自2008年成立以来, the 道格拉斯和伊莎贝尔·克罗克公民参与中心 has aimed to “help local organizations thrive and develop competencies in best practices, 让人们有能力建设更美好的社区, 并最大限度地发挥美高梅(MGM)2288集团和社区之间的合作.”
In September of 2015, the efforts of the Crocker Center were expanded to include additional activities focused on investing in our community and establishing meaningful partnerships between the University and local citizens and organizations. Such efforts include engaging students through civic-learning and community-based research and internships.
The importance of maximizing students’ participation in these high-impact learning opportunities is a strong theme embedded throughout the University’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025.
Vision
创建一个充满活力的大学菲奇堡社区，其中学生, residents, and entrepreneurs live, work, seek an education, 参加娱乐和休闲活动, 然后投资到他们的社区.
Mission
Heighten social capital and community cohesion by enriching the lives of neighborhood residents, local entrepreneurs, university students, and greater Fitchburg through evidence-based high-impact educational practices and community and economic development.
Goals
Community Investments
Affirm, enhance, and maintain a partnership and collaboration between the University and its surrounding neighborhood residents, business owners, faith-based leaders, 其他社区组织及领导, public officials, students and educators, 为了社区和经济发展以及社区振兴的更大目标.
University Investments
Increase student learning and success by engaging students in high-impact educational practices and learning opportunities through community-based internships、研究和公民学习项目.
社区参与计划申请表格
Our faculty, librarians, and staff are a creative and resourceful lot when it comes to serving our students and our greater community.
Civic or community engagement concepts must involve a community partner and one or more of our students in a high-impact educational practice, such as:
- An internship
- 以社区为基础的研究
- 其他一些公民或社区参与的行为
请提交一个概念 填写社区参与计划申请表 (PDF) and email it to crockercenter@bilinual.com美高梅(MGM)2288集团的道格拉斯和伊莎贝尔·克罗克公民参与中心.
如果得到克罗克中心公民参与教师/员工论坛成员的批准, 公民/社区参与基金，最高可达$1,000可能对你有用, your student(s), 你的社区伙伴.
社区研究及谘询小组
美高梅(MGM)2288集团 is committed to working with our community as we strive to improve the region’s quality of life.
The 社区研究及谘询小组 of the Crocker Center for Civic Engagement is made up of faculty and staff from Fitchburg State with expertise in a wide array of areas who are open to working with community partners in the social services, business, 以及政府部门.
Members of the 社区研究及谘询小组 will collaborate on projects that solve real problems and answer practical questions. 该小组将帮助设计、开发和实施满足合作伙伴需求的项目. 作为一个教育机构, we want to make sure our role in the community goes beyond the classroom and meets the comprehensive needs of our neighbors.
Groups and organizations looking to complete work in which our faculty and staff expertise can assist should contact crockercenter@bilinual.com.
我们期待着形成有益的合作伙伴关系.
Professor of Sociology
parend@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Qualitative analysis
- 实地研究/民族志
- 包括焦点小组和调查在内的多重访谈方法
- Survey design
最近完成的项目:
- Assessment of domestic violence exposure among women presenting in a hospital emergency department
- 消费者行为研究
- 以社区为基础的人种学
工业科技教授
sbasu@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 制造系统研究
- 制造课程设计
- 制造系统的经济分析
- 自动化中的自动化评估
- 斯特林发动机(废能回收)
- 制造业自动化(CAD/CAM和微处理器控制)
最近完成的项目:
- Economic Analysis of Dry Machining and Sampling of Small Airborne Particles in the Auto Industry
Professor of Nursing
dbenes@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定性和定量数据收集、分析和项目评估
- 研究和评价方面的评价和员工培训
最近完成的项目:
- 社区对体育活动和获得娱乐设施的看法
- 区域粮食安全评估
- 健康行为的评估和评价包括:身体活动, healthy eating, and food access
教育学助理教授
lbenharr@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Critical Literacy
- Early Childhood
- Special Education
最近完成的项目:
- Self Reflections on Critical Retellings: Our Process of Revisiting the Cultural Myths of Christopher Columbus through an Indigenous Lens (Covino, Benharris)
- LGBT+走向平等:历史和理论视角(2019)
工业技术与建筑设计教授
kchenot@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Architectural Design
- Land Planning
- Zoning
- Smart Growth
- Historic Preservation
- Sustainable Design
- 建筑计算机建模/渲染
最近完成的项目:
- 主街建筑再利用的先进聚合物制造研究, 技术转让和培训设施
- Neighborhood revitalization design studies for the eastern sector of the ReImagine North of Main area
- 莫兰广场地区新建筑设计及建筑再利用研究
Professor of Education
wcortezi@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定性和定量数据收集、分析和项目评估
- 社会变迁评估与分析
最近完成的项目:
- 评估全球教育中的课程、公共政策和教育实践
- 公立学校社会科学评价
- 对公立学校民主化项目的评估
英语研究教授
kcovinop@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定性和定量数据收集、分析和项目评估
- 参与者访谈协议
- 参与者观察(小组、大组)
最近完成的项目:
- 行动研究(课堂合作研究项目)
Professor of Education
dday@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Teacher and Educational Leader Professional Development (Cultural Competency and Mindfulness-Based Wellness)
- 学校文化与气候调查设计
- 社区组织和社会正义行动主义
最近完成的项目:
- Fitchburg Friends of the Abolitionist Park and 美高梅(MGM)2288集团 agree to build a pocket park honoring Benjamin Snow and others who contributed to Fitchburg’s abolitionist history
刑事司法助理教授
ddrawbri@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- Drug courts
- 杀人的分类
最近完成的项目:
- Multi-site Evaluation of the Impact of Adult Drug Court Participation on Recidivism and Relapse
- An Assessment of the Implementation Fidelity of Evidence-based Practices within Community Correction Centers
- 在缓刑案件规划中实施风险-需求-责任原则
- 过渡年龄青年风险评估工具的有效性
工商管理教授
mgreenw5@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Strategic planning
- 组织效能评估
- Leadership training
最近完成的项目:
- 促进当地非营利组织的战略规划过程
- 建立组织认证领导者计划
- 开发并交付精益六西格玛组织架构
地球与地理科学教授
jhuang2@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 地理信息系统制图和数据可视化
- 城市和人口分析
- 环境及公共卫生
- Qualitative research
- Database management
最近完成的项目:
- 重新想象北主要社区物业测绘和分析项目
- 健康心脏路径的GPS调查
- 健康住房倡议/社区牵头项目
- 菲奇堡社区健康项目和纳舒厄河健康项目
- 用于区域分区、交通、交通和人行道的GIS制图
- 数据驱动的GIS方法在菲奇堡犯罪和交通安全
- 马萨诸塞州中北部地区经济发展趋势
数学教授
blevy1@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 应用数学，如统计分析，数学建模，绘图和数据可视化
- Computer programming
最近完成的项目:
- 动物种群、物种分布和传染病的数学建模
- 不同系统的一般数学建模
Professor of Marketing
yliu4@Fitchburgstate.edu
Areas of expertise:
- International Business
- 国际市场营销、经济学
最近完成的项目:
- 经济民族主义与全球化
- 经济民族主义与外国直接投资
- 全球化时代国际企业的经济民族主义与贸易政策
- 大数据的阴暗面:个人隐私、数据安全与价格歧视
- 商业与社会的数字化转型:理论与案例
传播及传媒教授
vlorencova@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Individual interviews
- Focus groups
- Oral histories
- Ethnographic fieldwork
- 调查设计及分发
最近完成的项目:
- “菲奇堡健康”综合研究
- Ethnographic fieldwork
- 斯洛伐克LGBTQ权利活动家的定性访谈和焦点小组
- 口述历史项目女权主义者在西部MA题为“山谷妇女的协作”
护理学助理教授
tmariolis@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 阿片类药物使用障碍的药物和其他治疗
最近完成的项目:
- 比较丁丙诺啡与其他治疗阿片类药物使用障碍的系统评价, presently studying treatment utilization and drug use during medication treatment with Buprenorphine.
- I am also very interested in examining additional health outcomes during treatment with buprenorphine with a number of populations including prison inmates, if possible.
Professor of Economics
cmarr2@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定量(线性和非线性回归分析，潜在类
- 方法论、空间回归、变系数模型等.)
- Economic Evaluation
- Mixed Methods Research
- Data(base) Management
- Mapping
最近完成的项目:
- 评估美国工资和收入流动性的决定因素.S. Commuting Zones
- 申请联邦信用合作社宪章在菲奇堡:一个社区叙事的方法
- 表征食物沙漠在新英格兰:利用地方和区域数据的空间分析
Professor of Sociology
zminer@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Qualitative research
- Interviewing
- Grant evaluation
- Survey design
最近完成的项目:
- 采访合法枪支拥有者，了解他们拥有枪支的经历
- Interviews with students, business owners, and teachers evaluating the success of a grant project
Professor of Economics
oozay@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Quantitative research
- Survey Data Analysis
- Economic evaluation
- Regional development
最近完成的项目:
- Using Time Use Surveys conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute to estimate the time poverty rates of women and men in Turkey
- Studying the import/ export data and constructing a sophistication index of exports in South East Asia to understand the division of labor in the region
- Studying the gendered employment effects of technological change and trade liberalization in Turkey
人类服务/法医心理学/刑事学教授
Justicekryan33@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 能力建设和员工培训
- 调查设计和数据收集
- 方案评估设计
最近完成的项目:
- Outcome evaluation of national training program on training law enforcement on responding to child abuse victims with disabilities
- Clinical decision making and survey of best practice of psychological assessment of justice involving transgender individuals (in progress)
- 评估警察和公共服务培训和教育
工商管理教授
rscappar@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定量和定性研究方法
- Strategic planning
- 市场调查/营销计划
- 综合需求评估
- Economic evaluation
最近完成的项目:
- Fitchburg评估的健康和适宜性
- 男性主导行业中的女性企业家
- Facilitated strategic planning and business planning with two educational institutions and three small businesses
心理科学教授
hschilling@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Survey Design
- Experimental Design
- Correlational Design
- Data Collection
- Data Analyses
最近完成的项目:
- 调查，以确定菲奇堡居民感知的资金需求. 结果被菲奇堡城市规划委员会用于CDBG的资金优先事项.
教育与应用行为分析教授
rshapir3@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 与残疾儿童(尤其是自闭症儿童)一起工作
- 管理员工的行为/生产力
- 旨在改善公共安全等方面行为的社区干预措施.
传播及传媒教授
jsylvia3@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定量分析和数据可视化
- 关键和创造性编码
- 伦理评价与分析
- 沟通与领导力培训
- 关键制造和物联网
最近完成的项目:
- 暑期学院定量分析与数据可视化, Fitchburg项目的健康和健身
- 可视化犯罪相关开放数据的创意编码项目
- 公共社区关于传播伦理的讨论
Professor of Nursing
dstone1@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- 定性和定量数据的收集和分析
- 数据库开发与管理
- 暴力预防项目评估
最近完成的项目:
- 评估预防暴力干预措施
英语研究教授
ktracy3@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Literature
- 中世纪和近代的研究
- Cultural heritage
- Disability studies
- Teaching and learning
- Writing
最近完成的项目:
- 影像文化遗产
- 菲奇堡艺术博物馆的文化遗产日
- 菲奇堡历史学会中世纪残疾指南
英语研究教授
ktracy3@bilinual.com
Areas of expertise:
- Literature
- 中世纪和近代的研究
- Cultural heritage
- Disability studies
- Teaching and learning
- Writing
最近完成的项目:
- 影像文化遗产
- 菲奇堡艺术博物馆的文化遗产日
- 菲奇堡历史学会中世纪残疾指南