Faculty Fellows Seminar:
Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship The Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship Faculty Fellows Seminar at Loyola College is an opportunity to learn about service-learning pedagogy and integrate it into an appropriate course in the company of friends and colleagues from a number of departments. Faculty Fellows: - Investigate the theories and models of learning behind service-learning
- Discover its successful integration into their own disciplines and courses at colleges and universities nationally and internationally
- Explore syllabi and principles of good practice by prominent leaders in their fields and academe
- Engage in a comprehensive look at structured reflection and its role in service-learning pedagogies
- Inquire into methodologies of assessment and evaluation
- Learn about the power of community partnerships
- Review the "nuts and bolts" of teaching service-learning courses at Loyola
Fellows meet together at the end of spring semester during the week prior to Commencement (May 11-14) for three half-days and one full-day, and reconvene at the end of summer on Aug. 24 for one full-day seminar. Half-day seminars (May 11, 12 & 14) begin at 9 a.m. and end at noon (breakfast is provided); full-day seminars (May 13 and Aug. 24) begin at 9 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. (breakfast and lunch are provided).
Fellows receive a complimentary set of readings, which serve to guide seminar conversations and individual inquiry. In addition, each Fellow commits to:
- Integrating service-learning into one course and teaching it once during the coming year
- Serving as a departmental mentor and advocate for service-learning
Following the week of May 11-14, Fellows have the rest of the summer to work individually on their service-learning Integration Projects. During the last seminar meeting at the end of August, Fellows present their service-learning courses and syllabi to one another and invite constructive review and feedback from their colleagues in the seminar. Among other things, the Integration Project requires Fellows to understand basic criteria for service-learning courses, select an appropriate course, develop learning objectives for service-learning in the course, identify appropriate community partners (agencies, schools, businesses) and integrate service-learning (including structured reflection, evaluation and assessment procedures) into the syllabus.
Continuing, full-time faculty are eligible. Faculty may only participate once in the seminar. Faculty who have received a service-learning course development grant are ineligible. The seminar is limited to 15 Fellows. Each Faculty Fellow receives $1,500 upon completion of the seminar in August.
Registration forms are due by Monday, March 31, 2009 and may be sent through campus mail to Robin Crews in CCSJ. Click here (Word doc) for the registration form.
Robin Crews
Director of Service-Learning
rcrews@loyola.edu
Ext. 2112
Megan Linz Dickinson
Asst. Dir. of Service-Learning
mlinz@loyola.edu
Ext. 2092 | 
