Please check out Florida Campus Compact's website for invaluable resources on civic engagement: www.floridacompact.org/
CCE Faculty Course Development Grant Recipients
Resource Quick Reference (WORKING PROGRESS)
Professor Martine Fernandes' French Conversation (Spring 2007)-syllabus, workshop presentation, pictures
Professor Malcolm Butler's Teaching Elementary School Science (Spring 2007)-syllabus, workshop presentation, and flyer
Professor Karin Braunsberger's Marketing Management Problems (Spring 2007)-syllabus, class PP presentation, marketing plan format sheet, marketing plan projects for section 691, marketing plan projects for section 692, marketing plan project grade sheet, and workshop presentation
Professor Morgan Gresham's English Composition (Spring 2007)-syllabus
Professor Monique Fields' Neighborhood News Bureau (Spring 2007)-syllabus, Advanced Reporting (Spring 2007)-syllabus
Professor Mark Walter's Feature Writing (Spring 2007)-syllabus
Professor Vikki Gaskin-Butler's Psychology of Women (Fall 2007)-syllabus, civic engagement course pack, and workshop powerpoint presentation
Professor Richard Smith's Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2007)-syllabus , workshop presentation, and Keep Pinellas Beautiful credit rules
Professor Joseph Dorsey's Environmental Politics and Policy (Spring 2008)-syllabus
Professor Jill McCracken's Composition of Political Arguments (Spring 2008)-syllabus
PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE RESOURCES.
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DRAFT of the CCE's "Citizen Scholar Course Catalogue."
This represents a listing of the courses we found (primarily by reviewing course syllabi) that included a civic engagement component, from Fall 2003 through Spring 2008. Please review this Catalogue (it is arranged in alphabetical order by College, then by discipline) and send us corrections/additions
*Are we missing any courses?
*In the courses we do include, are the civic engagement components correctly described?
*Can you help us fill in any missing information (e.g., number of hours students spent working on the assignment)?
*Is there any other information about these courses you can provide (e.g., Is this a required course for majors? Is this an exit course? How often is this course offered?) that would be helpful for us as we develop our citizen scholar program (including possible transcript designation) and for our students who may be interested in taking your courses
Please provide feedback/edits/missing information via e-mail --civicengage@stpt.usf.edu - and put "Course Catalogue Edits" in the subject header. Thanks, in advance, for your assistance!
If at all possible, we would greatly appreciate receiving your edits by May 28th.
Journalism/PR/Marketing Internship(s) at The Pier Aquarium
Supervisor: Emily Stehle, APR
PR/Marketing Director
Office (727) 895-7437, ext. 207
Cell (727) 688-7993
E-mail: estehle@pieraquarium.org
We are actively seeking an intern(s) interested in learning the skills that would make a student more marketable in the very competitive field of paid internships and/or full-time employment after graduation.
This position is non-paid. However, the intern will play an integral part in the PR/Marketing function at The Pier Aquarium. You will work one-on-one with a seasoned, award winning, accredited PR professional. You will have the opportunity to do more than you can imagine!
Click here to view the flyer
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Citizen Scholar Certificate, transcript designation; Task Force Members Needed
Now that we have a good sense of the breadth and depth of the citizen scholar program on our campus, we are exploring the possibility of developing a Citizen Scholar Certificate Program (that would include a transcript designation, recognition at Commencement, recognition on diploma). We have researched other civic engagement Minor and Certificate programs across the country and have compiled a binder with sample programs and best practices. We are preparing a memo summarizing the features/best practices of these programs to discuss at our initial strategy session. We are looking for faculty to serve on a Task Force to assist us in developing this program/certificate/transcript designation. If you are interested helping us design this program, please e-mail Dr. Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan at jsm2@stpt.usf.edu
Spring 2008 Faculty Development Workshop
Insights into the Civically Engaged Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion with the 2007-08 CCE Faculty Course Development Grant Recipients
Vikki Gaskin-Butler (Psychology)
Rick Smith (Economics)
Joseph Dorsey (ESP&G)
Jill McCracken (LLW)
THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2008
The grant recipients will discuss the "lessons learned" from their efforts to include a civic engagement component in their winning courses. Your colleagues will be a great resource for you as you consider whether and how to add a service learning or civic engagement component to one of your courses for the summer or fall.
Click here to view pictures of this event.
Please check back soon for the materials presented at this event.
Every semester, the Center for Civic Engagement co-sponsors a Civic Engagement Fair available to community organizations. If you are a community organization and would like to participate in the next fair, please contact the Center at 727-873-4773.
Click here to view pictures of the Spring 2008 Civic Engagement Fair.
Click here to view pictures of the Fall 2007 Civic Engagement Fair.
Click here to view pictures of the Spring 2007 Civic Engagement Fair.
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SAVE THE DATE!
FALL 2008 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FAIR
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
MORE INFORMATION TO COME
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CCE COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND SERVICE LEARNING PLACEMENT DIRECTORY
Need to place your students with an agency for your course?
Click here to view our placement directory or you can view our hand-held directory complete with brochures from the agencies in the Reserve section in Poynter Library. |
Forms for Faculty:
Click here for the CCE Consent form.
Click here for the CCE Waiver of Liability.
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Center for Civic Engagement Library
Two hundred and twenty seven civic engagement and service-learning resources are now available for faculty, staff, and students in Poynter Library's Reserve Section. Please stop by the Circulation Desk to access these materials.
We will continue to add resources to this library. Please continue to check back for updates.
Click here to view the CCE Library Bibliography.
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NEW: Assessment Resources
Our 2006-07 Faculty Administrator, Susan Toler, researched tools for faculty to assess the civic engagement components of their courses. The bibliography is available as a “RefWorks” document using the USF Libraries website. Click here for easy-to-follow instructions on how to access these resources. |
2008 Faculty Course Development Grant Program
The Center for Civic Engagement Faculty Course Development Grant Program is intended to encourage the integration of new civic engagement activities into the curriculum. The Center expects that the grants will (1) increase the number of courses with civic engagement components (2) support course assessment in terms of its community and student impact (3) increase student enrollment and interest in courses with civic engagement components.
These grants will provide resources to assist faculty members in their efforts to develop and to sustain experiential learning opportunities for students. Funding will provide stipends of up to $1,000 to assist faculty members from each of the three colleges to incorporate civic engagement components into the coursework. All full-time faculty on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus are eligible for this grant. Please see the application for more information.
Congratulations to Spring 2008 Faculty Course Development grant winners Professors Jill McCracken (English) and Joseph Dorsey (Environmental Policy).
Professor Jill McCracken added a civic engagement component to ENC 1102 The Composition of Political Argument. It is a course in writing, reading, and analysis. Its purpose is to help students become stronger thinkers and communicators so that they can be a more effective members within the communities in which they participate. In our class, students will choose a current social issue that matters to them and about which there is much current discussion. Throughout the semester, they will conduct both traditional and creative research into their issue and then compose letters, opinion pieces, posters, documentary photography books, and a piece in the medium of their choosing to learn how to shape communication in different media for a variety of audiences. By the end of the semester they should be able to thoroughly analyze difficult texts, envision them within a larger contextual framework, and recognize their local and cultural significance.
Click here to view Professor McCracken's syllabus for this course.
Professor Joseph Dorsey added a civic engagement component to PUP 4203 Environmental Politics and Policy. This interdisciplinary course examines how environmental policy is influenced by politics. Students will determine how environmental problems are identified and how policy agendas are set. We will discuss the process of environmental policy formation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. The course is designed to immerse the student in the historical context of the environmental movement while exposing the student to the dynamics of current policy issues and politics through inquiry based research and civic engagement.
Click here to view Professor Dorsey syllabus for this course.
Click here for the 2008 Faculty Course Development Grant application.
Fall 2007 Faculty Course Development Grant Program
The Center for Civic Engagement Faculty Course Development Grant Program is intended to encourage the integration of new civic engagement activities into the curriculum. The Center expects that the grants will (1) increase the number of courses with civic engagement components (2) support course assessment in terms of its community and student impact (3) increase student enrollment and interest in courses with civic engagement components.
These grants will provide resources to assist faculty members in their efforts to develop and to sustain experiential learning opportunities for students. Funding will provide stipends of up to $1,000 to assist faculty members to incorporate civic engagement components into the coursework. All full-time faculty on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus are eligible for this grant.
The course development grant program, funded through a generous grant from Florida CampusCompact, supported the creation of two new courses with civic engagement components for the Fall 2007 semester.
College of Business
Professor Richard Smith added a civic engagement component to ECO 2023 Economic Principles (Microeconomics). In this course, the first USFSP Economics course in the last 5 years to include a civic engagement component, students will participate in a service learning project with Keep Pinellas Beautiful in a campaign to enlist local companies to agree to remove litter in and around their premises.
Participation in this project relates to course topics such as
-Negative externalities and their solution. How can society devise ways to minimize some of theadverse effects of economic activity, such as littering, on the rest of society?
-Responding to incentives. Students will see how companies respond to the incentive of promotion in the local media as being “green” (through Keep Pinellas Beautiful, Inc.)
Professor Rick Smith with Keep Pinellas Beautiful representative Liz Brewer
Click here and here to view Professor Smith's syllabi for this course.
College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Vikki Gaskin-Butler added a civic engagement component to ISS 3930, PSY 4931, WST 4930 Psychology of Women. In this course, students will volunteer at a placement that enables them to gain a deeper understanding of issues related to the psychology of women in an applied setting. Students participated in the CCE/Volunteer Services Civic Engagement Fair to arrange placements at such agencies as CASA, Eckerd Youth Alternatives/High Five Pinellas, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Gulf Coast Community Care/Woman to Woman Program, the Pinellas County Health Department and the Salvation Army.
Click here and here to view Professor Gaskin-Butler's syllabi for this course.
The Fall 2007 Faculty Course Development Grants were funded by Florida Campus Compact.
www.floridacompact.org
Click here to view the Spring 2007 Faculty Course Development Grant recipient's course descriptions and syllabi.
Spring 2007 Faculty Course Development Grant recipient Professor Martine Fernandes' French Conversation class was featured on Fox 13 News on April 30, 2007.
Click here to view the video.
Spring 2007 Faculty Course Development Grant Recipient
Martine Fernandes' French Conversation class was recently featured on Fox 13 News. Click here to view the video.
SPRING 2007 FACULTY COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM
From left to right: Martine Fernandes, Mark J. Walters, Malcolm Butler, and Karin Braunsberger (not pictured: Monique Fields)
The course development grant program, funded through a generous grant from Florida Campus Compact, supported the creation of six new courses with civic engagement components for the Spring 2007 semester. .
College of Business
Professor Karin Braunsberger added a civic engagement component to MAR4824 Marketing and Management Problems. Students will work in teams to develop a marketing plan for a local non-profit agency.
Click here to view Professor Braunsberger's syllabus for this course.
College of Education
Professor Malcolm B. Butler added a civic engagement component to SCE 4310 Teaching Elementary School Science (K-6). Students will work Gulf Beaches Elementary School to develop its first (annual) “Come one, Come all! Family Fun Science Night” program.
Click here to view Professor Butler's syllabus for this course.
Click here to view Professor Butler's presentation at the "Insight Into A Civically Engaged Classroom Workshop".
College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Martine Fernandes added a civic engagement component to FR 2240 French Conversation II. Students will work with the children in the YWCA/USF Family Village and teach them basic French (name, colors, days, animals, etc.) and expose them to francophone culture through a number of activities (naming, reading, playing, singing).
Click here to view Professor Fernandes' syllabus for this course.
Professor S. Morgan Gresham added a civic engagement component to ENC 1102 Composition II. Students will work with local non-profits to write grant proposals, to develop posters or brochures, to draft press releases, or to create training manuals, depending on the needs of the agency.
Click here to view Professor Gresham's syllabus for this course.
Professors Mark J. Walters and Monique Fields added a civic engagement component to JOU 3308 Feature Writing and MMC 6936 Neighborhood News Bureau. The grant will create a civic reporting component in Feature Writing by adding a major civic reporting assignment. It will also strengthen the civic engagement reporting in Neighborhood News Bureau/Advanced Reporting by providing students basic reporting resources at this off-campus bureau, including reference books, area maps, and other essential reporting tools. The grant will create reporters who are citizen scholars with the academic insight, technical skills and social savvy required to effectively report on complex community issues. Students will be motivated in both courses to report on civic issues by offering a $150 award for the best feature/news article in Feature Writing and NNB on civic engagement.
Click here to view Professor Walters' syllabus for this course.
Click here and here to view Professor Fields' syllabi for these courses.
Video of this workshop will be availabe in the CCE Library shortly!
CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT COLLEGE LIAISONS
Jay Sokolovsky, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Sciences Liaison
jsokolov@stpt.usf.edu
Dr. Sokolovsky is the Anthropology Program Coordinator, a cultural anthropologist with specialties in urban anthropology, the anthropology of aging, rural development in Mexico, and video documentation. His book, "The Cultural Context of Old Age" (1997) won the Kalish award in innovative publications. This past summer Dr. Sokolovsky was awarded a Senior Investigator Grant ($6496) from the USF St. Petersburg Campus for "Globalization and the Transformation of An Indigenous Region in Mexico," a study on how globalization is affecting youth and the elderly in a Mexican village. This will allow him to regionally expand his work surrounding the central Mexican Municipio of Texcoco. During his upcoming research trip to Mexico this May/June he will be presenting a talk on this research at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and presenting and discussing his new ethnographic video "Urban Garden: Fighting for Life and Beauty" at the Colegio de Postgraduados Desarrollo Rural in Montecillos.
Jay is continuing his ethnographic video work on ethnic identity of immigrants to Tampa Bay with a focus on Thai Americans and their connection to Buddhist Temples in the area. He is working on this project with undergraduate student Mike Meyers who is a dual major in Mass Communications and Anthropology. He has previously completed videos on West African and Italians in St. Petersburg.
Richard B. Smith, Ph.D.
College of Business Liaison
smithrb@stpt.usf.edu
Dr. Smith joined the faculty in 2003 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of Connecticut in 2001. His focus is in health economics with research interests in the role of patient knowledge in health markets, and the economics of public health programs. Prior to graduate school he worked for eight years a systems and investment analyst at the Travelers Insurance Cos.
Brianne L. Reck, Ph.D.
College of Education Liaison
breck@stpt.usf.edu
Dr. Reck, an assistant professor and coordinator of the Educational Leadership Development Program, Chair of the College of Education’s Community Partnership Committee, and member of the Administrative Council, joined the faculty at USF St. Petersburg in 2002. One of her primary interests is developing innovative administrator preparation programs that address the changing nature of educational leadership in the context of high stakes accountability for student achievement. Dr. Reck has authored articles and book chapters on the moral and ethical dimensions of zero tolerance policy implementation, educational reform, and instructional delivery models for administrator preparation programs. Her research interests include coaching and mentoring models for increased student achievement, supervision and professional development of teachers, the micro-political implications of high stakes accountability for distributed leadership, and the creation of affirming school environments for traditionally marginalized youth.
Past Events
Fall 2007 Faculty Development Luncheon & Workshop
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Professor John Ishiyama
Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education and former fellow at the Carnegie Center for the Advancement of Teaching
In this session John Ishiyama discusses the concept of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), how it is related to research and scholarship generally, and provides insights on how to publish work in SOTL.
Friday, October 5, 2007
12:00 to 1:30 PM
DAV 130
Click here to view pictures of this event.
Click here to view Professor John Ishiyama's homepage.
Click here to view Professor John Ishiyama's bio.
Click here and here for Professor Ishiyama's publicatons on SOTL.
Click here for Professor Ishiyama's PowerPoint presentation on SOTL.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SERIES SPRING 2007
New York Times Knowledge Network Faculty Luncheon & Workshop with
Regional Education Manager Petra Kohlmann
Monday, March 5, 2007
12:00-1:30 PM
FCT 123
Curriculum Integration Workshop with Florida Campus Compact's Luciano Ramos
Friday, March 30, 2007
12:00-2:00 PM
FCT 110
Insight into a Civically Engaged Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion
with the Spring 2007 CCE Course Development Grant Recipients
Friday, April 13, 2007
2:00-4:00 PM
DAV 130
To RSVP to one of these events, please call Jennifer Meier at 727-873-4773
or send an email to civicengage@stpt.usf.edu.
CURRICULUM INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
On October 20, 2006, the Center brough Luciano Ramos of Florida Campus Compact to USFSP to provide a hands-on workshop, designed to give faculty ideas of ways in which they can incorporate a civic engagement/service learning component in their courses.
Florida Campus Compact also provided the Center with a generous grant which will allow us to award three $1,000 grants – one to a faculty member in each of the three Colleges. The grants will support faculty that add a service learning component to one of their Spring 2007 courses.
NEW YORK TIMES KNOWLEDGE NETWORK WORKSHOP
On October 13, 2006, the Center for Civic Engagement brought Petra Kohlman, Regional Education Manager of the New York Times, to campus for a faculty luncheon and workshop.
Faculty participants were given the opportunity to provide their students with the New York Times, free of charge, for the fall 2006 semester. Also, 200 copies of the Times were promised to be delivered to USFSP each weekday morning from November 6 through December 8.
Discounted Times subscriptions are still available to students. Professors who are interested in bringing the Times into their classroom by asking their students to subscribe can contact kohlmp@nytimes.com for more information.
INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH FACULTY
On September 8, 2006, the Center for Civic Engagement held an introductory meeting to introduce faculty to the Center. The recommendations of the Strategic Planning Committee's Subcommittee on Community Engagement Report and Recommendations were reviewed.
Click here to view the minutes of the meeting.
