Faculty Development for Success in Service-Learning Workshops with Dr. Robert Franco
October 17, 2011
Various workshops from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IA
Participants can email Emily Shields for access to workshop materials.
Various workshops from 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IA
Participants can email Emily Shields for access to workshop materials.
Dr. Robert Franco (bio below) will lead three different workshops for service-learning faculty. Attend just one or all of the workshops depending on your time and interest. The afternoon workshops will allow for work time on course design and faculty can stay for both to go into more depth or attend only either one. For more advanced faculty or beginners interested in more information, the evening session will focus on topics including assessment and career exploration in service-learning.
Course Design I (1-2:30pm)
Learn the fundamentals of service-learning and civic responsibility as a research-based high impact practice for student success, and how to integrate this innovative practice into your textbook and syllabus.
Course Design II (2:30-4pm)
Dig deeper into your teaching, develop strategies for student reflection about their service, their learning, and their responsibilities. Build community partnerships that deepen learning for you and your students as they pursue personal, academic, and career goals and develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for lives of productive work and citizenship.
Completion & Capabilities (6-9pm)(Dinner 5-6pm)
Civic responsibility is an outcome for a fulfilling life requiring advanced communication, critical/creative thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills. It requires knowledge of community diversity and complexity and a "can do, will do" attitude.The challenges that our communities now confront are daunting and must be addressed by engaged citizens, not just volunteers. Learn how to "interlock" the work of colleagues on campus to develop engaged citizens, "willing and able" to improve the quality of life in your community.
*Free for Iowa Campus Compact Members
Non-Member Registration Fees:
Course Design I or II - $10 each, $15 both
Evening Workshop Only - $10
Dinner and Evening Workshop - $20
All of the above - $30
Presenter
Dr. Robert Franco is an ecological and urban anthropologist focusing on contemporary Hawaiian, Samoan, and Pacific Islander educational, employment, health, and cultural issues. He has published scholarly and policy research on Samoan political and cultural change, the meaning and management of water in ancient Hawaii, and sociocultural factors affecting Oceanic fisheries. In 2009, he led the publication of American Samoa's first written history, a required 9th grade textbook.
As Director of the Office for Institutional Effectiveness, he bridges the cultures of faculty and administration, and shapes an innovative indigenous, intercultural, and international culture on the Kapiolani Community College campus. He also leads a wide and deep array of campus-community engagements with non-profits, and public and private sector partners, and serves on the advisory board for the International Institute on Partnerships at Portland State University.
He serves as the College's accreditation liaison officer, and provides national leadership on local, national, and global diversity and democracy issues for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the American Council on Education. For AAC&U he currently serves as faculty consultant for their High Impact Practices Summer Institute at the University of Vermont, June 14-18, 2011, and as a lead consult- ant for their Community College Roadmap project funded for three years by the MetLife Foundation.
As Senior Faculty Fellow for Community Colleges at Campus Compact, he conducts training, technical assistance and research dissemination in five states per year (37 states and 3 U.S. territories in total). In this capacity, he also assisted in the development of the Carnegie Classification of Community Engagement. Kapiolani was Carnegie classified as Community Engaged in 2006, and in 2010 he consulted with Montana State University in their successful application for this Carnegie Classification.
He provides community college, university, and conference audiences with research- based training designed to improve student engagement, success, learning, degree completion, and transfer through service-learning, undergraduate research, industry internships, and authentic partnerships.
He currently serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to integrate and institutionalize STEM innovations, and oversees the evaluation of four major NSF grants at Kapiolani. He is also a Faculty Fellow for NSF's Science and Civic Engagement initiative (SENCER.net) and leads the "Diversity, Education, and Workforce" component of the NSF HI EPSCoR program. Further, he is the Principal Investigator on two HUD Office for University Partnership projects, and one Corporation for National and Community Service project.
Course Design I (1-2:30pm)
Learn the fundamentals of service-learning and civic responsibility as a research-based high impact practice for student success, and how to integrate this innovative practice into your textbook and syllabus.
Course Design II (2:30-4pm)
Dig deeper into your teaching, develop strategies for student reflection about their service, their learning, and their responsibilities. Build community partnerships that deepen learning for you and your students as they pursue personal, academic, and career goals and develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for lives of productive work and citizenship.
Completion & Capabilities (6-9pm)(Dinner 5-6pm)
Civic responsibility is an outcome for a fulfilling life requiring advanced communication, critical/creative thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork skills. It requires knowledge of community diversity and complexity and a "can do, will do" attitude.The challenges that our communities now confront are daunting and must be addressed by engaged citizens, not just volunteers. Learn how to "interlock" the work of colleagues on campus to develop engaged citizens, "willing and able" to improve the quality of life in your community.
*Free for Iowa Campus Compact Members
Non-Member Registration Fees:
Course Design I or II - $10 each, $15 both
Evening Workshop Only - $10
Dinner and Evening Workshop - $20
All of the above - $30
Presenter
Dr. Robert Franco is an ecological and urban anthropologist focusing on contemporary Hawaiian, Samoan, and Pacific Islander educational, employment, health, and cultural issues. He has published scholarly and policy research on Samoan political and cultural change, the meaning and management of water in ancient Hawaii, and sociocultural factors affecting Oceanic fisheries. In 2009, he led the publication of American Samoa's first written history, a required 9th grade textbook.
As Director of the Office for Institutional Effectiveness, he bridges the cultures of faculty and administration, and shapes an innovative indigenous, intercultural, and international culture on the Kapiolani Community College campus. He also leads a wide and deep array of campus-community engagements with non-profits, and public and private sector partners, and serves on the advisory board for the International Institute on Partnerships at Portland State University.
He serves as the College's accreditation liaison officer, and provides national leadership on local, national, and global diversity and democracy issues for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the American Council on Education. For AAC&U he currently serves as faculty consultant for their High Impact Practices Summer Institute at the University of Vermont, June 14-18, 2011, and as a lead consult- ant for their Community College Roadmap project funded for three years by the MetLife Foundation.
As Senior Faculty Fellow for Community Colleges at Campus Compact, he conducts training, technical assistance and research dissemination in five states per year (37 states and 3 U.S. territories in total). In this capacity, he also assisted in the development of the Carnegie Classification of Community Engagement. Kapiolani was Carnegie classified as Community Engaged in 2006, and in 2010 he consulted with Montana State University in their successful application for this Carnegie Classification.
He provides community college, university, and conference audiences with research- based training designed to improve student engagement, success, learning, degree completion, and transfer through service-learning, undergraduate research, industry internships, and authentic partnerships.
He currently serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to integrate and institutionalize STEM innovations, and oversees the evaluation of four major NSF grants at Kapiolani. He is also a Faculty Fellow for NSF's Science and Civic Engagement initiative (SENCER.net) and leads the "Diversity, Education, and Workforce" component of the NSF HI EPSCoR program. Further, he is the Principal Investigator on two HUD Office for University Partnership projects, and one Corporation for National and Community Service project.
