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May 2007 > Faculty > Honors
Hull Earns Campus Community Service Award
Glynda Hull has been honored with the first annual Chancellor’s Public Service Award for her contribution to community service. The professor of Language and Literacy, Society and Culture received the Individual Faculty Civic Engagement Award at a recognition reception for eight persons and three programs hosted by Chancellor Robert and Mary Catherine Birgeneau at University House on May 14.
Hull has dedicated her career to developing approaches to after-school programs that improve the educational outcomes of at-risk youth. In 2001, she and co-founder Michael James established Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth (DUSTY), in Oakland. The community technology center teaches low-income youth how to use multimedia, such as digital storytelling and music, to express their feelings about themselves, their communities and their families. Participating K–12 students, most of whom began the program with poor literacy skills, become highly motivated to read and write.
Through creative after school programs, says Hull, “Young people can and do develop senses of themselves as potent actors in their worlds… who can exert control over their educational, social and even economic futures.”
After receiving the award from Chancellor Birgeneau, Hull thanked her father for instilling hope, as well as her many supporters, including Oakland City Councilmember Nancy Nadel, one of several distinguished guests at the ceremony.
From left, Hull, DUSTY co-director Michael James and board member Liza Ford. Hull is no stranger to earning recognition for her efforts. In 2003, she received the highest honor for instruction given by UC Berkeley — the campus's Distinguished Teaching Award. In October 2006, she was honored as one of three recipients of the Ernest A. Lynton Award for Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach. She has twice received the Richard Braddock Memorial Award for the best article of the year in College Composition and Communication. She also received from the National Council of Teachers of English their award for best article reporting qualitative or quantitative research related to technical or scientific communication in 2001.
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