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Scottsdale, AZ
Monday, May 18, 2015
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Teagle Institute - By Invitation Only
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
9:00 am - 12:00 pm - Pre-conference Workshops
Assessment of Service Learning Student Learning Tanya Renner
Outcomes
Francisco Acoba
Building Peace and Community Wellness: Service
David Smith
Learning and Civic Engagement Models
Advanced Practices in Service and Sustainability
Learning
Robert Franco
Krista Hiser
Grant Writing from Start to Finish
Joseph Swaba
Lara Smith
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Lunch (Included in pre-conference fee)
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Pre-conference Workshops
Comprehensive Assessment of Service Learning
Using Engagement, Learning, and Achievement
Framework
Tanya Renner
Francisco Acoba
An Introduction to Service Learning and Civic
Engagement
Gail Robinson
Duane Oakes
The Physics of Civics: Leveraging Funding and
Support for Your Service Learning Program
Robert Franco
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm - Welcome Reception - North Pool
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Scottsdale, AZ
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:00 am - 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:00 am - General Session
Community College Leadership:
Key Trends Influencing Our Work
Keynote Speaker:
Gerardo E. de los Santos
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Refreshment Break
9:30 am - 11:00 am - Concurrent Sessions
Framework for Assessing Impacts of Service
Learning Student Outcomes
Lori Moog
Mary Balut
Susan Williams
Kathy Suk
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About
Civic Engagement?
Claire King
Robert Franco
Krista Hiser
Rudy Garcia
Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum Duane Oakes
Gail Robinson
Enhancing Civic Engagement in a First-Semester
Art History Learning Community
Sarah Dillon
Damali Dublin
Cheryl Smith
Building Dynamic Service Learning Leadership
Teams
Jeannine Long
Terry Hockenbrough
11:15 am - 12:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Harnessing Student Engagement to Create a
Healthier Campus
Sara John
Rudy Garcia
A Mobile Application for Service Learning to
Encourage Student’s Leadership Development
Chia-Hui Chiu
Megan F. Liu
Art as Engagement
Liz DiGiorgio
Demonstrating Leadership in the Development of
Socially Relevant, Collaborative Seminars
Leigh Keever
Cindy Andrews
Marcy Hehnly
Planting the Seeds of Service Learning
Jessica Brosilo
Kerry Sanderson
Gail Robinson
Pathways of Public Service: A Framework and Tool
Tom Schaubelt
for Social Change
Frances Villagran-Grover
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch
Closing the Gap - Creating Authenticity
Keynote Speaker:
Jo Watson
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Open Networking
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Transformation from Cooperative Work Experience
Velda Arnaud
to Service Learning Experience
Disconnecting in a Digital World
The Influence of Service Learning on Student
Preparatory Experience
Education for Transformation: Raising the “I” in
Academic
Ashley Hill
Elizabeth King
Terri Cowart
Mary D’Alleva
Building Bridges between Service and Academic
Experience
Lisa Higgins
Sara Kirby
Shamili Ajgaonkar
Delgado and “The Big Question”: A Service
Learning Adventure
Lynn Robertson
E-Service-Learning: Civic Engagement for an
Online World
Lindsey SmithermanBrown
Patrick McDermott
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Refreshment Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Launching Service Learning into the Last Frontier
with Stand-Alone Academic Courses
Erin Baird
Evelyn Young
Food Matters: Strengthening Community through
Environmental Literacy and Civic Engagement
Shamili Ajgaonkar
Citizenship Ambassadors: Bringing Communities
Together through Civics Workshops
Suzanne C. Preston
The Business of Authenticity: Moving from ReflecCheryl Tokke
tion to Action
Hide and Go Seek: Not a Children’s Game
Anymore!
Rose Marie Lichtenfels
Valerie Le Grande
4:30 pm - ZZZZZZZZ Enjoy Your Free Time and Drink Lots of Water!
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
8:00 am - 8:45 am - Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am - Concurrent Sessions
The History of Service Learning: Listening to the
Voices of the Community College
Cate Kaluzny
Service Learning in the College Union
Mike Coleman
Ryan Rogers
Lindsey SmithermanBrown
Internet Safety Action in Service Learning and Civic
Wei-Wei Vivian Huang
Engagement
A Teagle Foundation Project: Building a CommitDuane Oakes
ment to Civic and Moral Responsibility through Civic Dori DiPietro
Engagement One Faculty Member at a Time!
Christine Beckman
Capstone Courses in Non-Profit Service
Hans Tokke
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Building Partnerships and Civic Capacity through
Public Deliberation
Peter Sawyer
Lisa Strahley
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About
Civic Engagement?
Claire King
Robert Franco
Krista Hiser
Coming Home: Civic Engagement Focused Service
Connie Grier
Learning for Reintegration
Rockin’ Authentic Leadership in Service Learning
and Civic Engagement
Evelyn Young
Erin Baird
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30 pm - Conference Adjourned
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Scottsdale, AZ
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Teagle Institute
Teagle Sub-grantees
By Invitation Only
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9:00 am - 12:00 noon - Pre-conference Workshops
Assessment of Service Learning Student Learning Outcomes
This workshop is designed for beginning service learning practitioners and staff who want to learn
about authentic ways to assess intended student learning outcomes through the use of rubrics and
qualitative student work such as reflection journals and analytic papers. The procedures in use at
Kapi`olani Community College will be covered, along with specific examples of rubric categories for
various learning outcomes. A sample paper will be analyzed by workshop participants using our
protocol. Potential uses of results will then be covered. Finally, participants will be grouped according to interest and encouraged to design an assessment plan for their own courses or programs.
Presenters: Tanya Renner, Professor of Psychology, Kapi`olani Community College, and Francisco
Acoba, M.A., Assistant Professor, English, Kapi`olani Community College
Advanced Practices in Service and Sustainability Learning
The purpose of this workshop is to create an ongoing Community of Practice for service learning
practitioners who are also working with sustainability in all its dimensions: the civic and moral considerations of the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental challenges we face as a
planet. Where are we in terms of teaching sustainability practices and thinking? How is sustainability related to service learning? What can community colleges and universities do to help communities become more resilient?
Emerging categories of practice include: Campus as a Living Laboratory, Campus and Community
Resilience, Interdisciplinary Integration, Reciprocal Service and Change, and Connecting to Spiritual and Home-based Practices.
Kapi`olani Community College faculty will lead the workshop by sharing their place-based issues in sustainability and resilience, and how their practices contribute to community problem
solving. They will then facilitate small-group discussion and sharing to assist workshop attendees in sharing and developing their own programs, curriculum, community partnership development, and service learning practices.
Presenters: Robert Franco, Professor, Pacific Anthropology, Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness, and Krista Hiser, Associate Professor of Composition and Faculty Service Learning
Coordinator, Kapi`olani Community College
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9:00 am - 12:00 noon - Pre-conference Workshops
Building Peace and Community Wellness: Service Learning and Civic
Engagement Models
The need to foster peaceful relations and support community wellness is ever present in American
communities. As U.S. society continues to represent a diverse mosaic of cultures, ethnicities, and
religious groups, preparing student leaders with the means and strategies to build bridges, facilitate
dialogue and conversation, and overall promote peace, collaboration, and wellness are needed. In
this workshop, faculty will engage in activities designed to (1) identify student leaders and foster
leadership, (2) develop skills and tools that faculty can use in the classroom, and (3) uncover opportunities for student leaders to apply their abilities.
Presenter: David J. Smith, JD, MS, Educational Consultant and Peacebuilding Trainer
Grant Writing from Start to Finish
Service learning and civic engagement programs are often faced with the daunting task of writing
grant proposals. The overall process of writing a competitive grant proposal includes developing a
clear program idea, gathering the necessary background information, researching appropriate funding sources, and developing a strong narrative application. The myriad tasks related to successful
grant writing can be overwhelming. This interactive hands-on session will guide you past the basics
to develop a holistic approach to proposal development.
The goals of this workshop are to (1) provide a general overview of the grant-writing process, (2)
identify common barriers to securing funding for implementation of faculty innovation, service learning, and civic engagement programs, and (3) demystify the grant-writing process while encouraging
campus-wide involvement in the process.
During this interactive workshop, participants will develop an idea from conception to a fundable and
competitive application. Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and put your best ideas into practice; at
the end of this session you'll be presenting your complete proposal! The morning session will cover
the basics and the afternoon session is designed for individuals to work on an existing or planned
proposal.
Presenters: Joseph Swaba, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and Lara Smith, Coordinator of
Grants Development and Management , Gateway Community College
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Lunch (Included with pre-conference fee)
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Pre-conference Workshops
Comprehensive Assessment of Service Learning Using Engagement,
Learning, and Achievement Framework
This workshop is designed for advanced service learning practitioners and staff who want to learn
about the comprehensive approach taken at Kapi`olani Community College to assess our service
learning program. We will present the Kapi`olani Engagement, Learning, and Achievement (KELA)
framework. This multifaceted approach, based on the institution's values, includes surveys such as
CCSSE to measure engagement, SLOs assessment to measure learning, and institutional research
to measure achievement through, for example, GPA and retention comparisons. Participants will
identify and discuss the framework categories in depth and consider the potential for aspects of this
model to support comprehensive assessment at their institutions.
Presenters: Tanya Renner, Professor of Psychology, Kapi’olani Community College, and Francisco
Acoba, M.A., Assistant Professor, English, Kap`iolani Community College
An Introduction to Service Learning and Civic Engagement
This workshop features two long-time practitioners who will share strategies and lessons learned
about academically based service learning as a teaching and learning tool that leads to student
success. Learn what service learning is, what it isn’t, and why and how to do it. Discover how service learning can help students meet a college-wide civic engagement learning outcome. Hear what
students, partners, and faculty say about how their partnerships transformed individuals and communities. Participate in hands-on activities that focus on using service learning to promote community engagement; integrating civic responsibility components into course syllabi; encouraging student dialogue and critical thinking on social issues; and increasing meaningful involvement between
colleges and communities. Take home proven tools and resources, including a service learning curriculum development worksheet, stakeholder analysis, syllabus design, and reflection ideas.
Presenters: Gail Robinson, Consultant and Senior Advisor, CCNCCE, and Duane Oakes, Faculty
Director, Center for Community and Civic Engagement, Mesa Community College
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1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Pre-conference Workshops
The Physics of Civics: Leveraging Funding and Support for Your
Service Learning Program
As a cascade of social and environmental problems descend on our communities - local, regional,
national, and global—it it is important to establish a supportive and sustainable structure for garnering both internal and external funding for our service learning programs. Since service learning
makes a strong claim to driving positive student outcomes (engagement, learning, and achievement), and to problem amelioration in the community, we need to leverage internal and external
sources of funding, move from inertia to momentum, and create beneficial multiplier effects for both
student success and community betterment. This interactive workshop will enable participants to
map out internal and external sources of support and funding for your service learning program, and
develop new tactics so that your service learning program can achieve lofty goals for your campus
and community.
Presenter: Robert Franco, Professor, Pacific Anthropology, Director, Office for Institutional
Effectiveness, Kapi`olani Community College
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Welcome Reception
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7:00 am - 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 9:00 am - General Session
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gerardo E. de los Santos
Community College Leadership:
Key Trends Influencing Our Work
This presentation explores what's in store for community
colleges as they continue to move forward in the twentyfirst century. By drawing on data from national studies and
surveys of more than 700 CEOs and highlighting best
practices from the League for Innovation initiatives, this
session presents a big-picture look at the challenges and
choices facing administration, faculty, staff, and students
as they strive to renew their organizations. We'll bring
special emphasis to a host of issues including civic engagement, student success and completion, performancebased funding, assessment, analytics and advanced technology, and the changing role of community colleges.
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Refreshment Break
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9:30 am - 11:00 am - Concurrent Sessions
Framework for Assessing Impacts of Service Learning Student Outcomes
With increasing demands for accountability in higher education, learning basic assessment strategies can positively impact the quality of service learning programs. This session will present an
overview of a multi-state, three-year project among five community colleges supported by The
Teagle Foundation. Recently developed prompt questions and a scoring rubric to assess students’
service learning outcomes based on five variables will be shared as well as preliminary findings
and reflections on the assessment process. Lessons learned and the practical application for assessing student work will be discussed. Handouts will include prompt questions, rubric, sample
student essays, and PowerPoint presentations.
This session will be repeated on Thursday morning at 10:30 am.
Presenters: Lori Moog, Director of Service Learning and Community Outreach, Susan Williams, Associate Professor, Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Mary Balut, Associate Professors of Nursing,
and Kathy Suk, Assistant Professor, Elementary/Secondary Education, Raritan Valley Community
College
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About "Civic Engagement"?
“Exactly because we are speaking about the actions, beliefs, and values of citizens in a pluralistic
society, there is no unanimity or uniformity to our expected outcomes, pedagogical methods, or
normative standpoints,” noted Dan Butin in the introduction to The Center for Engaged Democracy’s “Core Competencies in Civic Engagement” (2012). This national study included no community
colleges. Participants will systematically examine their courses, general education, program, and
institutional student learning outcomes to define what their colleges mean by “civic engagement."
Results will contribute to a ground-breaking national study. Participant laptops required.
This session will be repeated on Thursday morning at 10:30 am.
Presenters: Claire J. King, EdD, Assistant Professor, Experiential Education, Stella and Charles
Guttman Community College at CUNY, Robert Franco, PhD, Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness, Kapi`olani Community College, and Krista Hiser, PhD, Associate Professor, English, Kapi`olani Community College
Building Dynamic Service Learning Leadership Teams
Have you ever been a part of a truly dynamic team? No challenge seemed impossible! Teams like
that don’t happen by accident: they are carefully constructed to maximize each member’s
strengths. Effective leaders use their skills to compose strong teams that unlock the potential in
their faculty. What service learning goals could you accomplish with a cohesive and robust team?
In this interactive workshop, participants will get guidelines on how to build supportive and successful faculty teams. We will practice assembling a small team and accomplish a goal together.
Presenters: Jeannine Long, MSN, RN, CNE, Service Learning Campus Lead and Professor of Nursing, and Terry Hockenbrough, PhD, Director, Center for Scholarly and Civic Engagement, Collin College
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9:30 am - 11:00 am - Concurrent Sessions
Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum
Community engagement and academic learning are central to the community college mission. Explore ways to help faculty, staff, and administrators prepare students for effective involvement in a
diverse democratic society, and examine the role and obligation of higher education to produce
good citizens. Hands-on activities include looking at service learning from charity and social justice
perspectives; identifying appropriate reflection activities; and analyzing course syllabi for civic responsibility components. Learn how to use free online train-the-trainer videos and the online book
“A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum” so you can lead your
own civic responsibility workshop.
Presenters: Rudy Garcia, Dean of Students, Central New Mexico Community College; Duane Oakes,
Faculty Director, Center for Community and Civic Engagement, Mesa Community College; and Gail
Robinson, Consultant and Senior Advisor, CCNCCE
Enhancing Civic Engagement in a First-Semester Art History Learning
Community
Developed in conjunction with The Teagle Foundation’s initiative, Student Learning for
Civic Capacity: Stimulating Moral, Ethical, and Civic Engagement for Learning that
Lasts, this workshop demonstrates successful strategies for incorporating civic engagement assignments into a first-semester learning community comprising of art history,
English, and student development courses. It describes how these courses are well
suited for civic engagement initiatives, addresses ways the instructors integrate civic
learning goals into existing course objectives to help students complete a final multi modal assignment, and explores how other disciplines in the humanities might use the
strategies to help their own students develop similar projects.
Presenters: Sarah Dillon, Assistant Professor of Art History, Damali Dublin, Case Manager, Opening
Doors Learning Communities, and Cheryl Smith, Associate Professor of English, Kingsborough
Community College
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11:15 am - 12:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Harnessing Student Engagement to Create a Healthier Campus
The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) works with First Lady Michelle Obama to make
healthier choices easier. PHA recently launched the Healthier Campus Initiative to broker commitments with campuses to assist in helping make them healthier by adopting guidelines around food/
nutrition, physical activity/movement, and programming. The initial cohort of campuses, recently announced, has committed to implement guidelines and be verified over a three-year period. PHA and
partner campus Central New Mexico Community College will showcase how students in the community college setting are being engaged meaningfully in the initiative and how your campus can do the
same.
Presenters: Sara John, Partnership for a Healthier America, and Rudy Garcia, Dean of Students, Central New Mexico Community College
Art as Engagement
This session will explore art as an ideal vehicle for developing students’ capacities for moral and
civic responsibility. As part of The Teagle Foundation project to foster moral, ethical, and civic engagement, a variety of visually oriented material was used in conjunction with service learning and
global and diversity learning (GDL), a new high-impact practice at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, to examine issues related to diversity. Raising students’ awareness of contemporary
artists whose work addresses important social issues allows them to understand the power of art
and the creative spirit to address problems on the individual, local, and global level.
Presenter: Liz DiGiorgio, Assistant Professor, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York
Planting the Seeds of Service Learning
GateWay Community College has been performing service learning for decades, but never created
a formal, organized program. This year, all that has changed. With a campus garden underway, the
college has a new hub for service learning activity, and a renewed sense of dedication to experiential education. New partnerships have formed, new faculty are involved, and service learning is
growing strong and tall. Hear about how student services and faculty came together to create new
pathways and experiences for service learning – and how you can make it bloom on your campus.
Presenters: Jessica Brosilo, Coordinator, Career Services, and Kerry Sanderson, Director, Career Services, GateWay Community College
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11:15 am - 12:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Demonstrating Leadership in the Development of Socially Relevant,
Collaborative Seminars
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the process of developing collaborative seminars. Our session will focus on multi-campus, cross-disciplinary, collaborative events to bring social awareness to issues facing our community. Through our Child Sexual Assault and Human
Trafficking Seminar, as well as our Mental Health Awareness Seminar, presenters have demonstrated a link between community, faculty, and students during a singular event. Attendees will receive “hands-on” opportunities to learn how to build similar events. We will also discuss student
reflections as a means of achieving service-directed initiatives.
Presenters: Leigh Keever, Faculty Director of Service Learning, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
Chattahoochee Technical College, Cindy Andrews, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Chattahoochee Technical College, and Dr. Marcy Hehnly, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Utah Valley
University
A Mobile Application for Service Learning to Encourage Students’ Leadership
Development
Research suggests that e-service learning is growing across higher education, as it is not difficult
to image with the evolving of technology development. E-service learning is a relatively new and
unstudied practice. This article examines the implementation of using a mobile application with diverse service learning curriculum in Taiwan and considers what effect service learning has on
these students’ leadership development. The scaffolding instruction serves as the designing and
organizing framework of the app. The app is to support faculty in the delivery of service and to facilitate students’ learning with step-by-step guidance. The study is conducted at a medical university
in Taiwan, which has over 1000 freshmen required to do service learning curriculum every semester. Students were assessed pre- and post-app using a quantitative questionnaire. The questionnaire focuses on three aspects including user experience, app usability, and leadership development. As a result, we suggest that using scaffolding theory by Wood to develop the service learning app may be useful to advance students’ learning.
Presenters: Chia-Hui Chiu, Director of Service Learning Center/Assistant Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Megan F. Liu, Assistant Professor, School of Gerontology Health
Management, Taipei Medical University
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11:15 am - 12:15 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Pathways of Public Service: A Framework and Tool for Social Change
Learn about an innovative framework for six “pathways of public service” that describe a range of
possibilities by which students can contribute to the common good. The pathways include direct service, community-engaged scholarship, activism, philanthropy, policy/politics, and social entrepreneurship. A diagnostic tool helps identify students’ predispositions and interests. Service learning
faculty and staff can then consider placing students primarily with community partners where they
have strong pathway inclinations, or instead ensuring they experience all six pathways in multiple
placements during college. Participants will provide feedback to improve the tool and discuss ways
to use it for advising, programming, and research in community colleges.
Presenters: Gail Robinson, Consultant and Senior Advisor, CCNCCE, Tom Schnaubelt, Executive Director, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University, and Frances Villagran-Glover, Dean of
Learning and Technology Resources, Northern Virginia Community College
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch
Keynote Speaker: Jo Watson
Closing the Gap - Creating Authenticity
If you had the courage to be who you are, who would recognize you, and how different would your life be?
The “gap” is the distance between who we are (authenticity)
and who we represent to others. It is also the place where our
unrealized hopes and dreams lie. When we trade away our
true self (authenticity), because of fear and the need for approval, our lives become anemic and have little or no joy.
But how different would our lives be if we had the courage to
close the gap?
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Building Bridges between Service and Academic Experience
College of DuPage offers approximately 40 service learning classes a year that allow students to
assist about 60 community organizations. To educate students about our community partners, each
semester we have a service learning fair and provide online information. To strengthen this already
successful program, this year COD is implementing new initiatives to help improve the link between
service and academic experience. We are bringing faculty and community partners together via site
visits, interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys. We have created an advisory board, and
we are using an Illinois Campus Compact/McCormick Foundation grant to help us develop a strategic plan and more pedagogical training. For this presentation, we want to share our lessons learned
and brainstorm on strategies for developing internal and external relationships that enrich service
learning for students.
Presenters: Lisa Higgins, Professor of English, Sara Kirby, Assistant Manager, Career Services, and
Shamili Ajgaonkar, Professor of Biology, College of DuPage
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Disconnecting in a Digital World
Effective leadership in service learning presents unique challenges in the digital age. When much of
our life involves more digital communication than face-to-face communication, leadership must necessarily take on a new dimension. Without observing body language, mannerisms, or other social
clues, the ability for leaders to easily explain complex concepts, sensitive material, and uneasy subjects becomes infinitely more complex. Join us for a workshop focusing on areas where leaders can
disconnect, re-engage, and reconnect in a more effective way through mindful approaches to leadership and civic engagement in a digital age. This workshop will provide leaders with new perspectives and approaches to engage mindful leadership with service learning to help foster stronger
leadership, communication tools, and community engagement using modern-day mediums.
Presenters: Ashley A. Hill, Adjunct Faculty, and Elizabeth King, Faculty Coordinator/Adjunct Faculty,
Community College of Vermont
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The Influence of Service Learning on Student Preparatory Experience
Necessary Education Technology and Skills (NETS) is a workshop focusing on success for college
and ABE students. This workshop was recently piloted during the Spring 2015 semester at Kenai
Peninsula College/UAA, in Soldotna, Alaska. NETS was created for developmental college and
ABE students seeking strategies to become engaged and successful in their new academic journey.
Learn how students were introduced to community engagement, learned about local resources, and
discovered employment possibilities. Student/participant reflections will be shared, and there will be
an opportunity to engage with other conference attendees in this session to share other high impact
educational practices for their developmental student experiences.
Presenter: Terri Cowart, ABE Instructor, Kenai Peninsula College
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Delgado and "The Big Question": A Service Learning Adventure
The Big Question: “How do we build our commitment to civic and moral responsibility for diverse,
equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities?” This session will provide you with a replicable
plan for starting your own service learning project involving the development of civic and moral responsibility and student leadership. Examples of projects, assessments, and student reflection essays will be discussed. Delgado Community College was selected as one of six community colleges
to participate in a grant from The Teagle Foundation. This three-year initiative provides for 6 Delgado faculty each year to incorporate service learning activities promoting civic and moral responsibility in our community. Faculty have participated in topics covering coastal erosion, access to
healthcare, developing educational plans for good nutrition, and business ethics, among others.
This presentation will provide a blueprint for faculty to create service learning opportunities that promote an awareness of civic and moral responsibility.
Presenter: Lynn Robertson, Professor of Television Production, Delgado Community College
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E-Service-Learning: Civic Engagement for an Online World
With 5.6 million students currently enrolled in online courses, recent studies demonstrate that the
growth of service-learning offerings online has not kept pace with the growth of the online student
population. This presentation will demonstrate how service-learning can provide meaningful interaction in the online learning environment to promote both a hearty online curriculum and engagement in community-based problem solving. Participants will gain practical application tips for implementing service-learning in online settings and will leave with proven best practices to maximize
success.
Presenters: Lindsey Smitherman-Brown, Assistant Professor of Humanities, and Patrick McDermott,
Associate Professor of College Success and Career Planning, Tallahassee Community College
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Transformation from Cooperative Work Experience to Service Learning
Experience
Traditionally, cooperative work experience (CWE) was considered an internship or “bridge” to the
workforce. In Oregon, most students simply find placements, develop contracts with their employers, and work the requisite hours—nothing more. By adding (1) goals linking students’ career objectives to CWE, (2) an official application and interviewing process, (3) reflective journaling, and (4) an
exit interview, CWE becomes a service learning experience that will engage students and build
stronger connections between students, academics, and local employers. Session participants will
learn how these few changes can help CWE become more meaningful to students and employers.
Presenter: Velda Arnaud, Business Technologies Instructor, Blue Mountain Community College
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Education for Transformation: Raising the “I” in Academic
Through the lens of curricular and co-curricular service learning, we will discuss creating ritual
space in student trainings and the classroom without compromising academic credibility. Participants will learn to facilitate the ‘aha’ moments of students with hands-on activities, moving from personal reflection to academic understanding. We will briefly discuss the importance of ritual to the
human psyche—understanding the importance of “readying” the whole person for education for
transformation, helping students to see themselves as thinkers and academics while balancing a
greater understanding of themselves and society.
Presenter: Mary D'Alleva, Director of the Center for Community Engagement, California State University, East Bay
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - Refreshment Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Food Matters: Strengthening Community through Environmental Literacy and
Civic Engagement
Given the array of human activities encompassed by food practices and students’ (often unexamined) participation in these processes, topics related to food and agriculture are well suited to
three vital components of undergraduate education: developing critical literacy, educating for sustainability, and promoting civic engagement. In this presentation I will discuss my work at the College of DuPage, using food and agriculture as a basis for engaging students in critical inquiry about
human society, culture, and relationships to the environment.
Presenter: Shamili Ajgaonkar, Professor, Biology and Field Studies, College of DuPage
Hide and Go Seek: Not a Children’s Game Anymore!
Come learn about the third largest international crime industry (behind illegal drugs and arms trafficking) and what Mesa Community College has done to help raise awareness around human trafficking. With funding from CCNCCE through the Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Foundation
and Arizona Foundation for Women “Coming Out of Hiding: Empowering Community College Students to Help Victims of Human Trafficking” grants, MCC has made a commitment to educate our
students, faculty, and community members about the existence of human trafficking. Listen to service-learning experiences, survivor stories, watch portions of the documentary “Not My Life,” and
learn about findings from the Arizona governor’s task force on this issue. Learn how you can make a
difference bringing awareness to your community.
Presenters: Rose Marie Lichtenfels, Adjunct Faculty, and Valerie Le Grande, Student, Mesa Community College
Citizenship Ambassadors: Bringing Communities Together through Civics
Workshops
St. Petersburg College students and faculty grow in civic leadership by providing citizenship workshops. Participants will experience a citizenship workshop, engaging in the roles of students and
potential citizens. Additionally, participants will examine methods to create a welcoming and engaging environment on campus for student leaders and community members. This presentation will include discussion of community outreach, internal populations and areas for student growth in civic
leadership. Participants will be encouraged to explore ways in which to tailor this model to include
global sharing, community outreach and civic learning within their own college environment.
Presenter: Suzanne C. Preston, Professor, St. Petersburg College
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm - Concurrent Sessions
Launching Service Learning into the Last Frontier with Stand-Alone
Academic Courses
Join our stellar crew for an out-of-this world exploration into Community Involvement (SOW 2054) a theoretical and practical “stand alone,” three-credit-hour service learning course at EFSC. Combining a mandatory 32-hour volunteer requirement with an interdisciplinary analysis of active citizenship, the course transforms students into well-balanced leaders of tomorrow. During this interactive
workshop, participants will discover the triumphs and challenges that come with teaching SOW
2054 through the experiences of service learning faculty members. There will be hands-on activities
from the SOW 2054 curriculum. Course syllabi and other documents and sources will be provided. It
will be a journey of galactic proportions!
Presenters: Erin Baird, Regional Coordinator for Service Learning, and Evelyn Young, Director of Service Learning, Eastern Florida State College
The Business of Authenticity: Moving from Reflection to Action
Authenticity is defined as being true or loyal to oneself, developmental, and about action more than
reflection. A theoretical rubric for teaching authenticity is self-awareness of integrity, trust, selfdevelopment, and social responsibility. This session demonstrates how service learning was used in
business classes as a methodology for scholarship to move beyond the anonymous realm of the
lecture hall, to action-oriented community projects where the rubric was practically applied. Through
an amalgamation of on-site visits, self-reflection papers, pre- and post-group classroom work, and
the final project, students demonstrated and learned authenticity-based management principles that
aligned theory with practice.
Presenter: Dr. Cheryl Tokke, Assistant Professor, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
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8:00 am - 8:45 am - Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am - Concurrent Sessions
The History of Service Learning: Listening to the Voices of the Community
College
Today service learning is in its fifth decade since its naming in the late 1960s and its third decade
since service learning developed and expanded in the community college. If we look at the body of
literature available on the history of service learning, the voices of the community college are largely
unheard. This presentation will give participants the tools to write the history of service learning at
their own institutions and help to find its place in the larger history of service learning within higher
education.
Presenter: Cate Kaluzny, Service Learning Coordinator, North Shore Community College
Service Learning in the College Union
Tallahassee Community College's Student Union has become the hub of service learning on campus, through a strong partnership with student affairs and academic affairs. Learn how building a
collaboration with academic affairs to develop service learning can increase engagement and academic success in students. Participants will learn: (1) how to engage faculty and academic affairs to
form partnerships in co-curricular programming, (2) how increasing service learning on campus can
increase student engagement and academic success, and (3) steps to make the Union a home for
volunteering and service learning.
Presenters: Mike Coleman, Director, Campus and Civic Engagement, Ryan Rogers, Service Learning
and Civic Engagement Coordinator, and Lindsey Smitherman-Brown, Assistant Professor, Tallahassee Community College
Capstone Courses in Non-Profit Service
A capstone course in non-profit community service provides a means for students to gain an enhanced student learning experience using their on-site non-profit residency as in-class seat time.
This session will provide the tools, rubrics, assessments, and methodologies used in over 60 student projects that culminated in written papers for academic credit that were usable by the community organizations in their work. It reveals the collaborative nature between student, school, and organization in creating usable outcomes that create lasting benefit beyond the student’s work. Participants will be introduced to several examples of successful capstone course projects.
Presenters: Hans Tokke, Lecturer, Program Director Non-Profit Management, Eastern University
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Internet Safety Action in Service Learning and Civic Engagement
The presentation will provide information on service learning experiences in organizing competition,
training workshop, designing educational materials, and managing groups of student or parent volunteers. It includes (1) preparation: to explore children’s Internet safety literacy, identify their need,
as well as conduct cohort analysis since 2004; (2) planning: to organize essay and microfilm competition regarding Internet safety issues; (3) action: to use related microfilm as educational material
to train Internet safety trainers (student volunteers, parents, or teachers); (4) reflection: trainers
(participants) release these microfilms and promote Internet safety literacy to children and their parents, and then evaluate the service learning process; and (5) demonstration: participants share their
service learning experiences with each other.
Presenter: Wei-Wei Vivian Huang, Professor, National Chengchi University
A Teagle Foundation Project: Building a Commitment to Civic and Moral
Responsibility through Civic Engagement One Faculty Member at a Time!
A panel of civic engagement team members from Mesa Community College will share the challenges and successes experienced as they participated in the Student Learning for Civic Capacity grant
funded by The Teagle Foundation with support from CCNCCE. Participants will (1) leave with the
basic understanding of civic engagement and ways it can be assessed; (2) leave engaged and prepared to include a more focused goal of supporting the mission of higher education as we prepare
our students to be engaged citizens; (3) be challenged to find ways to include civic engagement as
a new student learning outcome at their institution; and (4) develop a road map to creating the pathway to civic engagement at their institution.
Presenters: Duane Oakes, Faculty Director, Center for Community & Civic Engagement and Recreation Faculty, Dori DiPietro, Residential Faculty, Director of Social Work Program, and Christine Beckman, Residential Faculty, Communication, Mesa Community College
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Refreshment Break
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10:30 am - 12:00 noon - Concurrent Sessions
Coming Home: Civic Engagement-Focused Service Learning for Reintegration
As educators and advocates, we are often called upon to design quality learning experiences that
will not only be relevant to our student population, but that will also have a positive measurable impact upon our local communities. Through the utilization of service learning as the vehicle for instruction, and civic engagement as the focus of the activities, we are able to empower our students
to create their own learning experiences that will impact communities for years to come. Workshop
participants will walk away with a project framework, which in turn will become the model through
which they empower their students.
Presenter: Connie K. Grier, Adjunct Professor, Temple University
Rockin’ Authentic Leadership in Service Learning and Civic Engagement
With over 26 years as a national leader in service learning, Eastern Florida State College (formerly
Brevard Community College) wants to show you how to build an epic program that connects students, faculty and community! Jam out with our rock star team and come test your service chops!
We invite you to attend this toe-tapping workshop where we’ll shine the spotlight on some of the
best practices in our field. Whether you’re a service groupie or you rock your own stage, come explore how service learning can top the charts with effective leadership experiences for students,
particularly through student-led clubs and service projects, a Citizen Scholar recognition program,
and stand-alone service learning courses.
Presenters: Evelyn Young, Director, Service Learning, and Erin Baird, Regional Coordinator for Service Learning, Eastern Florida State College
Building Partnerships and Civic Capacity through Public Deliberation
Learn about public deliberation and how it can be used to enhance the capability of your college to
become more civically engaged and to develop the networks and knowledge necessary to make
this happen. Participants will learn about the concept of public deliberation and its use in resolving
the “wicked” problems in one’s community. They will be able to define their own wicked problems
and learn about how public deliberation was used to support city planning. Through this process,
faculty and students were able to work directly with community and develop the relationships to
build partnerships for the future.
Presenters: Peter R. Sawyer, Director of the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, Hudson Valley Community College, and Lisa Strahley, Chair of Teacher Education/Early Childhood Education & Civic Engagement Coordinator, SUNY Broome
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What Are We Talking About When We Talk About "Civic Engagement?
“Exactly because we are speaking about the actions, beliefs, and values of citizens in a pluralistic
society, there is no unanimity or uniformity to our expected outcomes, pedagogical methods, or normative standpoints,” noted Dan Butin in the introduction to The Center for Engaged Democracy’s
“Core Competencies in Civic Engagement” (2012). This national study included no community colleges. Participants will systematically examine their courses, general education, program, and institutional student learning outcomes to define what their colleges mean by “civic engagement." Results will contribute to a ground-breaking national study. Participant laptops required.
Presenters: Claire J. King, Ed.D., Assistant Director, Experiential Education, Stella and Charles
Guttman Community College, CUNY, Tanya Renner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Kapi`olani Community College, Francisco Acoba, M.A., Assistant Professor, English, Kapi`olani Community College.
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30 pm - Conference Adjourned
Thank You and Have a Wonderful Summer!!!
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