An email from Sylvia Burwell outlining regular merit raises as well as an additional 2% increase due to the largest increase in budget in two years. The last paragraph notes that the regular merit raises will not apply to anyone represented by the union bargaining unit.
This chronology of trans history at American University aims to uncover the untold story of trans life on campus. The chronology highlights materials addressing transgender experience, transgender activism, transgender research, and transgender policy, as it intersects with the larger transgender rights movement and policy changes at both the American University and and national levels. This was researched and created by Dr. Perry Zurn, Matt Ferguson, and Stephen Masson during spring 2019 in fulfillment of an Inclusive Excellence Mini-Grant. Zurn, Ferguson, and Masson consulted archival records housed in the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections, as well as in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program office. The chronology was updated in fall 2021. If you have additional information about the history of trans life at AU, feel free to contact Perry Zurn (pzurn@american.edu).
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Mr. W. Dennis Grubb peacefully entered into eternal rest on October 25, 2021 at home in Washington, D.C., SW after a courageous, multi-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare form of Parkinson’s. He was 80. The Peace Corps, global development, education, and the church have propelled his lifelong service to help others in nations on five continents. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Grubb joined the-then new Peace Corps at the age of 19 as one of its first and youngest volunteers, and served in Colombia One (1961-1963). He worked in Zipacon, a village 8,700 feet high in the Andes, a place with no running water or sewers, little electricity and few paved roads. Illiteracy, malnutrition, dysentery and tuberculosis were rampant. To address them, Mr. Grubb, Mr. Thomas Whalen, a fellow Volunteer, and the Colombian counterpart (referred to as promotor) assigned to their team by the Office of Community Development in Bogota, formed a liaison between Zipacon and government officials and secured assistance to build the first cooperative food store, a small medical center, three schools, roads, and a water supply pipeline. When the government offered a day of free chest X-rays and vaccinations, he and fellow Volunteers plastered the village with announcements, producing a record turnout upon the doctors arrival. He worked with Colombians of all levels, from rural farmers to national officials, to achieve his overall goal, which was to convince the community that they could control their lives. Mr. Grubb later said that his idealistic view of a peaceful and humane world was formed by his experience in Colombia.
Funeral program for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021. Mr. Grubb was one of the first and youngest participants in the US Peace Corps, beginning his service in Colombia in 1961.
Nepal 22 Chronicles is a companion book to another effort by the Nepal 22 group, Peace Corps/Nepal 22 – A Retrospective on the Post-Peace Corps Careers of Trainees, Trainers, Staff & RPCVs (March 2010). That book is available online in the Peace Corps Community Archives that is curated by the American University Library.
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's training and service in Libya as education volunteers (1968-1969) before the program was suspended following the 1969 Libyan coup d'état by Muammar Gaddafi. He describes his reasons for joining the Peace Corps, training with the Libya II program in 1968, life in Libya, his students and teaching assignment, travel, and evacuation in 1969 following the Libyan coup d'état.
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's first year of training and service in Thailand as education volunteers (1970-1971). Following evacuation and suspension of the Libya program, Peter and Royse Crall joined the Thailand 30 training program in 1970. He describes his first year in Thailand (1970-1971) including the training program in Hawaii, life in Chiang Rai province, impressions on Thai culture, describes other foreigners living and working in the province, comparisons with Libya, medical and utility services available, teaching work, and travel in Thailand and Nepal.
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's second year of service in Thailand as education volunteers (1971-1972). He recounts their second year of living, work, and travel in Thailand, as well as interactions with other volunteers, their experience with Buddhism, Thai weddings, local politics, Christmas abroad, travelling to Afghanistan, Japan, and Hong Kong, and home leave to the United States.
This filmscript describes many events in the two-year Peace Corps service of volunteer Kenny Karem in Chile, working in agriculture, education and forestry. It focuses on his relationships with Chilean friends, co-workers, Mapuche Indians and campesino farmers. It details actual events, cultural happenings, fiestas, cross-cultural snafus, the challenges of adapting to a foreign culture and the tremendous impact politics in Chile had on a volunteer’s service. Two of the scenes, “Coca Cola is Everything and Something More” and “Day of the Dead” were previously published in magazines.
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Crall describes his and wife Royse's third and final year of service in Thailand as education volunteers (1972-1973). He recounts their final year of living, work, and travel in Thailand, the progress in his classroom, environmental issues in Thailand, preparations for career post-Peace Corps, traditional ghost stories, and travel at the end of their service.
American University Craft of Anthropology (ANTH 601/602) Class Bibliography as of 01/22/19. During academic year 2018-2019, the Craft of Anthropology graduate students worked with and within the Historic African River Road communities of Bethesda, Tobytown, and Scotland. They compiled a bibliography of resources about these communities, and other related topics such as the history of American University's founder and land, Reno City, River Road, local black history in the District, Maryland, and Virginia, descendant communities, and African cemeteries.
This report documents the experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal 17 and the impact of the Peace Corps in the volunteers’ lives after the Peace Corps. The report includes photographs and stories contributed by Peace Corps staff and volunteers who served in Nepal 17.