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Civic Engagement and Service Learning:
A Forum for Reflection and Dialogue
Summary
From October 2004 to March 2005, California Campus Compact facilitated a series of 6 forums throughout California, attended by 120 service learning practitioners from 50 schools.
Discussions and conclusions from the forums will be made available on this web page in the near future.
Schedule of Forums
Friday, October 15, 2004
Azusa Pacific University (L.A. San Gabriel Valley)
Friday, October 29, 2004
California State University, Sacramento
Friday November 5, 2004
San Francisco State University
Friday February 4, 2005
MiraCosta College (Oceanside-San Diego)
Friday February 25, 2005
Saint Mary’s College (Oakland)
Friday, March 4, 2005
Mount St. Mary’s College (Los Angeles):
Overview
An Opportunity to Reflect and Dialogue with Each Other:
One of the most important components of service-learning is reflection. Over the past decade we have witnessed an increase in the number of service-learning and civic engagement conferences, which provide great venues for professional development, sharing best practices, and networking with others, but offer limited opportunities for focused reflection and dialogue about our work. Often, only one person leads and coordinates the service-learning, civic engagement or community service experiences on a campus and thus lacks colleagues with whom he or she can dialogue about this work. California Campus Compact (CACC) recognizes the importance of coming together to reflect on our work and provide support to each other and has created this forum as a space to do just that.
Crafting a Vision for California Campus Compact:
CACC strives to be a leader in the field, offering resources to our member campuses and providing opportunities for professional development, meeting with administrators on our member campuses to help garner additional support for service learning, civic engagement, and community service programs, and raising funds to pass through as grant funding to our member campuses. Because CACC is a membership organization, we seek input and advice from our members and the field so that our work remains relevant and cutting edge. We wish to draw on your experience and knowledge and solicit your feedback to assist us in shaping our future direction.
Forum Agenda
9:30 a.m. Introduction/ Facilitated Dialogue and Reflection
A recognized leader in service-learning will facilitate a reflective dialogue on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: How are they different? What is the connection between the two? What is the national conversation about these terms? What is working for you on your campus?
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. — Networking Lunch (provided)
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. — Shaping a vision for the future
CACC staff will facilitate a reflective dialogue on where the service-learning/civic engagement field needs to go in California and the specific role that CACC can play. We invite members and non-members to provide input and direction for the future of CACC.
Facilitators : Nadine Cruz and Dave Donahue
Nadinne Cruz is an internationally respected speaker, author, and consultant on public service education. As associate director, then director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, Cruz founded the Public Service Scholars program, taught service-learning courses for the Program in Urban Studies, and served as Resident Fellow to build community across diversity at the Okada Asian American Ethnic Theme Residence. Before Stanford, Cruz was the Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor of Social Change at Swarthmore College, where she piloted service-learning for the political science department. For 10 years, Cruz served as executive director of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), where she provided leadership for community-based learning programs in Minneapolis-St.Paul, Latin America, Scandinavia, and other parts of the world. Cruz has also contributed to the service-learning field through numerous keynote presentations and workshops. Among her publications, Cruz is co-author with Timothy Stanton and Dwight Giles of Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. Cruz holds numerous honors, including: an Honorary Doctorate, Humanis Causa (1991) conferred by Mount Senario College, Ladysmith, Wisconsin; the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Honors College Distinguished Citizen Scholar Award (2001); the 2003 Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education; and the 2003 Experiential Education Pioneer of the Year Award presented by the National Society for Experiential Education. Most recently, Cruz was visiting scholar at Brown’s Swearer Center for Public Service and named founding member of the newly created Ella Baker Fellowship program sponsored by the Antioch New England Graduate School. Currently, Cruz is consulting on various projects including some with California Campus Compact, writing a book on service-learning, and mentoring former students, staff and emerging young leaders in the field. |
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Dave Donahue is assistant professor of education at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he works with students in the secondary teacher credential and Ed.D. programs. He has designed and implemented service learning projects in classes for both programs. He is particularly interested in service learning as a tool to help pre-service teachers consider the moral and political dimension of the profession and has published and presented on service learning at local and national cosnferences. His commitment to service learning goes back 20 yearslong before hearing the termwhen he realized that his high school social studies classes could be motivated to do their most careful and passionate writing when they participated in an Amnesty International campaign to end torture and release prisoners of conscience. |
Registration
Registration for this forum is closed.
More Information
Contact Elaine Ikeda at (415) 338-3983 for further information.