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Connecting the Dots: How the scholarship of teaching and learning linked with service-learning can support greater student and faculty engagement

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and service-learning have many commonalities. Both begin with questions about student learning, both support making student learning more public, and both result in products that can be shared with others. SoTL adds an emphasis on evidence of student learning and extending classroom results to the broader educational community. How can incorporating these "added dots" enhance the service-learning work at your institution? Using examples of varied courses that have combined SoTL and service-learning, we will focus on ways to use key concepts from SoTL to gain a deeper and more nuanced picture of student learning.

Presenters: Donna Killian Duffy, Professor of Psychology, Middlesex Community College

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"It's Elementary, My Dear Watson!"

Learn how to make service learning stakeholder and program assessment common practice at your institution. This workshop will examine various strategies and tools for assessing service learning impacts on students, faculty members, community partners and institution.

Learn how to unlock the mysteries of: building program capacity, accreditation inclusion, student retention, and more effective community partnerships through a compendium of assessment tools!

Through a case study that features stakeholder groups, workshop participants will learn and develop strategies and challenges for use in their own settings. Service-Learning assessment and evaluation tools SHOULD permeate YOUR service learning or civic engagement program! Just uncover them and use them!

Take home some concrete excavation tools!

Recommended for service learning directors, faculty, administrators, community partners, and student leaders.

"Excuse me! Just ONE more thing."

Presenters: Roger Henry, Service Learning and Civic Engagement Consultant

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Creating and Sustaining Effective Community Partnerships

Is commitment important to you? Do you believe in relationship building? This pre-conference workshop will provide attendees with an in-depth view on how to develop, sustain and nurture community partnerships for successful Service Learning Programs. The workshop will provide interesting case study analysis and interactive exercises to identify and understand the importance of strong community partnerships and collaborations. Successful service learning programs recognize the impact community partners can have on the student learning experience and the necessity to maintain quality relationships with them. Attendees will identify the skills necessary to be a good relationship builder and will receive a partnership building packet that will elevate their programs to euphoric heights.

Presenters: Rudy Garcia, Dean of Students, Central New Mexico Community College and Barbara Wallace, Director, College Success Program, UC Clermont College

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Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum

Community service and academic learning are central to the community college mission. When connected to academic instruction, teaching civic responsibility is a critical part of our role in higher education. This participatory workshop is designed to explore ways to help faculty, staff, and administrators prepare students for effective involvement in a diverse democratic society and to examine the role and obligation of higher education to produce good citizens. The workshop will use activities and tools from the American Association of Community Colleges' best-selling publication, "A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum." Workshop activities will focus on using service learning to promote civic engagement; identifying strategies for purposeful civic learning; integrating civic responsibility components into course syllabi; encouraging student dialogue and critical thinking on civic issues; and increasing meaningful involvement between colleges and communities.

Presenters: Duane Oakes, Faculty Director, Center for Service Learning, Mesa Community College and Hoover Zariani, Director, Service Learning Center, Glendale Community College

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Science and Civic Engagement: Strengthening a Globally Collaborative and Competitive Workforce

As the nation confronts two major challenges, engaging millions in strengthening local communities and preparing a globally competitive and collaborative workforce, community colleges are situated perfectly for a new burst of service-learning integration into both their liberal arts transfer and 21st century career programs. Local communities confront ecological constraints and opportunities and must make critical and correct decisions as the nation pivots towards a new energy future. Globally, the planet suffers and a new era of both scientific collaboration and competition is underway. Service-learning and community-based research, focused on civic and scientific issues of great consequence, can simultaneously create citizens and scientists. These consequential issues need to be integrated into the first-year and second-year curriculum so that students can fully understand and act upon them in their baccalaureate degree and career programs. Further, greater efficacy in using service-learning and community-based research can better prepare students for their lifelong work in service to our democracy.

Presenter: Robert Franco, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Planning, Grants, & Civic Engagement, Kapi'olani Community College

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Writing Grants that Succeed

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 of tasks related to successful grant writing can be overwhelming and this interactive hands-on session will guide you past these basics to developing a holistic approach to proposal development.

Presenter: Joseph Swaba, Associate Director, Grants Management, Maricopa Community Colleges District and Robert Bill, Associate Director, Grants Management, Maricopa Community Colleges District

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Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: Thriving in Uncertain Times

With community colleges throughout the nation struggling with the tightest financial outlook they have experienced in decades, where does that leave service-learning and civic engagement? What can be done to ensure higher education's continued vigorous and passionate involvement in addressing critical needs in their communities?

This session builds off of a series of regional dialogues taking place this Spring 2009 in California, bringing together thought-leaders and practitioners to share compelling lessons, practical prescriptions and provocative insights about where service-learning and civic engagement have been, where they are headed and how we can continue to advance and strengthen our work in the face of the current economic climate. This session will be highly interactive, drawing out strategies for addressing challenges from session participants themselves.

Presenter: Elaine K. Ikeda, Executive Director, California Campus Compact

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Connecting Scholarship and Action through Service Learning

Raritan Valley and Northampton Community Colleges discuss strategies on how service learning can be incorporated into various disciplines, improving student learning outcomes, and cultivating critical thinking, creativity, and civic engagement. Topics include designing reflection activities to promote academic achievement, personal and professional skills, and community engagement; developing community partnerships; utilizing evaluation and assessment for program improvement. Examples will offer a practical model of how service learning can be incorporated into the curriculum and easily replicated.

Presenter(s): Lori Moog, Program Manager of Community Outreach, Raritan Valley Community College; Margaret Maghan, Instructor of Psychology, Raritan Valley Community College; Mary Ann Balut, Assistant Professor of Nursing, Raritan Valley Community College; and Debra Bohr, Service Learning Coordinator, Northampton Community College

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Service Learning 101: Nuts & Bolts

This informative and interactive workshop is focused on the nuts and bolts of service learning to insure that programs and courses last the challenges of time and change. Learn the key elements and components of effective service learning to suffuse service learning throughout the institution. Examine an embarrassment of riches from Brevard Community College's model program. Learn some challenges and strategies for program and stakeholder development. Examine processes, forms, resources and publications. Contribute to workshop learning through discussion and group interaction! Great handouts, packets, DVD's and syllabi!

Presenter(s): Robin Campbell, Psychology Professor, Brevard Community College; Marina Baratian, Psychology Professor, Brevard Community College; and Karyn Ott, Assistant Professor, Brevard Community College

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"Walk a Mile in My Shoes": A Fun Educational Co-curricular Disabilities Simulation Program

"Walk a Mile in My Shoes is an AACC Project Reach grant recipient and is a successful co-curricular program that annually teaches hundreds of students about disabilities. Workshop attendees will learn about this low-cost program built on community and cross-departmental partnerships, and participate in some of the eye-opening hands-on simulations. You will learn how to build and adapt this program to fit your college environment and leave with a CD toolkit of all the documents you need, including reflection and promotional materials.

Presenter(s): Jennifer Conway, Program Coordinator, Central Piedmont Community College

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Planning a New Institute for the Environment and Social Responsibility

SIAS International University is a daring response to questions our world is posing and those it has yet to ask regarding equitable global commerce, the sustainability of our eco-systems, and new educational methods. SIAS links cultures that must work together if we are to advance. Founded in 1998, SIAS offers comprehensive degree programs, including Associate Bachelors, and masters in disciplines from English to Engineering. It is located near the dynamic city of Zhengzhou in the heartland of China. Here its 18,000 students are learning to become not just scholars, but "engaged global citizens.” 2008 SIAS International University brochure. Paul Elsner, who has served the Maricopa Community Colleges District for 23 years as Chancellor, will report on his work with the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL), an MIT-based group inspired and coordinated by Peter Senge. Dr. Elsner will discuss the imperatives for such planning and development and how our social responsibility links to our endangered and ever more fragile planet. Among other board duties, Dr Elsner has committed to help build an Institute for the Environment and Social Responsibility. He will report on his experiences to date.

Presenter(s): Paul Elsner, Chancellor Emertius, Maricopa Community Colleges District

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Purposeful Civic Learning

Are we doing enough to prepare students for active civic participation in a diverse democratic society? This workshop explores the concept of “purposeful civic learning” and provides examples of how educators can guide students to develop the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to be effective citizens. Participants will identify purposeful civic learning objectives, classroom strategies, student assignments, and assessment techniques; and articulate specific ideas and activities to add purposeful civic learning to service learning projects. This session is for advanced practitioners and requires previous understanding and use of civic engagement and service learning.

Presenter(s): Mary Prentice, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University and Fred Martinez, Faculty/Counselor, Richland College

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Role Reversal, Students Mentor Faculty who Mentor Students: A Service Learning Program at Eastfield College

The focus of most service learning programs has been on students and faculty serving their community and usually concentrated on how students benefited from civic engagement. In contrast, the purpose for this study was a service learning program conducted at Eastfield College in Dallas, Texas where the students mentored the faculty. This is a role reversal necessitated by the technological age. Students mentored faculty by familiarizing them with new technology to enhance and improve the current curriculum.

Presenter(s): Richard Lumadue, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce and David Danforth, Program Director, Digital Imaging, Eastfield College, DCCCD

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The University of New Hampshire's Outreach Scholars Academy: Faculty Development to Enhance Community Engagement

The University of New Hampshire has developed a web-based faculty professional development academy, the Outreach Scholars Academy, a semester-long program designed to enhance faculty success with community engagement. The academy teaches faculty how to partner with stakeholders through a series of workshops, coaching, and hands-on practice with a project. The curriculum and academy impact videos are reviewed. Presenter will discuss programmatic components, provide access to the curriculum, and discuss how to contextualize the academy.

Presenter: Julie Williams, Associate Vice President, University of New Hampshire

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Operation Serve: Student Veterans and Community Collaboration

The new GI Bill in August 2009 will welcome many more veterans on college campuses. Many of these veterans will have some form of disability. However, despite their injuries, many veterans who leave active duty are able to work and possess the desire to continue to serve their country and community. This session will share information on a collaborative model that involves corporate employers, community partners and student veterans in assisting wounded soldiers to prepare for transition back into the civilian sector. This effort is part of the Project Reach grant project involving student veterans with disabilities the opportunity to participate in service learning activities on campus.

Presenter(s): Frances Villagran-Glover, Dean of Students, Northern Virginia Community College

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Collaboration to Design-Build Green Building Components

Solar bathrooms? Yes, find out how tribal college Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC) in Sells, AZ collaborated in service learning projects with the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) to develop solar dahiwakud (bathrooms) for elderly indigenous peoples in remote areas with no grid electricity or running water. UML engineering students learn design of solar-powered bathroom units with modules for providing solar hot water, solar or hand water pumping, evaporative cooler, composting toilet, and photovoltaic panels for electricity for the bathroom unit and for basic lighting in the house. The students at the tribal college learn building trades and other relevant academic areas are completing the designs and building prototype modules for demonstration and actual use in remote areas of the surrounding TO reservation.

Presenter(s): John Duffy, Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell and George Miguel, Chairperson, Tohono O'odham Community College

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Creating Community Goodwill through Service Learning: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

Nearly every citizen in America must file and pay income taxes. For most, this is a daunting task. Students at the University of Hawai'i West Oahu (UHWO) annually participate in a service learning project to help taxpayers file their tax returns. This service learning project, known as VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), is an integral part of the students' accounting curriculum. VITA programs across the country are extremely fortunate to have the Internal Revenue Service as a community partner. This project is only successful with the participation of the IRS, the University facilities, the student volunteers, and of course, the community taxpayers themselves. This presentation will highlight the synergy created from service learning and the benefits provided to the community.

Presenter(s): Sharon Cox, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii-West Oahu and June Aono, Professor, University of Hawaii-West Oahu

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Using Service Learning as a Strategy for Student Success

Learn about national and campus-based studies that demonstrate how student learning outcomes are improved when community college students participate in service learning. Service learners and their instructors report better outcomes in critical thinking, communication, teamwork, civic responsibility, academic development and educational success. At one college, the key to retention in a first-year-experience learning community was the inclusion of service learning. Participants will receive tools and resources to use on their own campuses.

Presenter(s): Gail Robinson, Program Director for Service Learning, AACC; Sean Brumfield, Chair, Chattahoochee Technical College; and Jodie Vangrov, Instructor, Chattahoochee Technical College

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Clever Solutions during Tough Times: Improving Your Service Learning Program while Undergoing Budget Cuts

A roundtable workshop will explore ideas and strategies found to be useful in expanding and maintaining a service learning program, new or old, at a community college campus. We will begin the presentation with solutions and barriers we at City College have discovered, and open up the discussion for similar solutions and barriers from all the other participants. We hope to leave this workshop armed with a battery of new ideas, strategies, and resources to expand or use in our various service learning programs.

Presenter: Francisco Moreno, Coordinator of Service Learning, San Diego City College

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Integrating Community Engagement and Citizenship into the College Curriculum

In an effort to better prepare our students for their careers in the workforce, there has been a new emphasis on the teaching of ethics in business programs. This new approach suggests that an additional goal of service learning should be the development of students who are civic-minded and socially responsible. Research will be presented that examines how we have successfully increased community engagement through service learning.

Presenter(s): Markus Ahrens, Chair, St Louis Community College-Meramec and Donna Halsband, Coordinator of Academic Service Learning/Civic Engagement, St Louis Community College-Meramec

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Coordinating Service Learning Experiences for Online Students

Focuses on collaboration efforts between college campuses across the state of New Mexico to give online students an opportunity to participate in service learning options for their online classes. Includes obstacles, successes, and problem solving tactics between a service learning coordinator and faculty member from distant locations.

Presenter(s): Linda Marion, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University-Grants and Denise Rodriguez-Strawn, Service Learning Coordinator, New Mexico State University

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A "Buffet" of Service: A Jumping Off Point for Stronger Service Learning Relationships

Learn a new way to strengthen partnerships with agencies, students, and faculty as well as build student retention through the program Service in Action. Join us for the "nuts-and-bolts" of how to run this series of one-day service projects that develops student leaders, leads to long-term service, helps with career exploration, and also gets community partners in the game by highlighting a different agency and community need each week.

Presenter(s): Cassie Moore, Service Learning Coordinator, Central Piedmont Community College

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A Chicken in Every Non-profit Pot: Building Successful Partnerships in an Economic Downturn

At a time when the United States is at war and in a recession, we can learn important lessons in working together to meet needs in our communities from an earlier generation. Using concepts from the 1930s and 1940s, we describe four practical steps for colleges to use in supporting non-profits through service learning and civic engagement in our current economic downturn. After each step is presented, participants will take part in group activities to apply these steps.

Presenter(s): Mary Rawls, Human Services Program Director, Midlands Technical College and Diane Carr, Associate Vice President for Arts & Sciences, Midlands Technical College

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Service Learning Program at Midstream: Challenges, Opportunities, and Visions

Service learning programs face both challenges and opportunities in the current economic crisis. How can a developing program maintain its progress and build for the future? Presenters will examine the origins of the Center for Service-Learning at Edmonds Community College, the present predicament and engage the audience in a discussion of future possibilities for it and similar programs.

Presenter(s): Thomas Murphy, Chair, Edmonds Community College and Amy Johnson, Program Coordinator, Edmonds Community College

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De-mystifying the World of Partnerships

When educational institutions invite community-based organizations to partner with them in the educational process, the initial skeptical response from the community-based organization can be alleviated if both parties come to the table with clearly identified visions. Once reciprocity is reached, the service learning experience will produce a win-win partnership. This workshop will offer an opportunity to share experiences and best practices and build a communication network for future knowledge sharing.

Presenter(s): Maria Mercedes Franco, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Service Learning Initiative, Queensborough Community College; Josephine Pantaleo, Director, Basic Skills Learning Center and Service Learning Initiative, Queensborough Community College; Meghmala (Meg) Tarafdar, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Queensborough Community College; and Arlene Kemmerer, Director, Career Development, Queensborough Community College

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Broadening Horizons through Community Partner Mentoring

Developing deep, long-lasting community partnerships is a goal of the American Association of Community Colleges' national Horizons project. Learn about a unique mentoring program that pairs experienced community partners with agencies new to service learning. The program helps develop ties among the partner organizations as well as with the college, which hosts orientations and other convenings for partners. Presenters will share a newly developed community partner handbook and strategies for stronger partnerships, including an activity that participants can use at their own colleges.

Presenter(s): Gail Robinson, Program Director for Service Learning, AACC; Marcia Jones, Work-Based Learning Coordinator, Lorain County Community College; and Gail Stumphauzer, Executive Director, Leadership Lorain County

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Excavating the Mystery of Becoming a Writer through Service Learning: Students Realizing their Identities as Writers and Agents of Change through Service Projects for Their English Courses

This presentation explores how two different service learning projects in English worked to create an environment where community college students took on roles as writers and agents of change. Through structured writing and service activities in support of a African American museum and Catholic Charities Refugee Relocation program, students in composition and literature courses were able to discover for themselves the transformative possibilities that lie in the realm of words. Attendees will take part in exercises that underscore the powerful teaching moment which was created for our students and provided for them multiple pathways of self-reflection and self-discovery.

Presenter(s): Donna Porche-Frilot, Service Learning Director, Baton Rouge Community College; Bea Gyimah, Instructor of English, Baton Rouge Community College; Ana Boone, Instructor, Baton Rouge Community College; and Courtney Guthrie, Student, Baton Rouge Community College

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Teaching Environmental Stewardship: An Interdisciplinary Service Learning Collaboration

One of the great challenges for faculty is to help students interconnect the concepts they learn in different disciplines. Environmental topics are by nature interdisciplinary, and can be used to bridge course outcomes between disciplines. This presentation will explore how environmentally themed service learning projects can be used to help students connect information across disciplines. We'll offer our experience connecting courses in Sociology and Biology through a partnership with a local organization, Cherry Valley CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).

Presenter(s): Erin Reilly, Assistant Professor, Northampton Community College

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Developmental Students Connect for Success: Retain, Empower, and Engage

Developmental Students Connect for Success is a session that will give practical examples of strengths and challenges of prior service learning experiences in freshmen seminar courses. Our goal is to demystify defeating social stereotypes of the developmental education population. Common strengths are student empowerment with regard to civic engagement, self-esteem building, and increased retention factors of peer connections and motivation.

Presenter(s): Dawn Harvey, Couselor/Instructor, San Antonio College and Melissa Sutherland, Couselor/Instructor, San Antonio College

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The Student Voice: A Qualitative Reflection of a Service Learning Experience

In these difficult economic times, institutional programs are one of the areas that are typically impacted. Yet, the need to create additional opportunities for student engagement remains evident. Students who participate in service learning or civic engagement programs often gain a better understanding of their contribution after a reflection period. This presentation will highlight the qualitative "voices" of the college students who participated in a service learning project within this student success leadership course.

Presenter(s): Kirk Nooks, Dean, Northern Virginia Community College

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Developing Job Skills through Service Learning

This workshop provides attendees with an opportunity to see how a combination of job skill development and service to the community for students can make for a strong economy. The presenters will present two college models that combine National SkillsUSA and service learning into student success.

Presenter(s): Barbara Wallace, Director, College Success Program, UC Clermont College; Sharon Gordon, Dean of Students, Central New Mexico Community College; and Heidi Ambrose, Associate Director of Programs, SkillsUSA

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Project Reach: Inclusion of Service for Students with Disabilities

Project Reach, an American Association of Community Colleges initiative funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, through college partnerships with internal and external entities, provides service learning opportunities for veterans and/or other college students with disabilities to enhance employment skills, increase career options, and improve their sense of self-efficacy. Presenters will discuss Project Reach and it's model initiatives, including perspectives from colleges with unique and effective methodologies to accomplish the project objectives.

Presenter(s): Carol Jeandron, AACC Program Consultant, American Association of Community College; Chris Daniel, Associate Dean, Big Sandy Community & Technical College; and Garo Papazian, Disabilities Counselor & ICE Director, Mount Wachusett Community College

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Dispelling the Myths: African American Males and Service Learning

Community colleges serve roughly 50% of all undergraduates in the U.S. and 33% of those students are minorities. These statistics place community colleges at the center of dealing with many issues that face minority males in higher education today. Learn how the Visions Program at Durham Technical Community College works to provide minority males an avenue to success and reflection through their service learning initiatives and programming. This session will focus on the steps taken to coordinate, promote, and sustain programs geared towards African American males.

Presenter(s): Kevin Christian, Senior Program Associate for Access and Inclusion, The American Association of Community Colleges and Demetrius Thompson, Student Activities and Mentoring Specialist, Durham Technical Community College

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Penguins at the Pyramids: A Cross-Cultural Service Learning Expedition to Egypt

The Clark College History Club and the Service-Learning Program teamed up to engage fourteen students in a 3-week study abroad and cross-cultural service learning project in Egypt. Clark College students facilitated an English summer camp at a K-12 school on the outskirts of Cairo, with the goal of improving English conversation skills among Egyptian students and cross-cultural exchange. Students of both institutions walked away with life-long lessons about the importance of service to others. This session will be presented by our History faculty advisor, service learning manager and our student coordinator, and will offer ideas on how to replicate a successful international service learning project through your institution.

Presenter(s): Jody Shulnak, Service Learning & Volunteer Program Manager, Clark College; Anita Fisher, History Professor, Clark College; and Pat Mehigan, ASCC President, Clark College

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Reciprocity & Other Protocols: Orienting Key Stakeholders for Academic Service Learning Partnerships

Preparing faculty, students and communities for partnerships that create shared agendas around teaching, learning and civic engagement means establishing protocols that ensure each stakeholder is equipped with a shared understanding that success in addressing any of their needs depends on reciprocity.

Using service learning protocols provides paradigm shifts that develop shared knowledge faculty and community partners can use to become co-educators. They ready students for critically engaging concepts of service, course content and civic engagement.

Presenter(s): Mursalata Muhammad, Associate Professor, Grand Rapids Community College

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SENCER in Community Colleges

This session will provide opportunities for CCNCCE members to engage SENCER faculty, discuss SENCER approaches, and consider developing regional collaborations. The overall goal of this session is to assist faculty in designing science courses with civic engagement components. To achieve this goal, the presenters will provide and discuss course materials, including syllabi for a set of SENCER courses that have been chosen as national SENCER models. Each model offers a particular approach for linking science education with civic and community engagement. The session will also include a discussion of a community-based regional research project that participants will be invited to become involved in and to develop curricula around. The presenters will provide syllabi and other course materials for the SENCER models. An interactive workshop approach will be used throughout the session.

Presenter(s): Bob Franco, Director of Planning and Institutional Research, Kapi'olani Community College; Amy Shachter, Associate Provost, Santa Clara University; Steve Bachofer, Professor and SCI-West Co-Director, Saint Mary's College; and Dennis Lehman, Special Assistant to College President and SCI-Midwest Co-director, Harold Washington College

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Theater in Diversion and Service Learning

Come join these entertaining presenters as they provide you with an overview of a Theater in Diversion Program that has incorporated service learning for the benefit of At-Risk Youth. The program has created a unique partnership between a University and the juvenile justice system to include the courts. The presenters will provide you with wonderful exercises used to bring at-risk youth together with service learning students to develop a unique mentorship relationship. All attendees will receive a free acting lesson.

Presenter(s): Rudy Garcia, Dean of Students, Central New Mexico Community College; Barbara Wallace, Director, College Success Program, UC Clermont College; and Daryl L Harris, Professor, Northern Kentucky University

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Building Communities with Nonprofits

Follow-up to keynote.

Presenter: Patrick McWhortor, President and CEO, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits

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Part I -
Partnering with Coalitions: Connecting So Good Things Happen on Shoestring Budgets

Turtle Mountain Community College is a small tribal college located in a remote area of North Dakota. Despite the lack of corporate partners in the area, TMCC has built a successful service learning program by partnering with area coalitions, including the Rolette County Wellness Coalition. Kimberly Lemieux, representing the Rolette County Wellness Coalition, and Peggy and Andy Johnson, service learning project coordinators for the college, will share their experiences as partners and explain how and why working with coalitions makes good sense for colleges and organizations with limited staff and limited financial resources.

Presenters: Peggy Johnson, Assistant Professor, Turtle Mountain Community College; Andy Johnson, Associate Professor, Turtle Mountain Community College; and Kimberly Lemieux, Rolette County Public Health Department

Part II -
Blazing Service Learning Partnerships on the "Last Frontier"

Mat-Su College embarked on a service learning adventure in the past few months. The strength of our service learning project is our development of partnerships with non-profit community service agencies. This project initially involved students from the Small Business Management and Refrigeration and Heating Technology disciplines. The students in the former class assisted non-profits with business plans to enhance or expand their options. Students in the latter class applied classroom and laboratory experiences by servicing commercial refrigeration units in non-profits. Come see what partnership looks like in the last frontier.

Presenters: Karen Backlund, Career Development Coordinator, Matanuska Susitna (Mat-Su) College; Holly Bell, Assistant Professor, Matanuska Susitna (Mat-Su) College; and Dan Mielke, Matanuska Susitna (Mat-Su) College

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Community Partnerships Address Tough Issues: GIS Maps Provide Shared Context for Problem Solving

GateWay Community College partners with the Lindon Park neighborhood, which is the recipient of an Environmental Protection Agency sponsored Technology Assistance Grant (TAG). This partnership supports community meetings where Superfund information is shared and stored on GIS maps, enabling community discussion and problem solving. Service learning students participate by helping to add data to the map and by attending TAG meetings.

Presenters: Martha Bergin, Faculty, GateWay Community College; Mary Moore, Vice President, Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association; and Mario Castaneda, GateWay Community College

Part II -
A Tale of Two Classes: Community Partners and Faculty Team Up to Become Co-educators

Community partners serve as co-educators in two service learning projects at Delgado Community College in New Orleans: 1)Emergency Preparedness: Learn how an elementary school music teacher/songwriter teams up with a television production class to create two music videos: "Hurricane's A Brewin'", and "School Emergencies" (fire, tornado and lockdown). 2) An Honors Child Psychology class revises a training manual for the LA Green Corps. The training includes life skills training and technical training. The finished DVD of the music videos will be shown and a section of the training manual will be displayed.

Presenters: Lynn Robertson, Professor, Delgado Community College; Brett Heintz, Assistant Professor, Delgado Community College; and Timothy Weller, St. Rose Elementary School

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The Parkland College/Garden Hills Elementary "Homework Club" Afterschool Program

Since its inception in the fall of 2007, the Parkland College/Garden Hills Elementary School "Homework Club" has continued to provide not only quality small group tutoring to 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at the elementary school, but has served as an exemplar space for the implementation and exploration of service learning and community involvement for the college. In this presentation, the three coordinators of the program will share their experiences with this successful collaboration.

Presenters: Brian Nudelman, Associate Professor, Parkland College; Marsha Reardon, Volunteer Coordinator, Parkland College; and Lauren Smith, Community Outreach Coordinator, Champaign Unit 4 Schools

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Using Assessment Data to Tell Your Story

How can you collect meaningful impact data with limited time and resources? Once you have the data, how can you most effectively use it to tell your story to both internal and external stakeholders? Come learn how Washington Campus Compact developed and implemented a set of tools to assess how higher education service-learning initiatives impact students, faculty, and communities across a multiple-state region. Two campus-specific examples illustrating how this impact data is now being used are provided. Session participants are encouraged to share data collection and dissemination best practices, as well as discuss areas for future growth.

Presenter: Jennifer Dorr, Executive Director, Washington Campus Compact; RaeLyn Axlund, Research & Assessment Director, Washington Campus Compact; Thomas Murphy, Department of Anthropology Chair, Edmonds Community College; and Jody Shulnak, Service-Learning & Volunteer Program Manager, Clark College

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Part I -
Experiencing MAGIC: Making Awesome Good In the Community

Presenters Duane Oakes, Liz Meyer, and Susan Douglas will facilitate discussion on the "magic" of keeping community partnerships thriving. This presentation will feature ways that Mesa Community College and Mesa Arts Academy work together to serve at-risk youth through their best skills as MAGICians. Presenters will share their best tricks, such as "pulling things out of their hats" by implementing the AmericaReads program to provide MCC student tutors and mentors for Mesa Arts students, "creating alternate realities" documented by improved academic performance by Mesa Arts students, and ultimately "wowing their audiences" by maintaining a program that year after year continues to exceed the expectations of the local community. Through the Accent on Student Success Engaged Together in Service (ASSETS) Grant, Mesa Community College has implemented projects that encourage academic and life achievement of at-risk youth. ASSETS has kept youth at the forefront of our service model and has enabled programs like Dr. Seuss' Birthday Party, the MLK Day Celebration, and other service opportunities that specifically serve at-risk youth in existence.

Presenters: Duane Oakes, Faculty Director, Mesa Community College; Susan Douglas, Principal, Mesa Arts Academy; and Liz Meyer, Mesa Community College

Part II -
Capturing the Voice of Community Partners

What factors influence equality in higher education/community partner relationships? While most in the Service Learning movement acknowledge the importance of institutions of higher education and their community partners being on equal footing in their relationships, many community partners, nevertheless, express feelings of being overshadowed by institutions of higher ed.

Dr. Fiume and Ms. Pineiro will use their expertise in the fields of education and After-school programming to explore the topic of equality in Service Learning higher education/community partner relationships. Issues addressed in the workshop will include: the role of the faculty, access to resources and the importance of process in an enterprise that heavily depends on relationships.

Presenters: Peter Fiume, Assistant Professor, Kingsborough Community College; Shirley Pinerio, Director, Shorefront YM-YWHA; and Genea Stewart, Service Learning Coordinator, Kingsborough Community College

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Dollars and Sense: Financial Planners teach college students to learn and share how money works

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) in conjunction with the Financial Planning Association of New York (FPANY), has developed a successful service learning initiative, Money Works. this program addresses the national concern about financial literacy among young adults, especially among college and high school students.

Through the collaboration of BMCC's division of Studetn Affairs, Academic Affairs, Continuing Education and Workforce Development and the FPANY, BMCC students participate in a series of Money Works seminars, receive intensive reinforcement through faculty developed modules specific to the needs and concerns of high school and college students. The college students provide service learning by sharing what they have learned with high school students.

Presenters: Erwin Wong, Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College; Marva Craig, Vice President, Borough of Manhattan Community College; and Clare Stenstrom, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Part II -
Compassion, Community and Commas - Students Write about Veterans

Engaged writing is the result of caring about the subject of our writing. Through service learning, students in a college writing class become advocates for military veterans. In journal entries, letters, essays, and oral presentations, they share what they have learned about war, its consequences, and themselves.

In this session, writing teachers will have the opportunity to engage in thematically driven pre-writing and drafting opportunities that encourage the use of concrete language and effective composition.

Presenter: Eva Hagenhofer, Instructor, English Communications, Milwaukee Area Technical College

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Service-Learning: A Toolkit that Works

Catch the excitement for service learning and leave with a toolkit filled with everything you'll need to launch service learning at your college. The toolkit includes checklists and examples of documents used to ignite action and support for service learning. Educators who don't have, or are in the beginning stages of incorporating service learning should plan on attending.

Presenter: Elizabeth Wilting, Dean of Business and Information Technology, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College; Sally Martin, Dean of Community & Regional Learning Services, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College; and Suzanne Ritter, Service Learning Coordinator, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

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Part I -
Speakers Bureau: Stories in Service

Tacoma Community College, an urban institution cradled between the glacial streams of Mt. Rainier and the waters of Puget Sound, serves a large student body rich in cultural and ethnic diversity. A part of the TCC Streams of Accomplishment Project is the Speakers Bureau, which aspires to increase students' experience with service, engage them in citizenship activities, and provide a way to celebrate their accomplishments. By putting their stories down on paper and then sharing them, the students not only become more aware of their own accomplishments but also are able to build up and inspire those who have the opportunity to hear their stories. The Speakers Bureau brings together students from the Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, Workforce, and IBEST learning communities. We are two non-speech instructors who view our presentation as an opportunity to share what we have learned as we have worked our way through this challenging but rewarding start-up program.

Presenters: Beth Ray, ESL, ABE and IBEST Instructor, Tacoma Community College and Rebakah Townsend, ABE Instructor, Tacoma Community College

Part II -
Partners for the Environment: Boosting Biology while Saving through Service

This informative workshop is designed to introduce participants to Brevard Community College and it's nationally recognized Center for Service Learning. Located on the 156-mile long Indian River Lagoon system, BCC students, faculty and staff have an outstanding opportunity to collaborate with community partners in an effort to protect this fragile ecosystem and enhance the quality of life in Brevard. Learn how a myriad of Service-Learning partnerships have been formed through BCC's biology classes and clubs, as two biology faculty members guide participants through their course development and implementation strategies. Questions and answers will follow.

Presenters: Susan Phillips, Assistant Professor, Brevard Community College and Rita Karpie, Assistant Professor, Brevard Community College

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No Magic Necessary:Creating and Sustaining Effective Partnerships

Building and sustaining effective partnerships is of paramount importance in strong service learning programs. Attendees will learn about best practices used at UC Clermont College to build, assess, and improve partnerships. Examples will be shared in order to inform participants about how trust helps to nurture and sustain these crucial collaborations with nonprofits, schools and government entities.

Presenters: Barbara Wallace, Director, College Success Program, UC Clermont College and Vicki Hammer, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs , UC Clermont College

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Benefiting All Stakeholders by Maximizing the Community Benefits of Service-Learning

How can we develop and document service-learning initiatives for maximum community impact? This question matters because we're committed to reciprocity and because research shows students gain the most from courses with meaningful community contributions. Join this discussion to share resources and models and to reflect on tough questions. Participants will leave with ideas for building on their programs' strengths and making the case for ongoing support - plus they'll inform a new National Service-Learning Clearinghouse fact sheet.

Presenter: Julie Plaut, Director of Academic Initiatives, Campus Compact

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