CELTS offer Faculty Seminars in Service-Learning that provide faculty members an intensive opportunity to explore service-learning through readings and discussions. By the end of the seminar, each of the faculty participants develops a service-learning course and syllabus, which s/he teaches during the following academic year.
Feedback from the faculty participants indicates that they appreciate this opportunity to build community with other faculty members and to focus intentionally on developing their knowledge and understanding of service-learning. Several faculty have stated that they feel the seminar has improved not only their teaching of service-learning, but that their teaching in general has improved through their participation in the seminar.
"Being a [service-learning seminar participant] also has engaged me in some very thrilling and inspiring conversations with others who believe that service learning is a powerful tool in education."
- Deborah Martin,
Assistant Director of
Theatre and Director of the Theatre Laboratory
“I've
found the readings and discussions to be particularly useful
in defining how I can make service learning work and for clarifying
which models of service learning I can use.”
- Jim Dontje,
Compton Chair of Ecological
Design
“It has been very helpful to meet
on a regular basis with folks who are as interested in service-learning
as I am. The discussions are thought provoking and continue
to deepen my understanding of what service learning is all about.”
- Kris Wright,
Associate Professor of Physical
Education and Health
The faculty who have completed the seminar thus far represent the following disciplines: Agriculture, Appalachian Studies, Business, Chemistry, Child and Family Studies, Computer Science, Economics, Education, English, Health and Physical Education, History, Nursing, Psychology, Religion, SENS, Sociology, Theatre, and Women’s Studies.
Syllabus
Spring 2004 Faculty Fellows
in Service-Learning
- Scott Steele, Economics and Business
- Michelle Tooley, Religion
- Deborah Martin, Theatre
- Janice Blythe, Child and Family Studies
- Rob Smith, Psychology
- Jim
Dontje, Sustainability and Environmental Studies (SENS)
Fall 2004 Faculty
Fellows in Service-Learning
- Richard Olson, SENS
- Pam Farley, Nursing
- Susan Spalding, Physical Education and Health
- Kris Wright, Physical Education and Health
- Libby Jones, English
- Tammy Clemons, Women’s Studies
Spring 2005 Faculty Fellows in Service-Learning
- Margaret Dotson, Education Studies
- Martha
Beagle, Physical Education and Health
- Debbi Brock, Business and Entrepreneurship for
the Public Good
- Lori Briscoe, Appalachian Center and SENS
- Carol Kirby, Nursing
Fall 2005 Faculty Fellows in Service-Learning
- Jeff Nelson, Sociology and Entrepreneurship for the Public
Good
- Susan Yorde, Child and Family Studies
- Dianne Hellwig, Agriculture
- Jill
Bouma, Sociology
- Linda Strong Leek, Women’s
Studies
- Dianne Sykes, Sociology
- Melody Srsic, Physical Education and Health (not pictured)
Spring 2006 Faculty Fellows in
Service-Learning
- Rodney Clark, Theatre
- Dwayne Mack, History
- Connie Richmond, Nursing
- Paul Smithson, Chemistry and Sustainability and Environmental
Studies
- Stephanie Woodie, Physical Education and Health
- Billy Schumann, Appalachian Studies
Summer 2007 Seminar in Service-Learning Participants
- Chad Berry, History and Appalachian Studies
- Kate Egerton, English
- Mario Nakazawa, Computer Science
- Caryn Vazzana, Economic
Summer 2008 Seminar in Service-Learning Participants
- Roni DeLaO Kerns, Nursing
- Ron Spangler, Technology and Industrial Arts
- Billy Wooten, Speech Communication
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