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Marilyn A. Rodney, MS
Assistant Director, Sinclair Operations
Center for Healthy Communities
Service Learning Coordinator
Sinclair Community College
Telephone: (937) 512-2040
Email: marilyn.rodney@sinclair.edu
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From 1993 to 2003, Marilyn Rodney worked with the Center for Healthy Communities as director of the Division of Community Health Advocacy housed at Sinclair Community College (SCC) under the Division of Allied Health Technologies. In November 2003, she assumed her current position as Service Learning Coordinator in the Department of Experienced Based Education, Division of Extended Learning and Human Services, at Sinclair. As founder of the Dayton, Ohio Community Health Advocate(CHA) program, and through her support of health promotion and disease prevention, and partnership building, Ms. Rodney continues to serve as a consultant for the local CHA group and actively looks for linkages and coordinating efforts with her role and work as Service Learning Coordinator at SCC.
Under Ms. Rodney ’s direction, on October 23, 2004, SCC held its first “Make a Difference Day,” which involved over 400 students, faculty, staff and administrators in 27 local projects. Sinclair Community College was one of the central coordinating sites for a day of community service and Service Learning involving over 100,000 students and close to 900 community sites statewide. In acknowledgement of her efforts, Ms. Rodney received a State of Ohio Outstanding Award and was featured in an article in the USA Weekend reporting on Sinclair’s “Make a Difference Day.”
Ms. Rodney obtained her M.S. in Nursing Education and Administration at Wright State University in1991. |
Marilyn Rodney (right) accepting the
State of Ohio Outstanding Award
from First Lady Hope Taft (left)
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Recent Publications:
Rodney, M. (2003). The science of discovery: a guide for community health advocates, a self-instructional manual.
See the Professional Journal Articles page under Publications for more publications.
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Selected Presentations:
Journey to Building Community Partnerships in Successful Service Learning CCNCCE, Phoenix, Arizona, May 2005
Linking Learning, Doing, Theory, and Practice, League for Innovations, New York City, NY, March 2005
A Community Collaborative Developing & Implementing a Strategic Plan for Improved Access to Health Care; A Model of Improved Health Access for Socially Disadvantaged, posters, APHA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2003
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