Prog Coordinator
M. Susan Erickson
Prog Coordinator, IDRO
Mailing Address
IDRO
126 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011
Contact Information
Phone: (515) 294-1790
Email: susaneri@iastate.edu
Office: 326 Design
Education
BSLA, Iowa State University, 1980
MLA, Iowa State University, 2010
On the Web
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/communities/susan-erickson
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
Research Interests
Community engagement and service-learning; Community impacts of service-learning and community engagement activities; therapeutic gardens; Elder-friendly community design; labyrinths and other meditative and spiritual places.
Current Projects
Coordinating PLaCE program for the College of Design; Program Coordinator for Community and Economic Development Extension and Outreach; Social Media for ISU Community and Economic Development Extension and Outreach
Current Scholarship
- Restorative Spaces/Healing Places: How to turn Landscapes into Healing Gardens, 10/31/2011
- Assessing Impacts of Engagement Practices: Factors of Scale, 10/03/2011
- Maximizing the Potential of the Landscape at Residential Facilities for the Aging, 05/05/2011
- Community Engagement and Service Learning, 05/04/2011
- Reaching out and Reaching In: Investigating Community Impacts of a university outreach program, 04/30/2011
- Extension Staff as Boundary Spanners: Creating Bridges between University and Community, 03/07/2011
- Project-Based Outreach Yields Success for Academia, Extension, and Communities, 10/05/2010
- Emerging Engagement Scholarship Workshop, 10/02/2010
- Therapeutic Garden Design: A Case Study, 10/06/2009