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10th American Association for Higher Education Conference on Faculty Roles & Rewards – Knowledge for What? The Engaged Scholar – Phoenix, 2002

“The Role of University Leadership in Creating the Engaged Campus”

This panel made up of leaders from across higher education will discuss the institutional supports needed for engaged scholarship to flourish. What kinds of supports are needed from leadership at the top? How do you balance “top-down” initiatives against a focus on student learning and faculty scholarship? How do you mobilize campus resources to create an environment that appreciates and values community engagement?

Panelists: Martha Gilliland, chancellor, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Paul Elsner, president, Paul Elsner Associates; Juliet Garcia, president, University of Texas-Brownsville.
Moderator: Yolanda T. Moses, president, AAHE

The Engaged Learner: Why Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport

A noted psychologist and leading researcher on applying the science of learning will discuss what we are learning about learning. Empirical evidence has shown that learning is rarely, if ever, a passive activity. This may be the best reason for developing learners who actively engage in learning tasks. Drawing from theories and research from the science of learning to suggest ways that instructors can direct learning activities to promote long-term retention and transfer of learning, Halpern will give special attention to the kind of active learning and democratic pedagogies being utilized by faculty.

Presenter: Diane Halpern, director, Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, McKenna College.
Introduction: Peggy Maki, director of assessment, AAHE

Strategies for involving the Faculty in Civic Renewal

This session will introduce you to the work that the presenters are doing on civic renewal at their respective institutions. Learn from their experiences with involving faculty in community problem solving.

Presenters: Barry Checkoway, professor of social work and urban planning, University of Michigan; Harry Boyte, co-director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota.
Introductions: Amy Driscoll, director of teaching, learning, and assessment, California State University-Monterey Bay

Educating the Next Generation of Active Citizens: Strategies for Deepening Civic Engagement in American Higher Education

Learn from two key leaders who are actively involved in deepening civic engagement on college and university campuses across the United States. The presenters will chart the rise of what is becoming a civic engagement movement in higher education, and give some sense of its future.

Presenters: Edward Zlotkowski, senior associate, Service Learning Projects, AAHE, senior faculty fellow, Campus Compact, and professor of English, Bentley College; Elizabeth Hollander, executive director, Campus Compact

“More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Faculty Work in the Democratic Civic University”

This conference opened with an examination of past injustices and limitations of democracy that the public intellectual must address, locally and globally, to effect meaningful and lasting change in higher education and beyond. As we have traveled the course of this conference together, we have learned multidimensional ways in which scholarship can be localized and globalized to create effective change. Now, as the conference closes, together we summate our findings with a focus on strategies for integrating all that we’ve learned about community-based research, community/school partnerships, and engaged learning/teaching/ research/service to work for the creation of democratic “higher eds” to offer profound contributions to the practical realization of the democratic promise of America, for all Americans. The closing speaker is Ira Harkavy, director of the Center for Community Partnerships and associate vice-president for community and governmental affairs at the University of Pennsylvania.