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Institutes and Conferences for Faculty
2nd Annual
Fostering Global Citizenship in Higher Education Conference
November 10-11, 2008
Goals of the Conference:
- Establish a working definition of global citizenship for each campus;
- Identify the competencies that an individual should possess to be considered a global citizen;
- Share and discuss effective approaches for teaching, developing, and preparing global citizens;
- Develop strategies for cross-departmental collaboration;
- Design or revise individual syllabi/learning plans related to global citizenship
Service
Learning, Civic Engagement, and The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
November 21st, 2008; Southern Vermont College Bennington, VT
This interactive workshop will focus on how faculty can develop service-learning courses that are linked to broader curricula and to faculty scholarship. We will begin by reviewing the academic and civic learning outcomes of service-learning and how courses can be designed to enhance these learning outcomes. Secondly, we will focus on how service-learning can help overcome the fragmentation of the three traditional areas of faculty work; teaching, scholarship and service. The workshop will conclude with an opportunity for faculty to design ways of integrating teaching, learning and scholarship. Participants are encouraged to bring materials, ideas and questions to use in developing their own service-learning courses and integrated, engaged scholarship.
Problem
Based Service-Learning (PBSL) Institute:
January 8-9, 2009, Middlebury College
The institute consists of two days of highly interactive sessions. Participants will be introduced to Problem-Based Service-Learning and engaged in curriculum redesign or development with support and feedback from facilitators and peers.
New England Campus Compact
Spring 2009 Regional Conference
March 30-31st, 2009
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Topics include:
- What intersections are there between civic engagement and social justice? How do they affect our work?
- How do we help students to work - and learn - effectively in communities and across boundaries?
- How do our programs and campuses engage in just, reciprocal relationships?
- What are the emerging issues, and exciting models in the field?
- How do our programs welcome and engage individuals of all backgrounds and identities?
- What are the outcomes we're seeking - for our students, communities, and institutions - and how do we achieve them?
- How can we apply our work at the conference to our campuses?
Through
a Civic Lens:
Strengthening Higher Education from Classroom to Community, Vermont Campus
Compact's Statewide Conference. (April 1st)
Featuring:
- Workshops examining how civic engagement can enhance various outcomes in higher education, regarding diversity, retention, residential life, and more
- Keynote Address
- Campus “Best Practices” Showcase;
- VCC Statewide Award Ceremony and Reception to follow
Curriculum
Reform Institute: Problem Based Service Learning
May 27-28, 2008, Bates College; June 2-3, 2008, University of Maine, Orono
Engaged
Department Institute
Jan 3-4, 2008 in Maine, or June 4-5 in VT/NH
In this initiative the three Northern New England Campus Compacts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will work with at least 15 selected academic departments/units to incorporate improvements to curricula and learning environments as well as faculty development and incentive systems.
Telling
Our Stories, Measuring our Impact
April 6-7, 2006, Nashua, NH
Student Summit on April 8
This exciting conference was planned and sponsored by Campus Compacts in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
As in past Regional Campus Compact Conferences, our audience comprised
students, faculty, community service and service-learning directors, Academic
Deans, Department Chairs and community partners. This year’s conference
title and theme was“Telling Our Stories: Measuring Our Impact.”
This event provided the opportunity to exchange innovative practices,
theories, philosophies, and research across the Northeast. Our goal was
to offer ‘cutting edge’ strategies for institutional transformation
in higher education and to promote advanced practice in service-learning.
Contact Cheryl Whitney Lower with any questions about these programs at 802-443-2507 or clower@middlebury.edu
