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"Linking Academic and Civic Engagement: A National Imperative"
Dr. Edward Zlotkowski, Bentley College
Whether one looks at higher education research, the development of instruments like the National Survey of Student Engagement, or the sessions offered at disciplinary conferences, it is clear that over the last decade student engagement, academic and civic, has become a topic of increasing importance. What are the implications of such engagement for curricular design and classroom practice? What resources do faculty need - and most often lack - to help them help their students successfully embrace a more active approach to learning? How can such active learning also pave the way for a more engaged citizenry, a generation ready and able to to address public problems? Questions like these lie at the core of what more and more academic thinkers are calling our new educational model: "the engaged campus."
View it on-line: (Januar 11, 2007).
About the Presenter
Edward Zlotkowski, a professor of English at Bentley College, received his BA in English and his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. In 1990, he founded the Bentley Service-Learning Center, an institution-wide program that involves all of the college's undergraduate academic departments.
UPCOMING EVENTS!
Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Our Students Seminar"Using Breeze for Assessment and Research Collaboration "Presenter: Dr. Tena CrewsFriday, February 9, 2007, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Close/Hipp Building (Moore School of Business), Room 203.
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Source: Center for Teaching Excellence
