Calendar of Events
Upcoming Events
Service-Learning and HIV/AIDS: Faculty Workshop May 19-21
UST is working closely with these organizations through the university's office for HIV/AIDS initiatives and the Office for Service-Learning.
The workshop will provide an opportunity to explore service-learning possibilities for your course(s) in conversation with staff from these organizations. Other faculty who have worked with these organizations will participate as well. The Office for Service-Learning is offering a stipend for attendance at the workshop and will pay another stipend upon successful design of your service-learning components.
Service-Learning and HIV/AIDS: Faculty Workshop
Monday-Wednesday
May 19-21, 2008
9 a.m.-noon
(With extra time on Tuesday to deliver meals)
McNeely Hall Room 315
(Onsite at Open Arms, Tuesday, May 20)
Contact Barbara Baker, program manager for service learning, (651) 962-5380, to register. Those who are unable to attend the workshop but would like to consider development of a service-learning component, contact Kim Vrudny, assistant professor of systematic theology and project director for HIV/AIDS Initiatives.
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"Exploring the Intercultural in the Twin Cities, A Summer Seminar"
Sponsored by Faculty Development, International Education,
and Service-Learning
June 2-6, 2008
Faculty from across the university are invited to participate in a June seminar on the global-local nexus and incorporating the multicultural Twin Cities into our curriculum. Emphasis will be on ways, small and large, to expand the walls of your classroom to include the Twin Cities, to learn about different theories of and approaches to community-based learning, and to meet potential community partners. No experience with any community-based pedagogy is assumed.
The seminar will be facilitated by the Office of Service-Learning and by HECUA (the Higher Education Consortium of Urban Affairs—see their website for more information: www.hecua.org), and will include presentations from HECUA faculty who specialize in subjects from political economy to environmental public policy to the arts.
Participants will engage in pre-workshop reading, exploration of the global dimension of the Twin Cities, site tours to various neighborhoods and organizations, and discussions of ways to integrate off-campus experiences into coherent curricular offerings.
The objectives of the seminar are to:
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Gain first-hand knowledge of the Twin Cities community;
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Observe how global issues work themselves out locally;
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Become more knowledgeable of pedagogical principles/practices in experiential education;
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Increase understanding of the ethical and practical considerations in getting students involved with communities outside the classroom.
Some comments from those who participated in last year’s seminar include: “I’ve increased my sense of the richness of community opportunities available to us, offering compelling alternatives to conventional curricula,” and “This has been an immensely important experience for me, affirming new teaching/learning philosophies.”
To register for the seminar, please e-mail Barb Baker, Service-Learning Program Manager. Include a few sentences outlining your experience with service-learning or community-based learning (if any) and your reasons for wanting to take the seminar. (How you might incorporate local experiential opportunities into your teaching or course development, for example.)
Stipends will be made available for participation.
Questions? Contact: Amy Muse
