Generously sponsored by the Charlotte Research Institute, as well as the UNC Charlotte Campus Compact and Civic
Engagement Interest Group, the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, and the Center for Teaching and Learning
Engaged Scholarship and
Community Partnership
Symposium
April 23-24, 2015
Cone Center
UNC Charlotte
Session Organizers
Tamara Johnson, Provost’s Office
Susan Harden, Education
Kim Buch, Psychology
List of Participants--Thursday
Session Presenters
Session Panelists
Kim Buch, Psychology
Jim Cook, Psychology
Susan Harden, Education
Tamara Johnson, Provost’s Office
Carrie Silver, University Professional
Internship Program
Heather Smith, Geography
Robert Arnold, Honors College
Jim Currie, PORTAL
Liz Fitzgerald, University College
Sean Langley, Dean of Students Office
Terre Lucas, Building Educational Strengths and Talents (BEST)
Lisa Merriweather, Educational Leadership
Kate Poisson, Office of International Programs
Diana Rowan, Social Work
Jeanette Sims, Community Relations, Events & Special Projects
Brett Tempest, Civil and Environmental Engineering
List of Participants--Friday
Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship
Showcase Participants
Aayla Alexander
Erica Alford
Robert F. Arnold, III
Jessica Beavers
Sayde J. Brais
Katie Brown
Kim Buch
Nija Burnette
Justin Cobb
Heather Coffey
Maureen Doran
Jessica Eudy
Alan R. Freitag
Owen Furuseth
Cynthia Hancock
Laura Handler
Susan Harden
Angel Hjarding
Joe Howarth
Trena Ijames-Scott
Sean Langley
Othelia E. Lee
M. Terre Lucas
Laneshia McCord
Elizabeth McDowell
Louise Murray
Cache Owens
Susanna Pantas
Robin Rothberg
Emmitt Scott
Janni Sorensen
Jeremy Vargas
Daniel Whitmire
Engaged Centers and Institutes
Panel Participants
John Cox, Center for Holocaust, Genocide,
and Human Rights
Jim Currie, Partnership, Outreach, and
Research to Accelerate Learning (PORTAL)
Amy Hahn Nelson, Institute for Social Capital
Jeffrey Leak, Center for the Study of the New
South
Victor Mack, Office of Educational Outreach
Mark Sanders, Center for Professional and
Applied Ethics
David Young, Energy Production &
Infrastructure Center (EPIC)
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Lucas Room
9am-10:30am -- Tenure and Promotion
In 2012, the Faculty Council moved to revise UNC Charlotte’s tenure and promotion guidelines in the Academic Personnel
Procedures Handbook to reflect the University’s commitment to community engaged scholarship, teaching, and public service.
This new language allows community-based research conducted with local partners to qualify as scholarship for tenure and
promotion purposes at the institutional level. This session will discuss the value of community engaged scholarship, and explore
how specific changes have been implemented to recognize community-engaged scholarship at the college level.
Session Presenters: Jim Cook and Heather Smith
10:30am-12:00pm -- Engaged Scholarship 101 and Collective Impact
This session will define and make the case for engaged scholarship. What can engaged scholarship do for your career? What are
resources to support engaged scholarship and avenues for publication and dissemination? Collective Impact brings stakeholders
together in an accountable way to foster shared community vision, evidence-based decision making, collaborative action, and
investment and sustainability. How can Collective Impact practices be creatively implemented across campus?
Session Presenters: Susan Harden and Carrie Silver
12pm-12:45pm -- Networking lunch
12:45pm-2pm -- Community Engaged Teaching
This session will discuss best practices in community-engaged teaching and learning including syllabus and curriculum design,
articulating and assessing student learning outcomes. A panel of experts from across colleges and divisions will discuss creative
approaches to service-learning and engaged teaching.
Session Presenter: Kim Buch
Faculty/Staff panel: Liz Fitzgerald, Sean Langley, Robert Arnold, Brett Tempest, Lisa Merriweather
2pm-3:15pm -- Global Community Engagement
Global Community Engagement combines learning outcomes associated with both international education and servicelearning activities. Given the growing popularity of short-term study abroad programs, this session explores the ethics,
challenges, and best practices of global community engagement abroad as well as in a local Charlotte context.
Session Presenter: Tamara Johnson
Faculty/Staff/Student Panel: Terre Lucas, Diana Rowan, Office of International Programs
3:15pm-4:30pm -- Outreach and Engagement Staff
This workshop provides specialized professional development for practitioners and administrators of community-university
partnerships. This workshop will build capacity through network and community-of-practice development, orient and train staff
on current research and best practices in outreach and engagement, and encourage high-quality practice through professional
reflection and goal setting.
Session Presenter: Susan Harden
Staff Panel: Jeanette Sims, Jim Currie,
Friday, April 24, 2015
Lucas Room
9am-11am -- Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship Showcase
The Showcase will feature poster presentations that share case studies, best practices, lessons learned, and innovations in the use
of service learning as a teaching and learning pedagogy.
11am-12:30pm -- Engaged Centers and Institutes Panel
The panel will feature presentations from some of UNC Charlotte’s centers and institutes. What does each center do? How
are they engaged with community partners? What are the possibilities for creative collaboration with each center/institute?
Participating centers and institutes include:
• Center for Professional and Applied Ethics
• Center for the Study of the New South
• Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
• EPIC
• Office of Educational Outreach
• PORTAL
12:30-1pm -- Networking Lunch
1pm-2pm -- Community Partner focus groups
A diverse group of community partners will be convened for an engaging peer-to-peer conversation in the format of a fishbowl.
Come hear the reflections and feedback of our community partners as they explore the strengths and areas of growth in our
relationships with the University.
2pm-3pm -- Student focus groups
Similar to the community partner focus group, students are invited to discuss their community engagement and service-learning
experiences offered through UNC Charlotte.