Concurrent Sessions 1
Monday, September 13, 1:00–2:00 p.m. (ET)
A Collaborative, Cross-Campus “CURE” for Faculty, Student, and Community Connection
Presentation Track: Collaborative Engagement
Format: Panel
Abstract: This panel considers the evaluation of a multi-class, cross-campus course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). Beyond presenting data concerning the CURE’s impact on students’ research confidence, knowledge, and interest, panelists will discuss the experience of CURE delivery and participation from the perspective of enrolled students, student research partners, and faculty.
Presenters: Katherine Mclean, David Bish, Nathan Kruis, Samantha Penascino, Jazzmine McCauley, Kerian Martinez Pitre
Student Publishing Partnerships for Engaged Scholarship
Presentation Track: Collaborative Engagement
Format: Panel
Abstract: Learn new approaches to student publishing partnerships as this panel shares perspectives from a student, student intern, instructor, and support staff. We will share examples from a community that encourages democratization of knowledge by creating a culture that values student publishing partnerships and emphasizes opportunities to share these creations more broadly and openly.
Presenters: Amanda McAndrew, Beth Osnes, Elise Rosado, Megan McHugh
Promoting Engaged Scholarship Through Seed Grants: University of Delaware’s Partnership for Public Education Fellowship Program
Presentation Track: Collaborative Engagement
Format: Panel
Abstract: The University of Delaware's Partnership for Public Education has provided seed funding to support emerging partnerships with public education partners. In this session, we describe the fellowship program design and purpose, and hear from three fellows about how this program supports engaged research and benefits the broader education community.
Presenters: Elizabeth Farley-Ripple, Roderick Carey, Katrina Morrison, Elizabeth Soslau
Unpacking and Assessing the Tenets of Critical Service Learning
Presentation Track: Assessment of Engagement
Format: Panel
Abstract: The focus of this panel is to examine and discuss the theoretical, application, and assessment of Mitchell’s (2008, 2014) original three tenets of Critical Service Learning (CSL)—authentic relationships, a social change orientation, and redistribution of power—as well as the recently added fourth tenet, futurity (Mitchell & Latta, 2020).
Presenters: Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Jessica Lee, Laura Waver, Susan Crisafulli, Adam Kuban
Collaboration for Policy Impact
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Panel
Abstract: This panel will discuss the Nebraska Education Policy Research Lab which is a recently developed collaboration between the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) and researchers at the University of Nebraska to conduct rigorous research for the purpose of informing policy solutions that can be shared and applied widely.
Presenters: Tami Williams, David Hefley, Josie Gatti Schafer, Hongwook Suh
Going Greene: Collaboration to Improve Learning & Increase Outdoor Recreation
Presentation Track: Collaborative Engagement
Format: Symposium
Abstract: Working together, members of a rural, low-income community and faculty from two universities and three disciplines (exercise, psychology, special education) created a program to increase graduate rates of at-risk students by having service-learning tutors provide exposure to outdoor learning experiences. Particularly for minority and low-income students, graduation rates dramatically increased.
Presenters: Jeannie Golden, Tamlyn Shields, Tosha Owens, Sarah Hayes
Collective Greens
Presentation Track: Collaborative Engagement
Format: Symposium
Abstract: The South Jackson Community Garden occupies a formal vacant lot in Lima, Ohio. The garden is an ongoing 3-year project between a collective of 12 organizations joined together to cultivate and encourage food security, wellness, and education by planting, maintaining, and harvesting 12 raised garden beds, and providing open-space programming.
Presenters: Tameka Sims
“Cracks Between Worlds Serve as Gateways”: Reconsidering Insider-outsider Boundaries
Presentation Track: Engagement for Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
Format: Symposium
Abstract: The proposed talk addresses interrelated issues of outsiders and insiders, allies and accomplices, and communities and community membership by analyzing a collaborative storytelling project between six undergraduates and several Latinx community leaders. Permeating the project were questions about who may claim the city in the collective “ours.” Provisionally embracing the notion that Latinx activist scholar Gloria Anzaldúan’s theories are “borderless,” I, a white scholar, ask symposium participants to collaboratively generate pragmatic strategies to help engaged scholars, students, and our community partners cross identity and community borders to “make possible new forms of community and new types of social action.”
Presenters: Laurie Grobman
Engaging Families in STEM Learning: Leveraging Stories, Discourse, and Community Assets
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Symposium
Abstract: This presentation focuses on a community engagement project that explores family learning supported through University faculty and graduate students. The project involved families in learning about coding through the cultural practice of storytelling. The presentation will share the perspectives of the participants through their reflections and comments during the learning sessions in addition to exploring the critical practices that supported family learning.
Presenters: Lynn Hodge, Rebecca Layton, Elizabeth Lindquist
Storytelling as Engagement: Community Natural Resource Management in Nigeria
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Symposium
Abstract: Relying entirely on qualitative methods including a storytelling activity that the author designed, this presentation demonstrates the importance of utilizing story as empirical data. The presentation also shows how story in research that draws on literary conventions makes it more palatable for non-academic audiences thus promoting resource management and engagement.
Presenters: Talitha Pam
Toward a Better Understanding of Effective Student Preparation Practices
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Symposium
Abstract: Student preparation for off-campus work is a critical, yet often underdeveloped element of successful community-university partnerships. I therefore conducted a series of interviews with members of community organizations about their practices and preferences related to student preparation. I conclude with an original, theoretically grounded framework to guide student preparation efforts.
Presenters: David Lassen
Trust Me: Developing Engaged Scholars in a CEnR Methods Course
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Symposium
Abstract: The importance of building trust with communities is paramount in engagement scholarship. But how do we teach trust-building in a semester? This session highlights teaching strategies used in a graduate course on CEnR methods to enact principles of engagement and allow students to envision and trust themselves as engaged scholars.
Presenters: Brandy Walker, Barbara Worley, Portia Latrice Johnson
Evaluating Long-Term Community Engagement
Presentation Track: Assessment of Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: Through the placement of a faculty member in the community, the Archway Partnership model provides the foundation for sustained relationships between Georgia communities and higher education resources in promoting community and economic development. This workshop will showcase several tools used by the Archway Partnership to evaluate long-term collaboration and engagement.
Presenters: Sam Perren, Rosanna Cruz-Bibb
Latin@ Stories Across Ohio: Performance and Oral History
Presentation Track: Engagement for Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
Format: Workshop
Abstract: What difference does it make to Latina/o/x students if their classes or extra-curriculum activities reflect the history, experiences and knowledge of their communities and families? This presentation focuses on community building in the classroom as a model for engagement outside the university as we come together to learn about our lived experiences.
Presenters: Elena Foulis, Heder Ubaldo, Lidia Garcia Berrelleza, Manuel Bautista, Stefania Torres-Grisales
Providing Business Workshops and Assistance to LatinX Entrepreneurs
Presentation Track: Engagement for Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
Format: Workshop
Abstract: This presentation will provide an overview of an outreach program designed to provide business acumen and assistance to LatinX entrepreneurs and share lessons learned from the implementation of the program.
Presenters: Rachel Lundbohm, James Leiman
Using SIM City to Enhance Community Engagement
Presentation Track: Technologies of Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: Justice in Our Community is a foundational course and introduces students to the complexity of crime, health of a community and agents of justice. Students engage in the course content in a community-based hybrid format which, requires each student to spend half of the credit hours working with our community partners at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. Each course unit students see the application of the content via traditional readings but, also must apply the information during their community engagement and by using SIM City, a virtual urban planning game.
Presenters: Cyndi Rickards
Prison Higher Education: Shrinking the Prison to School Pipeline
Presentation Track: Engagement for Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
Format: Workshop
Abstract: As both formerly incarcerated individuals and college graduates, those who graduate from Prison Higher education programs harbor two distinctly separate perspectives. Their mentorship could provide the bridge necessary to engage at risk youth and underserved communities with education more effectively.
Presenters: Shaelyn Smith, Timothy Standfield, Keith Rogers, Christopher Dalton, Christopher McCray
Leveling Up - Through First Year Engagement
Presentation Track: Engagement in a Time of Crisis
Format: Workshop
Abstract: An approach to encouraging involvement with first year students lead to the development of a tiered system of measuring varying levels of student engagement. Findings to share also include insights from students about engagement during a pandemic and perceived skills attained through their involvement.
Presenters: Marly Doty, Anna Raffeinner
Reimagining the First-Year Service Requirement as an Orientation to Responsible Community Engagement
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: The First-Year Community Engaged Learning graduation requirement at The College of New Jersey includes service, education and reflection. With the support and feedback from partners on and off-campus, this requirement was reimagined into a two-week orientation, including a “1-Pager” used to facilitate reflection. We will introduce the model and reflection method, and review its development. Participants will be encouraged to consider how this could translate to their home institution and practice the 1-Pager reflection.
Presenters: Megan Teitelbaum, Brittany Aydelotte
Using Journaling as an Assessment Tool for Student Engagement Experiences
Presentation Track: Assessment of Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: Join us to learn how to develop a series of narrative prompts and rubrics that will guide students through the inquiry cycle and effectively reflect on their learning. Participants will leave with a copy of a workbook and strategies for assessing engagement experiences.
Presenters: Haley Jean Sankey, Jane Sutterlin, Maria Scalzi Wherely
Engaging Science: Student Stories of Experiences in Science
Presentation Track: Technologies of Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: Curriculum connecting content to students’ experiences has been lacking in content areas, especially science. The methods discussed here, in contrast, help build lasting memories and meaningful connections while building student reflective capabilities on content examined in Zoom-based oral journals. Students engage in scientific research through Course-Based Undergraduate Experiences utilizing crowdsourcing.
Presenters: Mary Ann Smith
Leveraging Community Partnerships and Curricular/Co-curricular Experiences Through Integrated University Programming
Presentation Track: Methods for Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: Effective strategies for incorporating curricular and co-curricular experiences through integrated programming will be presented by Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) of Penn State University. With a unique portfolio of services, PACE incorporates community-based, experiential learning experiences with demonstrated reciprocity and sustained impact.
Presenters: Richard Edward Smith Jr., Pamela Driftmier
A Community-Engaged Collective Impact Approach to Grand Challenges: What We've Learned
Presentation Track: Collaborative Engagement
Format: Workshop
Abstract: In 2018, the University of Denver launched four collective impact cohorts, which were charged with developing community-engaged action plans to address grand challenges. In this workshop, we offer reflections and lessons learned as well as tools and recommendations for institutions considering similar efforts.
Presenters: Katie Kleinhesselink, Cara DiEnno