[OSU-SLSR] Welcome Back! News & Updates from the Office of Service-Learning

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Ohio State Service-Learning News
OAE Strategic Planning Underway
As many of you know, Service-Learning is now part of the Office of Academic Enrichment (OAE) within the Office of Student Academic Success (OSAS).  OAE is embarking on a strategic planning process to develop a 3-year strategic plan for OAE, to commence in Au20.  This plan will support the OSAS strategic plan with corresponding initiatives, action items, timelines, metrics, and accountabilities.  Subcommittees for Service-Learning, University Honors & Scholars Center, STEP, and Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry will work during this process to develop practice-specific priorities that OAE will strategically combine to leverage operational synergies.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates as this process unfolds!  There will be many opportunities for stakeholders to provide input into the process over the next few months.

Community Partner Highlight
With a new school year upon us, now is a great time to consider the Columbus Metropolitan Library, one of our largest community partners.  All CML locations have a Homework Help Center for K-12 students, and Ohio State students are an important part of these Centers as volunteers.  Any course can easily incorporate service at the HHCs as an introduction to service-learning.  Additionally, CML's volunteer coordinating team is open to working with Ohio State faculty to develop unique service activities for your course.  From language, literacy and youth development to technology literacy and STEM fields, CML has an impressive impact on our community and can help your students apply their learning to help the community!
For more information: https://www.columbuslibrary.org/hhc or email slearning at osu.edu<mailto:slearning at osu.edu> to be put in touch with the volunteer team to help develop your service-learning activity

Resources and Opportunities
Ohio Inspiring Practices conference now accepting proposals
The 2020 Ohio Inspiring Practices: Achieving Student Success in Undergraduate Education conference is now accepting proposals.  The conference will take place on February 26, 2020 at the Gardner Institute at Capital University.  This is an opportunity to share promising practices that inspire both educators and students.

For more information: https://www.jngi.org/ohio-undergraduate-education
IARSCLE and Imagining America conferences to take place in Albuquerque this October
The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and Imagining America will both hold their annual events in mid-October in Albuquerque this year.  This provides a convenient opportunity to attend two impactful conferences.  Imagining America's 20th Anniversary National Gathering will take place Oct. 17-19, with belonging, indigeneity, and migration as framing concepts for consideration of how we define, design, and foster belonging in our home communities and as a nation state.  IARSLCE's annual conference will take place Oct. 23-25, focusing on research taking place in distinct locations around the globe as well as efforts to understand engagement that crosses international and other borders.
For more information: https://imaginingamerica.org/national-gathering/ and http://www.researchslce.org/conferences/
Registration for Compact20 national conference is now open
We are just 200 days away from the Campus Compact National Conference, which will take place March 29 - April 1, 2020 in Seattle, WA!  The conference will explore the theme: The Promise of Full Participation: Democracy, Opportunity, Voice.  Presentations representing work undertaken through public, private, two-year, four-year, and graduate colleges and universities, along with organizations outside of higher education, including community-based partners will be included.  Discounted registration is available to all faculty and staff of Ohio State as a Campus Compact member institution.

For more information:  https://conference.compact.org/

Sincerely,

Ola Ahlqvist and Claire Sweigart
Office of Service-Learning at Ohio State

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