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Upcoming Conferences and Learning Opportunities

 

Crossing Boundaries through ReseRCH

International conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement, International Perspectives: October 28-30, 2010, Indianapolis, IN

Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships - 12-15 May, 2010 Portland, ORegon

CCPH 11th Conference · May 12-15, 2010 - Marriott Downtown Waterfront - Portland, OR Oregon, USA

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is convening their 11th Conference on May 12-15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon, to nurture a growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to solve our most pressing health, social and economic challenges.

 

Connecting Campuses with communities - 17-21 May, 2010 Indianapolis, Indiana

Hosted by the Centre for Service and Learning at Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis and Indiana Campus Compact

Service Learning Institute - Mon. May 17 – Wed. May 19, 2010

The Indiana Campus Compact Service Learning Institute (SLI) is a hands-on opportunity for higher education service learning instructors to build or refine a service learning course through the development of learning outcomes and quality service learning experiences, as well as craft meaningful assignments and reflection and assessment activities. The Service Learning Institute is part of Connecting Campuses with Communities and sponsored by the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning and Indiana Campus Compact. Targeted Audience: Service learning instructors looking to develop a new service learning course or strengthen an existing service learning course.  Participants should have a specific course that they will be teaching to work on during the SLI.

Institute Objectives:

  • To increase the number of high quality service learning courses
  • To share promising practices and generate new ideas
  • To enhance reflection, assessment, and partnerships
  • To build a network of service learning practitioners

Institute Topics:

  • Designing courses for well-integrated service learning
  • Creating and assessing learning outcomes
  • Developing meaningful reflection activities
  • Collaborating with community partners as co-educators

 

2nd Annual IUPUI Research Academy - Wed. May 19 – Fri. May 21, 2010

The IUPUI Research Academy is an interactive summer workshop to develop skills, learn about methods and literature, develop a research project and advance research related to service learning in higher education. IRA is sponsored by the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning and Indiana Campus Compact. Targeted Audience: Service learning researchers; well-suited for faculty developing research projects, as well as graduate students

Academy Objectives:

  • To strengthen research on service learning
  • To advance the scholarship of teaching and learning
  • To provide consultation and feedback on research proposals
  • To build a network of service learning scholars

Academy Topics:

  • Integrating curricula and research
  • Developing measurement approaches
  • Designing theory-grounded research questions and methods that take ethical issues into account
  • Writing research proposals and manuscripts

 

Institute & Academy Facilitators:
Indiana Campus Compact - Maggie Stevens and J.R.  Jamison
IUPUI Center for Service and Learning - Bob Bringle, Julie Hatcher, Kathy Steinberg, Mary Price, Patti Clayton and Lisa McGuire

 

Application Process

Cost is $150 per event; $250 for both events. To participate in these events, you must complete and submit an application by 15 February, 2010.

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Successful Applicants will be notified by 15 March, 2010

 

10th Annual International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement - 28-31 Oct 2010

October 28-31, 2010 at the Crowne Plaza at Historic Union Station in Indianapolis, Indiana

The featured theme for the 10th Annual IARSLCE Conference will be International Perspectives: Crossing Boundaries through Research.  New and continuing tracks will feature research on:

  • Student retention, access, and success through service learning and community engagement
  • Instructional technology and social media to deepen civic learning and community engagement
  • Community development, sustainability, and assessment of partnerships
  • Theoretical or conceptual frameworks to advance research
  • Civic outcomes for students in a global community

The targeted audience includes those interested in research on service-learning (K-20), campus-community partnerships, and civic outcomes of education.  Scholars and attendees from outside the United States are encouraged to attend and present to advance mutual understanding from multiple perspectives. 

  • Call for Proposals - Friday, 15 January, 2010 - Monday, 22 March, 2010
  • Click here to view the Conference Website

 

IUPUI Center for Service and Learning

801 West Michigan Street

Business/SPEA Building Room BS2010

Indianapolis, IN 46202

317-278-2662

www.csl.iupui.edu

 

 

Past Conferences

The 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference - March 24-27, 2010 - San Jose, California

Join the National Youth Leadership Council for the 21st Annual National Service-Learning Conference — Inspire. Imagine. Innovate! To be held March 24-27, 2010 in San Jose, California, this event celebrates service-learning as a force that spans cultural and national boundaries, builds communities, and strengthens young people.

The conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing approximately 2,500 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. Through three days of general sessions, thought leader series, service-learning projects, and networking, the conference engages participants in local, national, and global issues that service-learning addresses. Come explore more than 100 exhibits, and nearly 150 hands-on workshops and service-learning projects.

The 2010 conference will feature speeches by Sir Ken Robinson, an internationally recognized leader in creativity, innovation and human resources; Carol Bellamy, President and CEO of World Learning and former executive director of UNICEF; and Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Judy Bernstein, authors of They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan.