The University of Iowa
Engagement Corps
Funded by the Year of Public Engagement
Sponsoring Organizations:
Faculty Senate
UI Speakers Bureau
Engagement Corps Objectives
• Acquaint newly hired and promoted faculty
with their home state
• Enhance awareness of actual and potential
connections between the UI and the state
• Engender a better understanding of the
economic, social and cultural condition
of Iowa
• Promote interaction among faculty across
ranks and disciplines
Engagement Corps Participants
• 15 Participants
• 12 Departments or Divisions
• 6 Colleges
Engagement Corps Participants
• Jerry Anthony, Urban
and Regional Planning
• Mercedes Bern-Klug
Social Work
• Lucinda Buys
Pharmacy
• Patricia Clinton, Nursing
• Minnetta Gardinier
Pharmacology
• Nagi Gabraeel
Industrial Engineering
• Paul Hanley, Urban and
Regional Planning
• Kathleen Hanson
Nursing
• Paul Heidger, Anatomy
and Cell Biology
• Steve McGuire
Curriculum and
Instruction and Art History
• Jane Schildroth
Career Center
• Jane Singer
Journalism and Mass
Communication
• Ethan Stone, Law
• Jane Van Voorhis
Office of the President
• Susan White, Art
Engagement Corps Itinerary
Storm Lake, Iowa
Investigation of the social,
economic and educational
implications of welcoming new
populations to the state
Engagement Corps Itinerary
Storm Lake, Iowa
Storm Lake Public School System
Workforce Development
Buena Vista County Historical Society
Storm Lake Story Swap
Engagement Corps Itinerary
Sioux City, IA
Introduction to community college education
Discussion of economic development
challenges facing Iowa’s “border towns”
Cultural conversation
Dinner with hosts and local alumni
Western Iowa Tech
Orpheum Theatre
Woodbury County Courthouse
Woodbury County Courthouse
Follow-up Activities
• Sioux City Historic Preservation
representative will travel to Iowa City
to present to students and faculty in
Urban and Regional Planning and to
the City of Iowa City
• Continued funding of the program
from the Provost’s office for another
2-3 year pilot program