

presented with the universitys need by our contact person, Ben Byerly. Mr. Byerly is an

American who has lived in Africa for the vast majority of his life and has worked on

numerous projects in the past. He is a doctoral student at The Nairobi Evangelical

Graduate School of Theology (NEGST)--tied to the AIU--has been charged with setting

up the center and will initially serve as its Director. His role, in combination with his

long acquaintance with our instructor, Robert Arnold, means he can be trusted to use the

resources we provide honestly and efficiently. An equally important reason for choosing

to aid a university in Nairobi is its status as the NGO capital of the world, serving

Somalia, Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eastern Congo, Rwanda, and every other crisis area

in East Africa. Plus, it's got one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Bettereducated leaders, and workers for NGOs, who can write better proposals and organize

better food-distribution services, will be able to save more peoples lives. Also, it can be

argued that a better educated middle class will eventually lead to a better quality of life

for a larger number of people.

____________________________________

Initial Proposal: [Clair Hilliard] [Ben Huffman] [Joel Fitzgerald]


In Nairobi, Kenya, the Africa International University is in great need of a writingresource center. This writing resource center will help the students of the University to develop

critical writing skills that will enhance their education and future careers. It is our goal to help

contribute to Kenyas socioeconomic development through the power of education.

In order to create a Writing Resource Center, we are collecting grammar, rhetoric, and

composition textbooks from various departments throughout the University of North Carolina at

Charlotte (mainly the English department). We will also be collecting cash and electronic

donations through the UHP website for shipping costs. We will be shipping the books to the AIM

office in New York, where the books will be placed in a large container and shipped to Nairobi,

Kenya. Another goal of ours is to raise enough money to purchase a desktop computer in order

to enhance the writing skills of students and to increase the organization and productivity of the

Writing Resource Center. We have sent out a general interest email to the English departmenthere and have received lots of positive feedback and almost immediate support. Based on the

feedback from the English department, we expect to collect over 200 textbooks.

We are in between planning and the collection stages of our project. We are also

considering various fundraisers to supplement the donations. All of our planning has taken place

online and through our Community Service class, taught by Robert Arnold. Also, we have been

keeping in contact with Ben Byerly in Africa who is in charge of setting up the Writing Resource


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Center at the University. Connie Rothwell has also contributed to the beginning stages of this

project. We have been keeping records of our planning process through the use of Google

Documents.

We look forward to starting our own project from the ground up. It will be something

exciting and new for us and we look forward to seeing the benefit of our hard work,

contributions, and dedication.

Thank you for your consideration.

4) Pick up books & $$ [Jordan] [ Shelvasha ] [ Ben ] [Clair] [Joel] [Brooke][Chasiti]

[David]

5) Research shipping costs to NY [ Clair ]

Ship to:

Attn: Mark Wilson

ACTS at NEGST KenyaC/O AIM

135W, Crooked Hill Road

P.O. Box 178

Pearl River

NY 10965

[This address is for books only; see below for shipping computers.]

The shipping for computers definitely bothers me. Because are we only shipping

books from NY? If so, shipping the computers is going to be quite complicated.

Can we just ship them direct?

-Shipping Price calculators- we need box size, weight, and value though....

usps ups FedEx

Shipping Computers: Often individuals visiting AIU (frequently from the

Chicago/Indianapolis region) can bring computers and equipment as part of their

luggage. This tends to be the quickest, cheapest, and most secure method of shipping

to Kenya. Depending on the timing, I would have to find out where the next team ofvisitors is coming from, so you could ship the computers directly to them. Sorry that its

not more straightforward. [Ben Byerly]

6) Research Computers

-Costs [ Shelvasha ] [Matt] (PC models)
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fircalc.usps.gov%2F%3Fcountry%3D10224&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEn_xOZC-Tvc_3kpcopsiZsakHOPAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwwwapps.ups.com%2Fctc%2Frequest%3Floc%3Den_US%26appId%3Dfctc&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHQT8zDME02F4iZSA5__DOatiTkZQhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fedex.com%2Fratefinder%2Fstandalone%3Fmethod%3DdestinationCountryChange&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNElU9IjdaSWmnQMXKTShA1gEk0ofQhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fircalc.usps.gov%2F%3Fcountry%3D10224&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEn_xOZC-Tvc_3kpcopsiZsakHOPAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwwwapps.ups.com%2Fctc%2Frequest%3Floc%3Den_US%26appId%3Dfctc&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHQT8zDME02F4iZSA5__DOatiTkZQhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fedex.com%2Fratefinder%2Fstandalone%3Fmethod%3DdestinationCountryChange&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNElU9IjdaSWmnQMXKTShA1gEk0ofQ


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We have two routes to take as far as computers go: We have to get PC modeled

desktops and they can either be refurbished or new. As far as refurbished goes,

Ive found a few websites that would be worthy to look at.

-Operating System

-Monitors (maybe)

For comparison purposes, a good, brand-name desktop in Nairobi retails for about

$650-$700. Cheaper ones that are still functional can be as low as $400-500.

You can add more brackets or sign up for more than one thing if you would like. The

person composing the e-mail can even write it on this document. Or, if you know

anything about Google Wave [Google it, lol] then we can use that.

______________________________________________________________________

______

Class Homework (due 11/4):

In General Notes From Class (9/23):

Find a research article/opinion piece referring to the results/benefits of community

service.

www .nationalservice .gov

Midterm REFLECTION (see handout given in class on 10/21)

______________________________________________________________________

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Materials for Writing Center start up:

1) Books for writing center director:

Writing Center Resource ManualIWCA:

http ://writingcenters .org /directors .htm (about $25)

2) Books for tutors [training] and students:Grammar books, dictionaries, thesauri, style guides, composition/rhetoric texts, etc.

3) Funding:

A fair amount of $$ will be needed to simply ship books.

Fund raisers.

Trolling the English Dept for books - leftovers
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalservice.gov&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGL37-wvCSalQ2B-M7zsUDNpdc7WAhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwritingcenters.org%2Fdirectors.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGY2E5lWvNFbrt26jXDlMaXI4GMtg


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Connie has suggested opening the fundraising up to all of the UHP, but those of you in

this class could still raise funds separately, to try and win the $150 matching funds for

the UHP challenge. (You might win, since I have already softened folks on the

Rhetoric & Composition listserv).

4) Computers:

Still checking to discover what needs to be loaded on the computers.

They use 220 V electricity, so all computers would need to be able to switch.

Should be able to send computers with the AIM container: still being checked.

AIU has a site license for Microsoft Office, but Ben says they expect Windows software

to come with each unit. We've found thin client to be pretty effective for the multiple

station situation. One souped-up desktop can host up to nine separate work stations.

______________________________________________________________________

______

Email between myself and Ben Byerly(our contact person charged with setting

up the Writing Resources Center at Africa International University/Nairobi

Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (AIU/NEGST)). My questions followed

by his responses:

Robert: What are the characteristics of the population who attend AIU/NEGST (average

age, language issues, familiarity with computers, etc.)? What are the characteristics of

the potential tutors for a center like this (grad students, undergrads who are skilled

writers, etc.? (Anything else you can think of about who attends, why they attend, and

what they do afterwards.) How does the school pay its bills: student fees, grants from

the government or church organizations? Basically, I'm thinking in terms of justifying

pouring resources into the project, in case I end up having a conversation with an

administrator. Oh, and what type of facilities do you have? A computer lab? How many

computers? What types? Does your university have a contract with Microsoft to load

software on all their computers?

I had a talk with Dr. Mark Hall and he was a huge help in pointing to very specific

resources that he would HAVE to have for a writing center. He pointed to "The WritingCenter Resource Manual," available through the IWCA website link I sent you. The

manual costs $25, so my class will take care of that for you. He also thinks a must-have

book is The Writing Center Director's Resource Book, ed. Christina Murphy and Byron

L. Stay. I'm hoping I can get you a copy of that. Mark also suggested you sign up for the

IWCA listserv. He said big-name, writing-center folks regularly answer people's

questions on there, so it should be a great resource for you. There are a bunch of other


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books and resources Mark mentioned, but to avoid overwhelming you, I'll just see what I

can get and send to you. I'm trying to get the resources a director, tutors and the

students would need.

My students and I brainstormed about how to meet your need, and they want to go all

out. I handed the project to them (they took over, really--these are Honor students after

all. They're really just like grad students, but younger.) Before I give an overview of what

their plans are, let me start by saying that the number of books we can get is huge.

More than 200 is a massive underestimate. So, let me ask you this: does your university

need Composition/Rhetoric textbooks for first-year writing courses, or anything like that?

Maybe you could tell me what type of writing instruction people get (if at all). Let me

touch on a few of the things my students will be working on: 1) Soliciting books

(dictionaries, thesauri, grammar guides, style books, comp/rhet textbooks, etc.) and

cash from faculty in the English department & soliciting cash from other departments in

their own personal networks, 2) Starting a Facebook page, 3) Using Google apps toorganize their efforts or coordinate the assignment of tasks, 4) Researching computer

costs and shipping--this one needs explanation (oh, and I need the lowdown on internet

service at your school). Dr. Hall said that, at our WRC at least, computers are very

important. You might need them for research purposes, so students can open their

papers directly from their flash drives (assuming they use flash drives), or to access

online writing resources like Purdue's OWL website. As you can see, we are confident

enough in our resources to know that we can set you up properly--it just depends on

how things are on your end (a place to set up the computer(s) in a room, etc.) We would

want to have word processing software on the computer(s), if we are able to swing the

computer thing--I'm not making promises, so we would need to know if you can getsoftware or if we have to. Oh, and what about getting computers to Nairobi? How would

that work without customs eating you alive?

Anyway, just the nature of the University Honors Program (it's focus on community

service, it's hyper-intelligent students, its good budget) means that this thing got way

bigger than even I had dared to imagine. Also, publishers' practice of sending

unsolicited free texts to professors means there are literally hundreds of composition

books sitting in people's offices collecting dust. It's ridiculous, so it's about time those

books went to good use. I hope it isn't becoming more than you would like to handle.

Still, I doubt it would be a bad thing to get more stuff than you need (I hope). I'm sure

anything you don't need can be put to good use somewhere in Kenya.

____________________________________________

Ben: American "can-do" dreaming is a thing of cultural beauty--especially among the

brilliant, young, and energetic.


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We are definitely going to have to step it up here on planning for the writing center. I

guess the big up-front decision will be whether we launch it small scale with a couple of

tutors or and upgrade once we see how we are really supposed to do it, or whether we

wait till a couple of manuals show up and tell us how to do it right.

BOOK SHIPPING: I'm pretty sure we can add the book shipment to a container coming

out soon. There is a big shipment of books for the Islamic studies department coming

out soon, so we may be able to piggyback on that. I will also talk to the bookstore here

which tries often figures out who is sending out a container to which we can add books.

The Theological Book Network also sends a container of books out about twice a year.

The very excited librarian is looking into all those options.

COMPUTER LAB: Right now, they have about 12 work stations--three standalone

desktops and nine thin clients. They hope to add about nine more thin clientworkstations within the next two weeks or so. All the workstations run Windows XP and

Microsoft Office (all fully certified). Thanks to the new sea cable, we are now connected

to a high-speed fiber-optic line. Occasionally, as with all things in the developing world,

it can go out for a couple of days at a time, but generally, it's fairly reliable. A good,

brand-name desktop here costs about $650-$700. Cheaper ones can be as low as $4-

500.

Income to the school is a mix of foreign donations for scholarships.

Part 2,

I'm still a bit stunned by how quickly your students jumped on this. I'm also a bit

overwhelmed.

My major fear is the tutor issue. So far I've been looking at a handful of masters

students who have shown themselves to be reasonably good writers--about half of them

are American and European. Most of them already do proofreading and editing for their

friends, so I'm hoping to formalize and streamline that into more of the writing lab ethos.

Ultimately, I argue, it should lighten their load by building more capacity in the students

themselves.

Student council is trying to negotiate with the administration about possible

compensation, but the school is so cash strapped right now that they've even had

trouble paying regular workers on time, so I'm not sure what will happen. To keep a long

story short, the government--unfairly in our minds--hit them with years of back taxes

based on a bureaucratic error on the government's part. The university has also had to


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make some major capital investments gearing up for full university accreditation in

Kenya. Accreditation has now been fully approved, but student council priority is now

negotiating over a new housing policy, so this has dropped down the food chain a bit.

All that is to say, being the typical African, I was originally just planning rolling with the

punches and see how far we got. Now, with your honors students jumping on this, the

stakes would be much higher...and that really is a wonderful problem to have!!

The university currently has about 450 students, but it's started expanding its programs

significantly in the last few years. About 180 of those are in new undergraduate

programs. Twenty are PhD candidates (biblical studies and translation), and the rest are

in various master's programs. At the BA level, almost a 100% are Kenyan, but the

masters students are much more mixed. We have students from all over sub-Saharan

Africa (Nigeria, Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zambia,

Malawi, Cote D'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Chad, to name the ones that comeimmediately to mind.) We also have a handful of Americans, Brits, Koreans, and an

Indian.

Most of these students take up prominent leadership positions somewhere when they

are done. Many go back and start schools and NGO's of their own dealing with a variety

of issues including poverty, AIDS, and conflict (all the things that Westerners

stereotypically brand Africa with.) Quite a few wind up doing significant work in peace

and reconciliation and trauma healing. A number of our graduates played a significant

role in some of the positive directions Kenya has taken since the post-election violence.

All of the major (middle of the road) churches in Nairobi have pastoral staffs full ofNEGST grads. The two guys in charge of the political wing of all the churches in Kenya

are both NEGST graduates as is the General Secretary of all the protestant churches in

Sudan. As far as AIDS work goes, here is one of our shining stars:

http ://www .time .com /time /magazine /article /0,9171,1124322,00.html

As you know, for good or ill, the church in Africa is booming, and this school will likely

play a prominent role in shaping some of its ethos. As far as I know, we have the

strongest graduate program and best library among protestant schools in sub-Saharan

Africa (not counting South Africa). Compared to anything in the States, it's peanuts, but

those are the realities of life here. By promoting clear critical thinking through good

writing, I think we can play a part in helping shape that Christianity to be more

thoughtful. You get a sense of that direction from the Institute for the Study of African

Realities, which is the part of AIU I work under (http ://www .africanrealitiesinstitute .com /).

Also, a lot of our graduates wind up being liaisons with Westerners wanting to invest in

Africa and issues like grant and proposal writing--not to mention media image--become

critical.
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Anyway, I hope that helps you get a sense for why I think developing a writing center

here is important, and why what your honors students want to do here could have a

pretty significant impact going beyond.

Peace,

Ben

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