Christine Cress, PhD, professor at Portland State University, will visit UConn Storrs on Wednesday, September 17. This event will focus on the institutionalization of service learning resonating with UConn’s newly adopted Academic Vision. Dr. Cress will discuss how UConn and other institutions of higher education can meet stated academic goals through the pedagogy of service learning.
“Dr. Cress is a nationally renowned scholar for community-based learning across academic disciplines. She has co-authored and published the best selling textbook, Learning through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning Across the Disciplines (2005). Her most recent book, Democratic Dilemmas of Teaching Service-Learning: Curricular Strategies for Success (2011), focuses on teachable moments and pedagogical strategies in the midst of democratic value and belief conflicts.”
Please join us Wednesday, September 17th. This is an open event to other CT Campus Compact colleges and universities.
‘Vision’ to Reality: Institutionalizing Service Learning
9:30 to 11:00 – Institutionalizing Service Learning from Epistemological and Ontological Perspectives: Past, Present & Future
This presentation will include a small panel response in addition to a Question & Answer session. Panelists to be announced.
Location: UConn Storrs Campus, Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Please note that the presentation will be streamed live. Please click here to access it.
Please register here.
For more information, contact: Julia M. Yakovich at julia.yakovich@uconn.edu