http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/2011Conf/CallForProposals.shtml
The Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) invites you to submit a proposal to present at its 20th annual conference, May 25-27, 2011.
The theme of this year’s conference is:
Hand in Hand: Service Learning and College Completion
The deadline for submitting proposals is March 8th, 2011.
Conference presentations are 90-minute sessions, which should be designed to be highly interactive. Proposals to present at the conference must be submitted in electronic form. In keeping with our theme, Hand in Hand: Service Learning and College Completion some of the issues you may wish to address in your interactive workshop are:
- Strategies and examples of peer-to-peer mentoring to help students succeed and complete their degrees
- Strategies for student success and completion utilizing service learning
- Strategies for retaining students by engaging them in service learning and civic engagement
- The role of internal and external partners in helping students stay in school
- The role of faculty in helping students succeed and complete their degree
- Developing effective partnerships in service learning and civic engagement
- Leveraging your program’s internal and external resources through creative partnerships to support service learning and civic engagement
- Leveraging external funding to support service learning
- Opportunities for partnerships with non-profit organizations during the economic downturn
- Using technology and social media to tell your service learning story to a global community
- Incorporating service learning and civic engagement into the curriculum
- Effective evaluation and assessment of service learning programs
- Research data to help guide your service learning and civic engagement strategic plan
- STEM initiatives utilizing service learning
- Examples of how your Title III, NSF, and Federal Work-Study programs have integrated service learning and civic engagement to meet project goals
- Examples of AmeriCorps programs that help students access, succeed and complete college degrees
For more info or submit a proposal for the 20th Annual Conference, CLICK HERE.
