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[Keynote Speaker Cathy Engelken] Eleven years now you you've been really
involved so thank you for that.
Okay one of the people that I really like a lot is
William Sullivan and I can't read backwards
I'm gonna turn around okay?
Is, is Bill Sullivan he talks about campuses
educate their students for citizenship most effectively
to the degree that they become places for constructive exchange
and cooperation among diverse groups of citizens
from the larger community.
They educate their students for citizenship
you said that you were a student-centered campus
so the job of this campus is to educate those students
for citizenship and that's the bases
for all the other work that their doing.
It, it just has to be integrated into that I think.
Constructive exchange and, and to really get people
into the community which I know you do.
So when were envisioning an engaged campus
and this is were talking about service were not your engaged
in so many ways I mean you know your list will go on and on
as, as you start doing that but I want to just focus on the, the
Envisioning Your Campus around Service and Service Learning,
Community Base Learning.
You need to create a central resource place for engagement
I think that the, the Volunteer Center
has been one of your central places here on campus.
I think that, that you need to have a place
where your faculty are going to be able to
even be more able to, to come for help for resources
for support of the Service Learning work that you're are doing.
I've talked with, with Doctor Goldfarb a number of times about
how important that is and he knows that and, and I know that
you know in economic times the, the problem is
you don't how do you hire more people
what do you do to keep to start making that happen?
You know what you have some people right here [Hand-Jester]
you know this, this center could do that
so I'm challenging you to think about how you might do that.
I think that and you know and I should ask
I guess you know where do you go for support. Bob?
[Bob] [Unintelligible Response]
[Cathy Engelken] That's exactly what the connection could be so anybody else?
Who's doing Service how many of you are doing Service Learning?
I guess I should get a okay how do you, how do you
were do you go for support?
How do you get your information either one of you?
[Unintelligible Response] [Cathy Engelken - Okay]
[Unintelligible Response] -Cathy Engelken O you know okay-
[Unintelligible Response] -Cathy Engelken- Okay
[Unintelligible Response] -Cathy Engelken- Okay
[Cathy Engelken] Yeah so, so you know it's, it's really important to have
sort of that, that central location
were the resources you know who knows were to go
to get some of the resources that could be hanging around.
I know Mary has some in her office I brought, I brought some of these along.
Sometimes you need to have a book but you also
have the Internet you know thank God
you Google Service Learning and your gonna find almost everything you need
and you Google your discipline and you can find lots of information there.
And now you can call me because
you know that we have resources also but
I'm, I'm just you know encouraging
some kind of naming a place so that your going to be able to say
oh yeah I'll call Sarah and she'll be able to help me do this.
I'm going to call Mary and she's going to be able to get students
We don't have to do it alone and you know I've, I've
been in the situation were I have had I've taught Service Learning.
I opened the office for Community Partnership's which is what
we did we supported the faculty
I started Service Learning at Rockford College.
We needed to have some place for the faculty to go
to say you know I this is my course and I'm trying to figure out who
the partners are
how I'm I going to get my students there
I need some more information to have that kind of a, a place
and I'm you know I'm kind of throwing out you know some, some ideas
here that would just sort of challenge you to be thinking about that
and I will of course help you do that.
Another thing that is useful a lot of times is to have like a
Service Learning Advisory Group
that meets you know monthly, every couple month's
you know look for, for some ways so that you can be supportive of each other.
Do brown bag lunches invite speakers in to
give you some more information about Service Learning
in the discipline that your interested in
whatever that might, might be so those are just
you know kind of some throwing I'm, I'm just
I know I'm going to be a little challenging
and I'm sorry about that but I'm really trying
to just say this is, this is if were gonna envision
then we have to think about what were doing now
and what were going to do okay.
Increase core space Civic Learning and Service Learning
so again I think we had four or five people who raised
their hands you know let's increase that on campus.
Let's, let's look at the disciplines let's look at your departments
and see who's doing Service Learning?
Do a workshop for your discipline and, and look not
every single course in your discipline
needs to be a Service Learning course.
It can be but you don't you don't need to have all of them
I think the students need to experience as their going through
their, their degree program
some Service Learning in their discipline
and sometimes not in their discipline.
I had some I was riding back
from Springfield with a group of students one time and we were
this was at Rockford and there like please Cathy
don't make everybody do it because we aren't going to have
time to do all those Service Learning projects in the same semester
I said I know.
So you know you just need to, to look at
kind of how that's going to work.
One of the kind of structural things
that I'm hoping to do with Campus Compact
and our campuses over the next year I wrote a Learn and Serve Grant
now if you guys pray and if you believe in any spiritual energy
I need you to like send it all
to Washington DC so that we get this grant.
Were, were proposing that we, we grant
campuses money to look at Service Learning in Education.
I think I wrote a really, really strong grant
to work with Education Departments
you would have a Faculty Champion
were calling them and then a Service Learning Champion
someone who is like going to push everybody else
to really look at your education courses
and that could also be some of your Bi-Courses
disciplines to see were the integration can happen.
So it would be funding for a faculty person
funding for the Department of Education
and then I'm also part of what
we want to do is work with first year students
and pull in the inter generational leader piece so.
there are retired teachers in the community
who could come in to help do some work
with your students and it might be
around tutoring programs but you know to kind of ease
more students into that, that whole
teacher prep program and it's about access and success
you know the corporation and everybody wants to make sure
students are stay coming and staying and, and really
trying to, to promote that support for them.
We've got a number of different ways
that were going to, to put this funding out of we get this
particular grant and I think it's a good grant and so I will
keep looking for funding
and we may not be able to do the whole thing next year but
we'll be doing like some parts of it.
There will be a huge conference for teachers,
education teachers there will be a huge conference for
pre-teachers in the state so there's, there's just like
a number of things that were really trying to do
to be supportive of our campuses
and to do some of the work that I really believe is important to do
Honor and create opportunities for student input
I said to the students that I talked to this morning.
It's important for you to figure out what, what you can do
and when your working with kids ask them
What are what kinds of service do you want to do?
Let them have some input in, in the service opportunities
if you thinking about putting a Service Learning component
into your course
say to your class so you know what are some things that
you think will fit who are some agencies,
some community partners that you know about
who should we go to?
It's always better to do it the semester before so that
you're prepared when you get to that point.
Don't ignore the students I think that they have a lot of really
good ideas and a lot of them are coming from.