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麦戈文报告是达科他卫斯理大学麦戈文领导和公共服务中心的声音. Listen in for interviews with McGovern scholars, faculty and students at Dakota Wesleyan University and others. New episodes come out monthly.
Interview with Sen. Tom Daschle
Interview with Ann McGovern and Jim Rowen
Interview with Catherine Bertini, Marshall Matz and Alan Stone, McGovern's partners against hunger
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DWU Lectureship
麦戈文中心的主要工作目标之一就是计划和组织 an ongoing lectureship. The purpose of this is to develop, within our general education program, 学生对公民责任和共同利益的理解，以培养他们所生活的社区繁荣的品质. Some of the provisional themes under this banner are ethical leadership, social justice, racial healing and citizen engagement. Our goal is to plan four lectureships during the academic year. For more information on upcoming lectures, please go to our upcoming events page.
Braver Angels Partnership
The McGovern Center has become a partnership agency with Braver Angels. Braver Angels is a nationwide depolarization agency with the mission, “我们将美国人民团结在一起，弥合党派分歧，加强我们的民主共和国.“我们赞助了关于取消文化、枪支管制和批判性种族理论的辩论. 麦戈文中心/勇敢天使合作伙伴关系为社区提供定期讨论/辩论和演讲活动. For more information, please go to our upcoming events page.
DWU Cares: A Day of Giving
Every spring in May, the McGovern Center plans and executes our yearly “DWU Cares: Day of Giving” event. Working with 35 community partners, we provide opportunities for all DWU students to get out into our city for service to the community. Grass is cut, windows are washed, garbage is collected, trees are cut or planted and good feelings result. Organizations feel relieved about accomplished tasks. In fact, several players from our men’s soccer team moved old unwanted pianos out of a church basement. It was a job the church wanted to do for years but were unable due to the great weight of the pianos.
Indigenous Persons Day
Each year, in cooperation with the Diversity Club, the McGovern Center plans and finances our Indigenous Persons Day. We invite guests like Jerome Kills Small of the Oglala Lakota, who has performed indigenous songs and stories for our campus.
McGovern Engagement Group (MEG)
MEG, as we affectionate call the McGovern Engagement Group, 我们的学生俱乐部是通过促进DWU校园和社区的公民参与来实现乔治麦戈文的愿景吗. MEG is a nonpartisan club that meets weekly during the school year to discuss current political and social issues. The club also engages in projects dealing with public policy. Most recently, 俱乐部正在制定一项倡议，以简化和精简国际足联的管理 federal school lunch program.
AsOne Uganda Trip
The McGovern Center has planned yearly student trips to Uganda. 这些沉浸式旅行是与一个以信仰为基础的非营利组织合作组织的， AsOne Africa. AsOne was founded by a 2015 DWU graduate, Andrew DeVaney, and has grown significantly in the last several years. The organization provides high-quality education, business development, medical clinics and farmer education in five communities in Uganda.
If you are interested in supporting this trip financially, please email the McGovern Center.
Livestock for Life
DWU学生与麦戈文中心的支持者和世界各地的当地领导人合作，通过创新来缓解粮食安全问题, locally-led and internationally-supported projects. 在非洲乌干达，我们正在通过赠送牲畜来解决粮食安全问题. Small livestock, typically a goat, are gifted to a family.
Donations toward this project don’t just support a family in need; they provide them with the tools they need to build their future. A donation of just $50 supports the gift of one goat.
"All That a Moo Can Do/A 'Moo' for You"
Through colorful imagery and playful rhyme, 一本新的儿童读物讲述了一头牛如何使一个小男孩的生活发生巨大变化的故事. The true story of Haptamu, a boy in Ethiopia, is told in “A Moo for You/All That a Moo Can Do,” a book written, 由达科他卫斯理大学的学生和他们的教授绘制和制作.
The book is on sale for $20 through the DWU Store or at Amazon. The proceeds benefit the McGovern Center's Livestock for Life program.
Community-Based Research and Learning
Community-Based Research and Learning (CBRL) is the intersection of students, faculty, 社区成员在促进沉浸式教育体验和解决当前和长期社区需求的双重目标上进行合作. 麦戈文中心鼓励教师和学生从事CBRL项目, and serves as a resource in design, partnership development and assessment.
我们也欢迎社区合作伙伴提出研究和学习项目的咨询.
有关CBRL项目的更多信息，请发送电子邮件至麦戈文中心.
Looking for Volunteers for Your Project?
麦戈文中心可以为你的组织或活动联系志愿者. Please email your event to the McGovern Center.
The Challenge of Global Leadership
麦戈文中心于2021年4月获得教师批准，为DWU学生组织和提供一门新的单学分课程，名为“全球领导力的挑战”.” The course description is as follows. 这门单学分课程考察了发展中国家的挑战、潜力和进步. 如何才能更好地理解和理解发展中国家面临的困难? What avenues of addressing these challenges bear the greatest outcome? How can we be most effectively engaged as leaders? Through podcasts, videos, readings and daily news, 我们将学习成为有效的全球领导者谁活出DWU的座右铭:牺牲或服务.”
About George and Eleanor McGovern
乔治和埃莉诺麦戈文领导和公共服务中心的愿景是通过教育和服务他人来改善生活. We actively 通过提供与麦戈文人道主义拓展理念相一致的学术和课程规划来实现这一愿景, political activism, and leadership. Sen. George McGovern distinguished himself as a pilot during World War II, 前国会议员和参议员，1972年作为本党总统候选人参选, and as a United Nations Ambassador who fought to end world hunger.
Throughout his life, 乔治·麦戈文赢得了无数不同政治观点和各行各业人士的尊重.
From his days as a student at Dakota Wesleyan University, and throughout his long and distinguished career in public service, George McGovern never forgot his
roots. He was born in Avon, S.D., on July 19, 1922, the son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister. The family moved to Mitchell, S.D., in 1928, and George graduated from Mitchell High School in
1940. He was an outstanding student, 他在辩论方面的娴熟为他赢得了米切尔达科塔卫斯理大学的奖学金, where he enrolled in the fall of 1940. There he met fellow
student Eleanor Stegeberg of Woonsocket, S.D. George and Eleanor were married on Oct. 31, 1943, and their five children were all born in Mitchell.
As a college student, 麦戈文两次当选班级主席，并以“我兄弟的守护者”为题赢得了州演讲比赛," an avowal of his belief
in one's responsibility to humankind.
World War II interrupted McGovern's education in 1943. 他作为B-24轰炸机飞行员在欧洲执行了35次战斗任务，获得了杰出飞行十字勋章. After
the war he returned to Dakota Wesleyan University, graduating in 1946. 麦戈文在进入芝加哥西北大学之前，在加勒特神学院学习了一年, where he
earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American history and government.
1950年，麦戈文回到达科他卫斯理大学，担任历史和政治学教授, where he became a beloved and respected faculty member. He
1955年离开大学，重组和振兴南达科他州民主党, from which his illustrious political career was launched. He was elected to Congress in 1956 and
reelected in 1958. As a congressman, 他是美国农民权益的拥护者，杰出地代表了美国的中心地带.
After McGovern lost his first bid for the U.S. Senate in 1960, President John F. Kennedy named him the first director of the Food for Peace Program and Special
Assistant to the President. 在这个职位上，他监督向发展中国家捐赠了数百万吨食品. McGovern was then elected to the Senate in 1962 and reelected in 1968
and 1974. As a member of the Senate committees on agriculture, nutrition, forestry and foreign relations, and the Joint Economic Committee, he led the way in expanding key nutrition
programs.
有关麦戈文领导与公共服务中心的更多信息, please contact the director of the McGovern Center.