ICC 2018 Brian Douglas Hiltunen Faculty Award Essay

Tina M. Kruger

Service-learning and community-based research are key components of my identity as an

associate professor at Indiana State University (ISU). I am continually excited to teach at a university

that recognizes the value of community engagement and encourages faculty (including pre-tenure

faculty) to incorporate community engagement into courses and was pleased to receive tenure in 2016

based on my scholarship of engagement. I committed to taking my position at ISU in large part because

community engagement is integral to the mission of ISU. I connect my teaching to community

engagement by seeking to teach course content through activities developed in partnership with

community organizations that provide the types of services I want my students to be able to perform

(either in their careers or the lifestyles of service I hope to foster in them). Having taken a position as

the chair of the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at the end of 2016, I have been excited to

expand my teaching and scholarship efforts to encompass the many programs housed in my current

department (Sociology, Philosophy, Gender Studies, International Studies and a build-your-own-

major/minor that includes programming in Social Justice and in Visual Arts Administration). The

community partner with whom I do most of my current work, Art Spaces, has provided multiple

opportunities to engage with the community in a new way, expanding my previous health promotion

efforts into the public art sector. I am pleased to serve as key personnel on a $75,000 National

Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” grant, which includes data collection and analysis as well as

developing and implementing a service-learning course on Art and Health (which I will co-teach this

semester, spring of 2018).

As a teacher and a researcher, the scholarship of engagement has become the foundation for

my activities. I was part of multiple community-based participatory research (CBPR) studies in eastern

Kentucky when I was in graduate school and have worked since arriving in Terre Haute in 2011 to forge

the types of connections in the community here that are vital for successful CBPR work. My service

activities on campus also revolve around community engagement. For example, I co-directed an

initiative of the ISU strategic plan called Science Education for New Civic Engagements and

Responsibilities (SENCER). This initiative involves working to recruit faculty to adopt the SENCER model

of teaching course content through the lens of capacious civic issues and community engagement. For

two years I served as the secretary of the Vigo County Triad, which is dedicated to preventing crime

against older adults and involves multiple partnerships between ISU and various community

organizations.

Innovative programming such as the SENCER model of teaching and the building of my courses

around a community partnership has had important impacts on the community and students. My

community partners and I decide as a team what projects we want to take on, how to go about involving

the population we are interested in (so that we work with the community and not on, for, or to them),

and how students can be involved in meaningful ways that help them learn course content without

reinforcing stereotypes of marginalized populations. These relationships are reciprocal in that the work

I and my students do is always designed to help fill gaps in the partners’ knowledge, ability, or time

limits, while simultaneously encouraging feedback from the partners on students’ work. My community

partnerships also involve frank discussions about what is required of me as a faculty meember (get

grants, publish papers, teach well) and efforts to identify where my needs overlap the partners’ needs

(e.g., we might work together to write a grant to implement a project that addresses the partners’ goals

and results in data that we can publish together in a paper, as is the plan with the NEA “Our Town” grant

project). My community partners have given me positive feedback on our interactions, and students

have reported enhanced learning through course-based community engagement projects. For example,

a student in my Health Promotion and Aging said that, she was “open to working with older adults in the

future” after taking my course. I couldn’t hope for better outcomes than for students to develop a

desire to work with populations that are often avoided and believe that the changes these students will

make will benefit their communities for years to come.

In terms of my scholarship of engagement, I have published and presented my community

engagement work in a variety of contexts including peer-reviewed publications, technical reports,

newsletters, and photography exhibits. For example, I have published 11 peer-reviewed manuscripts on

CBPR work of which I have been a part as well as co-authoring two chapters in the 2012-2013 ICC

Faculty Fellows-sponsored book “Cooperate: Advancing your nonprofit organization’s mission through

college & community partnerships”. I served as the data analyst on a program evaluation project for the

Boy Scouts of America, which resulted in the publication of a technical report. As the co-chair of a

committee for the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, I share responsibility for producing

biannual reports for the organization’s newsletter, the AGHExchange. In collaboration with a colleague

from Ohio, I wrote a piece for the AGHExchange on the value of community engagement for marketing

gerontology programs. My paper, “Beyond assessment: Conducting theoretically-grounded research on

service-learning in gerontology courses” was selected to receive the 2016 David A. Peterson Award from the

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. In another project, I hosted a community-wide

photography competition on the theme of Aging in the Wabash Valley. Winning entries of the

competition were framed (using funds from a grant I wrote) to create two exhibits, one of which is

housed permanently on campus at ISU and the other of which travels to local venues to make it more

accessible to the community. Viewers are encouraged to consider what stereotypes of aging they hold

and to see the strength and resilience of the older adults in the images. The ultimate goal of the

photography exhibits is to change the way people view aging.

I am proud of the impact these and other projects I am involved in have on campus, in the local

community, regionally, and on the fields of both gerontology and community engagement. Through

community engagement projects and CBPR research, I am committed to working to make lasting change

in the world by identifying long-term solutions to problems that face the population as we age. I

strongly value my ongoing relationship and partnership with Indiana Campus Compact and appreciate

how our efforts reinforce one another’s goals. As an ICC fellow in 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 and the

senior Faculty Fellow in 2016-2017, my understanding of and appreciation for the scholarship of

engagement has expanded and grown to encompass all aspects of my professional life. I am happy to

remain connected and committed to ICC, enjoying my role on the Advisory Council and participating in

the annual Service Engagement Summit each year.

I am very pleased to be nominated for the Brian Douglas Hiltunen Faculty Award for the

Outstanding Contribution to the Scholarship of Engagement. As my publication record, list of

presentations, and letters of support from the director of the Center for Community Engagement at ISU

and the executive director of Art Spaces all indicate, I am active in and committed to the field of

community engagement. It would be a great honor to be selected as the 2018 recipient of this

prestigious award, and I would be thrilled to be the first faculty member from Indiana State University to

do so.

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CURRICULUM VITA Tina M. Kruger

Indiana State University, Department of Applied Health Sciences, Arena B-76 Terre Haute, IN 47809

Tina.Kruger@indstate.edu Telephone: 812-237-8483 Fax: 812-237-8607

1. Professional experience 8/2016 – current Associate Professor Indiana State University: College of Health, and Human Services Department of Applied Health Sciences 8/2011 – 7/2016 Assistant Professor Indiana State University: College of Health, and Human Services Department of Applied Health Sciences

2. Education Ph.D. in Gerontology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, December, 2011. Graduate Certificate in College Teaching, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, August, 2011. B.S. in Psychology, with honors, Washington State University, Vancouver, Washington, December, 2005. B.A. in Sociology (Law and Society), minor in Psychology, with honors, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana,

May, 2002.

3. Teaching activities Course Title Type of course

AHS 111 (learning community)

Personal Health & Wellness Face-to-face; paired with ENG 101

AHS 302 Health Promotion & Aging Face-to-face, service-learning course AHS 305 Society & Aging Online, service-learning course AHS 336 Family Relationships Face-to-face AHS 340 Health Biostatistics Face-to-face, service-learning course AHS 341 Health Science Research Methods Online, service-learning course AHS 417 Special Topics in AHS: Study Abroad in Finland!

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Long-Term Care Short-term study abroad, service-learning course

AHS 448 Practicum in Human Development & Family Studies

Face-to-face, service-learning course

AHS 449 Internship in Human Development & Family Studies

Online, service-learning course

AHS 601 Research Methodology in Science Online AHS 818 Research Methods Face-to-face GS 499 Capstone in General Studies Online, service-learning course OLLI Pain Doesn’t Have to Hurt (University of

Kentucky) Face-to-face

4. Honors/awards: 2017 - Nominated for the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award, Campus Compact

2017 - Recipient of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education’s David A. Peterson Award for the best article in Volume 37 (2016) of Gerontology & Geriatrics Education for the article titled “Beyond Assessment: Conducting Theoretically Grounded Research on Service-Learning in Gerontology Courses”

2016 - Nominated for the ISU Faculty Award for Community-Based Learning and Scholarship

2015 - Recipient of the ISU College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services’ Faculty Outstanding Community Engagement Award

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2015 - Nominated for Indiana Campus Compact’s Brian Douglas Hiltunen Faculty Award

2014 - Recipient of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education’s Rising Star Junior Faculty Honor

2014 - Nominated for the Indiana State College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services Mildred Lemen Faculty Excellence Award

2014 - Nominated for the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

2014 - Faculty winner of the Indiana State University Sustainability Award, presented by the Institute for Community Sustainability

2014 - Faculty mentor to the SENCER Student Leadership Team, which was recognized as an Outstanding Team of Assistants by the Indiana State University Career Center

2010 Sigma Phi Omega President’s Award for the paper “Recruiting and Retaining Baby Boomers as Volunteers: Educating Volunteer Services Managers to Optimize the Workforce through Aging Volunteers” presented at the Association of Gerontology in Higher Education in Reno, NV in March, 2010

5. Grants and Research/Teaching/Engagement Support 2017 - To Support Community Discourse On Public Art to Revitalize an Economically Depressed Neighborhood, co-

authored with Meredith Lynn (of ISU), National Endowment for the Arts, $44,362.00 requested, awating decision.

2017 - Turn to The River – Design for Access, co-authored with Mary Kramer (of ArtSpaces), National Endowment for the Arts, $75,000.00 awarded.

2016 - Planning for a Center for Lifespan Development, Indiana Campus Compact, Senior Faculty Fellow Grant, $7,500.00 awarded.

2016 - Designing a sensory garden, co-authored with Stephanie Krull, ISU Facilities Manager, Sesquicentennial Grant Committee, $2,500.00 awarded.

2015 - Promoting healthy aging through scrapbooking: A service-learning project with assisted living residents, Center for Community Engagement, $1,418.69 awarded.

2014 - Documenting a short-term study abroad experience in Finland, travel support for a staff photographer, Interdisciplinary Programs, $734.00 awarded.

2013 - Aging in the Wabash Valley, University Arts Endowment Committee, $1,591.00 awarded.

2013 - Preparing an International Service-Learning Gerontology Short-term Study Abroad Opportunity in Finland, Office of International Programs and Services, $2,500.00 awarded.

2013 - Creating cohesion in the community: Listening to Communities grant application, Indiana Campus Compact, $3,500.00 awarded.

2013 - Strategic plan funds budget request for Goal 2, Initiative 2 (Apply the science of learning to the learning of science; Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities – SENCER), $85,502.00 awarded.

2013 - Study Abroad in Finland! Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Long-Term Care, Office of International Programs and Services, $12,000.00 awarded.

2013 - Aging Across America, Global Alliance for Arts & Health traveling art exhibit, support from College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services, $1,000.00 awarded.

2013 - Aging Across America, Global Alliance for Arts & Health traveling art exhibit, support from Department of Applied Health Sciences, $1,000.00 awarded.

2013 - Enhancing Perceptions and Experiences of Aging through an International Service-Learning Project, Indiana Campus Compact, $5,000.00 awarded.

2012 - 2nd National Community Partner Forum (Community-Campus Partnerships for Health) in Washington, D.C. Faculty Presentation Travel Award, Center for Community Engagement, $1,040.00, awarded.

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2012 - Expanding SENCER in the Nursing, Health, & Human Service Disciplines in Two- And Four-Year Institutions, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, $3,000.00 awarded.

2012 - Promoting Healthy Aging and Gerontological Awareness through Multi-Generational Community Engagement and Service-Learning, Indiana Campus Compact, $5,000.00 awarded.

2012 - Aging in the Avenues: An Intergenerational Photovoice Project, Charlotte Zietlow Endowment Women Faculty Research Grant, $2,179.00 awarded.

2012 - Aging in the Avenues Oral History Project, Indiana State University Center for Community Engagement, $1,069.86 awarded.

6. Service Activities Community Service

Dates of service Committee/organization Role 2016-current Cobblestone Crossings Advisory Board Member 2013-2016 United Way of the Wabash Valley’s Community

Health Initiative (Healthier by 2020) committee Assessment and data analysis of Mobile Market impact

2013-2015 Terre Foods Cooperative Market Steering committee chair 2013 ISU Alternative Fall Break Chaperone (served as support for

families at the Center for Courageous Kids in Scottsville, KY)

Professional Service

Dates of service Committee/organization Role 2016-current Journal of Community Engagement and Higher

Education Peer reviewer (2 manuscripts in 2016; 2 in 2017)

2016-current Gerontology & Geriatrics Education Peer reviewer (1 manuscript in 2016) 2015-current AGHExchange Newsletter Associate Editor 2014-current Indiana Campus Compact Advisory board member 2013-current Vigo County Triad Member; secretary from 2013-2015 2013-2014 Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow 2012-2013 Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellow 2011-current Ageing & Society Peer reviewer (2 manuscripts in

2011-2012) 2011-current Gerontologist Peer reviewer (2 manuscripts in

2011-2012)

7. Relevant professional presentations Montepare, J., Kruger, T. M., Baker, H., Karasik, R. J., Macaluso, S., & Zakrajsek, A Hands on Aging - Harnessing

Active Learning Strategies in the Classroom. Paper accepted for presentation at the 2018 Annual Meetings of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Atlanta, GA.

Kruger, T. M., Latta, M., Payne, L., & VanSickle, J. Critical service-learning: A case study of a state-wide faculty learning community. Presentation at the Indiana Campus Compact 7th Annual Service Engagement Summit, Indianapolis, IN.

Kruger, T. M., Griffith, N., Matthewson, T., Robison, H., & Rutz, K. Promoting healthy aging through scrapbooking: An intergenerational service-learning project. Poster presented at the Indiana Campus Compact 6th annual Service Engagement Summit, Indianapolis, IN.

Braid, D., Guebert, M., Kirsch, J., & Kruger, T. M. Civic engagement in the sciences: Lessons from the SENCER model. Symposium presented at the Indiana Campus Compact 5th annual Service Engagement Summit, Indianapolis, IN.

Kruger, T. M., Frank, J. B., Murphy, B. C., English, C.,Gilland, S., Meade, J., Morrow, K., & Rush, E. Cross-cultural comparison of long-term care in the U.S. and Finland: Research done through a short-term study abroad

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experience. Paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meetings of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, Nashville, TN.

Borrero, L., Kruger, T. M., Purcell, J. W., & Harden, S. B. Lessons from the EESW: Turning community engagement into faculty scholarship. Workshop/panel presentation at the 2014 Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Kruger, T. M., & Pearl, A. J. Beyond assessment: Conducting theoretically-grounded research on service-learning in gerontology courses. Paper presented at the 2014 Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Kruger, T. M., McConnaughey, S., Mundell, S., & Strigas, E. Engaging students in efforts to engage students: Reflections on the ISU SENCER Student Leadership Team. Paper presented at the 2014 SENCER Summer Institute, Asheville, NC.

Kruger, T. M., Demchak, T. J., & Miklozek, H. D. Creating cohesion in the community: Setting the stage for multiple institutions of higher education to listen to communities together. Paper presented at the Indiana Campus Compact 4th annual Service Engagement Summit, Indianapolis, IN.

Harms, D. E., Eisenhauer, M. J., Jamison, J. R., Kruger, T. M., Schaumleffel, N. A., VanSickle, J. L. Creating intentional learning communities of engaged scholars. Symposium presented at the Indiana Campus Compact 4th annual Service Engagement Summit, Indianapolis, IN.

Flinner, N. Speer, J. H., Kruger, T. M., Strigas, E. Developing the NEW Rubric 3.0: Core Elements of SENCER Courses and Curricular Programs. Presentation at the 2013 SENCER Summer Institute, Santa Clara, California.

Speer, J. H., Kruger, T. M., Flinner, N., & Strigas, E. SENCER student leadership team. Presentation at the 2013 SENCER Summer Institute, Santa Clara, California.

Kruger, T. M. Sustainability and aging: A tale of two countries. Invited keynote presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Sciences and Social Sciences 2013: Research and Development for Sustainable Life Quality, Maha Sarakham, Thailand.

Kruger, T. M. Lessons for pre-tenure faculty on meeting multiple objectives though course-based service engagement projects: A case study from health promotion and aging. Workshop presented at the Indiana Campus Compact 3rd annual Service Engagement Summit, Indianapolis, IN.

Kruger, T. M. Charting a course for a new gerontology certificate program: Collaborating with campus and community stakeholders. Symposium presentation at the 2012 Annual Meetings of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.

Kruger, T. M. Applying the SENCER ideals to health promotion and aging: The nexus of bench and social science in a service-learning course. Poster presentation at the 2012 SENCER Summer Institute, Santa Clara, CA.

Kruger, T. M., Swanson, M., Davis, R.E., Wright, S., Dollarhide, K., &Schoenberg, N.E. Formative research conducted in rural Appalachia to inform a community physical activity intervention. Art & Science of Health Promotion. March, 2011, Colorado Springs, CO.

8. Publications A. Relevant peer-reviewed publications

Kruger, T. M., Eisenhauer, M. J., & Weaver, L. (2017). Service-learning & early childhood teacher education: A qualitative exploration of professional preparation standards. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 9(1), 46-60.

Kruger, T. M., Gilland, S., Frank, J. B., Murphy, B. C., English, C., Meade, J., Morrow, K., & Rush, E. (2016). Cross-cultural comparison of long-term care in the U.S. and Finland: Research done through a short-term study abroad experience. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 38(1), 104-118. 10.1080/02701960.2016.1232591

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Kruger, T. M., & Pearl, A. J. (2015). Beyond assessment: Conducting theoretically-grounded research on service-learning in gerontology courses. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 37(1), 12-28. DOI: 10.1080/02701960.2015.1048338

Kruger, T. M., Savage, C.E., & Newsham, P. M. (2014). Intergenerational efforts to develop a healthy environment for everyone: Sustainability as a human rights issue. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 80(1), 27-40. doi: 10.1177/0091415015591108

Schoenberg, N.E., Bardach, S., Kruger, T. M., & Howell, B.M. (2013). Appalachian women's perspectives on breast and cervical cancer screening. Rural and Remote Health, 13(3), 2452. Retrieved from http://www.rrh.org.au/articles/subviewnew.asp?ArticleID=2452.

Zanjani, F., Davis, T., Kruger, T. M., & Murray, D. (2012). Mental Health and Aging Initiative: Intervention component effects. Remote and Rural Health, 12: 2154. Available at: http://www.rrh.org.au.

Kruger, T. M., Howell, B. M., Haney, A., Davis, R. E., Fields, N., & Schoenberg, N. E. (2012). Perceptions of smoking cessation programs in rural Appalachia. American Journal of Health Behavior, 36(3), 373-384. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.36.3.8

Kruger, T. M., Swanson, M., Davis, R. E., Wright, S., Dollarhide, K., & Schoenberg, N. E. (2012). Formative research conducted in rural Appalachia to inform a community physical activity intervention. American Journal of Health Promotion, 26(3), 143-151.

Kruger, T. M., Murray, D., & Zanjani, F. (2011). The Mental Healthiness and Aging Initiative: Lessons from a social marketing-informed research campaign in Kentucky. Social Marketing Quarterly, 17(3), 18-38.

Zanjani, F., Kruger, T. M., & Murray, D. (2011). Evaluation of the Mental Healthiness Aging Initiative: Community program to promote awareness about mental health and aging issues. Community Mental Health Journal. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10597-011-9373-1

Kruger, T. M., Murray, D., & Zanjani, F. (2011). Rural community members’ perspectives on mental health and aging: An ecological approach to interpreting and applying focus group results. Journal of Extension [on-line], 49(2) Article 2FEA7. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2011april/a7.php

B. Other relevant publications

Baker, H., Kruger, T. M., & Karasik, R. (2017). A hands-on approach to teaching about aging: 32 activities for the classroom and beyond. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.

Kruger, T. M., & Van Dussen, D. (2014). Marketing gerontology programs through community engagement: Creating a brand from the bottom-up and the top-down. AGHExchange, 37(2).

Kruger, T. M., Harms, D. E., Schaumleffel, N. A. (2014). Ethical issues with college and nonprofit partnerships. In N. A. Schaumleffel (Ed.), Cooperate - Advancing your nonprofit organization’s mission through college & community partnerships: A guide for nonprofit leaders. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Campus Compact.

Schaumleffel, N.A., Kruger, T. M., & McElwain, M. L. (2014). Why would students and faculty work free of charge (or below market value) for nonprofit organizations? In N. A. Schaumleffel (Ed.), Cooperate - Advancing your nonprofit organization’s mission through college & community partnerships: A guide for nonprofit leaders. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Campus Compact.

Schaumleffel, N.A., Kruger, T. M., Beliles, K., Boehm, C., Coomer, N., Jones, C., & Wolf, J. (2013). Wabash Valley District ScoutReach program impact evaluation results. Terre Haute, Indiana.

9. Creative works

Kruger, T. M. (2014). Aging in the Wabash Valley [photography exhibit curator]. Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University.

Kruger, T. M. (2014). Happy Days and Happy Nights in Finland: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Long-Term Care. ISU: Terre Haute, IN.