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Yes...Please feel free to contact me directly...I Chair the Univ of
Mass-Dartmouth STEM Dept..We have a formal collaborative agreement with the
new Bedford OceanExplorum...I would love to talk with you re: our formal and
informal relationships..see:
http://oceanexplorium.org/articles/41/1/UMASS-DARTMOUTH-and-NEW-BEDFORD-OCEA
NARIUM-PARTNER/Page1.html
Brenda Berube, Chair, STEM Dept-University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA. 02747
[log in to unmask] 508-999-8330
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Subject: Relationships with other learning institutions
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I am the Lead Educator at Minnetrista, a museum in Muncie, Indiana. Ball
State University, a state school here, is within walking distance of our
museum's campus. While we are entirely separate entities, we have a unique
and fulfilling relationship with the university. Specifically, our museum's
education team works on a variety of projects with the Teacher's College at
the university.including providing volunteer opportunities for freshman,
speaking with student teachers at the beginning of each semester, and even
holding teacher professional development workshops.
My department is currently analyzing what our relationship with the
university is, how to strengthen and improve it, and also trying to
determine what relationships we might actually be forming by extension of
the existing relationship. (Example: I speak with El Ed seniors doing their
student teaching, they then remember that and bring their class to the
museum as part of the unit they develop. If they have a good experience they
then make a trip to Minnetrista an annual event in their curriculum when
they have a class of their own.)
So, I guess I have two questions I would like to pose to
educators/interpreters/programmers in the field:
1. Does anyone out there have a similar relationship to a local
university, and what do you do to further cultivate that relationship?
2. How can we make the relationships we have with other organizations,
be it another museum or a university or even other local non-profit
organization in the area, a core resource for branching out into the
community as a whole?
I am greatly looking forward to your thoughts and ideas.
Stephanie L. Dilk
Education Manager
Minnetrista
1200 N. Minnetrista Parkway
Muncie, IN 47303
(765) 213-3528
www.minnetrista.net
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Minnetrista Cultural Center
1200 MInnetrista Parkway
Muncie, Indiana
United States
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