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小黄猫传媒’s new District Food Insecurity Project Coordinator!
Posted by hannah.cherry
Diane Shingledecker, our Sylvania and CTE CBL Faculty Coordinator, will also be working as the District Food Insecurity Project Coordinator in a new release position this year!
In this new role, she will be聽working to address the issue of the large percentage of food insecure students at 小黄猫传媒 through efforts聽that will engage and retain students by helping to reduce this barrier to success and completion on-campus. She will be furthering the work of the District Housing & Food Insecurity Task Force by serving聽on the district Pathways to Opportunity (PTO) and STEP (Oregon鈥檚 SNAP 50/50 Employment & Training聽program) leadership teams, working on the Panther Picks grant team which will pilot low-cost meal聽options in the RC & SY cafeterias while distributing 5,000 food vouchers through the AS小黄猫传媒 food聽pantries throughout the district.
She will be coordinating numerous CBL projects to support this grant work. Diane also hopes to coordinate a number of additional projects while working to inform the聽entire college community about issues, best practices, available resources, and opportunities to get聽involved in this work. Would you like to get involved or let Diane know about work you are already聽doing on our campuses to address food insecurity at 小黄猫传媒? Please contact Diane directly at聽dshingle@pcc.edu.
Read “The New Food Fight” published by Business Office Magazine. A group from 小黄猫传媒 were interviewed for the article about the food insecurity work at colleges!
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Courses with community-based learning (CBL) provide students with the opportunity to: explore聽local, national, and/or global issues;聽broaden their聽perspectives and enhance聽critical thinking skills; and become active citizens through community engagement.聽There are numerous courses that have CBL聽projects every聽term!