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1200 E. Ann Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2050

(734) 764-5430

School of Education Office

Room 1017 School of Education Building

610 East University Avenue

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259

(734) 647-2477

l.u.c.y.@umich.edu

Percy Bates, PhD., Director

Educational psychologist Percy Bates was born July 8, 1932 in Pensacola, Florida. Raised by his mother, Gladys Travis Bates, he attended Spencer Bibbs Elementary School and Booker T. Washington High School. After moving to Detroit, Bates ran track and played football at Hamtramack High School, and he graduated from there in 1950. Entering the United States Army in 1952, Bates served at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, where he sang with fellow soldier and pianist Earl Grant. After earning his B.S. degree in biology from Central Michigan University in 1958, Bates received his M.A. in vocational rehabilitation in 1961 from Wayne State University and his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Michigan in 1968.

Percy Bates has been a faculty member since 1965. He has served as an Assistant Dean, Chairperson of the Special Education Program, and Division Director for Curriculum, Teaching and Psychological Studies. Percy has had a tour of duty as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Education in the Department of Education in Washington, DC and is presently a member of the Secretary of Education’s Title IX Commission on Opportunities in Athletics. Dr. Bates has worked with dozens of school districts assisting them with assessing educational programs as well as dealing with equity, gender, and desegregation issues that teachers and administrators encounter on a day-to-day basis. Percy is the UM Faculty Athletics Representative and is very active with the UM and National Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

In 1968, during a strike of black students demanding black faculty at the University of Michigan, Bates was promoted to assistant professor of education. At the University of Michigan's School of Education, Bates served as assistant division director of curriculum, teaching and psychological studies and as director of programs for educational opportunity (PEO).

pbates@umich.edu

Joseph A. Galura, Co-Director

Joe is a Lecturer and Co-Director of LUCY: The Lives of Urban Children and Youth Initiative (a two-year curricular pathway in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts) and Director of Project Community: Sociology 389 (a peer-facilitated service-learning course developed in partnership with the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning). He is also a Faculty Associate in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies and a Field Instructor in the School of Social Work. His most recent books are Filipino Women in Detroit: 1945-1955 (2002) and Tapestry: Filipinos in Michigan, 1900-1950 (forthcoming), both with Emily P. Lawsin, and Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities (2004), edited with Penny A. Pasque, David Schoem and Jeffrey Howard.

jgalura@umich.edu

Rodolfo Palma-Lulion, Program Coordinator

Rodolfo is a graduate of the University of Michigan and many of its service learning classes. After college, Rodolfo trained as a Union and Community Organizer. He orgnized intellectual workers in Michigan and around the US, and later organized in South America. Once back in Michigan, he worked with the LUCY program to stay true to its mission of social change through student learning and reflection paired with community action.

dolfo@umich.edu

Stella Raudenbush, Founding Director

Stella was the first director of the LUCY program until her sudden and tragic death on May 21, 2005. Hers was a life-long commitment to social justice. While attending Cardinal Cushing College in Brookline MA , she helped organize the first hospital workers union in Massachusetts . After graduating in 1967, Stella was a social worker for 10 years in Roxbury , MA , where she led battles for welfare rights. Later she led the Parents Support and Action Center in Cambridge and facilitated school de-segregation in Weston MA. In 1984, she moved with her family to Michigan where she directed service learning programs for undergraduates, first at Michigan State and later at the University of Michigan . In 2001 she launched the award-winning program "Lives of Urban Children and Youth," a partnership between the University of Michigan and community organizations training undergraduates while improving instruction for Detroit children. Just prior to her untimely death, the University of Chicago announced her appointment as director of an ambitious new urban education program. Her commitment to intellectual honesty and social justice will live through the many lives she has touched.