PAST PROJECTS
Overview
Collaboration with IAPCHE Faculty Enrichment Program
Professor Jay Shim observed IAPCHE Faculty Enrichment programs in India, made a presentation in Indonesia, and developed an anthology of reading helpful to develop Christian teacher scholarship by faculty in various regions of the world in collaboration with IAPCHE. Dr. Shim gave presentations in India, Indonesia, Philippines, and South Korea with positive results and invitations for more presentations.
Reformed Higher Education Global Summit
The Andreas Center lent support to a global summit of presidents of Reformed Christian colleges, hosted by Dordt College President, Carl Zylstra, held in Oxford, England, in June 2010.
Summer Research Experience for High School Teachers
Support for a summer 2010 initiative from Professor Jeff Ploegstra to bring high school Biology/Science teachers to campus and involve them in continuing research that they can bring back into their classrooms and pedagogy. Andreas Center support was intended for the first year as "seed money" to help get the program off the ground.
"Slumdoc" Philippines Trip
Christmas of 2008 led Mark Volkers and 10 Digital Media and Production/Graphic Art students to the slums of Manila (Philippines) to film for a documentary showing instances of severe poverty. Teams also assisted agencies that serve poor people in the slums by developing promotional DVDs. When the students returned to campus they presented much of the material they had gathered to a large portion of the student and faculty body. In 2009 a dozen Digital Media students joined Volkers for the third and final slum shoot for the documentary film. Students filmed in Nairobi, which has some of Africa's largest slums. The team also did pro-bono work for three Christian organizations working among Nairobi's poor. Those media products are now being used by those organizations to help raise awareness and support.
Sewell Conference Papers and Lecture Series
In the summer of 2009, Keith C. Sewell, a Professor of History at Dordt, gave a series of lectures in Europe with support from the Andreas Center. In honor of the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth, Sewell presented papers at major academic conferences in Toronto and Geneva, as well as presented lectures on the Reformation tradition in England. From this experience, Sewell expects to publish his papers and develop his lectures in book form.
Calvin, Worship, and the Arts Workshop
Jointly sponsored by the Andreas Center and Music Department of Dordt College on November 7, 2009, this workshop consisted of two plenary addresses, followed by eight sectionals on worship and music, visual arts, Scripture reading, the senses and the sacraments, and others. Plenary speakers were Dr. Karin Maag, Director of the Meeter Center at Calvin College, who spoke on "Worship and Congregational Life in Calvin's Geneva," and Dr. Duane Kelderman, Vice President for Administration at Calvin Theological Seminary and co-author of Authentic Worship in a Changing Culture, who addressed worship planning that is rooted in the Calvinist tradition while meaningful for 21st Century culture.
