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CENTER FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE PROGRAMS
The Center for Teaching Excellence supports instructional and course development, partnership-building, and the assessment of service-learning by offering services such as consultations, workshops, and reading groups for campus units and individual instructors and staff members. Contact Valeri Werpetinski at 333-3370 for service-learning programming requests or to make an appointment.

Citizen Scholar Certificate
The Citizen Scholar Certificate is designed to encourage instructors to explore and participate in the scholarship of engagement. It also provides opportunities for instructors to contribute to a community of practice that supports service-learning pedagogy and civic engagement at the University of Illinois. Click here for more details and an application.

*****SPRING 2010 EVENTS*****
Workshop: Getting Started as a Citizen Scholar
Monday, February 8, 12:00-1:00 pm
428 Armory Building

Are you interested in exploring and participating in the scholarship of engagement? This session will provide an informal introduction to CTE's Citizen Scholar Certificate, a professional development program for faculty, academic professionals, and graduate students who are interested in learning more about service-learning pedagogy and teaching a service-learning course at the University of Illinois. If you're curious about the program, this would be a good opportunity to ask questions, brainstorm ideas for your specific teaching context, and network with others who might pursue the certificate. For more details, see the application.

See the CTE web calendar for workshop registration:
http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=836&skinId=1&DATE=1/19/2010&eventId=154828

Share the event flyer with colleagues!
GettingStartedasaCitizenScholar_flyer.pdf

Reading Group: Creativity and Innovation in Service-Learning
This reading group will meet from 12-1:30 p.m. on Mondays five times throughout the spring 2010 semester (Feb 22, Mar 8, Mar 29, Apr 12, & Apr 26) and will focus on readings and discussion about creativity and innovation in service-learning. As a follow-up to the Annual Faculty Retreat on "Crosscurrents of Creativity in Teaching," the group will use Keith Sawyer's book, Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration as a springboard for conversation about service-learning (and perhaps a bit of action by the Scholarship of Engagement Community). Topics will include

* Course and curriculum innovation via service-learning pedagogy
* Designing and assessing course components to enhance group genius
* Problem-solving and problem-finding tasks in service-learning models
* Creative solutions to actively support service-learning on campus
* Creative collaborations between campus units and with community partners
* Leveraging the Scholarship of Engagement Community as a collaborative web

Copies of Group Genius will be available for sale during the Faculty Retreat and should be in stock at IUB. Books also may be purchased for $12.20 on Amazon.

See the CTE web calendar for reading group registration:
http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=836&skinId=1&DATE=1/19/2010&eventId=154386

Share the event flyer with colleagues!
CreativityandInnovationinServiceLearning_flyer.pdf

Student-Faculty Dialogue on Service-Learning:
Outcomes from Washington and Lessons for Illinois
Thursday, April 29, 3:00-5:00 pm
Heritage Room, ACES Library

See the CTE web calendar for event registration:
http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=836&skinId=1&DATE=1/19/2010&eventId=154850

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LINC: OPPORTUNITIES FOR FALL 2010

To all students, all majors, all levels:
Consider registering for ENG 298: LINC-Learning in Community (3 credit hours), a service-learning course in which teams of students work on real projects proposed by community partners. As a result of this course, you can expect to improve your project skills and to contribute to an important problem that benefits a nonprofit organization. For more about the course, see http://linc.illinois.edu

To advanced students--students with project management experience:
Do you have significant experience in managing large projects? Consider applying to be a Project Manager for LINC. If selected, you will register for ENG 498 and earn 3 credit hours. For more information and the application form, see http://linc.illinois.edu/project-managers-needed

To staff and faculty:
Are you interested in contributing to the LINC–Learning in Community course? Consider volunteering as a Project Advisor. For more information and the volunteer form, see http://linc.illinois.edu/volunteer-be-a-project-advisor

Please share the LINC Opportunities Flyer with students and colleagues!
http://cte.illinois.edu/images/feature/pdf/LINC_Sp10_flyer.pdf

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Center for Teaching Excellence (Service-Learning Site)
Chip Bruce's Blog: Thoughts about Community, Learning, and Life
College of Law Community-based Clinics
Community Informatics Initiative
East St. Louis Action Research Project
Education Justice Project
Engineers Without Borders (Illinois Chapter)
LINC: Learning in Community
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement
Office of Volunteer Programs
Race, Space, & Law
Social Entrepreneurship Summer Institute
Spanish & Illinois Blog
University of Illinois Extension

Carnegie Foundation Recognizes U of I for Community-Engagement Efforts
College of Education Teaching Academy to Incorporate Service Projects
Environmental Fair Unveils Student Community Stewardship Projects
ESLARP's Work Highlighted in Imagining America Fall 08 Newsletter
Krannert Art Museum's ArtSpeak has Impact on Student.pdf
Service Learning Opportunities: The Advocacy Model
Social Entrepreneurs: Catalysts for Change
Spanish in Action: LAS Professor Connects Spanish Students with Local Speakers
20-Year-Old Partnership with East St. Louis Reaps Many Benefits for Residents, Students
Project-based Service-Learning Course LINCs Students w/ Nonprofits

Bonner Network Wiki
Campus Compact
Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Capable Communities: Building Community Assets to Support Positive Change
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
COMM-ORG Online Conference on Community Organizing & Development
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Community Tool Box
Community Science
Community Works Institute
Corporation for National & Community Service
Democracy and Higher Education: The Future of Engagement
Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
Higher Education Network for Community Engagement
International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership
Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearninghouse
National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement (NCSUE)
National Service-Learning Partnership
National Service-Learning Partnership Blog
New England Resource Center for Higher Education
Project on Civic Reflection
Public/Private Ventures
Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
Service-Learning YouTube Channel
Sense of Community
Society for Community Research & Action
The Scholarship of Engagement Online
University-Community Partnership for Social Action Research
URP Toolbox