Prog Coordinator

M. Susan Erickson

Prog Coordinator, IDRO

Education

BSLA, Iowa State University, 1980
MLA, Iowa State University, 2010

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

  Susan Erickson, PLaCE program Coordinator, and Tim Borich, Associate Dean for Outreach, presented this information at the 11th National Outreach Scholarship Conference in Raleigh, NC. 

  This conference is the premier outlet for disseminating best practices and strategies for community engagement, as recommended by the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities.

   

• Emerging Engagement Scholarship Workshop, 10/02/2010
  Susan Erickson, PLaCE Program Coordinator was awarded a scholarship to attend the Emerging Engagement Scholarship Workshop on October 2-4, 2010 in Raleigh, NC.  This workshop focused on the principles of engagement scholarship.  The scholarship included registration to the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, where Susan and Tim Borich presented information about the PLaCE program in the College of Design.
• Therapeutic Garden Design: A Case Study, 10/06/2009
  Presented a case study on Mercy Capitol Rehabilitation Garden to senior Landscape Architecture students at the University of Georgia on September 30, 2009