Civic Engagement Institute for Academic Leaders

Posted by on May 15, 2004

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INSTITUTE FOR ACADEMIC LEADERS
October 28-29, 2004
Augsburg College, Minneapolis

Co-Sponsored by
Upper Midwest Campus Compact Consortium (Iowa, Minnesota & Wisconsin)
Augsburg College

A major movement, with initiatives led by higher education associations, accreditation agencies, major foundations, and others, exhorts faculty, administrators and interested citizens to rethink the work of the academy in light of pressing issues within our current democratic state. How might reciprocal partnerships between campuses and local communities transform the nature of knowledge production and distribution, revitalize an overburdened faculty, and educate a generation of wise citizens?

At this institute, participants will discuss the philosophies that underlie these changing paradigms, strategies for envisioning and implementing deeper civic engagement, and models of programs, departments, divisions, and colleges that have successfully incorporated service-learning and broader forms of institutional engagement. Specific topics include:
* Service-learning models, theories and research;
* Links between civic engagement and other institutional agendas;
* Building institutional support for service-learning;
* Faculty roles and rewards in the engaged campus;
* Working respectfully with community partners;
* Assessment of civic engagement, and
* Grant opportunities and other resources.

Featured Facilitators
Susan Agre-Kippenhan, Chair of the Art Department at Portland State University, contributing author to Making Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach.

Nadinne Cruz, consultant, former director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, co-author of Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future.

Robert Exley, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Iowa Western Community College, contributing author to Sustaining Service Learning: The Role of Chief Academic Officers.

R. Eugene Rice, Scholar in Residence and Director of the Forum on Faculty Roles and Rewards at the American Association for Higher Education. Author of A Good Place to Work.

Lori Vogelgesang, UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, is the Director of HERI’s Center for Service Learning Research and Dissemination. Co-author of the HERI study How Service Learning Affects Students.

Registration
All interested faculty, students, administrators, and others are invited to participate in this workshop. Individuals are welcome, but ideally participants will come as part of a team, which might consist of one or more:
* Department chairs,
* Division heads,
* Deans,
* Program coordinators,
* Service-learning directors, and
* Other academic leaders

Early bird registration deadline is September 30, 2004; final registration deadline is October 18, 2004.

Workshop costs for registrations received by September 30, 2004 (add $20 for
registrations submitted between October 1 and 18):
$95 individual from a Campus Compact member campus, a school, or a community-based organization
$65 member of a team (3 or more people) from a Campus Compact member campus, a school, or a community-based organization
$150 individual from a non-Compact campus
$120 member of a team (3 or more people) from a non-Compact campus

Includes all meals and materials. Information on hotel accommodations in the Twin Cities is available with the registration brochure.

To request registration materials, please contact:
Lori Coutts Fraase
Office Manager
Minnesota Campus Compact
(651)603-5082
[email protected]

Provide your name, phone number, and mailing address or fax number and a brochure will be sent to you, or visit our website http://mncampuscompact.org to get a PDF version of the brochure.