The Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) invites you to join us at our 20th annual conference, May 25-27, 2011 and share your knowledge by submitting a proposal to present on how your service learning and civic engagement program is making a difference for our students and communities.
For complete information on our conference, please go to our conference web pages at:
http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/2011Conf/SLCC_videopage/
We are honored to have as our keynote speakers three premier leaders in our country, Stephen A. Patrick, Senior Program Officer, U.S. Program, Education – Postsecondary Success, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Andrew Furco, Ed.D., Associate Vice President for Public Engagement / Associate Professor, University of Minnesota; and Casey Crabill , Ed.D., President, Raritan Valley Community College.
The theme of this year’s conference is:
Hand in Hand: Service Learning and College Completion
The deadline for submitting proposals is March 10th, 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
- Service learning as a core to college completion
- 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
- Aligning service learning with workforce development
- Assisting our veterans on campus and in our communities
- Service learning meeting environmental and health needs
To submit a proposal to present for the 20th Annual Conference,
CLICK HERE or go to: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement/2011Conf/CallForProposals.shtml
and select the “Submit Proposal” tab at the top of the screen.
Deadline for Submission: March 10, 2011
Notification by: March 24, 2011
