Practitioners from seven California colleges and universities will participate in a nationwide institute to explore the future of higher education’s service-learning and civic and community engagement movement.
San Francisco, CA – Eight long-time civic and community engagement practitioners from California Campus Compact member colleges and universities are among a select group of service-learning and civic and community engagement leaders from colleges and universities throughout the nation who have been selected to participate in a one-of-a-kind advanced professional development program. The program is designed to explore cutting-edge issues in the field and support these leaders in influencing their campuses and contributing to advancing the service-learning and civic and community engagement movement on the local, state and national levels.
Diving Deep: Campus Compact’s Institute for Experienced Civic and Community Engagement Practitioners is aimed at experienced practitioners who are fulfilling the role of a service-learning director and/or are charged with institutionalizing service-learning and/or civic engagement within their campus and want to serve as active leaders within higher education and the larger service-learning and civic and community engagement movement. The institute will take place over three-and-a-half days in July 2010 and will include interactive workshops and presentations along with networking opportunities.
The eight participants from California, selected through a competitive application process, hail from public, private and faith-based colleges throughout the state. They are:
- Ann Bolick-Floss, Director, Career Center and Service-Learning Programs, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
- Karin Cotterman, Associate Director, Engaged Scholarship, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- Christopher Nayve, Associate Director, Center for Community Service-Learning, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Jennifer Pigza, Associate Director, Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
- Julie Reed, Director, Service-Learning and Community Action, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- Megan Voorhees, Director of Public Service/Assistant Dean of Students, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- Marshall Welch, Director, Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
- Merri Whitelock, Director, Community Engagement, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA
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