Food Fellows: Engaging Students in Meaningful Community-University Experiences
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2014-05-01
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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Food Fellows was created in response to the need for an educated and specially trained workforce able to work with communities to consider long-term sustainable solutions based on translational research from the farm to the fork. FF was built largely on relationships formed through the Hunger.FOOD.Health initiative, and uses applied experiential skill building through service-learning models of community-university partnerships to advance knowledge, encourage collaboration, and engage students in complex global issues.
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IMPACT. 1: Knowledge-Building: Students gathered monthly to discuss a range of food-related issues, such as food production, urban agriculture, healthy food access, food security and health, food waste, and food policy. -- 2. Advocacy: Fifty interdisciplinary students, faculty, and staff are registered to participated in a SNAP Challenge where they will eat on $4.50/day for six days to experience living on Food Stamps. -- 3. Skill-Building: Students worked on three major community-based projects with Mid-Ohio Foodbank, Children's Hunger Alliance, and Columbus Public Health addressing senior hunger, local foods, and national food programs.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Social Work; College of Education and Human Ecology; College of Engineering: City and Regional Planning/Knowlton School of Architecture; Glenn School of Public Affairs; College of Public Health; Medical Dietetics: College of Medicine; College of Arts and Sciences College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Mid-Ohio Foodbank; Local Matters; Healthy Corner Store Initiative (United Way); Franklinton Gardens; Children's Hunger Alliance Columbus Public Health; Greater Hilltop Shalom Zone Campus Kitchens Project
PRIMARY CONTACT: Michelle Kaiser (kaiser.267@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Social Work; College of Education and Human Ecology; College of Engineering: City and Regional Planning/Knowlton School of Architecture; Glenn School of Public Affairs; College of Public Health; Medical Dietetics: College of Medicine; College of Arts and Sciences College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Mid-Ohio Foodbank; Local Matters; Healthy Corner Store Initiative (United Way); Franklinton Gardens; Children's Hunger Alliance Columbus Public Health; Greater Hilltop Shalom Zone Campus Kitchens Project
PRIMARY CONTACT: Michelle Kaiser (kaiser.267@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 2 (2014).