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Reciprocity: The Non-Zero Sum Protocol for Socially Innovative Partnerships

Community engagement requires innovative partnering. We can’t do much to address the variety of social needs when partnerships fail to delivery results for all of its key stakeholders. If a partnership only provides results from some of the key stakeholders, it is not a true partnership. Such a situation works from a zero-sum perspective and only masquerades as a partnership. Successful partnerships are socially innovative and strive to provide results for all key stake holders. Socially innovative partnerships work from non-zero sum paradigms.

This pre-conference focuses on Reciprocity as a universal protocol in developing and sustaining socially innovative partnerships. When Reciprocity is used as a universal protocol, it creates a non-zero sum foundation from which all stakeholders work to establish a shared knowledge-base about the goals of the partnership. Using Reciprocity as the guiding protocol for partnership helps create shared agendas around teaching, learning, and engagement. This pre-conference examines how reciprocity and the establishment of other protocols create the shared knowledge needed to keep partnerships working together to achieve results for themselves and each other.

Participants will leave this pre-conference:

1. understanding how Reciprocity works as a universal protocol for creating socially innovative partnerships
2. seriously pondering how establishing protocols can help them create high functioning reciprocal partnerships

Presenter: Mursalata Muhammad, Associate Professor, Grand Rapids 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

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Measuring Up, Down, and Inside-Out: Techniques for Assessing Service Learning Outcomes

Quantitative and qualitative strategies for evaluating the impacts of service-learning on students, faculty, and community will include methodological design, data collection and analysis, result interpretation, and dissemination techniques. Emphasis will be placed on evaluation for practical application and learning and is intended for those who are novice and mid-level researchers. "Statistics-phobic" individuals especially encouraged to attend.

Presenter: Christine Cress, Professor and Service Learning Research Consultant, Portland State University

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Service Learning in the Energy-Climate Era: Degrees Matter

Humanity moves into the energy-climate era, America adapts a more diverse, globally competitive and collaborative workforce, communities seek new jobs and sustainability. How do community colleges guide these transformations in the citizens and communities they serve? At Kapiolani, this question is being answered through service learning and civic engagement, NSF-funded innovations in science, technology, engineering, and math, and an emerging sustainability initiative. In this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to these 3 interlocking initiatives. In small groups, participants will tackle big questions. 1) How do we define workforce and with whom do we partner? 2) What role does general education play? 3) What changes are needed in 21st century career programs? 4) How do students understand diversity and globalization? 5) Are we creating local, national, or global citizens? 6) How do we get more students to complete associate degrees? Bring a team. Come prepared to share answers to these questions from your institutional and community context. Leave with new directions for your service learning program, your campus, and your communities, locally, nationally, and globally.

Presenter: Robert Franco, Professor of Anthropology and Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness, Kapi'olani Community College

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Teacher Preparation and Service Learning

The current teacher shortage and severe budget crisis require public, nonprofit and private institutions to work together and develop new strategies to meet the demand for skilled and knowledgeable teachers. This workshop highlights an innovative approach to recruiting and preparing effective pre-service teachers, one that involves developing stronger partnerships, capitalizing on the availability of new resources and expanding promising service learning models.

Step up to innovative teaching utilizing service learning strategies. Learn how to provide innovative and technologically advanced service learning projects. Become acquainted with educational practices that enhance your student's ability to become well-trained future teachers. Learn how to provide an educational program for teacher training that ensures the integration of general knowledge, content knowledge, professional knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge with meaningful service learning experiences.

This pre-conference workshop will transform your thinking about teacher preparation and service learning. Be prepared to learn more about:

1. Steps to develop and execute service learning strategies in teacher preparation.
2. Various means for assessing and journaling service learning in teacher preparation.

Presenter: Ola Jackson, Associate Dean of Teacher Preparation & Education Programs, Riverside 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! (All)

Presenters: Philip Simpson, Associate Provost, Office of the Provost, Brevard Community College; Karyn Ott, Associate Professor, Humanities, Brevard Community College; and Evelyn Young, Regional Coordinator, Service-Learning, Brevard Community College

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Unexpected Learnings: Rescue from Peru

What does an educator do when a service learning experience morphs into something else? Does learning still take place? Do extenuating circumstances diminish or enhance the learning for the students? Come explore these questions and hear the story of my January term course entitled, "Education, Healthcare and Poverty in Peru – A Service Learning Experience" where 21 college students spent two weeks teaching English and working in local medical centers connected to a mission in Peru. Following that, we went to Macu Picchu for an overnight to celebrate our efforts. Due to the torrential rains that destroyed the train tracks (the only way in our out), we were trapped for four days. The stress of this experience and the situations we went through during the rescue process provided unusual topics for discussion and reflection and stretched our understanding of the meaning of ‘service'. (All)

Presenter: Debra Pitton, Professor, Education, Gustavus Adolphus College

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Strategic Approaches to Community Engagement

In times of limited resources and increasing needs, how can we think more strategically about what we can do for our community? How can we strengthen the capacity of the many groups and organizations we work with to foster positive changes? Come and talk about the work of the Harwood Institute, their models, and how we might think more strategically about our role as community college. (http://www.theharwoodinstitute.org/) (All)

Presenter: Peter Sawyer, Department Chair, History, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Hudson Valley Community College

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Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum

How can community college faculty integrate civic responsibility more intentionally into their curricula? How is service learning related to civic engagement? How can colleges fulfill their mission and be meaningfully involved with their communities? This hands-on workshop uses activities from the American Association of Community Colleges' best-selling publication, "A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum." Participants will define civic responsibility; consider higher education's role in promoting citizenship; analyze course syllabi; and integrate concepts and activities to encourage civic engagement. Participants in this session will be recorded (photo, audio, and video) for possible use in AACC’s forthcoming web-based civic engagement training modules. (Novice, Intermediate)

Presenter(s): Mary Prentice, Associate Professor, Educational Management & Development, New Mexico State University; Emily Morrison, Director, ISCOPES Program, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University; and Hoover Zariani, Director, Center for Student Involvement, Glendale Community College

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Service Learning: A Teaching Approach to Prepare Students for Success in College and Careers.

Join faculty and administrators to learn how service learning can enhance academic and civic outcomes, meet important institutional goals and prepare students to become critical thinkers and problem solvers. 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. (All)

Presenters: Lori Moog, Program Manager of Community Outreach, College Advancement, Raritan Valley Community College; Mary Balut, Assistant Professor, Nursing, Raritan Valley Community College; and Margaret Maghan, Instructor, Psychology, Raritan Valley Community College

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Recipes for Engagement through Service-Learning: Ingredients for a Healthy Service-Learning Program

Participants will leave engaged and prepared to incorporate service-learning at their college in new ways. They will have a basic understanding of what service-learning is and knowledge of how to facilitate elements such as reflection and incentives. We will discuss liability issues for the community partner and college. And we will conclude what it takes to assemble a cooperative team of professionals to keep service-learning a sustainable campus program. We will present for 45 minutes and reserve 15 minutes for questions. (All)

Presenter(s): Duane Oakes, Faculty Director, Center for Service Learning, Mesa Community College; Liz Meyer, Program Specialist, Center for Service Learning, Mesa Community College; and Lexi Harvey, Student, Mesa Community College

Identifying Factors Critical to Institutionalization of Service-Learning: Identities, Reciprocities, and the Furco Criteria for Institutionalization

This session will provide information about the Furco Stages 1 - 3, along with the criteria used to describe and delineate each stage, and the presenters will briefly review the concept of the Furco criteria, to be sure participants share a basic awareness of these basic tools. Next, the presenters will explain how service-learning might fit with or compare to these categories at GateWay, which is currently at Stage 2. We will use examples of our campus strengths (several strong interdisciplinary service-learning projects, and diverse adoption by many disciplines/departments) with our campus weaknesses (lack of administrative funding support, faculty nervousness about risk management issues) in order to ask important questions: How does an institution use the Furco criteria to assess their position? How do weaknesses and strengths balance each other to create effective systems? What dynamic tradeoffs are occuring on your campus? Participants will be facilitated and supported in a reflective discussion that will help them develop insights about service-learning development on their own campuses, and about using the Furco criteria to assess service-learning institutionalization. (Intermediate)

Presenters: Martha Bergin, Faculty, Communication/Sociology, GateWay Community College and Yvonne Zeka, Faculty, Mathematics, GateWay Community College

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Formulas for Success: Methods (and Mishaps) in Incorporating Service-learning in Distance-delivered Courses

This interactive session will examine means and methods by which instructors have incorporated service-learning into distance-delivered classes. The session will begin with a fifteen-minute overview of key issues in incorporating service-learning in distance-delivered courses: scholarship on effective integration; multimodality assignments; privacy and ethical considerations; management of paperwork and permissions; and community partner involvement. Following the overview, participants will be split into three groups. Each group will visit a "station" set up in the room where a presenter will be discussing and demonstrating an issue and technological tool for the effective integration of service-learning in online courses. The groups will migrate from station to station in twenty minutes sessions. At each session they will have opportunity for interaction and will be given practical handouts and resources. For the last fifteen minutes, the presenters will open discussion by sharing "mishaps" in blending service-learning and distance delivery and then invite discussion on what works and what doesn't from participants' experience. (All)

Presenters: Cheryl Siemers, Professor, English, Kenai Peninsula College; Scott Downing, Assistant Professor, English, Kenai Peninsula College; and Krista Timlin, Program Manager, Career and Community Engagement, Kenai Peninsula College

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Partners for Success: the Relationship between the Office for Service-Learning and the Faculty as a Means of Infusing Service-Learning in the Curriculum

This informative and interactive workshop is focused on the relationship between the project specialists in the Office for Service-Learning and the faculty. This partnership is crucial for the integration of service-learning into the curriculum and, ultimately, for student retention. Discover the benefits of how service-learning opportunities blossom when both parties work together. Learn about the triumphs and the challenges experienced at Brevard Community College from the perspectives of a service-learning project specialist and a veteran faculty member. Contribute to workshop learning through discussion and an activity. (Novice, Intermediate)

Presenters: Karyn Ott, Associate Professor, Humanities, Brevard Community College and Deborah Sanders, Project Specialist, Service-Learning, Brevard Community College

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Performance and Presentation Skills for Teachers: Integrating the Arts into Education Classes

Literacy Project: Come and hear about a model service-learning project where Education majors taking the course Performance and Presentation Skills for Teachers embarked on an exciting journey with second grade students at the World of Inquiry School in the Rochester, NY City School District. The college students collaborated with second graders to co-author children's books and create performances that address curriculum standards. The project culminated into a celebration of literacy at an Author's Tea where the college students and second graders brought their books to life through performances of their stories for kindergarten classes, their families, and the community. The college students implemented activities to further engage kindergartners with literacy through the arts. The World of Inquiry students became true authors as their books were printed and donated to local schools and child care centers. (Intermediate)

Presenters: Tracy Wyant, Assistant Professor, Education, Monroe Community College and Susan Bender, Service-Learning Coordinator, Center for Service-Learning, Monroe Community College

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Course Mapping: Finding Hidden Talent in the ranks

We started course mapping two years ago and have now visited personally with all 230 full-time faculty asking questions about them, their involvement in the community and diversity issues. It was rewarding to find that many teachers are doing service in their courses with their students, and with a few minor changes to the course objectives, can make it a service-learning options for the class. We went from about 10 service-learning faculty to over 70 using this approach. Faculty seem to enjoy looking at themselves and the classes they teach. Many were skilled enough to become presenters to their counterparts or at local conferences. During the interview, many said they would do service-learing if they knew how to start...with course mapping, we are the start. (Intermediate)

Presenter: Penny Boykins, Coordinator, Service-Learing, Academic Affairs, Metropolitan Community College

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Put it on paper! Creating and sustaining newsletters, annual reports, and publications through your small office

This presentation will focus on implementing or enhancing in-house publications that promote or highlight service-learning being done by college students. This one-hour workshop will give the nuts and bolts on how to start a bi-annual newsletter on a budget or what to include in an annual report, where to get started, or how to take yours to the next level. Topics also covered will be resources for creating such docuements on a budget, faculty to target for design help, picking an audience or tone for publications, or how to publish with ease without virtually any writing or editing experience! (Intermediate)

Presenter: Cassandra Moore, Service Learning Coordinator, Service Learning Center, Central Piedmont Community College

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Chandler Writes!: Building Reciprocal Relationships with Your Community

The Chandler Writes! program was developed by English faculty member, Chris Schnick, at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and activated a local Title I school and a local grassroots organization in reciprocal partnership for service-learning and community development by asking the community what THEIR needs are. Chris will detail the successful strategies and help you to think of possibilities of your own! These mutual relationships have been enriching and we encourage all innovators to attend the workshop!

This presentation will detail the Chandler Writes! program, the 2010 Collaboration Award for K-12, however, this program is a potential model for all community collaborations and disciplines, not just K-12, so we encourage all to attend!(All)

Presenters: Chris Schnick, Faculty, Language and Humanities, Chandler-Gilbert Community College and Alison Whiting, Coordinator of Service Learning, Chandler-Gilbert Community College

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Service Learning on a Wing and a Prayer

In an ideal world, colleges would have full-time service learning directors and faculty with plenty of time to devote to planning and facilitating service learning projects. In the real world, many colleges do not have funding for service learning directors, nor do their instructors have the luxury of extra time to plan service learning activities. Come hear how Turtle Mountain Community College, a small tribal college in North Dakota, has, in spite of many obstacles, built a successful interdisciplinary service learning program in which students are educating the community about the epidemic of diabetes that is threatening the reservation. (All)

Presenters: Peggy Johnson, Assistant Professor, Arts & Humanities, Turtle Mountain Community College; Andrew Johnson, Associate Professor, Arts & Humanities, Turtle Mountain Community College; and Marilyn Delorne, Director/Instructor, Phlebotomy Program, Turtle Mountain Community College

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Creating a Military Friendly Campus through National Partnerships and Service

Northern Virginia Community College's(NOVA)- Alexandria Campus is one of six campuses located in the Northern Virginia area. Several campuses are situated close to several large military bases. The area is also known for its high veteran population. The launch of the Post 9/11 GI Bill in August 2009 has brought a 35% increase of student veterans to the campus to include military spouses and their family members. NOVA's Alexandria campus has taken this opportunity to partner with students and national organizations in creating a military friendly campus environment. Through various service and civic engagement opportunities, students and faculty have brought on a change on campus for ALL students. This session will describe three service and civic engagement programs currently in place and plans on implementing "military friendly" programs in the curriculum. (All)

Presenter: Frances Villagran-Glover, Acting Dean of Students, Student Services, Northern Virginia Community College - Alexandria Campus

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Make It Personal: College Completion

The American Association of Community Colleges is working with three colleges in a one-year demonstration program, "Make It Personal: College Completion," to help improve student retention and success by addressing pregnancy planning, prevention, and healthy relationships. Unplanned pregnancy among young adults is at the root of a number of important public health and social challenges, including college dropout rates. The MIPCC colleges are creating curriculum-based strategies, using service learning as a focus, to improve student retention and provide resources that students need to complete their college goals. Learn about what has worked – and what hasn't – as faculty address a different type of subject in creative ways. (Intermediate, Advanced)

Facilitator: Gail Robinson, Director of Service Learning, American Association of Community Colleges
Presenters: Tawnda Bickford, Psychology Instructor, Hennepin Technical College; Sean Brumfield, English Instructor, Chattahoochee Technical College, and Duane Oakes, Faculty Director, Center for Service Learning, Mesa Community College

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A Mutual Housing--Kapiolani CC Collaboration: the Learning Center at Palolo Homes, Its History, Development, and Fruition.

The one-hour workshop will feature a brief DVD showing of the transformations taking place at Palolo Homes, some slides that show the before and after at the POLC, and a few interviews of residents who are using the center. There is now room for adult learners as well as the children. Additionally, we will share how we cobbled together the funding to make this investment in the future of the residents, how we leveraged university materials, supplies, and human capital, and ended up with a place where the residents are in charge and running the POLC. We would like to field questions about how this project evolved and how others could use this project as a model for what can take place, with or without significant funding. (all)

Presenters: Judith Kirkpatrick, Professor, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Kapi'olani Community College; Tanya Renner, Professor, Social Sciences, Kapi'olani Community College; and Charles Sasaki, Dean, Arts & Sciences, Kapi'olani Community College

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Assessment and Service-Learning

This workshop will focus on why assessment is important, what groups you consider assessing and the various assessment methods that are being conducted at CPCC. We will cover: the assessment that we are currently conducting for our faculty, students and community partners as well as the results of those assessments for the past 4 years; the assessment that I have designed to assess personal growth and responsibility and the results of that assessment; and the assessment that we have designed for the community service work-study program as well as those results. (Intermediate)

Presenter: Dena Shonts, Director of Service-Learning, Service-Learning, Central Piedmont Community College

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Hooked on a Feeling: Civic Engagement, Emotion, and Service-Learning

Participants will gain an increased understanding about emotions that correlate to increased civic engagement, especially the emotions of elevation and awe. A handout will be given to all participants summarizing information and suggesting further resources and readings. Participants will practice close readings of actual student reflections and apply their new knowledge in analyzing the reflections. Actual excerpts or entries from a variety of different reflection sources will be distributed and participants will work in small groups in order to analyze and present their findings to all participants. Participants will create and critique reflection questions designed to have students examine their emotional state during service-learning and their involvement and roles within the community. Participants will create questions individually, then share and critique each others' reflection activities in small groups. All questions from each group will be collected, compiled, and then distributed to all participants as a continued resource. (All)

Presenters: Dane Emmerling, Service-Learning Coordinator, Service Learning, Delgado Community College; Jenny Louis, Professor, Performance and Media Arts, Delgado Community College; and Melanie Deffendall, Director, Irma Thomas Center for WISE Women, Arts & Humanities, Delgado Community College

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Creating a Trans-disciplinary Service Learning Partnership at Your Institution

Through digital technology, service-learning educators can effectively utilize this medium to publicize their collective efforts to the community at-large. In doing so, a trans-disciplinary partnership will be created among the various disciplines; whereas, each department will play a pivotal role in its overall production. By utilizing a digital publication to showcase the various academic endeavors, the relationship between the departments, the community, the institution and students will drastically improve. Due to reflective observations, those involved with the various communal endeavors can reflect upon their timely deeds, via the Internet. Due to the digital publication, advertising and an enormous amount of publicity generated can magnify a timeless service learning partnership in a cost-effective manner. (All)

Presenter: Arnold Bell, Professor of Communication, College of Southern Nevada and Thomas Myers, Department Chair and Professor, Media Technologies, College of Southern Nevada

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Chocolate with a Twist, Coffee with a Conscience: Integrating Service-Learning and Civic Engagement into Campus Events

In times of shrinking budgets and thinly stretched employees, how can we become more effective in using resources already on campus? How can we develop partnerships across campus in other departments, and increase the efficiency of our efforts? How can we incorporate civic engagement into events planned on campus?

In this session, you will see how Edmonds Community College has succeeded in developing partnerships with other departments across campus, such as the Office of Student Life and the Diversity Student Center to plan events for our students to not only have fun, but also learn ways to make a difference in their community both on and off campus. Our most famous collaborated event was called “Chocolate with a Twist, Coffee with a Conscience”, where students received free organic, sustainable, fair-trade chocolate and coffee, and learned about the importance of making these types of consumer choices from local vendor organizations. Participants in this workshop will get to see the steps of how to facilitate the process of bringing service-learning and civic engagement concepts into event planning on campus. Free chocolate will be included!! (All)

Presenter: Amy Johnson, Program Coordinator, Center for Service-Learning, Edmonds Community College

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The MLK Challenge: A service event that will engage and inspire your students.

The MLK Challenge is a day of service events, but with a twist. Students sign up to participate in the event not knowing what's in store for them. Students are put into random teams and given their "challenge". "Once given their challenge teams are given basic instruction, their seed money and their final goal…the rest is up to them. This workshop will provide the specifics of how to plan, coordinate and implement the Martin Luther King Day Challenge on a community college campus. Participants will learn the history of the MLK Challenge, possible ways to fund the event, recruitment strategies and many other ways to make this a successful event on their campus. (Intermediate)

Presenter: Dena Shonts, Director of Service-Learning, Service-Learning, Central Piedmont Community College

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Transforming the Technical Writing Curriculum for Social Innovation

This workshop will teach students, faculty, service learning directors, staff, and community administrators how the technical writing classroom has become a dynamic site for social innovation and community engagement. This workshop will discuss the ways that grouping students by their professional/technical fields and encouraging them to do research and community outreach activities will result in new non-profit ideas, grant proposals, and non-profit engagement. Workshop participants will learn how to create a writing environment that generates solutions to local problems through non-profit development as part of the technical writing curriculum. (All)

Presenter: Jennifer Johnston, Writing Instructor, Humanities, Chemeketa Community College

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Successful Spaces of Empowerment

This workshop will explore how a service learning class can become an opportunity to empower marginalized students and provide them with opportunities for success. This success can be seen in expanded personal learning potential, improved intercultural communication competency, and an opportunity to become an active agent in a reciprocal learning environment. Although the evidence in this workshop derives from an English as a Second Language service learning class at Edmonds Community College in Washington, throughout our discussion I will draw parallels to the application of this model to other student populations. (All)

Presenter: Simone Dunlap, Instructor, International Education, Edmonds Community College

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ATD + DEI x SL = WIN

Over 100 community colleges in 22 states are participating in Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count (ATD), a national initiative to increase the success of community college students. The Developmental Education Initiative (DEI) builds on ATD with 15 community colleges chosen to bring developmental education strategies to scale. Both are influentional national initiatives with ambitious agendas and funding. This session seeks to raise the profile of service learning within ATD and DEI by engaging service learning practioners in a discussion of how to strengthen collaboration with our ATD and DEI allies. We will share experiences and ideas as we start to build a strategy for linking service learning to the national community college student success agenda. (All)

Presenters: Pamela Edington, Dean of Academic Affairs, Norwalk Community College and Gail Robinson, Director of Service Learning, American Association of Community Colleges

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How to Make a Difference in the Community

In this interactive workshop, we will discuss how students can tie technology into their service learning projects and how faculty members can link community service to their curriculum and improve student learning outcomes. We will also address the importance of orienting students and providing them with the criteria for their service learning projects at an early stage so students can plan and design a better module for sharing information with the selected community in order to meet specific community needs and demands. Participants will be given a set of criterion and then be asked to design a plan and deliver it to the group in a presentation format. (Novice)

Presenter: Yvonne Tam, Assistant Professor, Marketing & Nutrition, Guam Community College

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Developing Collaborative International Service Learning Projects: Partnership vs. Patronage

In this highly interactive workshop, we will

1. Discuss Partnership vs. Patronage
2. Highlight sustainable international service ideas with online student service project videos (see the student-created website as well as both videos at: http://www.roch.edu/course/doors2cambodia/ourprojects_garbagedump.html).
3. Explore our website created to share ideas for engaging students "beyond" the classroom. The site also offers links for service and travel related scholarships, contests, and awards (see: http://www.cambodiarctc.project.mnscu.edu/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={174BF894-D8B6-4415-81F9-7CF06413DDDE}).
4. Address logistical and curricular issues related to service trips.
5. Brainstorm together and demonstrate how students take their service learning projects to the “next level” through contests/award programs. Learn easy techniques of sharing information with students such as using youtube, skype and facebook.
6. Hear students share experiences and how our program promotes service long after the trip ends through mentorship and involvement in the program's future development.
7. Demonstrate how international service can take place in any course by demonstrating how to help fund micro-loans through groups like Kiva. Participants will see and hear the benefits of international service (see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=II-vIqIOXLU ). Additional student projects will be shared, as time permits, such as online efolios, photo-displays on flicker, graphic designs and art displays. By sharing these ideas, participants can see how interdisciplinary projects can be used in any service trip. (Advance)

Presenters: Lori Halverson-Wente, Instructor, Speech, Rochester Community and Technical College; Mark Halverson-Wente, Adjunct Instructor, Political Science, Rochester Community and Technical College; and Kim Sin, Networking/Telecommunications/Storage/Active Directory Administrator, Information Technology, University of Minnesota

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From the School to the Community: A service learning program to develop active citizenship

We will discuss an evaluative research of the program of education for active citizenship "From the School to the Community" in secondary school context, specifically, in a classroom of a high school of the city of Barcelona (Spain). The evaluation is carried out through an evaluation study which enables us to articulate, contrast and validate the information coming from a variety of information gathering strategies (observation, interviews,......) but also from the various participants in the program's development (student, teacher, other teachers in the school, family...) all of them adding value to the process and supplying varied and contextualized information. The research contemplates the outcomes in each stage of an evaluative research: initial, process and results, some conclusions, limits and perspectives of future. (Novice)

Presenter: Esther Luna, Instructor, Research and Diagnostic in Education, University of Barcelona

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Civility in a Digital World

What has happened to civility on our college campuses and in our classrooms? Has the popularity of social media and instant communication impacted how our students interact with others? Have students lost sight of audience awareness and basic respect? This workshop will provide a lively discussion about the downside of living in the instant and distant virtual world and how that may lead to more serious concerns. Join us to learn how service learning provides the antidote for this growing disease. (All)

Presenters: Rudy Garcia, Dean of Students, Student Services, Central New Mexico Community College and Barbara Wallace, Director of Developmental Education, Academic Affairs, University of Cincinnati Clermont College

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Spring Fling to Success: Making Service Learning Fun for Everyone

The "Spring Fling" workshop will bring together three aspects of service learning: 1) curriculum development in conjunction with an introductory course in state and local politics; 2) developing partnership opportunities; and 3) fundraising for the sustainability of service learning. The "Spring Fling" event will be a unique blend of fashion show, green awareness community outreach, and Seminole Tribe partnership building. Merchants, food, music and production sponsors, Broward College students, faculty and the public will come together to present their style and message on campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the April/May 2010 timeframe. The workshop will take you through the process of executing the fashion show, the benefits of service learning on campus and to the community, and the prospects for sustaining a service learning program at the grassroots level. (All)

Presenters: Jean Kouch, Adjunct Professor, Social Sciences, Broward College and Karla Mendez, Student, Social Sciences, Broward College

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Funding, Finding, Facilitating

This session will take the listener through the service learning process beginning with the search for a grant, development of students, and product delivery in a Brookly Public Housing environment. (Novice)

Presenter: Maxine McGarvey, Lecturer, Business, City University of New York - Kingsborough Community College

Merging the Head and the Hand: Service Learning and Reform Movements of the 19th Century

In his essay, "The Conduct of Life," Ralph Waldo Emerson posed the question, "How shall I live?" Within the context of great economic, social, and political change in the 19th century, the writers and philosophers of the time challenged age-old tranditions and sought new ways of living and thinking. Like the transcendentalists of the 19th century, service learning also attempts to merge book learning and experiential learning to challenge students to become involved in the larger community outside of the classroom. This presentation will highlight student work and essays focused on a military and homeland security exhibit which incorporates issues of loyalty, patriotism, fears of domestic espionage, racism and World War II. Additionally, student projects with local non-profits, museums, and schools will be discussed. This session will provide a step-by-step process in how to design and implement student-centered service learning projects. (Intermediate)

Presenters: Susan Hasegawa, Professor of History, San Diego City College; Ellen Turkel, Professor of Health and Exercise Sciences, San Diego City College; and Cassie Morton, Faculty, Counseling, San Diego City College

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CANCELLED

Presenter: Karen Rose, Director, Office of Special Programs, Fullerton College

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Building Effective Partnerships -- Starting with You!!!

What assets do you offer a partnership? We often approach partnerships in terms of how the other person or organization can help us with our project or goal. Need money? Talk to your dean and/or find a funder. Want to have your students learn about homelessness? A homeless shelter would be a good partner. Want to expand the program into another community? Let's contact another college in a neighboring community.

This session will provide you with tools and ideas about what your role is in developing effective partnerships. What are your skills and abilities that you have to offer and what are some barriers that may challenge your partnerships that you have control to change?

Sustainable partnerships are possible when all partners are gaining value from the relationships. When we can clearly answer, "What's in it for you?" as easily as we can answer, "What's in it for me?" then we have a great foundation for a successful partnership. (All)

Presenters: Jennifer Dorr, Executive Director, Washington Campus Compact and Atina Pascua, Executive Director, Hawaii Pacific Islands Campus Compact

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Inspiring a STEMester of Service: A K-16 Model of Collaboration

Our global economy demands innovative approaches to the acquisition of advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge and skills. This workshop introduces YSA’s STEMester of Service, a semester-long middle school service-learning initiative currently operating in 25 schools spread across 9 states. Session participants will be encouraged to explore and design opportunities for collaboration, mentoring, and STEM content learning through the addition of a partnership with community college faculty and students. (All)

Presenter: Susan Abravanel, Vice President of Education, Youth Service America

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Political Discourse on Campus

Colleges and universities are often seen as ideal venues for the public to come together to learn about and discuss political and community issues. Managing these public forums, however, can raise a number of concerns for faculty and administrators. Maricopa Community Colleges' Center for Civic Participation (CCP) Director Alberto Olivas will lead a discussion with participants about how to structure unbiased political discourse for productive and community-building outcomes. Discussion topics will include:

• Civil discourse as an academic mission
• Civic responsibility in pedagogy and practice
• Moving talk to action through public engagement partnerships
• Maintaining an unbiased position in political discourse activities

Presenter: Alberto Olivas, Director, Center for Civic Participation, Maricopa Community Colleges District

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