Connecting Campuses with Communities is now the Colloquium on High-Impact Community Engagement Practices and the entire week is getting a face-lift for 2019! This year Indiana Campus Compact is adding an additional two-day seminar, the Critically-Engaged Teaching Seminar, specifically focused on critical community engagement practices and how to intentionally integrate these practices into your courses.
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. Additionally, we are working to create a space 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.
The 2019 Colloquium on High-Impact Community Engagement Practices will take place May 6 – 10, 2019 and be held on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. Participants can choose to attend one or two of the following professional development opportunities:
- Service-Learning Institute (SLI), hosted by Indiana Campus Compact | Monday – Tuesday, May 6 – 7, 2019
- Critically-Engaged Teaching Seminar (CETS), hosted by Indiana Campus Compact | Wednesday – Thursday, May 8 – 9, 2019
- Research Academy, hosted by IUPUI | Wednesday – Friday, May 8 – 10, 2019
For more information, contact Laura Weaver, Director of Programs and Member Development at weaverla {at} iupui(.)edu.
The Service-Learning Institute focuses on the basics of curricular course design and co-curricular program design, as well as introduce participants to the concept of high-impact community engaged practices as conceptualized by Hoy and Johnson (2013). The Institute offers tracks allowing for individuals focused on curricular course design or co-curricular program design to dive deeply into those principles, while participants who are responsible for supporting others who are implementing community-engaged work to think about how to best design programs that can nurture a supportive culture for community engagement.
The Critically-Engaged Teaching Seminar will focus on the intersection between community engagement, high-impact practices, and critical theory and practice. Sessions will cover the work of scholars such as Tania Mitchell (2008), Adrian Hoy and Matthew Johnson (2013), and Margaret Post, Elaine Ward, Nicholas Longo, and John Saltmarsh (2016). The has been designed for those who have been implementing either curricular or co-curricular community engagement teaching and learning practices and are now looking to further develop these experiences by applying a more critical lens in partnership with their community partner. Sessions will allow faculty, community engagement professions, institutional chief engagement officers, graduate students, and community partners to discuss topics of power and privilege, race, gender, and ethnic inequities, and community-university relationships in a space of open dialogue.
Danielle Leek, PhD, is the Director of Academic Innovation & Distance Education at Bunker Hill Community College (Boston, MA), and an instructor in the MA in communication program at Johns Hopkins University (Washington, D.C.). As a faculty member in Communication Studies, Danielle has over 14 years of experience teaching successful service-learning courses and training faculty to do the same. She has received the Michigan Campus Compact award for excellence in Service-Learning and was recognized as a Presidential Service-Learning Scholar by Grand Valley State University. Danielle recently received an