Description: In order to fully support faculty in pursing engaged scholarship, we must work to ensure that these efforts will be understood and valued on our campuses, especially in relation to awards structures (promotion and tenure). Many campuses are actively engaged in exploring this challenge, and some are making strides in policies, practices, and culture change. Others are struggling with how to enter the conversation constructively and strategically. This solutions-focused roundtable offers an opportunity for campus leaders to discuss their strategies, ideas, and questions with others who are concerned about this issue. Bold ideas, creativity, and strategic thinking are encouraged!

Presenters: Alan Tinkler, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, University of Vermont; Carrie Williams Howe, Interim Director, Community-University Partnerships & Service-Learning, University of Vermont.

Description: College and university practitioners in community engagement bring passion and commitment to their work, but are not necessarily equipped to lead the change needed to strengthen and deepen their campus's engagement with communities. In this session we'll focus on strategies for expanding leadership capacity of faculty and administrators to grow and sustain community engagement efforts. In particular we'll explore strategies for forging strategic campus collaborations that unite seemingly disparate coalitions towards a common purpose that is bigger than their differences. This discussion is for newer and more-experienced practitioners to share wisdom and gain insights as we probe our ongoing challenges.

Presenters: Gail E. Scordilis, Director, Center for Community Collaboration, Smith College, MA; Lucy Mule, Associate Professor, Education & Child Study, Faculty Co-Director, Center for Community Collaboration, Smith College, MA.

Description: An increasing number of civic engagement models in higher education are incorporating student leadership roles into service opportunities and aiming to promote student leadership development. This roundtable discussion will examine various community service and service learning models that incorporate and promote student leadership and examine the following questions: How have civic education programs successfully incorporated student leadership models into their practices? Do service based experiences facilitate leadership development? Do students involved in service based experiences who develop as leaders become more committed to civic engagement? Participants will engage in small and large group discussions and leave with resources, models and further insight in to the connections between student leadership development and service based opportunities.

Presenters: Arielle Jennings, Community Service Coordinator, MACC AmeriCorps*VISTA, Lesley University, MA; Amanda Wittman, Coordinator for Research and Outreach, MACC AmeriCorps*VISTA, Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Worcester State College, MA; Billie Jo Day, College Access and Success Coordinator, MACC AmeriCorps*VISTA, Simmons College, MA; Jay Helmer, Civic Engagement Coordinator, MACC AmeriCorps*VISTA, Salem State College, MA.

Description: This session explores methods that have proven successful in changing attitudes that influence behavior affecting energy and water conservation, recycling and waste reduction and transportation. Experience on several campuses has shown that student-led initiatives, supported by environmentally conscious faculty, often stimulate actions that gain administrative adoption and garner staff support. In addition to learning how to achieve change in the university environment, students gain problem-solving experience that they can use to help solve the complex challenges that they will face after graduation.

Presenter: Robert R. Basow, Associate Professor, Strategic Communication, William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Comm., Univ. of Kansas.

Description: In this roundtable discussion, we present data collected on the effects of service-learning on academic challenge, academic engagement, community engagement, and retention from Compact schools in northern New England last spring and this fall. We then challenge participants to interpret the patterns of results and discuss implications for their campuses. Discussants will receive a packet of findings to begin the discussion. After collective examination of the findings, presenters will pose questions that help discussants mine the results for implications for practice with students, faculty members, and administrators.

Presenters: Georgia Nigro, Professor of Psychology, Bates College, Harward Center, ME; Michelle Vazquez-Jacobus, Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Leadership and Organizational Studies, University of Southern Maine/Lewiston-Auburn College, ME; Liz McCabe Park, Executive Director, Maine Campus Compact.

Description: There are two forces currently driving democracy reform agendas: efforts to engage everyday citizens in public life and to promote deliberative, citizen-oriented politics and efforts to increase social equity and create a more just society. Is this a happy alliance, or are there underlying tensions? To some, the goal is to create inclusive processes that provide historically underrepresented groups, as well as people who are most likely to be affected by a policy or action, to work together to solve public problems. To others, equitable processes are not enough if we fail to break down patterns of disparity and inequality that persist in American public life. Many worry that striving for social justice is advocacy work that smacks of a "liberal" agenda, or that we should trust that inclusive processes will lead to more just outcomes. Others are offended by the very term, "inclusion," which suggests that a dominant group maintains power and privilege while allowing others to the table.

A parallel conversation should take place in the academy. To what extent does the academy abate or exacerbate these tensions? How do power and privilege influence who is accepted and who achieves (graduates) in college? How does the academy contribute to structural inequities in public life - and what can be done about it? In this session, we'll name it, talk about it, and work to overcome divisions that could weaken democracy-building efforts.

Presenter: Nancy L. Thomas, Director, The Democracy Imperative, Senior Associate, Everyday Democracy (formerly Study Circles Resource Center).

Description: In this session the presenters will outline a new initiative to facilitate the development of the next generation of civic engagement leaders on campus, share their concerns, interests, and challenges, and engage the session participants in an exploration of strategies for advancing next generation engagement.

Presenters: John Saltmarsh, Director, New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Boston; Edward Zlotkowski, Professor, Bentley University, MA