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ulty, students, and graduates who are living the entrepreneurship dream. I always say that in CDAE, we focus on COMMUNITY in our entrepreneurship program. That is, we hope to graduate students who start and work for businesses that become part of the fabric of whatever community they serve and are not simply “spaceship” business that drop in, grow, and take off to a different location. In CDAE we stress that every part of a community is necessary not only for good business, but also for the future of livable communities. -Jane Kolodinsky April 2011

Teaching for success......and other outcomes. Dr. Liang teaches students both sides of the entrepreneurial coin.

Taking an existing paradigm or field, adding emphases on community and sustainable development, ecological responsibility, and

applied research is a recipe familiar to CDAE students and professors. Associate professor Dr. Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen) Liang - a professor versed in cooking up programs and courses - thinks it is a recipe that works.

Dr. Liang is a champion of instructing small business education in a department like CDAE rather than with a more traditional business curriculum: “[a traditional business] curriculum focuses on corporate development, growth, and profit. In Community Entrepreneurship we do the opposite. We look at small-scale, grass-roots enterprises which provide more job opportunities for a local community and support proximate economic development.” With “over 50% of businesses in this country fitting the small business, community-based profile,” the development of a novel and academically rigorous program was vitally important to Dr. Liang.

In creating the Community Entrepreneurship (CEnt) program, the challenge for Dr. Liang and other CDAE faculty was how to define the key elements of distinctly small businesses. Coinciding with the launches of the Community and International Development and Public Communication majors, Dr. Liang and her colleagues, backed by department chair Dr. Jane Kolodinsky, decided to modify what was the Small Business Program into the new Community Entrepreneurship (CEnt) major and program. Comprised of professors with diverse backgrounds from across the CDAE department, the CEnt major is unique: it provides specialized entrepreneurship education that emphasizes community and environmental responsibility with courses in finance, economics, business planning, marketing, and management.

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Dr. Kathleen Liang discusses business structures with her upper-level Community Entrepreneurship class: CDAE 267: Strategic Planning for Community Entrepreneurs

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Hearing the conversation with hearforward.com

Jeff Frank (L) and Sean Hurley (R) started hearforward, a social media network monitoring and data collecting service.

The constant flow of one-, two-, and thousand-way conversa-tions occurring globally over social media networks got CDAE M.S. student Jeff Frank, and business partner and long-time friend Sean Hurley, thinking - or, “listening.”

Sean and Jeff wanted to design a company that would allow its customers to understand - ”listen to” - the ever-increasing chatter of online conversations taking place on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, as well as millions of blogs and websites. Using proprietary algorithms designed to extract a social media network user’s emotional sentiment from large amounts of text, the idea was for hearforward to capture conversations about brands, issues or set of keywords and provide clients with reports and consulta-tions to help make sense of online chatter.

But, being graduate students on a limited budget, they lacked funding.

That is when Jeff’s CDAE coursework offered up a necessary connection. In November of 2009, David Brad-bury, President of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET), a UVM-affiliated organization, met with the CDAE graduate seminar to introduce the business incubation and venture capital opportunities VCET offers to start-up technology companies. After meeting with Mr. Bradbury and presenting their idea to the VCET board members, Sean and Jeff received enough funding to found hearforward in December of 2009.

Today, hearforward is Vermont’s leading social media analytics company with clients like Burton Snowboards, Seventh Generation and the Peter Shumlin for Governor campaign. hearforward has been able to start up and grow despite a struggling economy due to the funding and mentorship provided by VCET. During tough economic times, VCET’s investment in an innovative young company has helped create jobs in Vermont.

CDAE prides itself on finding ways to help its graduate students bring their ideas to fruit. The success of hear-forward is an example of how CDAE’s transdisciplinary curriculum allows its students to approach issues from new angles and innovate the ideas of tomorrow.

CDAE M.S. entrepreneur finds funding opportunity through graduate seminar guest presenter

Please join CALS alumni and friends for a dinner and awards presentation. Saturday, May 14, 2011 | 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis CenterThe University of Vermont Delicious Vermont Food ~ Cash Bar

Dinner and Awards & Recognition CeremonyLawrence K. Forcier Outstanding Senior Award

Robert O. Sinclair Cup Award New Achiever Alumni AwardOutstanding Alumni Award

• • •For questions, contact Robin.Smith@uvm.edu or 802/656-0321

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PCOM Capstone gives students hands on experience with real world goals by: Dominique Elisha Mason PCOM ‘11

Many college students want the opportunity to work with a company or organization that will give them hands-on experience to prepare them for the real world. The thought of going out and finding a job after graduation is a reality most of us don’t want to face, but with classes like CDAE’s Public Communication Capstone, our fears are subsided.

In this service-learning course we develop pro-fessional-level communication strategies and materials for non-profit and municipal community partners. Groups in the class work with the Lund Family Center, New England Grassroots Environ-ment Fund, Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime, Produce for the People, Burlington Parks & Recre-ation, and the Intervale Center, using the skills we have acquired throughout our academic careers to create valuable deliverables to these community partners.

“Capstone has given me the opportunity to take everything I have learned over the past few years, and put it to use in the real world,” said Public Communication (PCOM) senior Sarah Wilson, whose Capstone team is working with the Lund Family Center on a re-branding project. By collecting and analyzing data from a focus group and online surveys, the group will determine people’s perceptions about the organization to help direct Lund’s re-branding effort.

Another community partner, Parallel Justice (PJ), connects victims of crime to community resources and support in an effort to lessen the isolation and impact of crime on victims. One of the PJ Capstone groups is working on an outreach campaign to educate students about the dangers of property theft. Justin Leveille, a senior in PCOM, reflects, “Working with Parallel Justice is great. They are promoting theft awareness to stu-dents in a selfless way and not worrying about promoting themselves.” Another Capstone group partnered with Parallel Justice is running a campus clothing swap event at the Davis Center on April 18. The proceeds will go towards victims of crimes and their family members in the Burlington area.

A local organization that collects and disperses surplus produce grown by gardeners and farmers—Produce for the People—has partnered with a group in the Capstone course to design a website and social media strategies for the organization. The partnership’s aim is to help Produce for the People reach a broader audi-ence and promote their mission, which is to ensure everyone has access to fresh, local food.

Others in the class are working with Burlington Parks and Recreation to create promotional tools to enhance the use of the center’s community room while also augmenting the center’s social media outreach. “It’s amaz-ing working with the Parks and Rec department on their media outreach especially since this is the kind of work I plan on doing in the future,” said PCOM senior Austin Stone. A second team is working on the annual Burlington Parks and Recreation Eggstravaganza event. The team is assisting with the event planning and implementation of the April 16 family event.

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Student Voice: The Best Experience is Hands-on Experience

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Alumni Profile: Jeremy Baras, CEnt ‘10

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by Alyssa Kropp CID ‘12

Like many first year students interested in the business world, Jeremy Baras (CEnt ‘10) enrolled as an undergraduate in the business school at UVM; however, he found it to be a little “too much business.” What he was looking for was to find a way to combine an education with a background rooted in business but also offered applied, hands on learning experience. He stumbled upon Community Entrepreneurship (CEnt) in CDAE and transferred into CALS, adding a Public Communication minor to complement his CEnt coursework. While at UVM, Baras became active at UVMtv, and submitted (and was awarded) a Distinguished Undergraduate Research (DUR) proposal to study under CEnt professor Dr. Kathleen Liang. These endeavors fostered leadership skills as well as an in depth knowledge of hard, academic work. “The DUR allowed me to break out of my shell and do something I wouldn’t normally do,” Baras recalls. “It made me stick to something I wasn’t normally comfortable with.”

Now, Baras works what many would consider a dream job: ticket sales for the Boston Red Sox. But his first job after graduating was much different, he remembers, and driven by the entrepreurial spirit familiar to so many of the students in CEnt, he left that job. “My first job [after graduating] was with an investment company. It wasn’t exactly what I wanted to be doing, and I took a risk by leaving.” Baras enjoys his work with the Red Sox, selling tickets at the park he grew up next to. He contributes his drive to do something he enjoys to his education in CDAE, which isn’t limited to box office sales. “I’m in the process of starting my own business,” Baras elaborates, “and I can really appreciate Dr. Liang and her coursework, as its discipline and [from the] ground up approach are essential to be successful in the working world.” That, and his involvement with UVMtv, allowed Baras to know how to interact with professionals at a high level. “With UVMtv, we were trying to acquire a new space, and I had to have meetings with President Fogel to promote our plans. It was a tremendous experience and allowed me to help create something from nothing.”

Having graduated and entered the workforce, Baras leaves those still at UVM with some advice. “Don’t be afraid to try new things,” he says. “Do something you are passionate about. Graduating is the time to try new things, so if you are passionate about something it can’t hurt to try.”

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The Intervale Center group is working on the organization’s website to attract their target audience as well as maximize their online presence.

Through these projects, we are learning how to work in solidarity with our community partners and pro-duce communication strategies and materials that help advance the organizations’ missions.

“The PCOM Capstone course is valuable because it allows students to put their four years of course work to use in the ‘real world’ experience that is still safely within the confines of public communication,” explained CDAE Chair Jane Kolodinsky.

We are a mixed group of students who have different dream jobs, but with this Capstone course we are gaining a breadth of experience in different aspects of communication that will allow us to adapt to many situations within our field. Students get tired of sitting in classrooms learning material they’re never going to use. We are lucky to have a course that is truly preparing us for the real world.

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Employee Perspectives:Working with and for Growing Vermont

Growing Vermont Vendor Spotlight: Naturally Yours Vermont Herbal Gifts

Megan RosenSophomore, CEnt

Biz StrasserSophomore, History

This is my first semester at Growing Vermont, and I work retail. It’s a great experience working at a student-run store where you can apply the knowledge you learn in class to help run a business. My past experience working in retail stores was not like it is here: one where your input is listened to and put into action. Already this fall, I’ve attended a Product Advisory Committee meeting, where we meet vendors and decide which products to carry. It’s interesting to listen to all the aspects a store has to consider when deciding which vendors to carry. Working here makes me look forward to the entrepreneurial based courses in CEnt.

Being enrolled in CDAE 167: Financial Management for Community Entrepreneurs while working at the store I am realizing how important and applicable what we are learning in class is to how effectively we can run the store. Looking at the end of the day reports and knowing what the numbers mean is a good way for me to apply what I’m learning throughout the semester. Grow-ing Vermont has been great for CEnt: it provides students with many opportunities for helping and learning different aspects of a business.

I’ve always had this dream of eventually owning my own store -- a store I would want to shop in for hours. Since working at Growing Vermont, I’ve started thinking in a different way about my dream store; not just about what I think should be carried in the store, but being appealing across generations, too. I think a store that embodies both what a 45 year old mother finds cool as well as one that catches the eye of her 18 year old son is optimal, and I think Growing Vermont does that.

With my experiences at Growing Vermont, I now understand the inner workings of running a small business. I’m lucky. UVM is lucky to have a place like Growing Vermont. It sets us apart from other schools for new students and gives current students opportunities they would otherwise have to fight for in the “real world.” Every one of us is glad to be a part of Growing Vermont, no matter what major or year we are. I’m all for cross disciplinary study and Growing Vermont gives you that opportunity in spades.

When Vermonters Debbie and John Metruk created their com-pany, Naturally Yours, in 1998, they had great hopes for their small business to have a big impact. All-natural and hand-made might as well be their middle names, as this entrepreneurial couple cre-ates each product individually, with great care. Their unique line of products is a result of their knowledge and desire to create their own comforts: heat packs, eye pillows, and neck wraps are just a few offerings from Naturally Yours.

Naturally Yours keeps their supplier list short and simple: the herbs and ingredients used in their products are hand picked from their backyard in Essex, VT and all of their remaining materials are sourced locally. Growing Vermont carries Naturally Yours because their products and philosophy are pure Vermont. As a local entrepreneur and busi-ness incubator, Growing Vermont has helped this company spread their name across the state, and word of mouth is often the best way to to business, even in a digital age.

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“Our mission at Growing Vermont is to educate and support potential and current entrepreneurs in the local Vermont community. By hosting annual Vendor Networking Events, we are able to bring this mission to life. Ven-dor Networking Events provide vendors and aspiring business owners the opportunity to explore the business resources available to them. This past fall, our event hosted Laurel Butler’s seminar ‘How to Start Your Business.’ Laurel described the true steps for success, the most crucial one being a well-written business plan. Tom Oliver from Sodexo Food Services explained the struggles of owning a business and balancing a personal life. He also shared his vision for our dining services, which he hopes will incorporate more local food options in the future. The Fall Vendor Networking Event also included a panel of young successful entrepreneurs. Regardless of their line of work -- from selling bikes to hand made clothes -- their stories all stressed the importance of community support. Everyone in attendance agreed that there is something special about how Vermont does business: it is not about ‘keeping secrets’ as Professor Kathleen Liang explained, or driving out your competitors. In Vermont you can look to your competitor for helpful advice and find comfort in a niche of people who share the same passion.”

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Dr. Liang teaches the introductory and culminating courses for the CEnt major, and says that in the classroom, “we focus on locally-based enterprises, particularly the mechanisms of community asset building, utilizing limited resources, and the exploration of new potential in the development of economic opportunities.”

CEnt fits into the bigger CDAE picture by defining businesses as not only profit-seeking entities, but as actors in the bigger, global economic machine. Its graduates are given the tools to be involved in local policy and community structure in the pursuit of economic growth. The types of students who are typically attracted to CEnt are self-motivated, with an understanding of community issues, and who seek a broad spectrum of business knowledge. Rachel Glaser, a senior CEnt major expresses her reasons for choosing CEnt, “I wanted to be in a business environment but not a profit maximizing corporation where people might not care about you. I don’t want to feel like a number, but a key player.” Active in the job search, Rachel has witnessed how her pending CEnt degree allows her to competitively stand out among a pool of mostly business school applicants. “Hands on experience combined with broad classroom content makes CEnt graduates versatile so they can survive in a disposable job market,” Dr. Liang comments. “Everything about what I teach is so you can make a difference and find your niche. I teach you how to succeed and how to fail.”

It is achievements like that of Parson’s Seafood - a company rescued by one CEnt alum who made a business plan to revitalize her father’s troubled company, which is now running successfully - that prove the CEnt recipe works.

Dr. Liang’s Dollar Enterprise class exercise, in which students operate their own on-campus businesses, has won an international award for entrepreneurship education, while Growing Vermont, a sustainability-driven store Dr. Liang started on campus - now run wholly by undergraduates - has been doing well since it opened three years ago.

As to why Dr. Liang chose teaching over owning her own business? “I do know the risks of taking the second route but I find education a more personally fulfilling endeavor,” notes Dr. Liang, “to me, teaching is a rewarding two way street.”

“Everything about what I teach is so you can make a difference and find your niche. I teach you how to succeed and how to fail.” -Dr. Kathleen Liang

Jordan Walsh, Marketing, Growing Vermont

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It’s not likely that the first image to come to mind when thinking of the Sigma Phi society house on a Saturday night is two Sigma Phi brothers baking chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Then again, not all Greek society brothers are running a successful entrepreneurial enterprise that delivers cookies to hungry UVMers and Burlingtonians who crave late-night sweets.

Sophomore Wyatt Fowler and Junior Greg Ramey, Community Entrepreneurship (CEnt) majors, met years ago at boarding school in New Hampshire. Wyatt later transferred to a different school, and Greg went off to college. They didn’t keep in touch, but a few years later, they found themselves in the same Greek society house and later as business partners at UVM.

“Greg had the idea when he visited friends at CU Boulder,” where a similar business thrived, recounts Fowler, who had a “why not?” moment during the conversation—a feeling that many entrepreneurs might feel when starting an enterprise. A few weeks later, in Spring 2010, they put up posters around campus and Burlington, started a Facebook group—now boasting over 1,000 fans—and called it a “soft launch” of their business, Hungry Headies.

Without a business plan, they started baking and selling cookies in the basement kitchen of Sigma Phi on College Street. As the enterprise grew, they realized from their courses in the Community Entrepreneurship program that some formality and structure for what they were doing would benefit them and their company. They drew up a business plan, filed with the state as an LLC, and made it official. Hungry Headies was born.

“Being a CEnt major, all of my classes talk about theoretical businesses as examples, and the whole time I’m sitting in class thinking how to apply it to Hungry Headies, thinking ‘I should do this,’ and writing notes in the margins of my notebooks,” said Fowler.

With a staff of three—Greg, Wyatt, and their delivery driver, Erin Graham—they have hit their stride. On a work night—Thursdays through Saturdays—Greg and Wyatt begin around 8 p.m, mixing their homegrown recipe into batter and baking the cookies. Around 9 or 9:30 Erin shows up, and they send her out with a cell phone and about 200 cookies. Sometimes they’ll get an emergency phone call and have to head back into the kitchen in the waning hours of the night, “I mean, we’re cooking a decent amount of cookies, but you can tell early on in the night if we’re going to need more,” said Fowler.

Hungry Headies embraces the community emphasis of CEnt’s courses, too. Along with Jones Soda, Red Bull, Snug Life, 802, and Ski the East, Hungry Headies put on a benefit ski/snowboard rail jam for the Hicks Foundation, a Burlington-based 501c 3 organization dedicated to eradicating cervical cancer in Vermont.

Fowler reflects on their beginning, “we’ve had a lot of help, from getting our website with the Boon Company, to getting our t-shirts printed, … Going into it I didn’t know how open people in Burlington would were to collaborate and help out, but the community was definitely conducive to getting us up and running.”

In the Fall 2010, Winter 2011, and Spring 2011 semesters, CDAE faculty taught 18 Service-Learning (SL) classes. Notably, this Spring Chip Sawyer and Kelly Hamshaw have reworked CDAE 102, Sustainable Community Development to introduce students to SL in a way that will prepare them for more intensive future levels of SL engagement.

Six of the 18 SL courses employed a CUPS-trained Service-Learning Teaching Assistant. Also, this January David Conner became a new Service-Learning Faculty Fellow.

CDAE update from the Community University Partnerships and Service-Learning (CUPS) Office

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The PCOM Capstone course’s Parallel Justice group is seeking clothing donations for the April 18th “Vintage for Victims” fundraiser.

They need YOUR HELP! They are collecting clothing donations for the fundraiser. Take this opportunity to do some spring cleaning and search your closets for those clothes you no longer wear. The group is accepting all types of gently used clothing: please no clothes with holes or stains!

There will be a clothing drop box in the CDAE office in 205A Morrill Hall. The group will also be collecting donated clothes personally. Please contact Lindsey Bachelder (lbacheld@uvm.edu), Allison Barnaby (ajbarnab@uvm.edu), Jen Geary (jgeary@uvm.edu), or Lindsay Hegarty (lhegarty@uvm.edu) for more information. Hope to see you all at the event and thanks for your help!

CDAE Updates

CDAE 124 Accepting Clothing Donations

Important Upcoming Dates

Events in and around the CDAE and UVM community

CDAE by the Numbers46 number of states (including D.C.) in the U.S. with visitors to the CDAE webpage (still need AK, ND, SD, NE, and MS)

72 number of countries in the world with visitors to the CDAE webpage in 27 languages

167% increase in num-ber of first-year early admit students choosing a CDAE major to pursue

Honors Day: April 15 Last Day of Classes: May 4

Reading and Exam Period: May 5-13

CALS Alumni and Friends Dinner: May 14

Commencement: May 22

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Awards & Honors

Farley, J., Schmitt F. A., Alvez, J. P., Rebola, P. M. 2010. The farmer’s viewpoint: Payments for ecosystem services and agroecologic pasture based dairy produc-tion. Advances in Animal Biosciences (2010)

Flomenhoft, Gary (in press). Exporting the Alaska Model: How the Permanent Fund Dividend Can Be Adapted as a Reform Model for the World. In Editors Karl Widerquist and Michael Howard, Palgrave-McMillan

1: 490-491 Dunn, P. & Liang, C. (2011). Finance Profes-sors’ Reaction to Some Entrepreneurial and Small Business Financial Planning and Management Problem Issues, Small Business Institute Journal. (in print)

Dunn, P. & Liang, C. (2011). A Comparison of Entrepre-neurship/Small Business and Finance Professors’ Reac-tion to Selected Entrepreneurial and Small Business Financial Planning and Management Issues, Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, Vol. 14, pp. 93-106.

Hirsch, P. D., Adams, B., Brosius, J. P., Zia, A., Bariola, N., and Dammert, J. L. (In Press) Acknowledging Conservation Trade-offs and Embracing Complexity. Conservation Biology

Koliba, C. 2011. Symposium editor. Performance Man-agement in Governance Networks: Critical Concepts and Practices.” Public Performance Management Review.

Koliba, C., Meek, J. and Zia, A. 2010. Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy. New York: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.

Koliba, C., Zia, A., Lee, B. 2011. Governance Informat-ics: Utilizing Computer Simulation Models to Manage Complex Governance Networks. The Innovation Journal. 16(1). Article 3.

Koliba, C. 2011. Administrative Strategies for a Networked World: The Educational Imperative for In-tergovernmental Relations in 2020. Intergovernmental Relations in 2020 Symposium Proceedings. Thurmaier, K. and Meek, J. editors. Koliba, C. 2011. Introduction to “Performance Man-agement in Governance Networks: Critical Concepts and Practices.” Public Performance Management Review.

Koliba, C., Campbell, E. and Zia, A. 2011. Performance Measurement Considerations in Congestion Manage-ment Networks: Evidence from Four Cases. Public Performance Management Review. Koliba, C., Mills, R. and Zia, A. 2011. Accountability in Governance Networks: Implications Drawn from Studies of Response and Recovery Efforts Following Hurricane Katrina. Public Administration Review. Koliba, C., Meek, J. and Zia, A. 2010. Gordian Knot or Integrated Theory? Critical Conceptual Consider-ations for Governance Network Analysis. The Future of Governance: 5th Annual TransAtlantic Dialogue Proceedings. Brandsen, T and Holzer, M. editors.

Kolodinsky, Jane (in press). Diet/Nutrition. In Green Culture, Robbins, P, Wehr, K, Golson, K., and, J. Geoffrey, eds. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage).

Kubiszewski, I., J. Farley and R. Costanza (2010). The production and allocation of information as a good that is enhanced with increased use. Ecological Eco-nomics. 69: 1344-1354

Liang, C. Chapter Volume III, Chapter 2: Conduct-ing a Market Analysis for a Social Venture. Social Entrepreneurship (Four volume set), Editor: Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D., Baruch College, City University of New

York, Publisher: Praeger/ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA (forthcoming in 2011)

McMahon, Edward . “A Step Ahead in Promoting Human Rights? The Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council”, manuscript submitted for review 2011.

McMahon, Edward “International Organizations and Peer Review: Assessing the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Coun-cil”, forthcoming, African Yearbook of International Law, vol. 17, 2011. Peer Reviewed.

Patterson, Thomas and Jonathan Leonard. “Ten Years into the 21st Century Core Curriculum: Our Experience, Insight, and Future, accepted for publica-tion into North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Journal. 2011.

Roche, Erin, and J. Kolodinsky (in press). Overcom-ing barriers to provide local produce in school lunches in Vermont. Journal of Agricultural Food Systems and Community Development.

Schmidt, M., J. Kolodinsky, T. DeSisto, and F. Conte (in press). Supporting a Local Food System: Evaluating a Model that Connects Farmers to Markets to Increase Farm Profitability and Local Food Access. Journal of Agricultural Food Systems and Community Develop-ment.

Sun, T. (2011). The roles of trust and experience in consumer confidence in conducting e-commerce: a cross-cultural comparison between France and Germany. International Journal of Consumer Studies. no. doi: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2010.00938.x

Sun, T. & Wu, G. The influence of personality traits on parasocial relationship with sports celebrities: a hierarchical approach. Journal of Consumer Behaviour (in press).

Tai, Z.X. & Sun, T. The rumouring of SARS during the 2003 epidemic in China. Sociology of Health and Illness (in press).

Sun, T. & Wu, G. Trait predictors of online impulsive buying tendency: A hierarchical approach. Journal of Marketing Theory & Practice (in press).

Wang, Q. “Development and trends of China’s auto-mobile market: Evidence fromurban household ownership of cars, bicycles, motorcycles and motorbike.” International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management. 11(2) (2011): 99-113.

Wang, Q., G. Zhang and R. Parsons. “Development and trends of China’s dairy market and implications for trade.” Book chapter in Chinese Economic Growth in Global and Regional Context (editors: Holly Wang and Shaomin Huang), China Economics Press. 2011. In press.

Wang, Q., Robert Parsons, and G. Zhang. “China’s dairy market: Trends, disparities and implications for trade.” China Agricultural Economic Re-view.2-3(2010):356-371.

Zia, A., and Glantz, M. (Accepted) The Challenges of Designating “Risk Zones”: Policy Learning from Flood Insurance Programs for Designing Resilient Communi-ties. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

Zia, A., Todd, A. M. (2010) Evaluating the Effects of Ideology on Public Understanding of Climate Change Science: How to Improve Communication Across Ideological Divides? Public Understanding of Science 19(6): 743-761.

Zvara P., Ursiny M., Giebink T., Liang K., Blaivas J., and Zvarova K. (2011). RECORDING URINARY FLOW AND LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS USING SONOU-ROFLOWMETRY, The Canadian Journal of Urology. (in print)

Jeff Frank, CDAE M.S. 2011 successfully defended his thesis: Measuring subjective well-being using continuum surveying: The elasticity of happiness and applications in the Latin American context.

Kelly Hamshaw, CDAE M.S. 2011 successfully defended her thesis: My own four walls: Findings from a resident survey and lessons learned from a community-based research process in Vermont mobile home parks.

Nicole Mason, CDAE M.S. 2011 successfully defended her thesis: Engineering and community development: Exploring a synthesis of disciplines in pursuit of sustainable international development.

Kevin Stapleton, CDAE M.S. 2010 successfully defended his thesis: Urban housing strategies versus exurban expansion in Chittenden County, Vermont: A full cost accounting

Guangxuan Zhang, CDAE M.S. 2011 successfully defended his thesis: China’s pork market and implica-tions for U.S. pork exports.

Dr. Kathleen Liang received a grant entitled: Impacts of Multifunctional Operations on Long Term Sustain-ability and Prosperity of Small and Medium-Sized Farms and Rural Communities, USDA, National Insti-tute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), $472,669, July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014. (Co PI: Drs. Stephan Goetz – Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, Mary Ahearn – ERS USDA, Jason Brown – ERS, USDA)

Grant Summary: Motivated by explosive growth in local foods and multifunctional farms, this study was designed to (1) to examine the sustainability of small and medium-sized farms and rural communities in a regional context; (2) to study the impacts of changes in local markets for nontraditional agricultural products and services and their effects on farm entry, transition, and viability and the public and private options for addressing these effects.

Diane Gayer, architect/CDAE lecturer; Kathleen Ryan, LA; and Michael Oman, transportation planner won an American Society of Landscape Architects Public Space Award for their 2010 Morrisville project called: Downtown Transportation Opportunities Study, Morrisville - submitted by Vermont Design Institute:

CDAE has met a fine group of candidates for two positions: Assistant Professor of Public Communica-tion with expertise in food systems and Associate Professor of CDAE with expertise in food systems. The department hopes to welcome two new faculty members to begin Fall Semester 2011.

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About CDAEThe Community Development and Applied Economics Department (CDAE) is part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. CDAE supports sustainable local, regional, and international communities through transdisciplinary research, education, and outreach that serve the public interest.

The department offers undergraduate students the following majors and minors: Community and International Development, Community Entrepreneurship, and Public Communication. Additional minors are also offered in Applied Design, Consumer Affairs, Consumer and Advertising, and Green Building and Community Design.

Two graduate opportunities are available within the department: Master of Science in Community Development and Applied Economics (more at: www.uvm.edu/cdae) and Master of Public Administration (more at: www.uvm.edu/mpa). Both graduate programs participate in the Peace Corps Fellows Program (more at: www.uvm.edu/~cdaepcf ).

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The CDAE Compass is edited by Dan Kirk and Jane Kolodinsky. To suggest a story or feature for the next newsletter, send an email to cdae@uvm.edu. Special thanks to contributors on this edition including Meg & Jay Ashman, Jeremy Baras, Jeff Frank, Taylor Hayden, Alyssa Kropp, Dr. Kathleen Liang, Dominique Mason, Dr. Thomas Patterson, Gwen Pokalo, Julia Prince, Megan Rosen, Biz Strasser.

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Jay and Meg Ashman travel to Belize and Australia to find influence for CDAE’s semester in Belize program

After the fourth year of CDAE’s Belize Semester Abroad in Sustainable Development, program coordinator Meg Ashman and academic director Jay Ashman spent the month of January in Belize redesigning the program for Spring 2012.

“Next year’s program will include more in-depth travel within Belize, more exposure to Belize’s cultural diversity, more time outside the classroom and in the field, and a greater commitment to service learning,” said Prof. Meg Ashman.

To lay the groundwork for two of the courses that students will take — “Development and Indigenous Peoples” and “Intercultural Competence”— the two faculty members spent part of their time in southern Belize visiting a Maya farming village and a Garifuna fishing village where the students will live and work during the second week of the semester.

CDAE’s semester abroad in Belize places a heavy emphasis on service learning, wherein students’ coursework and deliverables are rooted in real-world challenges for community partners in Belize. To develop service learning projects, the Ashmans met with project partners in the town of San Ignacio on the western border of the country, where students will spend the bulk of their time, as well as on the island of Caye Caulker, where students will finish out the semester.

In San Ignacio, students will be working to develop a curriculum for as well as teaching environmental education, using a community garden to teach science and nutrition, assisting in construction of an orphanage using recycled materials, helping to create a sustainable micro-community (for example, self-sufficient in energy and food production), and developing protocols

and drafting grant applications for a battered women’s shelter.

On Caye Caulker, projects will focus on mangrove restoration, promoting the use of reusable shopping bags, and reducing the use of plastic bottles and other non-recyclables.

“With the rich opportunities we’ll be able to offer students, we’re very excited about the redesign of our program” said Prof. Meg Ashman. “And judging from the interest prospective participants have shown thus far, they are too.”

The Ashmans are now in Melbourne, Australia, where Jay is shadowing a program run there by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). “We learned a lot about project-based service learning from working with Josh Farley and Gary Flo in the first two years of the St. Lucia Program. After [now] being involved in the Belize Program for several years, we thought it was a good time to take a look outside CDAE to find ways we might improve on what we do in Belize,” said Prof. Jay Ashman. “I chose WPI to look at because their project-based programs are similar to ours, but they’ve been doing it for 25 years and in more places (25 countries). Their programs are internationally recognized for their quality and they have a wealth of experience in doing this kind of work. I’ve only been here four full days and I’ve already picked up a lot of very useful ideas.”

For more information on the Belize Semester Abroad in Sustainable Development: learn.uvm.edu/travel/belize/.

Dr. Thomas Patterson on sab-batical in Sweden, Norway, and AustraliaSenior Lecturer Thomas Patterson has been on sabbatical for the 2010-2011 academic year. He has researched the higher education First-Year Experience and General Education in Europe and Australia as well as shared his own experiences and knowledge with Universities in Sweden, Norway and Australia. In addition, he has written two articles on general education for publication in refereed journals, and will be giving a major presentation at the Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011--Global Conference on Learn-ing and Technology to be held in Melbourne, Australia the end of March 2011.

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Jay Ashman with Joyce Shaw, principal of St. Barnabus Primary School, a service-learning project partner in San Ignacio.

Michael AbbottClare Albers

Antoine AubeLindsey Bachelder

Aaron BrownNatalie ClementBenjamin CrosbySarah Cushman

Jennifer DiazMolly Dunham-Friel

Jennifer FahyLaura FriedlandTravis GervaisEliza Goddard

E. Claire GoodwinMax Gradinger

Brian HamelAmanda HaywardThomas Heidinger

Hannah HinsleyTrisha TlastawaJennifer Kaulius

Allison KellerArielle Kleinman

Julia MegsonGalen MooneyHeather Morin

Jennifer MudarriSamuel Patterson

Molly PreyJulia Price

Cody RenaudBecky RocheMegan Rosen

Loren ScottJoseph SiebertBrent Summers

Jarrod SzydlowskiMichael VerlaKierstin WallJordan Walsh

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