Prof. Myrene Magabo
HAZLETON, Pennsylvania – A Filipino professor’s brainchild, a web-based Global Outreach Project, is driving the Global Anti-Bullying Campaign students at the Academy of Sciences here launched last March 24.
Myrene Magabo, a Filipina who currently teaches Effective Speech Communication for Penn State University’s dual enrollment program with the Academy of Sciences, conceptualized the project.
Magabo has done exploratory research on the impact of bullying among Filipino immigrants to the U.S. With the assistance of Glenn Blessington of Penn State, she will formalize and expand the study to include other ethnicities.
Academy of Sciences faculty member Patricia Tomsho and Vice Principal Marie Ernst have fully endorsed the campaign to “inculcate a global consciousness among students.”
Frankie Seratch sparked the idea of this schoolwide, communitywide, and globalwide campaign against bullying, which is a global problem that discriminates against people of all ages, even working adults.
He has worked with ten other students at the Academy of Sciences to help understand the problem.
In addition to stopping the culture of bullying, the campaign will systematically gather more voices, and raise greater awareness and understanding of the dynamics of bullying.
The group also hopes to help the healing for those who have been victims of bullying. One of the campaign strategies is putting up a gallery of messages using Joe Pecora’s Photo + Positive concept. Pecora is an artist based in Hazleton.
The students plan to reach out to other schools in the area face-to-face and will reach out globally through online information and education campaigns.
“This anti-bullying campaign is just the very first of the many other projects we aim to pursue,” Magabo said.
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