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Participants will benefit from intensive interaction with key leaders in University and Community Engagement.
Curricular themes include:
The academy will combine classroom experiences with hands-on project work to benefit participant's own institutions and sphere of work. The Leading Engagement by Building Partnerships that Matter session will present models for engagement that focus on using campus-community partnerships to address and solve systemic issues in communities using dialogue, civic capacity building and strategic investment of resources. The objectives of this module are to share strategies for organizing successful engagement, identifying different venues and purposes of engagement; and involving students, faculty and community members. Part of this session will be held at the new Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia.
The $3895 fee for the academy includes the day trip, class materials, lodging (Sunday through Thursday), continuous breaks, luncheons each day, and two receptions. Requests for refunds will be honored when received seven calendar days prior to the program. A $300 administrative fee will be deducted for cancellations. In the unlikely event that this program is cancelled or postponed due to insufficient enrollments or unforeseen circumstances, the university will fully refund registration fees, but cannot be held responsible for any other expenses, including cancellation or change charges assessed by airlines, hotels, travel agencies, or other organizations. Virginia Tech has received the elective Community Engagement classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This classification for Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships was awarded to 62 institutions who demonstrated significant commitment to teaching, learning and scholarship which engage faculty, students and community in mutually beneficial and respectful collaboration, have made available institutional resources for community use with benefits to both campus and community, and have promoted and fostered collaborative interactions with community and related scholarship for the mutually beneficial exchange, exploration and application of knowledge, information and resources (i.e. research, capacity building, economic development). So You Are Thinking of Submitting for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement: A Practical Workshop Friday, June 11, 2010 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. A special workshop will be held in conjunction to the Engagement Academy for institutions that aspire to seek the elective Carnegie Classification of Community Engagement. This session will prepare institutions or institutional teams to seek this classification. Learning objectives include:
Participants will:
Please contact Jeri Childers (jlc@vt.edu) for more information. |
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