Concurrent Session Presentations

Concurrent Session I 

Thursday, April 12th, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Inconvenient Truths, Convenient Pedagogies
This workshop exposes participants to creative approaches to teaching sustainability. We introduce the emerging “Pedagogy of Sustainability,” with particular emphasis on the role of community-based learning in teaching about complex global issues. Participants examine three models for teaching sustainability and have the opportunity to apply this pedagogy to their own work. Hands-on, interdisciplinary activities are central to this session.
Presenters: Celine Fitzmaurice, Heather Burns, Portland State University
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Intermediate   Audience: Faculty

The Real World Needs More Than One Discipline: "Student Experts" Collaborate in Service-Learning for Real Community Impact
How can students leverage university resources to address the poverty and lack of educational attainment challenging our local community? Our innovative solution begins with engagement in interdisciplinary service-learning through the FAFSA project. Collaboration among students as “professional consultants,” faculty, and community clients improves efficacy, depth, and sustained involvement in all arenas. We lead discussion of critical success factors and expand upon benefits and opportunities from each stakeholder’s perspective, based on our project’s strategic development.
Presenters: Candice Sakuda, Carole Kongprachith, Janina Smalls, Marijana Stanic, Chaminade University
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

JusticeCorps: College Students Make Waves in the Self-help Movement
Justice Corps is an AmeriCorps program that involves college students from five universities in self-help legal clinics and family law centers throughout Los Angeles County. Huge numbers of people in the county cannot afford attorneys for civil cases and, consequently, they are forced to represent themselves in court. The result has been courts clogged with litigants who return repeatedly with mistakes in paperwork. Their lives are often "on hold" while dealing with domestic violence, child custody, or divorce proceedings; or landlord/tenant disputes that can result in homelessness. Through Justice Corps, attorneys train and supervise college students to assist litigants so that the successfully go to court with accurate paperwork, which helps them them move on with their lives. Learn how this social justice program has impacted the litigants, attorneys, judges, and the college students themselves. Hear how these AmeriCorps members make a difference, learn about our system of justice, and change lives. This program is the first of its kind in the nation; it will soon be replicated in other parts of California and across the county.
Presenters: Kathy O'Byrne, University of California, Los Angeles; Jennifer Kalish, JusticeCorps, Superior Court of Los Angeles
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff

Community Voices Across California: Community Partner Perspectives in Campus-Community Partnerships
What do community partners think about engaging in campus-community partnerships? Community partners, service-learning directors, and researchers describe the findings of the largest study ever conducted with community partners. Sponsored by California Campus Compact, presenters discuss benefits, challenges, motivations for community partner involvement, and recommendations for higher education. Workshop participants consider applications for their campus-community partnerships, receive the final report of the study, and design conversation tips to replicate aspects of the study.
Presenters: Marie Sandy, California Campus Compact; Elaine Elliott, University of San Diego; Chris Fiorentino, California State University, Fresno; Rick Flores, Hoover High School, Emalyn Leppard, Montgomery Middle School; Kathleen Rice, KL Rice Consulting
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All  Audience: All

10 Steps to Mobilize
Creating meaningful, issue-based change in our communities becomes a possibility only when we are educated, engaged, and energized to directly alter public policy. Based on the 10 tried-and-true steps toward grassroots action of our Mobilizer’s Guidebook, we give you the tools you need to build an effective movement across your campus, school, community group, neighborhood, and nation. By learning these skills as youth, you will prepare yourselves for lives of personal and societal betterment.
Presenters: Maya Enista, David Smith, Mobilize.org
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: New to Field   Audience: Students

Learn and Serve America: Updates and Discussion on Cross-Program Collaborations
Learn and Serve America (LSA) is a program of the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) and the largest funder of service-learning nationwide. This session provides updates on LSA and the priorities of the CNCS. Participants discuss strategies and models for leveraging LSA programs with other national service programs, such as AmeriCorps and VISTA, to achieve greater impacts.
Presenters: Calvin Dawson, Learn and Serve America, Corporation for National and Community Service; Jennifer Dorr, Washington Campus Compact
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Purposeful Civic Learning: The Missing Link in Service-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 needed to be effective citizens. Participants identify purposeful civic learning objectives, classroom strategies, student assignments, and assessment techniques. They also articulate specific ideas and activities to add purposeful civic learning to service-learning projects.
Presenters: Ossie Hanauer, Miami Dade College; Hoover Zariani, Glendale Community College
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: Advanced   Audience: Faculty

Negotiating Classroom Co-Facilitation: Integrating Student Voices
Co-facilitation with faculty and students is a powerful strategy for engaging students in social issues, empowering them with skills needed to address these issues outside the classroom. Addressing issues of identity, power, and difference—often raised in the service experience—is crucial to successful student-faculty co-teaching relationship. This workshop explores benefits and challenges of student-faculty co-teaching partnerships. Gain insight from faculty-student teaching teams from CSU Monterey Bay and discuss strategies for co-facilitation.
Presenters: Kristen Costello, Jennafer Leveille, Brandi McClellan, Marissa Serna, California State University, Monterey Bay
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: Intermediate   Audience: Faculty

Building Engaged Campuses: Using the Indicators of Engagement to Document Engagement for the New Carnegie Classification
The new Carnegie community engagement classification provides an important opportunity for campuses to receive recognition for their engagement efforts. However, many campuses find the documentation process challenging. Join us to explore how campuses can use the tools and resources from Campus Compact’s Indicators of Engagement Project to document engagement for the new Carnegie classification.
Presenters: Jennifer Meeropol, Campus Compact
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Advanced   Audience: All

Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders to Inspire Change Today
The best way for students to learn the principles of democracy and the skills of civic participation is by practicing them. CYDA (California Youth Democracy Alliance)—a youth-run/youth-led organization—engages California youth in a dialogue about current issues, developing policy recommendations, and advocacy for their policy proposals in local and state governments. At this session, CYDA facilitators present a year-round action plan to expand youth voice in local and state governments. Highlights include an inside look at the CYDA Youth Summit, which tackled issues affecting youth success such as gangs, apathy, poverty, and prejudice.
Presenters: Katherine Yeffa, California State University, Fresno
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Science in Service: Building Community through Science Leadership and Learning
This workshop shares a program model for combined civic engagement of college science students and K–12 science enrichment. The program, Science in Service (SIS), was developed by the Haas Center for Public Service in partnership with the Stanford Solar Group with funding from NASA. The vision was to create an innovative model for science outreach that would emphasize ethical and effective public service, and bring together faculty, staff, students, and community around the goal of promoting educational equity through science education.
Presenters: Kelly Beck, Stanford University, and the Science in Service Student Leaders and Staff of the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Concurrent Session II   

Friday, April 13th, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Building Partnerships: Youth to College (Y2C) Initiative
The University of San Diego; University of California, Los Angeles; California State University, Fresno; and Humboldt State University have launched a statewide initiative with California Campus Compact to help raise the percentage of lower-income and disadvantaged youth preparing for and succeeding in college. Learn about their experiences and their partnerships with community organizations, students, and other higher education institutions. Hear about what has worked (and what hasn’t) as they've used service-learning to create projects that expose youth to college programs and prepare them to apply, enroll, and succeed in college.
Presenters: Piper McGinley, Elaine Ikeda, California Campus Compact; Annie Bolick-Floss, Phillip Sharp, Humboldt State University; Kim Cole, Chris Fiorentino, Anne Murphy, Steve Price, California State University, Fresno; Elaine Elliott, Judith Liu, University of San Diego; Kathy O'Byrne, Jonli Tunstall, University of California, Los Angeles
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Serving, Learning, and Graduating: The Service-Learning Experiences of First-Generation, Low-Income Students
Low-income students who are the first in their families to attend college continue to drop out at alarmingly high rates. Preliminary studies suggest that service-learning could help these students stay in school. Drawing upon recent research, this interactive workshop provides a chance to grapple with the challenges of and opportunities for creating effective service-learning experiences for college students from low-income, first-generation college backgrounds.
Presenters: Ling Yeh, University of Washington, Tacoma; Kent Koth, Seattle University
Type: Research and Theory   Level: Intermediate   Audience: All

From Jet Skis to Surfboards: Developmental Approaches to Civic Engagement
As institutions of higher education attempt to mobilize civic engagement strategies and partnerships to tackle exceedingly complex social and ecological justice challenges, we need developmental models to better prepare our students to be agents of change. Experience one possible model from a small, yet vocal, liberal arts college. Then take advantage of an excellent opportunity to reflect on your own programs and how to improve them! All levels of experience are welcome.
Presenters: Beth Blissman, Andy Frantz, Oberlin College
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff

Addressing Hunger in a Land of Plenty
In a landscape dominated by fields of grain, hunger seems an incongruous reality. Yet people in Washington's Palouse region face this issue daily on both a personal and community level. Staff from the Community Service Learning Center at Washington State University share the center's multi-pronged approach—based on its Model of Civic Engagement—to engaging students, faculty, and community partners in both meeting immediate local needs and making a long-term societal difference.
Presenters: Kim Freier, Vernette Doty, Kristen Koenig, TeriJayne Owen, Washington State University
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Engaging Students in Family Policy
A course in policy and laws at Portland State University focuses on policies and laws related to children and families, and the dynamics of dependence and independence affecting families and the state. The goal of this course is to explore social, cultural, and political forces that form the context of this relationship between families and civic institutions. An engaged pedagogy and community-based learning integrates technical knowledge of current laws and the lived experiences of families, both in the class and in the community.
Presenters: Michael Taylor, Shannon Turner, Portland State University
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: Faculty

Engaging as Reflective Practitioners: Strategic Planning as a Guide for the Future
Strategic planning provides an opportunity for community engagement stakeholders to reflect on and create a shared vision, mission, and set of strategic goals to guide intentional action toward the future. Learn about California State University Chancellor’s Office of Community Service Learning’s strategic planning initiative. Hear from campus directors about their collaborative planning experiences, discuss and receive resources on the elements of a strategic planning process, and reflect on your campus context for engaging in an inclusive strategic planning process.
Presenters: Kathleen Rice, KL Rice Consulting; Cathy Avila-Linn, Independent Consultant; Deanna Berg, California State University, Chico; Judy Botelho, California State University, Chancellor's Office; Sandra Mizumoto Posey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Diane Podolske, California State University, San Bernardino
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Intermediate   Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff

Nuts, Bolts, and Birthday Cakes: Everything You Wanted to Know About Assessing Service-Learning
Addressing critical community issues requires thoughtful investigation of whether students learned and the community gained, and what teaching strategies facilitated the outcomes. This session provides useful strategies, knowledge, and skills—whether you are new to the field or looking for additional techniques to assess service-learning. Learn about frameworks for designing assessments, and see quantitative and qualitative examples of approaches used at colleges across the country. Take the opportunity to address your own assessment challenges at your individual institutions.
Presenters: Christine Cress, Portland State University
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

LEAF School: Using Students in Service to Address Environmental Sustainability
This programmatic session highlights best practices for using Students in Service, a part-time AmeriCorps Education Award Only program hosted by Washington Campus Compact, to address environmental sustainability. The Learn-n-serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School at Edmonds Community College allows students of all abilities to earn up to 15 academic credits and a $1,000 AmeriCorps education award each, while employing service-learning to study intersections between local social systems and ecosystems.
Presenters: Thomas Murphy, Jeremy Grisham, Edmonds Community College; Ann Boyce, Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force; Monica Nelson, University of Washington
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: Intermediate   Audience: All

Building Community through Effective Partnerships
Notre Dame de Namur University and the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center have worked together as co-educators for the past six years to teach a community-based learning course, “Community Psychology.” Using this course as a model, the workshop focuses on how to select community partners so they address the learning outcomes of a course, how to develop reciprocal community partnerships, and how to create learning environments so students can learn to build healthy and vibrant communities (both on and off campus).
Presenters: Gretchen Wehrle, Carolina Cervantes, Notre Dame de Namur University; Michelle Vilchez, Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Intermediate   Audience: All

The Arts and Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, Involved in Life
For too long, researchers have neglected to probe the relationship between arts and service-learning. Yet practitioners of both disciplines know intuitively—and anecdotally—how art contributes to social capital and community health. The National Endowment for the Arts report entitled “The Arts and Civic Engagement: Involved in Arts, Involved in Life” provides empirical data on this vital link, which could pave the way for strategic partnerships between arts and civic leaders.
Presenters: Sunil Iyengar, National Endowment for the Arts
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All    Audience: All

Service-Learning in New Student Orientation: Getting Their Feet Wet
In order to introduce new students to the University of San Francisco's service-learning course requirement, a planning group from both academic and student affairs created a new student orientation program with opportunities for direct service, tours of service-learning course partnerships, and overviews of domestic and international projects. Presenters help participants devise a similar option by sharing their logistical preparations and the outcomes of the first-year pilot of this opportunity.
Presenters: Julie Reed, Star Plaxton, University of San Francisco
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

Architecture Student Outreach in Sub-Saharan Africa
Architecture and community design students at the University of San Francisco work in the classroom and field on real projects for local city parks and underserved neighborhoods. Internationally, they work on projects such as a street-children's library in Zambia. Students helped develop construction documents in San Francisco and on laptops in Lusaka; they assisted in building this library for AIDS orphans in 2006. The students' experiences have directly impacted their outlook and direction for career choice and life focus.
Presenters: Seth Wachtel, Julie Ehrlich, Dijon Jones, Haley Waterson, University of San Francisco
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Concurrent Session III   

Friday, April 13th, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

FOUNDATIONAL ISSUE EXTENDED SESSION FOR SEASONED PRACTITIONERS
For this special extended session, attendance is limited to those who have been in the service-learning field for three or more years and who are able to participate in both halves of the three-hour forum ~ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm with a 1/2 hour refreshment break         The Ebb and Flow of the Leadership of Engagement
How is engaged leadership in service-learning and civic engagement both a mainstream and countercultural activity in higher education? Several exemplary leaders—all recipients of California Campus Compact’s Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence & Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education—consider this tension while reflecting on their roles in impacting and partnering with the community to address critical issues, and in institutionalizing service-learning. Participants reflect on emerging models of engaged leadership.
Presenters: Marie Sandy, Nadinne Cruz, California Campus Compact; Annie Bolick-Floss, Humboldt State University; Jose Calderon; Pitzer College; Carol Wilkinson, MiraCosta College
Type: Research and Theory  Level: Advanced   Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff                                                           

At the Table Together: Classroom and Community
You have worked with many service-learning students. You have the semester timeline down, service projects for students, and you have begun building relationships with faculty. Now you are ready to delve deeper. This workshop explores how community partners can bring students into more meaningful projects and how they can play a role in the students’ learning. Through presentation and interactive activities, we set a framework allowing participants to build stronger partnerships, to enhance students’ service experiences and knowledge of social issues, to enhance the quality of the projects completed, and to bring a stronger community voice to the field of service-learning.
Presenters: Angelina Cahalan, St. Anthony Foundation; Emilie Bromet-Bauer, Tenderloin Health
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: Community Agency/Organization Representatives

Research for Social Change: Undergraduate Theses as the Core of Integrated Learning for Civic Engagement
Students on many campuses undertake honors theses, senior projects, or capstone scholarship experiences. Now in its fourteenth year, Stanford’s Public Service Scholars program provides a yearlong, integrated learning experience built on the senior honors thesis. Students consider both academic rigor and usefulness to community. This session features a program model overview, and reflections from current students and alumni on the value and challenges of doing research for social change, and its influences on their lives and career paths.
Presenters: Jackie Schmidt-Posner, Latisha Chisholm, Estella Cisneros, Nicole Medeiros, Colin Miller, Stanford University
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff

Balancing Learning and Liability in Risk Management Practice
This workshop explores risk management issues presented by service assignments that engage students with diverse communities. It also covers strategies for minimizing potential campus liability associated with students’ service activities. Faculty, student, and staff panelists— in the context of CSU Monterey Bay’s social justice orientation to service-learning—discuss benefits and challenges of developing partnerships for service in underserved, low-income, and marginalized communities. The panel proposes principles and practices for managing risks without negatively stereotyping communities.
Presenters: Brenda Shinault, David Saez, Jenny Thomas, California State University, Monterey Bay
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

Creating Waves: Expanding Community Engagement at the Graduate Level
Although a substantial research and practice base has developed concerning service-learning in undergraduate education, graduate-level engagement lags far behind. This session focuses on the challenges of and opportunities for increasing graduate-student engagement opportunities, especially at research universities. We share findings from national and regional initiatives and recent curricular and co-curricular innovations. Interactive discussion focuses on developing strategies for advancing graduate-level practice and research.
Presenters: Tim Stanton, Stanford University; Sherril Gelmon, Portland State University; Kathy O'Byrne, University of California, Los Angeles
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

FOUNDATIONAL ISSUE EXTENDED SESSION FOR SEASONED PRACTITIONERS
For this special extended session, attendance is limited to those who have been in the service-learning field for three or more years and who are able to participate in both halves of the three-hour forum ~ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm with a 1/2 hour refreshment break        Reaching Across the Divide: Exploring the Arts of Democratic Deliberation
In an increasingly segregated and polarized America, college can provide our first experience of confronting diversity. Through a lively and interactive process, this session explores the questions of connecting across our differences: Why bother? Why is it difficult or scary? Is it possible? Does polarization serve a purpose? Explore these questions, experience a different way to talk, and come away with concrete tools that help facilitate authentic, productive conversations.
Presenters: Ginny Peckinpaugh, Oregon Campus Compact
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: Advanced   Audience: All                      

Student Science Advisors for the Environment (SSAFE): Service-Learning for Environmental Justice
SSAFE (Student Science Advisors for the Environment) is a university environmental studies practicum in which students develop and execute research to address questions posed by community residents living with environmental injustice. Twelve students worked with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in 2005. SSAFE is unique in that 1) community partners lead in defining research projects and mentoring students, and 2) research is meaningful and long-lasting for the community. Participants learn about findings from retrospective evaluation and ideas for adapting SSAFE at other universities.
Presenters: James Fine, Julie Reed, University of San Francisco
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: New to Field   Audience: All

From Empathy to Action: Motivating Students to Tackle Problems of Economic Inequality
The widening economic opportunity gap presents formidable challenges to the current generation of students. How can we help students develop empathy, complex understanding, and the capacity and desire to work toward structural change? Drawing on a service-learning course on hunger and homelessness, this workshop presents strategies to deepen empathy, challenge stereotypes, increase understanding of the structural causes of poverty, and inspire action to reduce poverty and economic inequality.
Presenters: Pamela Motoike, California State University, Monterey Bay
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

Community Involvement and Personal Growth: A Holistic Approach to Service-Learning
Service-learning is more than singular acts of service linked to academics. The integration of community concepts, community involvement, and personal growth creates a synergy toward holistic development of students, community members, and institutions. Based on coursework and engagement in a diverse downtown, a team of students—supported by faculty and community partners—offers a simple framework for understanding one's place in the universe. The team presents personal and philosophical perspectives on their experiences of community, leading to understanding beyond service-learning basics.
Presenters: Thuy Le, Michael Fallon, Rosa Pereida, Hector Sandoval, Carlos Torres, San Jose State University; Michael Hobson, Sunday Friends; Todd Madigan, Sacred Heart Community Service
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: New to Field    Audience: All

FOUNDATIONAL ISSUE EXTENDED SESSION FOR SEASONED PRACTITIONERS
For this special extended session, attendance is limited to those who have been in the service-learning field for three or more years and who are able to participate in both halves of the three-hour forum ~ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm with a 1/2 hour refreshment break  Waves of Engagement: Service-Learning Peaks Supported by Civic Engagement Momentum
Part I: Is service-learning the best way to encourage civic engagement? What skills do our students need to participate in a civic life? Hear a panel presentation on current research regarding the nature and development of civic skills. Part II: This follow-up is an interactive, hands-on session about developing civic skills and incorporating them into your service-learning programs and experiences.
Presenters: Jennifer Alkezweeny, Mimi Coughlin, Mary Kirlin, California State University, Sacramento
Type: Research and Theory   Level: Intermediate  Audience: All
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Using Service-Learning as a Tool to Teach About Oppression
What is oppression, and how do we teach others about oppression through service-learning? How can the experience of service illuminate our understanding of oppression? How can service-learning develop the understanding and commitment to interrupt and/or work against oppression? This interactive workshop provides an opportunity to discuss these questions and consider practical examples that allow us to explore further ways that service-learning can be a tool to teach (and learn) about oppression in the U.S.
Presenters: Liliana Castrellon, Morgan Levell, California State University, Monterey Bay
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

Riding the Tide: Student Leaders Support Service-Learning Reflection/Instruction
This workshop examines a practical model for enhancing service-learning reflection. Service-learning student leaders (ACEs) guide fellow students in classroom reflection activities and at the partner organizations to enhance service-learners’ capacity to recognize and respond to social problems. ACEs encourage active perception during the service experience and competent reflection in the classroom. This model establishes practices of collaboration among parties to service-learning during course design, implementation, and assessment—with particular attention to training student leaders.
Presenters: Patrick Lannan, Star Plaxton, Melanie Raygoza, University of San Francisco
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

CommUniverCity San Jose: A Community/University/City Collaborative
CommUniverCity San Jose is a collaborative between neighborhoods near the university (community), San Jose State University service learning classes (university) and the City of San Jose's Strong Neighborhoods Initiative (city). A panel of participants describe the creation of this partnership, its strengths and its challenges. The presentation includes a case study community planning project and a social capital survey of community residents that provies the basis for outcomes assessment of CommUnivercity San Jose.
Presenters: Terry Christensen, San Jose State University
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Intermediate   Audience: All

Concurrent Session IV   

Friday, April 13th, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Teaching Engagement? Classroom Practices that Help Develop Civic Skills
Service-learning pedagogies have fulfilled some promises of increasing student engagement, but with youth political disengagement still on the rise, service-learning is again at the center of the problem-solving storm. Practitioners must intentionally integrate exercises and assignments that enhance civic skills. Session facilitators preview a forthcoming publication featuring numerous civic skill-development activities. Presenters offer, implement, and engage several highly interactive—and fun—exercises that can lead to increased civic learning for all.
Presenters: Celine Fitzmaurice, Vicki Reitenauer, Portland State University
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

Advocates for Community Engagement: Turning the Tides of Service-Learning
The University of San Francisco's service-learning student leaders—Advocates for Community Engagement (ACEs)—contribute to service-learning institutionalization by generating interest in service and social justice, engaging students in peer-led dialogue, disseminating pedagogical best practices to faculty and community partners, and facilitating projects at local organizations. ACEs coordinate service-learning projects and a professional- and personal-development curriculum taught with community and university educators. Learn about the program mechanics, including the ways ACEs learn through direct experience.
Presenters: Star Plaxton, Melanie Raygoza, University of San Francisco; Eddie Rodriguez, St. Anthony Foundation
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Relevant Research and Real Student Learning
What are your students really learning through service-learning? Learn about a research study in which more than 100 students in eight undergraduate courses evaluated their growth through service-learning experiences in these outcome areas: civic commitment, intercultural competence, academic and career development, personal development, and faith development. Presenters provide detailed information on research design, survey administration, and implications of the research findings for increased student learning through program improvement.
Presenters: Kristin Gurrola, Beth Hampson, Wendy Smith, Azusa Pacific University
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All   Audience: All

Mentoring on the Real: College Students Engaging Highly At-Risk Youth
In this highly interactive workshop, college students and the youth with which they work discuss their unique curriculum that uses youth culture to engage highly at-risk and court-involved Latino youth who deal with—among other things—gang involvement, drugs, and family stress. The Learn and Serve MOSAIC program shares mentoring strategies developed from the dynamic gang prevention class co-taught by a sociology professor and a community gang expert.
Presenters: Jennifer Roman, Eidit Choochage, Christiana Dasilva, Veronika Gilliland, Teresa Madden, Pablo Sanchez; Manny Velazquez, California State University, Northridge
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Required Service-Learning: A Wave, Its Wake, and the Challenge of New Terrain
In 2002, the University of San Francisco instituted a university-wide service-learning course requirement. Like waves in nature, the ensuing surge carried energy and yielded changes to the landscape: community-engaged experiences enlivened the curriculum—benefiting students, faculty, and nonprofit organizations alike—but variability in quality and commitment arose. Through case study presentation and discussion, we examine the consequences of a requirement of this kind.
Presenters: Lorrie Ranck, Julie Reed, University of San Francisco
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

You Can't Engage What You Can't Catch: Partnership's Critical Issues
Partnership, as a legal concept, has existed for millennia. However, creating and maintaining successful partnerships in service-oriented contexts involves crucial but often unexamined implicit socio-cultural forces that undermine partners' expectations and best intentions. Research has revealed that partnership's meaning is not shared, and that a proposed model of partnership exposes this disagreement while enhancing success through mutual understanding.
Presenters: Kim S. Uhlik, San Jose State University
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All   Audience: All

Writing With Purpose
This workshop looks at reflection on the service-learning experience from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, all through the vehicle of student writing—keeping in mind that the writing has a broader purpose. Seattle Central Community College instructors from diverse disciplines (math, English as a second language, and history) discuss different models, how they are set up, and their outcomes.
Presenters: Patti Gorman, Tracy Lai, Andrea Levy, Denise Vaughn, Seattle Central Community College
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: Faculty

Engaging Students through Spiritual Reflection
In order for students to meaningfully address critical social issues, they must engage in programs that challenge their self-understanding, deepen reflection, strengthen their core values, and teach them strategies for self-care so that they can be engaged citizens for a lifetime. The workshop facilitators believe that an explicit focus on spiritual development by service-learning practitioners will help to achieve these goals. They share resources and best practices developed during their three-year partnership.
Presenters: Megan Voorhees, University of California, Berkeley; Liane Louie, Shinnyo-En Foundation
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Intermediate  Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff

Community Development and Community Service-Learning: A Framework for Community Engagement
Community Development, a focus in urban planning at Eastern Washington University, formed the academic framework for a five-year neighborhood revitalization project carried out by the Community Colleges of Spokane and Eastern Washington University. Twenty community service-learning faculty in 52 classes with more than 800 students completed a neighborhood plan and successful community-building through a HUD COPC Grant. A proposed new curriculum combines Community Development with Community Service-Learning coursework at both institutions.
Presenters: Dick Winchell, Eastern Washington University; Rhosetta Rhodes, Spokane Falls Community College
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Building Beyond the Walls: Engaging Students in the Creation of Affordable Housing
Learn how engaging students in service-learning can help create affordable housing. Building Beyond the Walls, a hands-on presentation, demonstrates how students built a sustainable partnership between Edmonds Community College and Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County. The program brings students and community members together and teaches them how to build a Habitat for Humanity house. Two students with disabilities share how they created the program, their personal stories, and the transformations they witnessed.
Presenters: Sue Z. Hart, Edmonds Community College; Warren Sandvig, Habitat for Humanity of Snohomish County
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: All   Audience: All

Concurrent Session V   

Saturday, April 14th, 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Clashing Values in Civic Engagement: Practitioner Perspectives
How do we successfully promote engagement and critical reflection on our campuses when every stakeholder has her or his own unique ideas associated with the causes and solutions of the civic issues we are addressing? Join our panelists in discussing questions related to the difficulties we face when values collide in the name of civic engagement.
Presenters: Troy Robey, Washington State University; Nadinne Cruz, Independent Consultant; Kent Koth, Seattle University; Tania Mitchell, California State University, Monterey Bay; Marie Sandy, California Campus Compact
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All   Audience: All

Making Waves: Using Teaching for Social Change
College access for under-represented students and educational inequity are daunting topics. Faculty members from the University of San Diego turn their personal passions for these issues into pathways to learning by building unique partnerships and service-learning opportunities that work for social change. Examples from engineering, ethnic studies, and sociology provide practical models. Faculty will address educational inequity, cultural ignorance, and how the Center for Community Service-Learning serves as a focal point for their work.
Presenters: Susan Lord, Michelle Jacob, Judith Liu, University of San Diego
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Educating Your Legislators: The "Whys" and "Hows"
Using case studies, role-playing and dialogue, this workshop explores the “whys” and “hows” of educating members of Congress and state legislators about your service learning program. Get strategies to engage campus leaders, government relations offices, and legislative staff to increase your effectiveness in reaching legislators. Receive practice techniques that help win over government officials who aren’t natural supporters. And, learn how to frame the message and decide who best tells the story.
Presenters: Marsha Adler, California Campus Compact
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: Intermediate  Audience: S-L Directors/Other Staff

Reaching Sustainability
What is sustainability? Funders ask for it in every grant application. It’s on the mind of leaders in the service-learning field. But, have you named it? If you are interested in reaching sustainability in your present efforts, join our dialogue. We critically reflect on what you mean by sustainability, and map the stakeholders and collective assets involved in your work. Using Kretzmann and McKnight’s organizing techniques, we identify partnerships and resources needed to support your work.
Presenters: Theresa Cusimano, Colorado Campus Compact
Type: Research and Theory   Level: Advanced   Audience: Community Agency/Organization Representatives

Clashing Values in Civic Engagement: Student Perspectives
Service-learning practitioners consistently face situations in which our values and political leanings may conflict with those of our constituents. How, then, to effectively engage with diverse communities and projects in which participants may have dramatically different personal and political values? It is difficult to envision developing an effective solution to this issue without service-learning administrators seeking input and assistance from the students that routinely experience these types of conflicts.
Presenters: Kyle Bray, Fernando Camacho, Portland State University; Alexandra Davis, Seattle University; Vernette Doty, Washington State University; Jamila Jones, California State University, Monterey Bay
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: Students

Testing Our 20/20 Vision: Highlights from Campus Compact’s 20th Anniversary Visioning Summit
What is a global citizen? How can civic engagement efforts help bridge the opportunity gap to improve access and success for all? Join a panel of authors of essays prepared for Campus Compact’s 20th Anniversary Visioning Summit as we explore these and other key issues.
Presenters: Jennifer Meeropol, Pamela Mutascio, Campus Compact
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All   Audience: All

Harnessing the Power of Community Experts to Address Critical Issues
Want to engage community experts in your service-learning programs? Learn how community experts enhanced the outcomes of a service- learning project on disaster preparation for people with disabilities. We demonstrate how to adapt our community expert engagement materials for use on your campus and host an audience discussion on best practices. You receive a packet of resources for "plug and play" use!
Presenters: Diane Podolske, California State University, San Bernardino
Type: Nuts-and-Bolts   Level: New to Field   Audience: All

35 Years of Catching Waves in Santa Cruz: Roundtable Discussion Led by Community Studies Alumni and Faculty
We explore the effects of a civically engaged education by bringing together faculty and alumni from the University of California, Santa Clara department of Community Studies, which has emphasized engaged pedagogy and community activism since its formation in 1969. Led by alumni representing diverse backgrounds, generations, and professions, we consider how a sustained commitment to what is today called a civically engaged education facilitates positive action on pressing social issues and long-term involvement with local, national, and global communities.
Presenters: Andrea Steiner, Mary Beth Pudup, University of California, Santa Cruz
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: All   Audience: All

Educational Effectiveness and Service-Learning: Toward Sustainable Assessment
Our analysis of service-learning's educational effectiveness at San Jose State University led us to develop a presentation whereby we invite colleagues from other programs to reflect on their own particular strengths and limitations, and how these are informed by local exigencies. We also invite colleagues to reflect on how they design and implement assessment procedures, not only to assess the effectiveness of these programs, but also to share those findings with both their campuses and broader communities.
Presenters: Deanna L. Fassett, Anne Marie Todd, San Jose State University
Type: Research and Theory   Level: All   Audience: All

Generations Engaging for Healthy Environments
Hawaii Pacific Islands Campus Compact is sharpening its focus on the critical issues confronting our communities; the impact of service-learning and civic engagement in reducing the severity of these issues; and the development of intergenerational civic partnerships for healthier environments for everyone. A highly interactive panel discusses these best practices: student leadership development; integration of service-learning and science; partnership development with diverse communities and respected elders; and institutional collaboration for long-term, positive impact.
Presenters: Robert Franco, Suzan Akin, Nari Okui, Kapi'olani Community College; Ulla Hasager, University of Hawai'i at Manoa; Atina Pascua, Hawaii and Pacific Islands Campus Compact
Type: Programmatic Practice   Level: Intermediate   Audience: All

Development of Lingnan Service-Learning Model in Hong Kong
Lingnan University is a liberal arts university with a steadfast mission, “Education for Service”, which emphasizes whole-person education and enables students to think, judge, care, and act responsibly in response to ever-changing Hong Kong and the world. The educational aims of Lingnan are to equip students with the “ABCs” of a liberal arts education - Adaptability, Brainpower, and Creativity. These elements have been incorporated into the Service-Learning and Research Scheme (SLRS). During this session, the presenter will share her experiences and knowledge concerning the SLRS: an unprecedented pilot project which has aided in the development of a university-wide protocol for serving-learning at Lingnan University. The scheme includes two major elements: 1) Service-Learning element: organized for different activities (e.g. health care learning activities, cross cultural learning activities) to both our students and the community; 2) Research element: the development for a manual (based on the refined processes in preparation, student recruitments, field implementation and supervision of student practicum, student reflection meetings, presentations and final assessments), an instructor guideline and a measurement protocol with ‘Lingnan characteristics’.
Presenters: Carol Ma, Alfred Chan, Lingnan University, Hong Kong