The Summer Honors Institute is offered as an outreach and engagement opportunity through Lifelong Learning at Miami University.
The Institute will be held primarily on the campus of Miami University, Oxford, OH. Most classes on campus will be held in McGuffey Hall, which houses the Department of Education, Health, and Society and the Lifelong Learning office.
For active engagement in community service work, students will have the opportunity to travel to Miami University’s Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine located in downtown Cincinnati, OH. (http://www.fna.muohio.edu/cce/). What makes the Center for Community Engagement unique, is its relationship with the Over-the-Rhine People's Movement and other important organizations within the inner city of Cincinnati that struggle for human and racial right, and social justice. Accordingly, it is a site for learning and for producing knowledge that intersects with the needs and demands of a social movement. The Center privileges human and ecological needs as leading priorities in urban development, and challenges the profit motive as the dominant arbiter in urban social policy. |
Student's Perspective
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Additional service work locations will be based in Oxford. Students will have choices for the type of work in which they would like to be engaged.
In addition to McGuffey Hall, the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, and various service organizations, students in the Institute will have access to King Library, located next to McGuffey Hall. King Library is one of several libraries to which students will have access. The Miami University Libraries contain an extensive collection of information, ranging from tablets from ancient Babylonia to the latest electronic journals and research databases.
Possible Service Work Sites:
- Drop Inn Center, 217 W. 12th St. Cincinnati, OH 45202. A grassroots community of shelter residents, staff, and volunteers organized to end homelessness by promoting human dignity, supporting positive social change, and offering a wide range of services.
- Over the Rhine Community Housing, 114 W. 14th St. Cincinnati, OH 45202. Helping women, children, families, and communities to reach their greatest potential. Children’s Creative Corner located at the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine is a project of Over-the-Rhine Community Housing seeks to provide opportunity and empowerment through art classes for youth in the neighborhood. Youth are offered the chance to acquire both technical arts and life skills, thus increasing knowledge of potential self-expression, focusing attention on the fostering of community, and to use creativity as a means for becoming agents for positive social change.
- Peaslee Neighborhood Center, 215 E. 14th St. Cincinnati, Oh 45202. Works to welcome and nurture the involvement of the neighborhood in building a stronger, healthier community. It is a place where all are invited to become a part of a community that is caring, supportive, accepting, and welcoming.
- Our Daily Bread, 1730 Race St. Cincinnati, OH 45202. Provides a warm meal in a safe place for all who come. Students would be engaged in assisting with meal preparation, serving lunches, and general assistance at the site.
- Mary Magdalene House, 1221 Main St. Cincinnati, OH 45202. Provides shelter and other services to homeless individuals.
- Design/Build Project at the Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, The Design/Build Program of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, under the direction of John Blake, will be working on a construction project. The Design/Build Program works on the historic housing stock to renovate units for low- and moderate-income occupancy. Over-the-Rhine Community Housing is the Center’s primary partner in the neighborhood and the owner of the properties we work on. Young students will be able to experience all aspects of the design/build process, from demolition work to framing to drywalling to detailing to painting.
- Oxford Community Arts Center, 10 S. College Ave. Oxford, OH 45056. OCAC’s mission is to restore and maintain historic Oxford College as a permanent home for the arts in the Oxford area, to facilitate activities of the community arts organizations, and to promote the arts and arts education. Projects will include assessing the potential for designing and building a rain garden to capture water for existing community gardens located at the site.
- Oxford Sr. Citizens Center, 922 Tollgate Dr. Oxford, OH 45056. The purpose of this organization is to provide health and social services, education, and inspirational programs for the senior citizens of the Oxford community.
Residence Hall Facilities/Housing
Co-ed facilities will be provided in Hahne Hall located at 5357 Bonham Rd., on Miami University’s Oxford campus.
Students will be housed in double-occupancy rooms. Each corridor shares one community bathroom. Building amenities include: Foosball, Kitchenette, Living Room, Media Center, Piano, Pool Table, Washers & Dryers, and air-conditioning
For more information go to: www.hdg.muohio.edu/Housing/Buildings/index.php and select "Hahne Hall" from the drop down menu.
Students will be required to bring their own linens and towels.
Meals while on the Oxford campus will be provided through the Shriver Haines Food Court. The food court provides a wide variety of healthy hot and cold menu items including vegetarian options. Some lunches while on the Miami University campus in Oxford will be brown bag lunches catered through Carillion Catering Services of Miami University and include a sandwich, fresh vegetables, a cookie, drink, and fruit. While in Over-the-Rhine, students will have lunch provided by Venice on Vine, a restaurant and catering service originally developed as a program of Power Inspires Progress. Lunch selections will vary and include such options as pizza, steak hoagies, fish sandwiches, garden salads, cold salami subs, and vegetarian subs.