Moving Us Forward: Community Impact and Social Responsibility

Posted by on May 29, 2012

Please join us for the 2nd Annual Eastern Regional Campus Compact Conference — Moving Us Forward: Community Impact and Social Responsibility.  The conference will be held on October 11th and 12th, 2012 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Below is more information about the conference and a link to the registration can be found here – ERCC Registration or you can visit http://www.ercompact.org for more information about the event.

Conference Overview:

The mission of this conference is to advance institutional engagement while helping our member institutions strengthen their ability to meet the standards of the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. Leaders in higher education will participate in workshops on campus-community reciprocity and impact, institutional change, and engaged scholarship.

Conference Schedule:

· Thursday, October 11, 2012:

8:30am to 3:30pm          Making It Count: Developing Institutional Strategies for Rewarding Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure 2nd Annual Faculty Rewards Institute – For Institution Teams Only – (full description below)

8:30am to 3:30pm          Community-Engaged Scholarship: Strategies, Resources and Opportunities Pre Conference Institute (full description below)

11am to 3:30pm            The Culture of the Engaged Campus Pre Conference Institute (full description below)

4:00pm to 5:00pm         Opening Reception

5:00pm to 6:pm             Welcome Address

6:00pm                         Dinner (seated)

· Friday, October 12, 2012:

8:30am                          Opening Plenary
Community Impact and Social Responsibility – Thinking From Multiple Perspectives
Dr. Sherril B. Gelmon, Portland State University

9:00am                          Response Panel

9:30am                          Audience Discussion

10:15am                        Workshop Block I (Concurrent sessions)

11:45am                        Lunch and Poster Session

1:15pm                         Workshop Block II (Concurrent sessions)

3:00pm                         Closing

Registration Packages:

Ÿ  Pre Conference Institutes Only Registration Package – Per Person:

(Includes:  Breakfast , lunch and dinner at full day institutes and lunch and dinner at 1/2 day institute)

The Culture of the Engaged Campus Pre Conference Institute Dinner (1/2 day)

Member Cost:  $250                      Non Member Cost:  $450

Making It Count: Developing Institutional Strategies for Rewarding Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure 2nd Annual Faculty Rewards Institute (full day)

Member Cost:  $350                      Non Member Cost:  $550

Community-Engaged Scholarship:  Strategies, Resources and Opportunities Pre Conference Institute (full day).

Member Cost:  $350                      Non Member Cost:  $550

Ÿ  Conference Only Registration Package – Per Person:

Member Cost:  $250          Non Member Cost:  $450

(Includes:  Breakfast, Plenary Session, Lunch and Morning and Afternoon Workshop Sessions)

Ÿ  Conference and Pre Conference Institute Registration Package – Per Person:

Member Cost:  $450          Non Member Cost:  $650

(Includes:  Pre Conference Institute of your choice, Opening Dinner, Breakfast, Plenary Session, Lunch and Morning and Afternoon Workshop Sessions)

Pre Conference Institute Information:

Making It Count: Developing Institutional Strategies for Rewarding Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure 2nd Annual Faculty Rewards Institute – FOR INSTITUTION TEAMS ONLY – 8:30 to 3:30pm

Facilitators: Dr. KerryAnn O’Meara, University of Maryland and Dr. Timothy K. Eatman, Syracuse University

Participating campus teams of administrators and faculty will develop actions plans to advance tenure and promotion guidelines and policies on their own campuses. We recommend a team of 3-5 people interested in advancing campus recognition of engaged scholarship. There is significant mismatch between the articulated priorities of an institution and the reality of tenure and promotion policies that can hold campuses back from becoming truly engaged institutions. 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. Teams will identify a key issue in advance of the institute, then develop an action plan with both the facilitators and examples of faculty guidelines and other evidence from nationally recognized engaged institutions.

Community-Engaged Scholarship:  Strategies, Resources and Opportunities
8:30am to 3:30pm
Facilitator:  Dr. Sherril B. Gelmon, Portland State University and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Are you a faculty member interested in leveraging community-engaged scholarship in pursuit of tenure, promotion and/or personnel review? This preconference is for you! This institute will include a discussion and illustration of competencies for community-engaged scholarship, opportunities for faculty development to build such competencies, and use of a self-assessment to identify a personal action plan for building such competencies. Participants and presenter will also focus on a discussion of products of community-engaged scholarship for community purposes and as evidence of scholarship. Strategies for documenting community-engaged scholarship and preparing for the process of peer review from the faculty, department and dean’s perspectives will be covered. Participants will be introduced to a variety of resources that support community-engaged scholarship through a rich toolkit of mechanisms to support their work. While the emphasis of the preconference is on the faculty perspective, individuals who work with faculty and/or mentor or review faculty will also find the information valuable.

The Culture of the Engaged Campus
11am to 3:30pm

Facilitators:  Dr. Matthew Hartley, University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Virginia Horvath, President, SUNY/Fredonia & Dr. Dr. Laurie Worrall, Executive Director, New York Campus Compact, formerly Associate Vice -President, Academic Affairs, DePaul University

Creating a campus culture that fosters community engagement requires institutions to transform their fundamental core practices. What does it take to shift an institutional culture to embrace community engagement practices? Through case studies, this institute will make the case that targeting strategic practices, institutional structures, and moments in history can help create the engaged institution. Participants and facilitators will reflect on case studies that have emerged from extensive national research and explore the examples of two different institutions – one public, one private – to understand the critical areas of practice that can lead to cultural transformation. This institute is valuable for participants interested in advancing a community engagement agenda on their campuses.