[OSU-SLSR] SLSR Update for 02/22/2012

Wed Feb 22 17:26:43 EST 2012

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Ohio State Service-Learning News

Check out our Service-Learning Digital Stories Archive! The Service-Learning Initiative's Digital Stories page has been updated with videos of 9 brand-new service stories from students. It's a great way to find out about different service-learning courses, and to learn about them from students themselves! Check them out here:  http://service-learning.osu.edu/service-learning-digital-stories.html If you have a story you'd like to see on our webpage, let us know!

Service-Learning Coffee Hour: To promote service-learning scholarship at Ohio State it is vital for us to engage with colleagues on the national level. The Service-Learning Initiative coffee hour in March will encourage research and scholarship. Come learn from past attendees and presenters at the National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) and the International Association of Researchers for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (IARSLCE). The coffee hour will take place at 1116 Derby Hall from 9am to 10am on Friday, March 16th. RSVP to Harmony at hcox at esue.ohio-state.edu<mailto:hcox at esue.ohio-state.edu>. We hope to see you there!

Help Us Promote Our Service-Learning Student Update list! The Service-Learning Student Update (SLSU) list is a new companion to the SLSR (this newsletter), and provides information and opportunities specifically geared towards students. To help promote it, we've created a webpage and an archive for it here:  http://service-learning.osu.edu/service-learning-student-updates1.html We would really love to see your students subscribe! Please forward the link and attached information to any students that you believe would be interested. Our next student mailing comes out this Friday, so please help us spread it around!

Service-Learning Course Spotlight
In order to help faculty and students make connections to upcoming service-learning courses, we will seek to spotlight a unique service-learning course in each newsletter. If you're interested in having your course featured like this, please email us at hcox at esue.ohio-state.edu<mailto:hcox at esue.ohio-state.edu>.

Engineering 692: Service-Learning in Engineering This engineering class works with two sites: an orphanage in Montana de Luz, and a vocational school in Choluteca. The course focuses on cultural awareness, problem solving, and international service learning. Students in the course identify and analyze the impact of sustainable technology on a developing country, devise practical and sustainable Engineering solutions that involve partnerships with the local entity or community, and participate in a Study Abroad experience to implement team-based projects and to document the lessons learned. Listen to one student's story at  http://youtu.be/S6uQsf1gZ1Q. For more information, please contact John Merrill at  merrill.25 at osu.edu<mailto:merrill.25 at osu.edu> or view the course webpage at  https://eeic.osu.edu/course/engineer-692-service-learning-engineering .

Resources and Opportunities

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): Addressing Social and Environmental Disparities through Community Geography and Geographic Information Systems This opportunity at Georgia State University is funded by the National Science Foundation. Working with faculty mentors, 10 selected undergraduates will engage in community-based research and fieldwork to quantitatively and qualitatively examine neighborhood change, property markets, air and soil quality, urban green spaces, and neighborhood visioning in partnership with neighborhood residents and community groups. The program runs June 18th - August 2nd and each REU student will receive a competitive funding package.  Applications are due Friday, March 23rd @ 5 PM EST. See  http://csaw.gsu.edu/nsf-reu/ for more information.  This program is a great example of how community based research can get serious funding, and we encourage anyone interested to learn more about it.

2012 NOSC Call for Proposals The Call for Proposals is now open for the 13th Annual Meeting of the National Outreach Scholarship Conference<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=vnfh5neab&et=1109324945372&s=6814&e=001Vip_PL8kKsaM1iIJhEdk56aSoKneUmkbBuseKwjo0q3ghtQAa2HiHh9xXsliCr0_QotiIJHCwyLISN3S8PCJkW-Q_Fyvn9PZFzuB00b6dig=> (NOSC).  NOSC's goal is to work collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity. They are seeking proposals for three tracks: The Voice of the Faculty and Staff, The Voice of the Student, and The Voice of the Community Partner. This year's event is hosted by The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on September 30 - October 3, 2012. To learn more about the conference, please visit  http://www.nosc2012.ua.edu/proposals.html or visit our coffee hour on March 16th (see above).

Events

Service-Learning Research Workshop at Walsh University This two-day workshop will focus on integrating service-learning practice with research and scholarship. Participants will identify their own service-learning related questions and associated research and practice designs, apply conceptual frameworks for service-learning and for research to their work, articulate characteristics of high quality scholarship related to service-learning, compare and contrast examples of service-learning related scholarship, and analyze, refine, and apply to themselves the concept of "civic minded scholar. The workshop will take place at Walsh University's Barette Business and Community Center on Tuesday, May 8th and Wednesday, May 9th. To register or request more information, please contact Beth Juelich-Velotta at ejuelich at walsh.edu<mailto:ejuelich at walsh.edu> or visit http://bit.ly/wxHD1m.

Sincerely,

Ola Ahlqvist and Harmony Cox
Service-Learning Initiative

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