Center for Service Learning & Civic Engagement

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Announcements:

Core Competencies in Civic Engagement

Please join us and Jeremy Poehnert of MA Campus Compact for a workshop investigating core competencies in civic engagement. The workshop will take place January 29th in the Center for Teaching and Learning (S 117) from 2:30—4:00. Mr. Poehnert is the co-author of Core Competencies in Civic Engagement, a working paper for Merrimack College’s Center for Engaged Democracy. Read more at: http://www.merrimack.edu/live/files/160-core-competencies-in-civic-engagement.

For more information contact wsu-cslce@worcester.edu

RFK Children’s Action Corps

RFK Children’s Action Corps is seeking our help to
refer students into their Evaluation Period, which is full time work throughout the coming summer at RFK’s residential treatment center in Lancaster. The Evaluation Period provides students with experience and an opportunity to decide, if they wish, to formally apply for the Fellows Program beginning in Fall 2012. The Fellows Program is a credited, year-long social services internship. RFK will accept up to four students for the summer and two students for the Fellows Program.

For information, contact Dave Tivnan at 617-438-7154 or
DTivnan@rfkchildren.org

Alternative Spring Break to Managua Nicaragua

For the 7th year, CSLCE is again teaming up with The History Department and International Programs to sponsor the Alternative Spring Break to Managua Nicaragua. WSU students enroll in HI 230 Nicaragua, US and the World and Earn 3 LASC credits while traveling to Nicaragua during Spring Break. DEADLINE for applications is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH Applications are now available in The International Programs Office (Admin 159), The Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement (SC322), and The History Department (s-327). Return applications to Dr. Aldo Garcia-Guevara (S-327), Katey Palumbo in the International Programs Office (Admin 159), or Dr. Mark Wagner, Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, (SC 322) – Phone: 508-929-8635. Questions? Contact this year's Student Leader for the trip: Samantha Thebeault sthebeault@worcester.edu.

Civic Engagement Conversation

Please join The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement on May 16th, from 2:00 - 4:15, in Sullivan 122 for a discussion with Corey Dolgon (Stonehill College), John Reiff (UMass Amherst) Lisa Wark (WSU) and Suzanne Bugilone (WSU). Some framing questions for discussion include:

If the university community as a whole took civic engagement seriously, what concrete changes would you expect/want to see in five years at Worcester State University?
What -- if any -- are the barriers to civic engagement that would have to be overcome?
What are the resources already in the university community that could be drawn upon?
What would be the first steps that could be taken in the coming year, and who would have to take them?

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Links of Interest:

	Join our Facebook page!
	MA Campus Compact
	Service Learning Clearing House
	Manna Project International
	Advancing Student Engagement in Communities: A Wiki Toolkit for Effective Orientation and Evaluation
	CSLCE Lending Library
	2012 - 2013 Service Projects
	Learn and Serve America
	Youth Changing the World
	CLEWS
	WSU WPS Leadership Survey
	Community Partners of WSU

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