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Weds, May 19th from 12:00-3:30 PM (EST)

Join us for the Campuses for Environmental Stewardship: 2021 Summit to discuss how higher education can play a leadership role in addressing climate change and other critical issues, how to support faculty who are integrating community engaged teaching and learning to solve such issues, and how campuses can institutionalize this teaching methodology that fosters local and global action.

This gathering will also serve as a vehicle for cross-state and regional collaboration, networking, and resource sharing and we would love to have your campus represented in these critical discussions.

This is a free event for all participants.

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Timothy K. Eatman, Ph.D., an educational sociologist and publicly engaged scholar, serves as the inaugural dean of the Honors Living - Learning Community and Associate Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University-Newark. From 2012 – 2017 his primary network of operation and leadership was with the national consortium Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life serving as Faculty Co-Director. Tim currently serves as national co-chair of the Urban Research Based Action and immediate past chair of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement board. Tim is in his second term on the board of directors of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) serving as Chair of the membership committee. Also with AAC&U Tim serves as a faculty member of the Institute on High Impact Practices for Student Success. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Carnegie Engagement Classification for Community Engagement and the National Advisory board for Bringing Theory to Practice. 
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BREAKOUT SESSIONS (1:00-1:45 PM EST)


Engaging Students and the Community in Energy Action
Since 2014, Dr. Klein has iteratively developed a service-learning/community-engaged project component to her upper-level undergraduate/graduate "Sustainable Energy Economics and Policy" class. During this workshop, Dr. Klein will provide an overview of that journey, what has worked and not worked, and where her project has landed: a sustainable flexible model that works for student, professor, and project mentor. She will also explain how she adapted this model to accommodate online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.
--Dr. Sharon Klein, Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Coordinator in the School of Economics, University of Maine

A Real Story: How to Create a Food and Environmental Justice Service Learning Interdisciplinary Plan of Study
During this session, presenters will explain, step by step, how they developed the Sustainable Community Food Systems Minor at the University of Connecticut--the challenges, the successes, the student and community benefits, how they administer it, how they leverage it for grants and collaborations, and where they’re going in the future. Participants will identify the benefits and outcomes of having a service-learning minor at the intersection of food and the environment, develop a vision of similar programming at their own institution or get new ideas for existing programs, and learn about how community collaborations and grants play a major part in the development of this newly established minor program.
-- Julia Yakovich, Director of Service-Learning and Engagement Initiatives, University of Connecticut

Community-Engaged Learning: The Importance of Radical Empathy
During this session, we will share lessons-learned from our Spring 2021 Community-Engaged Practicum at Middlebury College, whose theme was the transition to a just and sustainable future in Vermont and beyond. In addition, we will share our class's emphasis on radical empathy and ways that educators everywhere can prioritize this central human characteristic in community-engaged (and other) courses.
--Jonanthan Isham, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Middlebury College; Diane Munroe, Assistant Director of Community-Based Learning

Supporting Faculty at the Vanguard of Community- Engaged Teaching & Learning*
This is a special session for higher education administrators and college presidents to discuss how campuses can support faculty in the forefront of the community-engaged teaching/learning pedagogy and further institutionalize this teaching methodology to solve critical issues such as climate change.
-- Char Gray-Sorensen, MDiv, PhD; Director of Special Programs, New York and Pennsylvania Campus Compact
*Since this session is for a specific audience, if you are interested in attending, please contact sally@mainecompact.org


BREAKOUT SESSIONS (2:00-2:45 PM EST)


Assigning Roles to Support Active Student Learning
During this session, presenters will discuss the effective use of role-based assignments to support experiential learning, including field trips, service-learning, and outdoor group work, that foster student-leadership and project ownership Presenters will provide information about and examples of role-based assignments and have a discussion of these roles. Participants will use this session to brainstorm on how they may adapt these best practices in their own active learning teaching methodology.
--Jesse Minor, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Maine Farmington

Community-Engaged Learning Opportunities with Campus Sustainability Programs of All Sizes
While some college campuses have sustainability offices with multiple full-time staff members, other campuses still struggle to figure out how to mount an effective sustainability program on a shoestring budget. This workshop focuses on how campus sustainability initiatives (even very small, committee-run programs) can provide community-engaged teaching and learning opportunities, collaborate with regional organizations, and facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-campus collaboration.
--Elena Traister , Professor of Environmental Studies and Chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; Renee Royal, Production Manager for MCLA Dining;  Dianne Manning,MC LA's Director of Residential Programs and Services

Collaborative Teaching: A Case Study in Food Waste
This workshop will focus on best practices from the University of Southern Maine's collaborative service-learning course that integrated Food and Environment, Green Meetings and Conference Management, and Sustainable Business Practicum courses. Presenters worked with 14 different community partners to develop plans to reduce food waste. This workshop will showcase their challenges and successes in this unique course and how USM was able to foster interdisciplinary faculty collaboration. 
-- Sara Ghezzi, Visiting Assistant Professor, Outdoor Recreation and Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Wyoming; Jamie Picardy, Assistant Professor, Food Studies Program, University of Southern Maine; Richard Bilodeau, Lecturer of Entrepreneurship , University of Southern Maine

Environmental Stewardship and Storytelling through the Humanities
This workshop will review ways to identify landscapes or elements of landscapes to spin into meaningful stories that personally connect listeners or readers or learners to places and natural resources, as well as cultural one, in an effort to generate support for environmental stewardship. We will also review and practice dialogic techniques for interpretation that are increasingly "best practices" in the field of historic site interpretation. The workshop will also provide online resources that guide resource identification, research, and storytelling. We will introduce concepts for learning to see -- through multi-dimensional perspectives and critical thinking.
--Dr. Leah S. Glaser, Public History, Central Connecticut State University; Dr. Charles Button, Department Chair, Geography, CCSU

 Building Campus Engagement in Local and Regional Climate Solutions
This workshop will provide an overview of several key resources and programs that college campuses can host and run to advance climate solutions research, action, and implementation. During this session participants will learn about 1) valuable climate solutions education resources that they can incorporate into their learning/classroom, 2) various program models for helping students engage with climate solutions research and how these models can be connected to building regional climate resilience, and 3) how to engage campus staff and students in community-oriented climate action. 
--Elizabeth Bagley, PhD, Director of Drawdown Learn, Project Drawdown, Rachel Brennan, PhD and Cindy Reed, PhD, Co-Directors, Drawdown Scholars Program, Pennsylvania State University, Debra Rowe, PhD., President U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, Kat (Kirsten) Taylor, GCSE DURA Drawdown Scholars Coordinator, and Peter Friedland, MSW, Worcester State University CES Fellow and Campus Project Manager.
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SCHEDULE

12:00-1:00 PM
How Higher Education can Lead in Solving Critical Issues and Support Faculty at the Forefront: A Keynote Conversation with Dr. Timothy Eatman

1:00-1:45 PM
Breakout Workshops: Session One

1:45-2:00 PM 
Break

2:00-2:45 PM
Breakout Workshops: Session Two

2:45- 3:00 PM
Wrap up + Close

3:00-3:30 PM
Optional Small Group Reflection + State/Regional Networking
Campuses for Environmental Stewardship (CES) and the CES Best Practices Showcase are funded with generous support to Maine Campus Compact by the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elizabeth Davis after Mr. Davis' retirement as chairman of Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.

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