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A university professor of educational leadership, Kauffman believed that education is key to making the world a better place. He started his career in government service, as a consultant to the Commission on Academic Affairs for the American Council on Education, and as director of higher education for the American Personnel and Guidance Association. He also was a consultant to the State Department, the federal Office of Economic Opportunity and other agencies. During the 1960s, when John F. Kennedy was running for president, Kauffman advocated for a national youth corps. When JFK won, he appointed R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., to create the Peace Corps. Kauffman served on his staff, where he helped Shriver design the Corps. As the Corps' first Director of Training, he developed training programs at more than 60 colleges and universities, and supervised the training of the first volunteers who went on assignments overseas. After returning to academia, he spent most of his career as a professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and retired in 1987. Kauffman died September 29 from cancer. He was 84. From This is True for 1 October 2006 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Kris Holloway; Consulting Editor John Bidwell List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $17.95 Editorial Review: What is it like to live and work in a remote corner of the world and befriend a courageous midwife who breaks traditional roles? Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Mali Midwife is the inspiring story of Monique Dembele, an accidental midwife who became a legend, and Kris Holloway, the young Peace Corps volunteer who became her closest confidante. In a small village in Mali, West Africa, Monique saved lives and dispensed hope every day in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter and where many children are buried before they cut a tooth. Kris worked side-by-side with her as they cared for each other through sickness and tragedy and shared their innermost secrets and hopes. Monique's life was representative of many women in one of the world's poorest nations, yet she faced her challenges in extraordinary ways. Despite her fiercely traditional society and her limited education she fought for her beliefs—birth control, the end of female genital mutilation, the right to receive a salary, and the right to educate her daughters. And she struggled to be with the man she loved. Her story is one of tragedy joy, rebellion, and of an ancient culture in the midst of change. It is an uplifting tribute to indomitable spirits everywhere. Monique and the Mango Rains is a fascinating voyage to an unforgettable place, a voyage spent close to the ground, immersed in village life, learning first-hand the rhythms of this world. From witnessing her first village birth to the night of Monique's own tragic death, Kris draws on her first-person experiences in Mali, her graduate studies in maternal and child health, medical and clinic records, letters and journals, as well as conversations with Monique, her family, friends and colleagues, to gives readers a unique view—and a friend in West Africa.  By: Dillon Banerjee List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $10.36  By: Josh Swiller List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $11.20 Editorial Review: A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them.” Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the day he arrived in Mununga, a dusty village on the shores of Lake Mweru. Deaf since a young age, Swiller spent his formative years in frustrated limbo on the sidelines of the hearing world, encouraged by his family to use lipreading and the strident approximations of hearing aids to blend in. It didn’t work. So he decided to ditch the well-trodden path after college, setting out to find a place so far removed that his deafness would become irrelevant. That place turned out to be Zambia, where Swiller worked as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years. There he would encounter a world where violence, disease, and poverty were the mundane facts of life. But despite the culture shock, Swiller finally commanded attention—everyone always listened carefully to the white man, even if they didn’t always follow his instruction. Spending his days working in the health clinic with Augustine Jere, a chubby, world-weary chess aficionado and a steadfast friend, Swiller had finally found, he believed, a place where his deafness didn’t interfere, a place he could call home. Until, that is, a nightmarish incident blasted away his newfound convictions. At once a poignant account of friendship through adversity, a hilarious comedy of errors, and a gripping narrative of escalating violence, The Unheard is an unforgettable story from a noteworthy new talent.  List Price: $11.95 Amazon Price: $9.56 Editorial Review: Make Your Commitment Count! Want to work on a volunteer project that really matters but don't know where to start looking? Alternatives to the Peace Corps is the original resource for finding community-based, grassroots volunteer work-the kind of work that changes the world, one person at at time. Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated in its tenth edition, Alternatives to the Peace Corps has: * listings for over 100 carefully selected national and international organizations * NEW tips on researching and evaluating organizations * NEW help with budgeting and fundraising * an extensive resource section full of books, websites, and organizations for further reading and research and much more. Whether you want to volunteer at home or abroad, and whether you can spend two years or two weeks, Alternatives to the Peace Corps will help you find a volunteer experience to match your highest ideals.  By: Moritz Thomsen List Price: $17.09 Amazon Price: $17.09 |
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