Participants will benefit from intensive interaction with key leaders in University and Community Engagement.

Curricular themes include:

• Defining Engagement
• Building Institutional Commitment
• Developing a Responsive Infrastructure
• Involving Faculty, Students and Community Members
• Funding Engagement Activities
• Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships
• Linking Engagement to Research and Instruction
• Linking Engagement Strategies to University Strategic Plan
• Integrating Strategies Across the Institution
• Leveraging Sources of Institutional Support
• Assessing Impact

The academy will combine classroom experiences with hands-on project work to benefit participant's own institutions and sphere of work. A day trip to Virginia Tech's Institute for Advanced Learning and Research will provide an orientation to Virginia Tech's unique example of University engagement in action.

The $3595 fee for the academy includes the day trip, class materials, lodging (Sunday through Thursday), continuous breaks, luncheons each day, and two receptions.

Requests for refunds will be honored when received seven calendar days prior to the program. A $300 administrative fee will be deducted for cancellations. In the unlikely event that this program is cancelled or postponed due to insufficient enrollments or unforeseen circumstances, the university will fully refund registration fees, but cannot be held responsible for any other expenses, including cancellation or change charges assessed by airlines, hotels, travel agencies, or other organizations.

Virginia Tech has received the elective Community Engagement classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This classification for Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships was awarded to 62 institutions who demonstrated significant commitment to teaching, learning and scholarship which engage faculty, students and community in mutually beneficial and respectful collaboration, have made available institutional resources for community use with benefits to both campus and community, and have promoted and fostered collaborative interactions with community and related scholarship for the mutually beneficial exchange, exploration and application of knowledge, information and resources (i.e. research, capacity building, economic development).

So You Are Thinking of Submitting for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement: A Practical Workshop

Friday, June 13, 2008 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

A special workshop will be held in conjunction to the Engagement Academy for institutions that aspire to seek the elective Carnegie Classification of Community Engagement. This session will prepare institutions or institutional teams to seek this classification.

Learning objectives include:

• Understanding the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement and its framework
• Considering the benefits or impact of participation or non-participation in this voluntary classification system
• Exploring the strategies to meet the standards for the Community Engagement classification
• Understanding the differences in models of organizing and developing the application
• Becoming familiar with the 2008 application and submission guidelines
• Being aware of the logistics of online submission

Participants will:

• Learn the impact of participating in the submission process
• Have one-on-one assistance with interpreting the 2008 guidelines
• Meet institutional representatives who developed the classification system and have sought and received this elective classification
• Amy Driscoll, Senior Scholar of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Lorilee Sandmann, Associate at Virginia Tech's Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, and Assistant professor at the University of Georgia, College of Education, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, and the Co-Director of the Clearinghouse and National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement
• James Zuiches, vice chancellor for extension, engagement and economic development at North Carolina State University

The fee for the half-day workshop is $249

Please contact Jeri Childers (jlc@vt.edu) for more information.

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