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RFP for Faculty Engagement Symposium

NOTE:  This text is also on the RFP, but is here to introduce you to key information before you submit your proposal.

Welcome to the proposal form for submitting workshops or presentations.

The Bonner Foundation, New York Campus Compact, and Siena College are excited to announce the 2011 Engaged Scholarship and Teaching Symposium.

The Bonner Network includes 80 colleges and universities that host the Bonner Program,  New York Campus Compact includes 81 member campus.  Together we believe we will be bringing together a vibrant and rewarding Academic Conference for Engaged Faculty to present on their work in service-learning, community-based research, and community engagement.  

You may find the agenda and additional information on the Bonner Network Wiki at bonnernetwork.pbworks.com or on the New York Campus Compact Web page http://nycampuscompact.org/.  You may also access the page directly using: http://tinyurl.com/FacultyEngagement.

We invite attending faculty members to design and lead sessions, in particular in partnership with attending students, partners, and staff where applicable.  We are particularly interested in sessions that address themes including student learning and leadership; community partner capacity, voice, and impact; strategic campus change and institutionalization; promising research and innovative practice.  The conference will include several elective workshop blocks during which attending faculty and administrators may choose from a variety of outstanding presentations. 

During the conference, there will also be opportunities for participating faculty to provide valuable input to shape future Bonner Network  and New York Campus Compact initiatives, broader institutional assessment strategies and resources (such as the work of Siena Research Institute), and to discuss future publication and research opportunities.

Thank you for your interest.  If you have questions, please contact Ruth Scipione (rscipione@siena.edu) and Ariane Hoy (ahoy@bonner.org). We will accept proposals on a rolling basis (as submitted), with the final submission deadline being May 13, 2011.  We will finalize sessions for the Engaged Scholarship and Teaching Symposium by May 20, 2011. 

Themes

While we anticipate that sessions will undoubtedly feature models, illustrations and mechanics of community-based research, service-learning, policy research, and faculty engagement strategies, we are especially looking for presentations that address the following themes.  While we appreciate they are not mutually exclusive, please help identify the themes your session best addresses.  We also encourage you to think creatively about how to make the session interactive.  

Student Learning and Leadership

Sessions that feature effective strategies for enhancing student learning outcomes, especially through student engagement in community-based learning.  Workshops might address questions such as:

• If you are new to community engagement, how might you get started?
• How do you structure and guide community-based learning assignments?
• What roles do students play in course design and facilitation roles?
• How do you assess student learning on community-based projects?

Community Partner Capacity, Voice, and Impact

Sessions that feature effective strategies for building projects around community needs to aim for tangible impacts, as well as how partner representatives are involved in community-based learning projects.  Workshops might address questions such as:

• How do you identify and build a relationship with a partner that can last over multiple semesters?
• How do faculty build and maintain long-lasting relationships with community partners?
• How are partners involved as co-educators, for example at the site, on projects, and possibly even in the classroom?
• How projects can be designed and carried out in ways that build partner capacity?
• Stories of how projects have led to increased or sustained commitments by the institution to partners (i.e., through subsequent coursework, projects, and civic work)

Strategic Campus Change and Institutionalization

Sessions that feature models and strategies for building institutional support for civic engagement and community-based learning, including through links to institutional assessment and planning.  Workshops might address questions such as:

• How do institutions structure and carry out faculty development and strategies for broadening faculty engagement in communities?
• What are ways that faculty can organize and lead institutional change?
• What are the specific resources and mechanics (i.e., mini-grants, tenure and promotion guidelines, release time, etc.) that have worked on your campus?

Promising Research and Innovative Practice

Sessions that present research, policy papers, and other academic work that has been produced through community-based learning, as well as accompanying insights about the practices that made the projects effective.  This is also where you might delve into the scholarship of engagement.  Workshops might address questions such as:

• Presentations of research findings and how you got there
• Illustrations of research or policy research and their tangible outcomes in the community
• New innovations and insights for community-based learning

Preference will be given to workshops that actively engage participants in the topic of the session by modeling the the teaching strategy or brainstorming possible applications in the institution of the participants.