University of Mount Union
EN-12: Continuing Education

LINC Luncheons
Lunch, information, networking, conversations
A monthly series of educational programs for the local community that link faculty and community members. Sustainability Topics have included (previous year):

1) "Find Your Park and Notice What's Next to It" by Gwen Gray Schwartz.

Continued Learning Program
A weekly series of education programs for the local community held at the Campus Center. Sustainability Topics have included (previous year):

1) Mayor Alan Andreani, Alliance, OH - State of the City
2) Joe Mazzola, Planning and Development Director - Attracting businesses to the area and the Block Grant Program
3) Major John Oliver, Stark County Sheriff's Office - Heroin Epidemic
4) Lynda Slack and Amanda Swank - Habitat for Humanity
5) Chuck McClaugherty - Exploring Nature Around Alliance

Huston Brumbaugh Nature Center Programs Adult education Programs offered at the Nature Center. Sustainability Topics have included (previous year):

1) Holiday Decorations from Natural and Recycled Materials
2) Soap crafting for the Holidays
3) "Where do Bees go in the Winter"
4) National Parks
5) Winter Tree ID
6) Fire and Ice
7) Winter Gardening: Growing with the Seasons
8) Lunch in a Jar
9) Raised Bed Gardening
10) Drugs as Pollutants
11) Composting at Home
12) Gardening for Pollinators
13) NE Ohio Urban and Community Forestry Conference
14) Rain Gardens
15) Climate Change
16) Bees in your Backyard program that was cosponsored at 4 sites around the state of Ohio including UMU to educate people on bees as pollinators
See newsletters for more details: http://www.mountunion.edu/nature-center-newsletter

Student Presentations to Community Groups by Case Studies Class. Topics included (previous year):

1) Resiliency Planning
2) Climate Changes influence on blooming time of spring wildflowers using field observations, historic herbarium data, online data from the Ohio State Herbarium, and long term weather data
3) Creating a public program on amphibians using frog call data collected from evening observations.

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70 for total continuing education was derived from the following:

12 Weekly Continuing Education Programs (2016-17 programs) - data from Abby Honaker)
6 Monthly LINC Luncheons (2016-17 programs) - data from Angi Swonger)
49 Weekly Nature Center Programs (12 months)
3 for Case Studies Class Presentations

25 for number that address Sustainability taken from 2016-17 list of speakers and Nature Center Newsletters for 2016-17 - titles supplied above.

Information from Abby Honaker, Angi Swonger, and Kelsey Scanlon. Information entered by Jamie Greiner.