Program and Resource persons

Faith Traditions, Spirituality and Service-Learning

Fourth Bi-Annual Conference

See tentative schedule below

Elizabeth Hollander
Keynote Speaker
Executive Director of Campus Compact

Education for faith, spirituality and active citizenship: compatible or conflicting aims?
Thursday evening, June 1, 2006

Liz is well known in service-learning as the Executive Director of Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 950 college and university presidents - representing some 5 million students. Prior to coming to CC, she served as Executive Director of the Monsignor John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University, which addresses critical urban problems. She brings a wealth of experience from her work in local communities, in politics and policy making, and in conceptual and programmatic leadership. Hollander received an honorary doctorate from Millikin University in 2001, and DePaul University in 2003.

Sharon Shields
Plenary Speaker
Vanderbilt University

Faith, Vocation, Communities, and Transformation:
The Interconnections of Personal, Professional, and Social Passions
Friday Morning, June 2, 2006

Sharon is Professor in the Practice of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. Her interests focus on community health and human issues. She teaches courses that move students into strong university/campus service-learning partnerships that foster movement toward civic engagement and active citizenship. Sharon has worked on various national curriculums, has published articles related to service-learning teaching, and has been deeply engaged in the Community Outreach Partnership Center Grant at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies.

Dwight Giles
Consultant and Summary Panel

Dwight along with Janet Eyler authored the book, Where's the Learning in Service-learning? which has become a classic in the field.

Other Resource Persons

Other participants who have been invited include scholars from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, Campus Compact, and other leading scholars in the service-learning field.

Faith Traditions, Spirituality, and Service-Learning Conference

Messiah College
June 1-3, 2006

Program Schedule
Tentative: Subject to change

Thursday, June 1

3:00-7:00 p.m. Check-in and registration (Miller-Hess Lounge)
5:00-6:00 p.m. Dinner (Lottie Nelson Dining Room, Eisenhower Campus Center)

7:00 p.m. Evening Plenary Session (Parmer Cinema, Boyer 137)

~Who Are We?
Judy Hutchinson
Azusa Pacific University

~ Plenary Keynote Address
Elizabeth Hollander
Executive Director, National Campus Compact
Education for faith, spirituality, and active citizenship:
compatible or conflicting aims?

Reception to Follow (Howe Atrium, Boyer Hall)

Friday, June 2

7:00-8:00 a.m. Breakfast (Lottie Nelson Dining Room, Eisenhower Campus Center)
8:00-8:20 a.m. Spiritual Reflection (Parmer Cinema, Boyer Hall 137)
8:30-10:00 a.m. Breakout Sessions

Option 1: Workshop

~ Critical Thinking in Service-Learning
Char Gray
Pennsylvanis Campus Compact

Option 2: Service-Learning Applications

~ Service-Learning in the Information Sciences at a Christian College
Brian Nejmeh
Messiah College

~ Service Learning While Playing a Business Game: a Win-Win All Around
A.Andrea Licari and Albert C. Ovedovitz
St. John's University

~ The Ins and Outs of Required Service-Learning: Insights and Outcomes
Amy Doolittle
University of Louisville

Option 3: Serving the Community from a Faith-Based Perspective

~ Service-learning, Civic Engagement, & Education for Justice: A Faith-Based Perspective
Rhonda Waskiewicz
University of Scranton

~ Freely Ye Received, Freely Give: The Challenge of Serving the World at a Church of Christ University
Regan H. Schaffer
Pepperdine University

~ Building Effective Community Partnerships with Vocational Exploration
Heather Y. Z. St. Peters
Taylor University

10:00-10:30 a.m. Break (Howe Atrium, Boyer Hall)

10:30-12:00 Plenary Session (Parmer Cinema, Boyer Hall 137)

Welcome
President Kim Phipps
Messiah College

Plenary Session
Sharon Shields
Vanderbilt University
Faith, Vocation, Communities, and Transformation:
The Interconnections of Personal, Professional, and Social Passions

12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch (Lottie Nelson Dining Room, Eisenhower Campus Center)

1:30-3:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions

Option 1: The Effects of Service-Learning

~ Does Service-Learning at Faith-Based Institutions Really make a Difference?: A Research Study
Brian R. Hoyt
Ohio University

~ Disorienting Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Other Faith-Shaping Stuff: Undergraduate Students Discuss the Spiritual Impact of an International Service-Learning Course
Mark Wm. Radecke
Susquehanna University

~ Shalom, Vocation, and Service: Moving the Bible into Students’ Minds and Hearts and onto the Street
Terry P. McGonigal
Whitworth College

Option 2: Faith Traditions and Service-Learning

~ The Business School Zambia Project: A Catholic & Franciscan Call to Solidarity & Fraternity with Africa
Christopher Dunham and Mark Nolan
St. Bonaventure University

~ Is Service-Learning Too New for Wesleyan-Holiness Higher Ed?
Katherine Moore
Asbury College

~ Beyond the Golden Dome: Catholic Social Tradition and Experiential Learning at Notre Dame
Angela Miller McGraw
University of Notre Dame

Option 3: Service-Learning Applications

~ Creating a Community-Wide Women's Health and Wellness Fair": A Capstone Service-Learning Project
Susan Taylor Fickett
Saint Joseph’s College

~ Service-Learning in the Rural South: Faith-Based Service and Learning at Judson College Mark Wilson
Judson College

~ Coming Later
Adriana Tomasino

3:00-3:30 p.m. Break (Howe Atrium, Boyer Hall)
3:30-5:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions

Option 1: Workshop

~ Organizational Issues: Starting and Sustaining a Service-Learning Program
Judy Hutchinson
Azusa Pacific University

Option 2: Philosophy and Reflection

~ Service-Learning Philosophy & Practice in the Franciscan Tradition
Kevin Smith
Felician College

~ Viewing Service-Learning Reflection Through the Lenses of Faith Tradition
Lina Dee Dostilio and Deanna Minshall
Duquesne University

Option 3: Vocational Calling and Service-Learning

~ Lives in the Balance: College Students’ Search for Meaning and Vocation
Jay W. Brandenberger
University of Notre Dame

~ Calling, Career and Service: Helping Students Navigate the Vocational Maze
William Lamb
Lee University

5:00-6:00 p.m. Dinner (Lottie Nelson Dining Room, Eisenhower Campus Center)

7:00-8:00 A Conversation with Dwight Giles (Parmer Cinema, Boyer Hall 137)

8:00-10:00 Coffee House with Chris Whittacker, Jazz Pianist (Larsen Student Union)

Saturday, June 3

7:00-8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00-8:20 a.m. Spiritual Reflection (Parmer Cinema, Boyer 137)

8:30-10:00 a.m. Breakout Sessions

Option 1: Religious Traditions

~ Knowing Your Roots: Using Religious Traditions to Focus, Justify, and Improve Community Engagement
Carolyne Call
Saint Mary’s College

~ Vincentians in Action: An Interfaith Model for Civic Learning and Spiritual Growth
Karl Nass
DePaul University

Option 2: Service-Learning in Majors

~ Book-Learnin’, Life-Learnin’: A Service-Learning Literature Class Heads for the Hills
Martha Greene Eads and Kelly Cullers
Eastern Mennonite University

~ Water Runs Black: the experience of service learning in environmental chemistry
Tara L.S. Kishbaugh
Eastern Mennonite University

~ Integrating Service and Introductory Sociology: The MMC Experience
Terry Nelson
Mount Marty College

Option 3: Relationship and Reconciliation

~ Building a Community of Reconciliation in Service to the Other
Gilbert I. Bond
Agnes Scott College

~ Christian Faith and Transformation as Reconciled Relationality: A synthesis of reflections from Wheaton College HNGR students regarding the contours and impact of Global Christianity through guided study and cross-cultural immersion experiences in the Global South
Cullen Rodgers-Gates
Wheaton College

10:00-10:30 a.m. Break (Howe Atrium, Boyer Hall)

10:30-12:00 p.m. Concluding Plenary Session (Parmer Cinema, Boyer 137)

~ Where to From Here?
A Panel of “Experts”

12:00 p.m. Lunch (Lottie Nelson Dining Room, Eisenhower Campus Center)

Selected Papers will be published after the conference.

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