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Catching Waves: Using Engagement to Address Critical Issues PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Creative Engagement: Connecting Campuses, Communities, and People
Location: Governor's House A & B This year’s Student Civic Institute pre-conference will provide a space for students to connect through collaborative dialogue, creative student-led workshops, role-playing, and the option of hands-on community service in San Jose. Opening the institute will be keynote speaker David Smith (mobilize.org) who has educated, empowered, and energized students around the nation to engage in the political process. Participants will then have their choice of interactive, student-planned and facilitated workshops designed to challenge and inspire creative ways of engaging with each other and in our communities. Following a lunch discussion, students will have the opportunity to paddle out (walk) to one of several local service projects, which will provide a chance to commit their energy to hands-on service and ride the wave of direct engagement!
How Community Organizing Can Build Deep, Long-Term Sustainable Academic Civic Engagement: Using the Occidental College Model as an Example Location: Woodside 1 This session will articulate the steps in an evolving model to institutionalize academic civic engagement by using community organizing universals, tools, and techniques. For the past five years, Maria Avila, a former community organizer (in Mexico and in the US), and current director of Occidental College’s Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL), has been organizing faculty and students on campus, as well as principals, teachers, students and parents from neighboring institutions, towards the creation of an academic civic engagement model based on reciprocity, relationality, and long-term, collective ownership. This process aims at building a vision and a large base of participating leaders from all stakeholder groups, who together create the vision, the plan and strategy, and take part in the actual implementation and assessment of the model. The purpose of community organizing is long-term cultural and structural change. Deep relationship building and collective ownership make this possible. The development of leadership teams within the College, as well as within neighboring institutions, and the creation of space for all these teams to think, vision and act together aims to change the current culture of disconnectedness within our academic institutions, with our neighboring communities, and in our society at large. Through this process a continuum of engagement has emerged at Occidental, which engages stakeholders based on their interest and level of engagement. This includes student-led community projects with structured and guided reflection; community-based learning courses with one or two interactions or visits to a community or community site; CBL courses designed jointly between faculty and community partners; and a regional network of Occidental’s CCBL, faculty, and students, organizing together with neighboring schools and organizations around issues of access and equity. The presentation format will include a description of the model and its evolving steps and results; stories from a community partner; a faculty member; and a student; a fish-bowl enacting of relational meetings with participation from the audience; and small-group discussions of relevance of the model for the institutions represented in the audience.
Introduction to Service-Learning and Building Effective Community Partnerships Presenters: Rhosetta Rhodes, Spokane Falls Community College; Gini Hinch, Eastern Washington University Cost: $60.00 Location: Governor's House D Service Learning is a powerful way to connect the campus with the larger community to foster positive social change and offer students deep learning opportunities. Whether you are new to service-learning or just want to reground yourself in the work, this workshop provides the necessary philosophical understandings and practical tools to develop strong academic and co-curricular service-learning experiences. Workshop participants will explore kkey elements of service-learning through interactive exercises, short presentations, and small-group discussions, including effectively integrating service with learning, leading reflection, developing long-term community partnerships and assessing service-learning outcomes.
Community Partner Perspectives on Service-Learning: Addressing Community Needs by Developing Strong Partnerships Location: Please assemble at
the conference registration table Research in the service-learning field has continually touched upon the increasing need to take into account the experiences and perspectives of community organizations in order to establish strong partnerships for effective service-learning opportunities. This session, led by community partners, will allow participants to enhance their understanding of the role service-learning can play in tackling complex social issues while allowing participants to examine the roles they can play in addressing these issues by developing and engaging in strong community-campus partnerships. Participants will take part in a community-led walking tour of the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco- an area of the city where challenges faced by the poor (homelessness, lack of affordable healthcare, inadequate access to quality education, etc.) are played out in the public sphere. After hearing about and seeing these issues firsthand, participants will engage in panel and small-group discussions with representatives from community organizations that have actively engaged in the development of service-learning partnerships that can address these issues in ways that are long lasting and respectful of community needs and desires. The workshop concludes with an opportunity for participants to have a solidarity experience with guests in one of San Francisco’s largest free meals program. Participants will share food and conversation with guests in St. Anthony Foundation’s Dining Room and will reflect on their experiences and on future ways they can address critical needs by developing strong community-campus partnerships. Participants will have an opportunity to:
Western Regional Colloquium on Civic Engagement and Graduate Study at Research Universities Location: Willows 2 California Campus Compact invites you to join a western regional colloquium on civic engagement and graduate study in a research university context. Our goal is to build a network of graduate-level faculty, administrators, and student leaders at research universities who wish to explore how graduate and professional education can prepare future academics and professionals for effective civic engagement through study, research, and service. A keynote presentation by Tim Stanton (Stanford University), a panel of colleagues representing exemplary initiatives, and break-out discussion sessions will explore:
This colloquium follows on two similar colloquia and the Symposium on Civic Engagement and Graduate Education hosted by Stanford University last year and the 2005 and 2007 Conferences on Research Universities and Civic Engagement hosted by Tufts University and UCLA. A southern California regional colloquium designed to build on this one will take place at UCLA on April 23, 2007. We hope to build a sense of community among those of us who are working in this field, across many disciplines and institutions. With a stronger sense of community, we will be better able to share ideas, challenges, and solutions to common problems. Thus, the colloquium will offer opportunities for:
Time: 9:00 am-2:00 pm (boxed lunch included) Facilitators: Nadinne Cruz and Kathleen Rice Cost: $60.00 Location: Governor's House C Have you worked in the community service-learning field for three or more years, and are you responsible for coordinating community service learning/civic engagement activities? Are you looking for ways to rejuvenate your vision, passion and commitment to your work? If so, register for this energizing, interactive, fun, memorable, and productive pre-conference summit. You will be invited to convene and/or join a series of discussion groups on topics that matter to you in your work, your campus, your communities and the community service-learning field. Gather with your colleagues in a stimulating environment for mutual learning and support. Share and gain wisdom, experience, insight and action. Come to honor the gifts, passions and commitment of all who come. We will use Open Space Technology, which has been used around the world to bring diverse, and sometimes deeply conflicted, individuals together for deep engagement and shared purpose and insight. This session will be guided by Nadinne Cruz and Kathleen Rice, Independent Consultants, who have worked in the community service-learning field for many years.
Service-Learning and Indigenous Communities Forum
Conveners: Calvin Dawson, Corporation for National & Community Service;
Atina Pascua, Hawaii and Pacific Islands Campus Compact Location: Woodside 2 This 2nd Annual COS Forum will focus on working with Indigenous Communities with emphasis on student voice and assessment. Come hear students share their service-learning experiences, including whether service-learning has made a difference in their academic experiences and what difference they have made in their communities. Forum participants - students, faculty, administrators, community members, funders, and other service-learning practitioners - will discuss what is student voice and how to make it part of service-learning in Indigenous Communities. They also will discuss assessment - what is it and ways to appropriately conduct it in Indigenous Communities - and share any assessment experiences. Everyone will leave with a packet of resources and an opportunity to continue dialogue through a Service-Learning and Indigenous Communities Affinity Group. |
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