[OSU-SLSR] SLSR Update for 1/6/2012

[Harmony Cox]

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Ohio State Service-Learning News

Service-Learning Assessment Workshop on January 23rd, 2012  A recent study<http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/1789-9723-1-PB.pdf> suggests that sustained institutional  participation in service-learning can be effective in fostering a greater culture of community engagement in academic institutions. While this is an important finding, there is still limited data to support these claims, so it is important for us as an institution to measure and track the impact of our outreach. This workshop is the first step.  The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in service-learning research and assessment, from both inside and outside of OSU. This workshop will take place on Monday, January 23rd 2012 from 11:30am-1:00pm. If you are interested in attending and have not yet gotten the chance to RSVP, please contact Harmony Cox at hcox at esue.ohio-state.edu<mailto:hcox at esue.ohio-state.edu>.

Service profiled in onCampus The newest edition of onCampus has two articles that highlight service's role at Ohio State. One is a feature on Dr. Valerie Kinloch. Her program, "Bringing Learning to Life", is a service-learning project that works to bring service-learning into Columbus's K-12 classrooms. This project represents a partnership between Ohio State, the National Education Association, and the Columbus Education Association. To read the article and learn more about this exciting project, please go here:  http://oncampus.osu.edu/2012/01/this-could-be-the-start-of-a-beautiful-and-healthy-relationship/ The paper also includes an excellent profile on Schweitzer Fellow Michelle Caster and her work to begin an exercise and nutrition project at a local charter school.  Learn more about the Schweitzer Fellowship supports her work and other civically-engaged students at Ohio State here: http://oncampus.osu.edu/2012/01/living-the-schweitzer-legacy/ We're excited that onCampus is sharing the way these great projects serve our community!

Positions and Opportunities

JHEOE Call For Manuscripts The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement has called for manuscripts related to their special issue on the themes of the 2011 National Outreach Scholarship Conference. The themes are broad and manuscripts are invited in many formats (research articles, reflective essays, projects with promise, practice stories from the field, etc.). All manuscripts should be submitted to http://www.jheoe.uga.edu<http://www.jheoe.uga.edu> by February 20th, 2011. For submission guidelines, please visit http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/pages/view/submissions.

Resources

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health CCPH is a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. Their goals are to leverage the wisdom and experience in communities and in academic institutions to solve pressing challenges, ensure that community-driven social change is central to the work of community-academic partnerships, and build the capacity of communities<http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html> and academic institutions to engage each other in partnerships that balance power, share resources, and work towards systems change. They are advancing these goals in their work on a daily basis through service-learning, community-based participatory research and other community-academic partnerships.  Learn more about their work and access their resources here:  http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/index.html

Sincerely,

Ola Ahlqvist and Harmony Cox
Service-Learning Initiative



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