Staff, Funding, Programming, and More: Resources Gained from Partnering with a College/University

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Many institutions of higher education require students to engage in a service-learning experience to graduate. It can be challenging for administrators of institutions of higher education to find enriching service-learning opportunities that allow students to apply the lessons they have learned in the classroom to real-world situations. For center staff whose community is home to an institution of higher education, the solutions to their staffing and programming challenges might be found on campus. This session highlights how Neighborhood Networks centers and local institutions of higher education can build partnerships that benefit everyone involved.

Presenters:

Clennie Banks
Center Coordinator
Herrington Villages Computer Center
Phone: (252) 335-7901

Larry Tague
Co-Director
Memphis Educational Computer Connectivity Alliance
Phone: (901) 448-7152

Clennie Banks has served as the manager for Herrington Village Apartments, Ltd., a 236 HUD-subsidized, low-income apartment complex. Ms. Banks also serves as the coordinator of the onsite Neighborhood Networks center, Herrington Villages Computer Center. In this position, Ms. Banks strives to ensure that residents of all ages, as well as citizens of the surrounding areas, receive access to technology and connect with the many opportunities that technology provides. Ms. Banks recently received a master's degree in business/human resources from the University of Phoenix. She also graduated from Elizabeth City State University with a degree in business education.

Larry Tague is co-director of the Memphis Educational Computer Connectivity Alliance (MECCA), founded in 1995 through National Science Foundation funding for municipal networking. He currently works with four Neighborhood Network centers to help provide networked infrastructure and consults with them to help set programmatic goals. He is working to provide "Google Apps" to Neighborhood Networks centers, and is the Webmaster for a variety of MECCA sites. He has worked to secure wireless network connections for two Neighborhood Networks centers. He was also one of the principal investigators for three foundation grants which funded the development of two Neighborhood Networks centers in Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to his role with MECCA, Mr. Tague is a research associate in the department of physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Medicine. He is an active research scientist who, most recently, has been actively engaged in gastrointestinal and thermobiological research. He currently has more than 20 peer reviewed publications, one book chapter, and numerous abstracts published in professional scientific presentations.

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