The Office of Service-Learning invites you to participate in an extended workshop (five meetings over six months) to produce a scholarly article about your experience using service-learning in higher education.

March 1, 2012

8:00 – 9:30 a.m. ~ McNeely 315

Julie Plaut of Minnesota Campus Compact will conduct a session introducing those assembled to the scholarship of pedagogy, opportunities for publishing in service-learning, and standards of setting up qualitative or quantitative measures to provide data upon which to draw as participants produce their publishable articles.

March 27, 2012

8:00 – 9:30 a.m. ~ McNeely 315

Participants will bring a literature review listing no fewer than ten articles that have been published within the last few years in their respective fields of study. They will be prepared to share an idea for an article, and to demonstrate where the article “fits” in the current scholarship of pedagogy.

April 24, 2012

8:00 – 9:30 a.m. ~ McNeely 315

Participants will share their article abstracts and outlines for collective feedback, having determined their qualitative or quantitative research methods.

June 19, 20, 21, 2012

9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ~ Writing Center (John Roach)

Participants will “retreat” to work on their articles.

August 15, 2012

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. ~ McNeely 315

Participants will present their completed papers for feedback before sending them off to prospective publishers. Please copy Paro Pope on the submission so that she can process payment.

Participants will receive $500 upon submission of an article to a reputable journal. Please RSVP to Paro Pope, pope3625@stthomas.edu, by February 21, 2012. A continental breakfast will be served at the first three meetings.