Moving Us Forward: Recognizing and Rewarding Civic Engagement

Posted by on August 29, 2011

Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference

October 27-28, 2011
LaGuardia Airport Hotel
100-15 Ditmars Boulevard
East Elmhurst, NY 11369

Registration Deadline:  October 7, 2011

Please follow this link: http://www.regonline.com/ERCC which contains all the relevant conference details including hotel registration information.

Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference
Promoting Clear Pathways to Civic Engagement

Moving Us Forward: Recognizing and Rewarding Civic Engagement
The mission of this conference is to advance institutional engagement. Leaders in higher education will participate in workshops on engaged scholarship, institutional change, and campus-community reciprocity. This conference will include an institute for faculty teams to focus on institutional strategies for rewarding engaged scholarship in promotion and tenure.

Campus Compact shares a rich history with the Carnegie classification for community engagement – demonstrated by the Compact’s 13 indicators of engagement richly informing the classification. In fact, the majority of Carnegie classified institutions are members of state Compacts. Through on-going consultation with campuses seeking the engaged classification, our state offices are intimately aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent applications. This conference will focus on key areas of campus-community engagement in order to maximize the likelihood of success on future re/applications for designation.

Faculty Rewards Institute – FOR FACULTY TEAMS ONLY
Making It Count: Strategies for Rewarding Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure
Facilitator: Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara, University of Maryland

Many of our college campuses struggle with the same challenge. Our academic reward systems have not caught up with 21st century scholarship and teaching, including engaged scholarship and service-learning. Numerous studies of faculty involvement in community engagement show that academic reward systems that do not change to assess and recognize engaged scholarship stand as a formidable barrier to the careers of engaged scholars, recruitment of faculty for this critical work, and campuses truly institutionalizing the work at their core. Faculty teams of 3-5 individuals will come with a strong interest in advancing tenure and promotion guidelines to explicitly merit community engaged scholarship.

The Scholarship of Engagement – FOR INDIVIDUAL REGISTRANTS
Facilitator:  Dr. Char Gray, Pennsylvania Campus Compact
While community engaged teaching can be found in courses in virtually every higher education institution in the U.S., community engaged scholarship remains suspect. Institute participants will explore the rigorous nature of high quality engaged scholarship and learn how to incorporate this form of scholarship into their research agendas.

The Culture of the Engaged Campus –FOR INDIVIDUAL REGISTRANTS
Facilitator: Dr. Matthew Hartley, University of Pennsylvania
Moving to a community engaged identity requires institutional willingness to transform fundamental core practices. What does it take to shift an institutional culture to include community engaged practices? This institute will highlight points in the histories of several institutions to make the case that targeting strategic practices, institutional structures, and moments in history can help create the engaged institution.

Reciprocity in Campus-Community Partnerships – FOR INDIVIDUAL REGISTRANTS
Facilitator: Dr. Randy Stoecker, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Despite civic engagement practices becoming ubiquitous across the higher education landscape, the concept of reciprocity has proven more challenging to institutionalize. Thought leaders will discuss the factors affecting the quality of campus-community partnerships and outcomes resulting from partnerships that are established democratically.

Sustainable Global Service-Learning Partnerships: Concepts, Models & Best Practices – FOR INDIVIDUAL REGISTRANTS
Facilitator:  Dr. Richard Kiely, Cornell University
The national imperative to expose greater numbers of U.S. students to more diverse global experiences has motivated community engaged faculty to create community engaged learning experiences in international settings. Participants will discuss and explore the successes, pitfalls, risks, and rewards of such teaching, learning, and scholarship strategies.