Dawn Whitehead giving keynote presentation

Reflections on Higher Impact Study Away

Dawn Whitehead (AAC&U) presented the closing keynote at the Center for Engaged Learning Symposium on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study on June 12, 2017. Watch her talk here: How to…

SLCE future directions project

Toward a National Agenda for SLCE?

In an earlier blog post, we introduced the Service-Learning and Community Engagement Future Directions Project (SLCE-FDP). We invited you to join this learning community and contribute your own thinking in response to the questions: What is your vision for the…

Patti Clayton headshot

Community Members on SLCE Partnerships

Compiled by Patti H. Clayton We are co-educators. That is not our organization’s bottom line, but that’s what we do. [SLCE community partner] This blog post will be a bit different than the others in this series, less an essay and…

SLCE and level of intellectual engagement pyramid

Students as Co-Creators of SLCE

We have to keep striving, not only towards fulfilling the hope that all students will become active citizens, but the intention that they will be active citizens, that they will be committed to changing their own lives and the lives of those…

the engaged graduate student chart

Engaged Education: Not For Undergraduates Only

A decade ago, research suggested that, when it came to graduate education, colleges and universities focused more on disciplinary knowledge than civic engagement, despite the emphasis on the latter at the undergraduate level (Stanton & Wagner, 2006). Graduate students in…

Elon University Ghana Winter Term 2013

How confident are we in what we know about global learning?

As part of the second meeting of the Center’s research seminar on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience, CEL director Jessie Moore led the participants and co-leaders through an activity similar to Stephen Brookfield’s Truth Statements (Discussion as a…

Service Learning book covers

SLCE Scholarship: Broadening the Who, the Where, and the What

Throughout these blog posts we use the term “practitioner-scholar” to refer to anyone who partners in SLCE with a spirit of inquiry; connects their practice, learning, and curiosity with others; and thereby advances knowledge and practice. “Practice” in SLCE includes…

Dawn Whitehead headshot

Registration is Open

Registration is now open for the Center for Engaged Learning Symposium on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher-Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study. The symposium, which will be held June 11-12, 2017, at Elon University features a keynote…