Incorporating Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility in the Classroom, on Campus, and in the Community

Periclean Colleges and Universities • • • Bethune-Cookman University • • • Elon University • The Evergreen State College• • • • • New England College The New School • • Pace University • • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • • St. Mary's College of Maryland • • • Wagner College • Widener University • The

Project Pericles appreciates the generous support of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Teagle Foundation, and the Eugene M. Lang Foundation Creating Curricular Coherence - Macalester College Geography Faculty Member Interview Questions • What courses do you teach that may have a public component? • How do you define these activities? • Required or optional public component? • What does this public component look like? Report, papers, service, etc. • Set or ongoing community relationship for their classes • If so which one? • What kind of community relationship is it? How it is utilized? • How did you make these connections? Professional, personal • Who made the connections? • How do you prepare your students to work with the community? • Conversations about ethics? Public work? Power and privilege? Geography Faculty Member Interview Questions

• What do you currently utilize as a way to sustain the community relationships? • What would you need to maintain or strengthen these connections?

• As a part of your classes, how do you help students document or reflect on their work both for themselves and their careers? • What do you need to improve the documentation and reflection, to help students to make more vocational connections?

• How much do you consider yourself a public scholar? • When did you start identifying as a public scholar? How did your academic identity form? • Some examples? • Do you see yourself moving toward that direction Geography Faculty Member Interview Questions • In your opinion, what role should public work play in the geography curriculum? Conversely, what role should geography/geographers play in public work?

• What are your biggest joys and frustrations when doing public work with your students • How about when you work on public scholarship?

• To what extent do you think public scholarship should be a component of undergraduate geography education? A concentration, an optional selection, or a requirement?

• At what point in the curriculum should students encounter public work? Department Comparison Survey History & Geography

• A major requirement, minor requirement, optional?

• Utilized in department mission, recruitment, etc.?

• Showed evidence of a specific pathway and/or scaffold for student learning?

• Utilized sustained partnerships?

• Was connected to such aspects as vocational exploration, study away, etc. Macalester College History Department Curriculum Map - Fall 2017

HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST HIST 28- 294 EE HIST HIST 394 394 Learning Goals Learning Objectives 122 [BS- 180 194 SLG 209 219 222 225 226 229 234 236 252 275 276 294 RIE 343 353 378 490 137 [LS] 181 [LS] 235 [LS] 256 [LS] 281 [EC] 284 [EC] [EC] WW 379 [LS] 381 [EC] DCOL [J RONDO H] [KV] [JP] [CM] [CM] [KP] [KP] [KP] [CM] [CW] [CW] [KV] [YhT] [YhT] [JP] [CW] [KV] [YhT] [KV] [JP] P] [CM]

LO1: Generate substantive, open-ended I I I I R I I R R R R I I I M I R R R I R R R M R M R M M I M questions about the past

LG1: Apply methods that are important LO2: Develop appropriate research I I I I I I R R R R I I I I R I I R R I I R R M R M M I M for undertaking research in History strategies

LO3: Analyze, process, and present I I R I I I I R R R I R I R M R R I R R R I I M R R R M M I M information

LO1: Identify, summarize, appraise, and synthesize other scholars’ historical I I R I I R R R I R R R R I I I R R R R R R M R R M M arguments LG2: Learn about existing scholarship LO2: Sift, organize, question, synthesize, on a topic and engage with that I R I I I R R R I R R R I I I R R R R R M R M I M M I R and interpret complex material scholarship in preparing an argument

LO3: Inserts own analysis within an I I I I R I I I I R R I R R I R R R R M R M I R M I R existing debate

LO1: Students understand and can explain History as a process (“doing I I I R I I I R I R I M R I I I R R R R R M R M M I M LG3: Consider the ways that History”) contingency and context shaped the LO2: Students understand and can way people acted and thought in the explain History as a content area R R R R I R I R R R R I R I R I R I R R R R R R R M R M I M past, and appraise the past on its own (“learning History) terms LO3: Explain multiple causes of complex R R I I R R R R R R I R I M I R M R R R R R M R M R M I M events and understand contingency

LG4: Recognize the nature of historical LO1: Recognize the nature of historical R R R I R I I M R R R R M R R R I I I R R R R M M M M R M evidence evidence

LO1: Critically appraise perspectives of R R I I R R R I R R R R M I I R R R R R R I R M R M M R M historical actors

LG5: Critically appraise perspectives LO2: Students practice civic engagement I I I I R and ethical implications

LO3: Students learn about the I I I R I I I I I R R R I I R M R R responsibilities and ethical implications

LO1: Students can effectively orally I R R I I I R I R I M R R R R R R R R I R M R R M R M communicate their ideas

LO2: Craft a narrative I I I I I I I R I I I I R R R M I I M M I

LO3: Craft an argument I I I I I I I R R I R I I R R I R R R R R R M R R R M M I M

LG6: Communication & Writing LO4: Write for multiple audiences I I R I I R I M R R I M

LO5: Students understand and can describe the disciplinary writing I I I R I I I I I I R I I I I I R R M R I M M M I M mechanics and formatting of History LO6: Students understand and can describe the iterative, creative, and I I R I I I I R I I I R R R M R R M M I M material processes of writing as an academic activity

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This curriculum map was created by indicates students have had sufficient practice and can now Dr. Jacqueline Schiappa, Mellon M demonstrate mastery, the outcome can be assessed following Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Macalester College's Jan Serie Center completion of the course for Scholarship and Teaching Creating Cohesive Pathways for Community Engagement Presented by Ella Turenne With Project Pericles 2018 AAC&U Annual Meeting Pre-Meeting Symposium Wednesday, January 24 The Power of Civic Engagement—Across Campus, Within Communities, Beyond Borders Introduction

➔ Community Engagement at Occidental College

➔ The Partnership for Community Engagement

➔ Other Community Engagement

Creating Cohesive Pathways

A three-year initiative of Project Pericles that reconceptualized the organization and integration of programming for civic engagement and social responsibility (CESR). Oxy’s approach: Comprehensive ● Involving key stakeholders ● Buy-in from senior administrators ● Commitment to exhaustive information gathering ● Survey + Mapping Excerpt: Co-curricular Mapping Excerpt: Curricular Mapping Oxy’s Outcomes

● Visibility of curricular and co-curricular ● Connections between campus-wide engagement ● Evidence to make arguments for more resources ● Recommendation for certificate ● Sense of purpose for the PCE Project Pericles Outcomes

➔ Civic Engagement Requirement

➔ Pathways Approach

➔ Civic Scholars Programs

➔ Certificate Programs

➔ Open Choice Oxy Next Steps

● Role of the PCE

● Development of Certificate Program

● Staffing Takeaways

Mapping = Collaboration is Institutionalization Visibility Key is the Best Strategy Thank you! Contact : [email protected] Website: oxy.edu/community-engagement