Can service-learning serve as a platform for movement building? Can we look at service-learning beyond the lens of differentiated educational principles and practices? Can Service-Learning become the opportunity within which we can explore the potential integration of community organizing and movement building? Is this an unused opportunity to overcome fragmentation that could lead to social change?
Join the Faculty Fellows in Service Program for their annual seminar series featuring leaders in the field. Our first, of three seminars, will feature:
Dr. Nadinne Cruz, Independent Consultant, Cruz Consulting
Friday, November 6, 2009
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
ILR Conference Center, Room 429
Lunch is provided. Please contact Virginia Lisano (vfl3@cornell.edu) to let her know that you will be attending by November 2.
Brief bio of Nadinne Cruz
As a pioneering leader in community-based learning, Nadinne Cruz has been an advocate and practitioner of service-learning across diverse institutions> of higher education. At the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA) in St Paul, MN, Nadinne led a consortium of 18 colleges and universities to develop community-based learning programs. At Stanford University, Nadinne directed the Haas Center for Public Service and taught service-learning courses for the Program in Urban Studies. As Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College, Nadinne piloted the Democratic Practice Project for the political science department. She is co-author of Service-Learning: A Movement‚s Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future (1999), and is the recipient of many awards, including an Honorary Doctorate (Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2008), the Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award (2005), the Experiential Education Pioneer of the Year Award (National Youth Leadership Council, 2003), and the Distinguished Citizen Scholar (Commonwealth Honors College of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2001). Now an independent consultant, Nadinne works with colleges and universities across the U.S. and with the national and state Campus Compacts.
Save the Date for:
Friday, February 12
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
"Community Engagement and the Two Forms of Social Change"
Dr. Randy Stoecker, Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development
Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, and an M.S. in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He moderates/edits COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.wisc.edu), and conducts trainings and speaks frequently on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research/evaluation, and community information technology. He has led numerous participatory action research projects, community technology projects, and empowerment evaluation processes with community development corporations, community organizing groups, community information technology programs, and other non-profits in North America and Australia. Randy has written extensively on community organizing and development and community-based research, including the books Defending Community (Temple University Press, 1994), Research Methods for Community Change (Sage Publications, 2005) the co-authored books Community-Based Research in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning (Temple University Press, 2009). You can find his complete vita at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm.
Friday, March 26
Dr. Kevin Mahoney, Composition and Rhetoric English Department in Kutztown University
