UWSP  Service-Learning Colloquium

Teaching Colloquium:

Service-Learning Project Development

  

Friday, April 18, 2008

9:00 a.m. — 3:45 p.m.

UWSP Dreyfus University Center
Legacy Room

 

The Center for Academic Excellence and Student Engagement is pleased to host a follow up event to last year’s Service-Learning Colloquium.  This event will build upon participants' existing service-learning knowledge and guide faculty and community partners through the project development process in facilitated sessions.  Participants will have the opportunity to meet a variety of faculty members and community partners that are interested in working with service-learning students and to begin working together to meet mutual goals through new and innovative service-learning projects. 

 

Schedule Overview:

·         Check-in

·         Welcome and Overview

·         Developing Service-Learning

·         Projects

·         UWSP Service-Learning Examples

·         Small Group Discussions I

·         Lunch

·         UWSP Service-Learning        Examples

·         Small Group Discussions II

·         End-of-the-day Reflection

·         Closing Remarks

 

Facilitators & Discussion Leaders:

·         Michele Dickinson, VISTA Service-Learning Coordinator

·         Dr. Tim Krause, Computing and New Media Technologies

·         Dr. Jeana Magyar-Moe, Psychology

·         Dr. Debbie Palmer, Psychology

·         Dr. James Sage, Philosophy

·         Toni Sage, UWSP Tutoring and Learning Center

·         Scott Winn, United Way Volunteer Center Director

 

Who should attend:

·       Faculty with a desire to develop a service-learning component within an existing course

·       Students who are interested in working with faculty and community partners to facilitate service-learning experiences

·       Community partners with potential projects who are interested in working with UWSP students

 

Cost: free

 

Please register by April 4 by clicking here: Register

 

Special thanks to the following for making this teaching colloquium possible:

 

·         UWSP Center for Academic Excellence & Student Engagement

·         UWSP Office of the Provost & Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs

·         UWSP College of Letters and Science

·         UWSP Computing and New Media Technologies Department