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CEL Workshops, Programs, and Opportunities
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CEL on the Water Tower Campus!
Feb. 13th • Feb. 27th • Mar. 20th • Apr. 17th
The Center for Experiential Learning is headed to the Water Tower Campus! The CEL will be hosting downtown editions of the Active Teaching Reading Group and the Write Now! Workshop Series on select Wednesdays from 9:00AM-12:00PM (location TBD). To find out more or get involved, email Susan Harman (shaarman@luc.edu).
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Certificate in Experiential Learning
Feb. 1st • Feb. 15th • Feb. 22nd • Mar. 15th • Mar. 29th
Designed as a flexible series of workshops, this spring's Certificate in Experiential Learning Program explores course design, assessment, civic dialogue, classroom community, and cultural competency. Workshops are held on Fridays from 11:30AM - 1:00PM in Mundelein 1410. Join this year's certificate program here or email Susan Haarman for more information.
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Social Justice Pedagogy
Reading Group
Jan. 29th • Feb. 19th • Mar. 12th • Mar. 26th
As conversations around social justice intensify on the national level, the CEL invites you to explore how you can cultivate a just classroom environment through how you teach. The group meets on select Tuesdays from 11:30AM-12:30PM in Damen 216. Readings and lunch will be provided. To join, email Susan Haarman.
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Active Teaching Reading Group
Jan. 30th • Feb. 20th • Mar. 13th • Mar. 27th
Join us for a reading group centered on James Lang's Small Teaching. Build a toolbox of daily classroom activities and tangible tools for teaching. The group meets on select Wednesdays from 11:30AM-12:30PM in Cuneo 318. Books and lunch will be provided. To join, email Susan Haarman.
On the Water Tower campus and want to join? You can find the details for the Water Tower campus reading group here!
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Write Now! Writing Workshop Series
Feb. 1st • Feb. 15th • Mar. 15th • Mar. 29th
Join us for a series of workshops designed to provide dedicated time and space for scholarship of teaching and learning, community-engaged scholarship, and publicly-engaged writing across the university. Write Now! meets Fridays from 9:00-11:00AM in Cuneo 410 and offers a supportive interdisciplinary atmosphere, guided writing sessions, and refreshments. For more information, email Susan Haarman.
On the Water Tower campus and want to join? You can find the details for the Water Tower campus writing group here!
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Save the Date: Academic Internship Faculty Lunch and Learn Affinity Group
March 27th • 1:00 - 2:30PM • Mundelein 1410
The affinity group is an opportunity for Academic Internship faculty to come together, share resources and best practices of teaching an Engaged Learning course alongside their students who are enrolled in an internship for academic credit. Lunch will be provided. Look out for reservations coming to your email!
Email questions to Dr. Cynthia Stewart at cstewart8@luc.edu.
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The Communities in Solidarity program funds community immersion in engaged learning courses. Apply for up to $500 each semester to help your class connect to Rogers Park and Edgewater. Take your class to a local organization, restaurant or museum or support their Engaged Learning efforts through honoraria for speakers and/or facilitated training from community partners. Apply below!
Priority will be given to participants in the Certificate in Experiential Learning Faculty Development Program.
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Teaching and Learning On Campus
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Share Your Events, Workshops, and Programs!
Do you have an upcoming event, workshop, program, or opportunity related to teaching and learning at Loyola? We'd love to feature them in our monthly newsletter and continue building a vibrant teaching and learning community on campus. To be included in upcoming Engaged Teaching and Learning Newsletter, email us at experiential@luc.edu and include "Engaged Teaching and Learning Newsletter" in the subject.
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JAM: Jobs at Art Museums
Ever wonder what it's like to work at an art museum?
Jobs at Art Museums (JAM) is an all-day museum career awareness event at the Art Institute of Chicago. Area students and emerging job seekers, as well as college and university faculty, are invited to visit the museum where they will experience student-led gallery presentations, a panel conversation with Art Institute staff, and intimate breakout sessions with museum professionals representing a variety of departments and fields. Find out more and register here.
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We invite you to join us for the 2019 Undergraduate Research & Engagement Symposium which will be held on Saturday, April 13th! Each year, as part of Loyola's Weekend of Excellence, we celebrate outstanding undergraduate research and community engagement during the academic year! Find out how you can get involved below!
Encourage Your Students to Participate
The Undergraduate Research & Engagement Symposium features undergraduate research (as part of academic courses, LUROP fellowships, external programs, or independent study) and celebrates undergraduate scholarship in community engagement, including projects from service-learning courses, academic internship courses, and community partnerships.
Registration is now open! Please encourage your students to share their fall and/or spring semester research and community engagement scholarship as part of this year's symposium! We are also available to share this opportunity with your students. Please reply to this email or contact us at experiential@luc.edu to request a class visit. |
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Nominate a Community Partner
Have you or your students worked with a particularly outstanding community organization that has been a true co-educator? Consider nominating them for our Community Partner Award for Coeducation! The winning organization will receive $500 to support their great work. Find out more about nominating a community partner here.
Nominate a Student
Each year, we honor outstanding undergraduate student scholarship in community engagement and research. Please consider nominating students' outstanding work in undergraduate research, community engagement, and/or learning portfolios this fall for one of the awards below.
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards
Community Engagement Awards
Learning Portfolio Reflection Awards
Become an Evaluator
The Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium invites you to serve as an evaluator for Loyola students’ research, creative activity, and community engagement projects. This celebration of students’ scholarly work is a meaningful opportunity to review and engage with our Loyola students in the context of the community-based learning work and research projects with which the students have engaged over the past year. Please consider becoming an evaluator for the 2019 Undergraduate Research & Engagement Symposium!
Student Workshops
This year, we'll be co-hosting a series of workshops to help students prepare for the 2019 Undergraduate Research & Engagement Symposium. Stay tuned for upcoming workshops on writing abstracts, designing posters, developing oral presentations, and honing public speaking skills to share with your students!
We are also available to work directly with classes or student organizations. Please reply to this email or contact us at experiential@luc.edu to request a class visit or workshop.
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CEL Community Resource Site
The Center for Experiential Learning has a vibrant library of teaching and learning resources for Loyola faculty. You can access and contribute to these resources through our CEL Community Resources site available through Sakai at the link below. You'll find forms, readings, curriculum modules, reflection resources, syllabus language, and more. Our hope is that this site will be a living resource where faculty and staff can share further research, examples, articles, assignments, and resources.
Click the button below to view and contribute to this growing collection of resources.
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