Colloquium on High-Impact Community Engagement Practices
Due to the concern about the continued spread of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, Indiana Campus Compact has transitioned the Colloquium on High-Impact Community Engagement Practices to a virtual experience for 2020.
All aspects of the Colloquium on High-Impact Community Engagement Practices experience are developed and scaffolded to increase your knowledge and further enhance your engaged scholarship. We work to create spaces where faculty, community engagement professionals, graduate students, and community partners can learn, grow, and interact with one another while building a network of engaged scholars.
In addition to the Service-Learning Institute and Critically Engaged Teaching Seminar, this year we are adding new sessions focused on developing and implementing online community engaged experiences called the Online Community Engagement Boot Camp. This experience is divided into two sessions, an Online Basics Boot Camp and an Advanced Online Boot Camp, each focusing on topics selected to assist faculty, administrators, and community engagement professionals who are grappling with the opportunities and challenges presented by teaching online and remote community engagement courses.
See tabs below for details for each part of the Colloquium and registration information.
If you have questions about the Colloquium or would like to bring one of these opportunities to your campus, contact Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning, at laura {at} incampuscompact(.)org.
The Online Community Engagement Boot Camp is led by Dr. Danielle R. Leek, Director of Academic Innovation & Distance Education at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Massachusetts, and an instructor in the Communication MA program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Mary Jane Eisenhauer has served young children & families for over 20 years as an educator, advocate, researcher, consultant, and teacher educator, committed to high quality early learning and innovative teacher education at the local, state, and national levels. At Purdue University Northwest (PNW), she is a Professor and Associate Director for the School of Education and Counseling. Her research focuses on strengthening community partnerships and has published in Young Children and the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education. She is the director of PNW’s Center for Early Learning, which provides outreach, professional development, and ongoing support for preservice and in-service early childhood educators.
Laura Weaver is the Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning at Indiana Campus Compact, where she provides training on and support for the normalization of community engagement practices at institutions of higher education across Indiana. In this capacity, Laura assists faculty with their teaching and engaged research activities involving reciprocal community-campus partnerships and supports students in implementing an array of engagement activities. She directly manages the Faculty Fellows learning community, the Actualizing a Culture for Community Engagement initiative, Pen to Paper Writing Retreat, Colloquium on High Impact Community Engagement Practices, and numerous other Compact initiatives. Laura has served as a Research Fellow for the Campus Compact Project on the Community Engagement Professional and has published several articles related to her work on the institutionalization of community engagement. Her current research focuses on the development of engaged faculty as they transition from an academic faculty member to a senior community engagement professional, and how this evolution can be influenced by individual positionality. Prior to joining Indiana Campus Compact, she spent more than eight years overseeing the Center for Service Learning and Leadership at Purdue University Northwest and spent several years working for a national nonprofit organization partnering with college students to build awareness and support for health care initiatives. Laura is currently working on her Ed.D. in Adult and Community Education at Ball State University. She earned her M.S. Ed. in Adult and Higher Education Administration from Northern Illinois University and a B.S. in Communication from Bradley University.