Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement


Event Calendar 2007-2008
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February 27, 2008	12:00-1:00pm, UMC 247, IECE Faculty Support Lunch facilitated by Ben Kirshner from the School of Education and the IECE Steering Committee , featuring the IECE funded School of Journalism and Mass Communication model project.
October 25, 2007	3:30 to 5:00 pm, UMC 425, Funding Workshop  - There will be a workshop to help interested or persuadable faculty fund, plan and conduct courses and activities that send  students out to learn from and assist the larger community.  There will be representatives from the Outreach Committee, the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement, Service Learning, and the Volunteer Clearing House.  Topics included grant deadlines and application guidelines, ways to integrate experiential and ethical aspects into academic goals, and resources for community placements. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Marty Bickman, Director of Service Learning: Bickman@colorado.edu or phone 303-492-8945.
October 17, 2007	12:00 - 1:00 pm, UMC 425 - IECE Faculty Support Lunch facilitated by Nikki Townsley from the Department of Communication and Ben Kirshner from the School of Education and the IECE Steering Committee.
September 28, 2007	10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Colorado State University, Cherokee Ballroom, Lory Student Center - "Teaching Sustainability Through Service Learning. " The IECE in conjunction with a variety of CU and CSU Departments, Colorado Campus Compact and the International Center for Appropriate & Sustainable Technology are sponsoring this workshop designed to build a vision for sustainable development in Colorado using service-learning in Engineering and the applied sciences. For more information, contact compact@regis.edu
September 13-27, 2007	ATLAS Building, "Constitution Day Student Art Exhibit: Freedom of Speech and University Hate Speech Codes." The IECE and the Center for Arts, Media and Performance are co-sponsoring this student art competition and exhibit in recognition of Constitution Day. For more information, contact Peter Simons, peter.simons@colorado.ed
March 13, 2007	12:00 - 1:00 pm, UMC 425 - IECE Faculty Support Lunch facilitated by Nikki Townsley from the Department of Communication and Ben Kirshner from the School of Education and the IECE Steering Committee.
January 31, 2007	7 pm, UMC 245 - A Look Inside Educational Inequity: Lessons from In the Deep Heart's Core. Come hear Michael Johnston (B.A. Yale ' 97, Ed. M. Harvard ' 00, J.D. Yale ' 03) author of In the Deep Heart's Core, share his experiences as a Teach for America corps member in the Mississippi Delta. This event is co-sponsored by Teach for America, the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement and the Service Learning Office.
January 11-12, 2007	ATLAS Building - The Graduate Teacher Program Spring Conference, "The Scholarship of Engagement and the Scholarship of Discovery" jointly sponsored by the Graduate Teacher Program, the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement and the Service Learning Office. For more information contact Laura Border, Director, Graduate Teacher Program, 303-492-4902. To preview the conference agenda, click www.colorado.edu/gtp
January 11, 2007	2:00 - 4:00 p.m. UMC 415-417 - Faculty Workshop in Service Learning Course Design with Kerrissa Heffernan. Kerrissa Hefferan, the leading expert in service learning course design, will run a workshop for all faculty and other instructors in the area. The workshop will draw upon an overview of over 900 service learning syllabi and is designed to assist faculty in integrating service into an existing course or in constructing a new course using service-learning. Participants will examine disciplinary models for service learning, the basics of service-learning course construction, review service-learning assignments and examine courses that focus on the civic capacities of service learning. Participants are encouraged to bring syllabi and course materials. Kerrissa Heffernan is the Associate Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University and directs the Royce and CV Starr Fellowships. Previously she was a senior associate in Integrating Service with Academic Study at National Campus Compact and the Arnow-Weiler professor of liberal arts at La Salle University, director of the Center for Public Service and director of the Donahue Institute for Values and Public Life.  She is the co-editor of The Practice of Change: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Women's Studies, co- editor of The Introduction to Service-learning Toolkit: Readings and Resources for Faculty and author of The Fundamentals of Course Construction. This workshop is sponsored by the Service Learning Office and the Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement.  We realize that the date is inconvenient for many CU faculty who have not yet begun their spring semester, but it was scheduled to coincide with the Graduate Teacher Program's Spring Conference which focuses this day on community service and research and at which Dr. Heffernan will give the morning keynote speech.   For more information on the afternoon workshop, contact Marty Bickman, Director of Service Learning at 303-492-8945 or  Bickman@colorado.edu