Building an Engaged Campus, Iowa Student Personnel Association Pre-Conference Workshop
October 6, 2011
10 am to Noon, followed by Noon IACC Lunch Meeting
Wartburg College, Waverly, IA
Karin Trail-Johnson, Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship and the Director of the Civic Engagement Center at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota will lead a workshop to help campus staff and faculty find ways to expand their institution’s level of engagement. She will take participants through and Engaged Campus Matrix and help to establish concrete action steps for increasing engagement at all levels.
With over 20 years of experience in the community-based learning field, Karin has successfully worked to build broad ownership of education for global citizenship through out her institution. The value of service to others can be see in tangible ways on a curricular, co-curricular and on an operational level.
In addition to her work at Macalester, Karin has served as an outside reviewer of the Community Based Learning Program at several liberal arts colleges and hosts campus visits for many other schools that want to learn from the Macalester model. She is a recipient of the Pat Kowalski Leadership Award from MN Campus Compact for success in building strategic, reciprocal long-term campus and community partnerships and catalyzing institutional change. She has also received the Bonner Service Award from the Bonner Foundation. Karin has served on the Minnesota Campus Compact Assessment Leadership Team, which seeks to improve the practice of civic engagement statewide and beyond, through enhanced assessment strategies. Karin was selected to participate in the “Advancing Women’s Leadership” Forum sponsored by American Council of Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education and recently returned from a sabbatical where she explore the role of mindful action in the liberal arts.
Resources:
Macalester College Civic Engagement Center Inventory
10 am to Noon, followed by Noon IACC Lunch Meeting
Wartburg College, Waverly, IA
Karin Trail-Johnson, Associate Dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship and the Director of the Civic Engagement Center at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota will lead a workshop to help campus staff and faculty find ways to expand their institution’s level of engagement. She will take participants through and Engaged Campus Matrix and help to establish concrete action steps for increasing engagement at all levels.
With over 20 years of experience in the community-based learning field, Karin has successfully worked to build broad ownership of education for global citizenship through out her institution. The value of service to others can be see in tangible ways on a curricular, co-curricular and on an operational level.
In addition to her work at Macalester, Karin has served as an outside reviewer of the Community Based Learning Program at several liberal arts colleges and hosts campus visits for many other schools that want to learn from the Macalester model. She is a recipient of the Pat Kowalski Leadership Award from MN Campus Compact for success in building strategic, reciprocal long-term campus and community partnerships and catalyzing institutional change. She has also received the Bonner Service Award from the Bonner Foundation. Karin has served on the Minnesota Campus Compact Assessment Leadership Team, which seeks to improve the practice of civic engagement statewide and beyond, through enhanced assessment strategies. Karin was selected to participate in the “Advancing Women’s Leadership” Forum sponsored by American Council of Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education and recently returned from a sabbatical where she explore the role of mindful action in the liberal arts.
Resources:
Macalester College Civic Engagement Center Inventory
| civicengagementinventory.pdf |
