WELCOME Wednesday January 10, 2007 The American Democracy Project Presented By: Dr. Mary Campbell The Redbird Outreach Program Presented By: Josh Gillespie,

WELCOMEWednesday January 10, 2007

WELCOMEWednesday January 10, 2007

The American Democracy ProjectPresented By: Dr. Mary Campbell

The Redbird Outreach ProgramPresented By: Josh Gillespie, Brenton Kane,

and Laura Myren

The American Democracy ProjectPresented By: Dr. Mary Campbell

The Redbird Outreach ProgramPresented By: Josh Gillespie, Brenton Kane,

and Laura Myren

American Democracy Project

American Democracy Project

• “The American Democracy Project focuses on the development of informed graduates who are committed to lives of engagement as citizens in our democracy”.

American Association of State Colleges and Universities www.aascu.org

• “The American Democracy Project focuses on the development of informed graduates who are committed to lives of engagement as citizens in our democracy”.

American Association of State Colleges and Universities www.aascu.org

The American Democracy Project

The American Democracy Project

• Intends to increase student’s understanding of what it takes for a democracy to thrive

• Intends to involve students in understanding current issues in their campus and larger community

• Move students along toward becoming active members of communities

• Intends to increase student’s understanding of what it takes for a democracy to thrive

• Intends to involve students in understanding current issues in their campus and larger community

• Move students along toward becoming active members of communities

Institutional Culture

Institutional Culture

Illinois State University Mission Statement

We at Illinois State University work as a diverse community of scholars with a commitment to fostering a small-college atmosphere with large-university opportunities.

We promote the highest academic standards in our teaching, our scholarship and the connections we build between them.

We devote all of our resources and energies to creating the most supportive and productive community possible to serve the citizens of Illinois and beyond.

Illinois State University Mission Statement

We at Illinois State University work as a diverse community of scholars with a commitment to fostering a small-college atmosphere with large-university opportunities.

We promote the highest academic standards in our teaching, our scholarship and the connections we build between them.

We devote all of our resources and energies to creating the most supportive and productive community possible to serve the citizens of Illinois and beyond.

Definition of Civic Engagement

Definition of Civic Engagement

• “Working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation to make that difference”

• > Thomas Ehrlich, Ed. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education 2000

• “Working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation to make that difference”

• > Thomas Ehrlich, Ed. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education 2000

• “…higher education can do more than develop verbal skills and deposit information…It can contribute to more complex kinds of intellectual development and to more pervasive dimensions of human development required for effective citizenship”. (page 7)

• David Kolb Speaking for Experiential Education

• “…higher education can do more than develop verbal skills and deposit information…It can contribute to more complex kinds of intellectual development and to more pervasive dimensions of human development required for effective citizenship”. (page 7)

• David Kolb Speaking for Experiential Education

Service Learning provides:

Service Learning provides:

• A much greater opportunity for students to become actively involved in their own learning experience

• A much greater and more meaningful opportunity for students to interact with each other

• A much greater opportunity to interact with the larger campus and community

• An opportunity to validate theoretical knowledge through application and reflection

• A much greater opportunity for students to become actively involved in their own learning experience

• A much greater and more meaningful opportunity for students to interact with each other

• A much greater opportunity to interact with the larger campus and community

• An opportunity to validate theoretical knowledge through application and reflection

• For the testing of abstract thoughts in a ‘community’ laboratory

• For enhanced opportunities for reflective thinking and reflective writing

• Opportunities for students to assign meaning to the knowledge and the experience

• For the beginning of the internalization of recently acquired knowledge

• For the testing of abstract thoughts in a ‘community’ laboratory

• For enhanced opportunities for reflective thinking and reflective writing

• Opportunities for students to assign meaning to the knowledge and the experience

• For the beginning of the internalization of recently acquired knowledge

• They have not just ‘heard’ from faculty….they have experienced

• The interconnectedness of knowledge and experience increases future involvement

• They have not just ‘heard’ from faculty….they have experienced

• The interconnectedness of knowledge and experience increases future involvement

Social Work Intervention With

Communities

Social Work Intervention With

Communities• Most Social Work students plan

to become ‘therapist’• Have been required ‘to do’

community service for major• Sr. level class integrates

knowledge and application of community organizing

• Most Social Work students plan to become ‘therapist’

• Have been required ‘to do’ community service for major

• Sr. level class integrates knowledge and application of community organizing

• H.O.P.E> Hearing Our Personal

Stories

• H.O.P.E> Hearing Our Personal

Stories

Foundations for Service Learning: Range of

Perceptions

Foundations for Service Learning: Range of

Perceptions• SERVICE

• Service learning, when built on social foundations…….will result in a better world

• Service learning to align with faith, values, world view

• Societal context

• SERVICE

• Service learning, when built on social foundations…….will result in a better world

• Service learning to align with faith, values, world view

• Societal context

• LEARNING

• Service learning when built on pedagogic foundations…..will result in enhanced student learning

• Service learning to fulfill curricular requirements

• Institutional context

• LEARNING

• Service learning when built on pedagogic foundations…..will result in enhanced student learning

• Service learning to fulfill curricular requirements

• Institutional context

Service Learning In the CurriculumService Learning In the Curriculum

• Freshman to Senior Experience

• Capstone Experiences• Honors Seminars• General Education• Majors• Curriculum-Based

Alternative Spring Breaks

• Interdisciplinary Courses

• Freshman to Senior Experience

• Capstone Experiences• Honors Seminars• General Education• Majors• Curriculum-Based

Alternative Spring Breaks

• Interdisciplinary Courses

Integrated Learning Model

Development of Critical Thought (Assessment of the process)

Conceptual Knowledge (Theoretical lens)

Experiential Learning(Making meaning out of experience)

Reflective Learning(Integration of conceptual & experiential knowledge)

Intervention(Professional response to a problem)Theory based –validated in experience

(Cummins & Campbell, 1995)

Redbird Outreach Program

MQM 380 Teams And Team DevelopmentDr. Dale Fitzgibbons

Fall 2006

Redbird Outreach Program

MQM 380 Teams And Team DevelopmentDr. Dale Fitzgibbons

Fall 2006

Mission StatementMission Statement

Our mission is to encourage civic engagement and impact student education through a curriculum-integrated service learning program. We hope to foster the development of students to be citizens that are more socially involved, aware, and sensitive to the community and its values.

Our mission is to encourage civic engagement and impact student education through a curriculum-integrated service learning program. We hope to foster the development of students to be citizens that are more socially involved, aware, and sensitive to the community and its values.

GoalsGoals

• Create a website hosting projects• Collect projects from non-profit and social service organizations to be completed by students

• Encourage faculty to incorporate these projects into their curriculum

• Improve the relationship between ISU and the community

• Create a website hosting projects• Collect projects from non-profit and social service organizations to be completed by students

• Encourage faculty to incorporate these projects into their curriculum

• Improve the relationship between ISU and the community

What Is Redbird Outreach Program?What Is Redbird

Outreach Program?• A service helping faculty connect with non-profit and social service organizations in order to create learning opportunities for students

• A website faculty will be able to use to incorporate projects into their courses

• A website that offers projects to link the needs of the community with students’ abilities

• A service helping faculty connect with non-profit and social service organizations in order to create learning opportunities for students

• A website faculty will be able to use to incorporate projects into their courses

• A website that offers projects to link the needs of the community with students’ abilities

Steps TakenSteps Taken

• Contact agencies, faculty and department heads

• Host informational meetings for organizations

• Collect contact information from Bloomington-Normal non-profit and social service organizations

• Create preliminary website

• Contact agencies, faculty and department heads

• Host informational meetings for organizations

• Collect contact information from Bloomington-Normal non-profit and social service organizations

• Create preliminary website

BenefitsBenefits

• Provide knowledgeable student volunteers to meet the needs of the community

• Improves the relationship between ISU and the community

• Add value to the educational process by creating real world learning opportunities

• Website that creates an area of convergence for faculty and social service organizations

• Provide knowledgeable student volunteers to meet the needs of the community

• Improves the relationship between ISU and the community

• Add value to the educational process by creating real world learning opportunities

• Website that creates an area of convergence for faculty and social service organizations

Results…Results…

• Have ensured participation of approximately 15 agencies including: The Baby Fold, Midwest Food Bank, Ecology Action Center, Project Oz, and Chestnut Health Systems

• Documented faculty contact information for future reference

• Have ensured participation of approximately 15 agencies including: The Baby Fold, Midwest Food Bank, Ecology Action Center, Project Oz, and Chestnut Health Systems

• Documented faculty contact information for future reference

Website Results…Website Results…

• Lets check it out!!

• http://www04.iwss.ilstu.edu/index.shtml

• Lets check it out!!

• http://www04.iwss.ilstu.edu/index.shtml

Past ExamplesPast Examples

• Volunteer database: business data management

• Nutrition handouts: family and consumer sciences

• Weekend camp for disabled: kinesiology and recreation

• Autism society of McLean county: psychology

• Volunteer database: business data management

• Nutrition handouts: family and consumer sciences

• Weekend camp for disabled: kinesiology and recreation

• Autism society of McLean county: psychology

A Proposed Project From The Baby FoldA Proposed Project From The Baby Fold

• Internal audit control procedures project:-Internal audits are to be established agency wide for petty cash, billing, accounts payables, etc. as determined for a nonprofit agency with 273 employees. -Procedures are to be in written form with clear direction so it can be easily passed on to internal accounting staff.

• Internal audit control procedures project:-Internal audits are to be established agency wide for petty cash, billing, accounts payables, etc. as determined for a nonprofit agency with 273 employees. -Procedures are to be in written form with clear direction so it can be easily passed on to internal accounting staff.

Another Example Project

Another Example Project

• Depreciation calculations from access database-Requires a calculation function of monthly depreciation from an access database using visual basic -Programming must be documented in order to pass on to the users in the accounting department and the information systems department

• Depreciation calculations from access database-Requires a calculation function of monthly depreciation from an access database using visual basic -Programming must be documented in order to pass on to the users in the accounting department and the information systems department

Non-profit organization’s

Concerns

Non-profit organization’s

Concerns• What can they do? • How can we be sure the project will get done?

• How much time will they have to take?

• What is the time constraint? • What is the scope?

• What can they do? • How can we be sure the project will get done?

• How much time will they have to take?

• What is the time constraint? • What is the scope?

The FutureThe Future

• Inspiration• Foundation on which to build• Continued commitment

• Inspiration• Foundation on which to build• Continued commitment

Questions???Questions???

THANK YOU FOR COMING!!

THANK YOU FOR COMING!!