MACC Conference

Hello,
Folks have emailed me requesting a full list of conference presentations
for the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Campus Compact conference on April 5,
2002.  So here it is!

For registration fees and hotel information, please download the
conference registration form at www.tufts.edu/as/macc/conference.htm
Campus Compact member pricing applies to all members of national Campus
Compact.  Please go to www.compact.org if you are unsure of your
institution’s membership.

--Karley.

The Second Annual Statewide Conference of the Massachusetts Campus
Compact
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD
April 4 & 5, 2002, Lincoln Campus Center
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Co-Sponsored by:  Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Providence
College, Rhode Island Campus Compact, and UMASS Amherst Commonwealth
College.

FULL LISTING OF APRIL 5 WORKSHOPS (workshop titles and presenters are
subject to change):
Note:  There will be two workshop blocks followed by one block of
discussion seminars led by conference presenters and others.

--x-- A Changing World --x--
*Civic Innovation in a Changing America: Community Empowerment, Public
Policy,and the Movement for Civic Renewal (Carmen Sirianni, Professor of
Sociology and Public Policy, Brandeis University)

*Service-learning and nonviolent social change (Keith Morton, Director,
Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Providence College)

*Educating the next generation of active citizens (Elizabeth Hollander,
Executive Director, Campus Compact)

*The Community College as an Agent of Social Change (Wayne Burton,
President, North Shore Community College and Hermelinda Murrell, Student
Trustee)

*Place Defines Vision: Moving Beyond A One-Size-Fits-All Philosophy of
Service (Peter Hocking, Director, Howard R. Swearer Center for Public
Service, Brown University)

*Serving locally...reflecting globally...linking globally! (Dale Bryan,
Assistant Director, Peace and Justice Studies program,Tufts University)

*Disasters in a Democracy:  Lessons from Service Learning (Donna Killian
Duffy, Professor of Psychology, Middlesex Community College)



--x-- Community Partnerships and Diversity Issues --x--
*Changing the world one system at a time (Jim Tull, community activist)

*Partnerships: A community based perspective on service learning.  (Jim
Tull, community activist and Keith Morton, Director, Feinstein Institute
for Public Service, Providence College )

*Grant writing for Success (Mary Walachy, Executive Director, Davis
Foundation, and Nancy Reiche, Vice Preseident for Programsm Community
Foundation of Western MA)

*Service-Learning in Rural Communities: A Problem-Based Approach (Liz
McCabe Park, Executive Director, Maine Campus Compact; Libbey Seigars,
Director of Experiential Programs, Unity College; and Erin Swezey,
Community Service Director, Saint Joseph’s College)

*Enhancing Multicultural Competence through Service-Learning:
Communicating Across Cultures (Michelle Dunlap, Associate Professor of
Human Development, Connecticut College)

*Faculty Civic Engagement in Ethnically, Culturally, and Economically
Diverse Communities (Robert Hawkins, Educational Programs Director,
University College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University)

*Educating Your Legislators: The How’s and Why’s (Maureen Curley,
Executive Director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance)

*The Pits and Peaks of Service-Learning in the City (Jain
Ruvidich-Higgins, Director of the UMASS Boston Office of
Service-Learning and Community Outrearch; Suzanne Allmendinger,Director
of Community Outreach for the College of Public and Community Service
(CPCS) at UMASS Boston; Joan Arches, Associate Professor in Community
Planning and Human Services at CPCS at UMASS Boston)

*Building Partnerships for the Long Haul:  Views from Community
Organizations" (John Reiff, , Director, Office of Community Service
Learning, UMASS Amherst; Denise Green, Amherst Regional Middle School;
Dennis Meehan, Amherst Survival Center; Renee Moss, Big Brothers/Big
Sisters; and a representative from the 21st Century Community Learning
Centers)

*Issues of White Privilege in Service-formal title TBA (Tania Mitchell,
Doctoral Student, UMASS Amherst)



--x-- Multiple Approaches to Civic Engagement --x--
*Service Learning to Strengthen Student Development (Arthur Chickering,
Research Professor at the New England Resource Center for Higher
Education and Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Vermont College
campus of The Union Institute)

*Reward systems and structures in academic communities (KerryAnn
O’Meara, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of
Massachusetts Amherst)

*Reflection on Service (Janet Eyler, Professor of the Practice of
Education, Vanderbilt University)

*Effective Service-Learning: What We Know and What We Need to Know"
(Janet Eyler, Professor of the Practice of Education, Vanderbilt
University)

*Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Linking Service,Travel, and
Academics through the Curriculum-based Alternative Break (Mindy
Nierenberg, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Service Learning
and Community Outreach,Massachusetts College of Art; Art Keene,
Professor of Anthropology at UMASS Amherst; and Levin Sibley-Schwartz,
MACC AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader)

*Tutoring and Mentoring for Social Justice (John Reiff, Director, Office
of Community Service Learning, UMASS Amherst; Stephanie Evans, UMASS
Amherst graduate student and instructor of "Mentoring Youth of Color"
Course)

*Connecting K-12 and Higher Education in Fostering Civic Engagement
Across the Continuum (Julie Bartsch, Education Consultant with Rural
School and Community Trust)



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Karley Ausiello
Associate Director
Massachusetts Campus Compact
Lincoln Filene Center
Tufts University
Medford, MA  02155
(617) 627-3965
karley.ausiello@tufts.edu


Join MACC and leaders in the field at our second annual conference,
"Civic Engagement Today and Tomorrow: Critical Issues in a Changing
World," on April 4 and 5 at UMASS Amherst. Check the MACC website at
http://www.tufts.edu/as/macc for details, including our exciting lineup
of presenters and pre-conference institutes.