#ESCUNO2016 Annual Conference – 10/12/16
Day 2 at the Engaged Scholarship Consortium, and today I am presenting with my colleague Dr. Erika Rinker about our experiences with the UAB Fellows in Engaged Scholarship Program. Unfortunately, our beloved colleague Libba Vaughan, who is really the mastermind behind the program, could not join us today. We hope to do her proud with this presentation. If you are at the conference, please join us in CenturyLink Room 207 at 1:45 PM today.
Our presentation provides an overview of a faculty development program providing a one-year fellowship to selected faculty members eager to develop exemplary curricular service learning approaches in higher education. Erika and I (Social Work and Foreign Languages and Literatures) will share our experiences as fellows in the program and lessons we learned.
Here is our abstract:
This presentation provides an overview of an urban research university’s faculty development program that provides a one-year fellowship to selected faculty members eager to develop exemplary curricular service learning approaches in higher education. The goal of the program is to help faculty members develop a strong background in service learning pedagogy and provide a venue for them to design a new course or to modify an existing course to include a service learning component. The Fellows program is structured around a year-long series of workshops that explore theories, implementation, and assessment of academic service learning and how to integrate this methodology into courses across a variety of disciplines and professional programs. In its’ third year, the program has supported 33 faculty fellows to date. Participants attending this presentation will learn about the program’s history and implementation, application process, workshop topics, and successes and challenges. Further, two fellows (Social Work and Foreign Languages and Literatures) from the program will describe their experiences and perspectives their year-long fellowship including changes to their courses, pedagogy and becoming part of a community of inquiry focused on engaged scholarship. Their perspectives will provide differences and similarities between educators working in the humanities/liberal arts and professional healthcare-based educational programs.
Click here to access the slides from the presentation.
How to cite this post:
Hitchcock, L., Rinker, E., Vaughn, L. (2016, October 12). #ESCUNO2016 Annual Conference – 10/12/16 [Blog Post]. Retrieved from https://laureliversonhitchcock.org/2016/10/12/escuno2016-annual-conference-101216/.
