J-Term 2019 runs Thursday, January 3, to Wednesday, January 23. All drop/add activity must be completed in Banner no later than 11:59 p.m. today, January 4. There is no online late add process available. Please be sure to reference the Deadline Calendar (PDF 63 KB).

Join the Civic and Community Engagement’s Student Civic Leadership Board for Tuesday Service Projects every other Tuesday throughout the semester from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Twin Rise/South Wing breezeway. RSVPs are appreciated.

February 12 and 26 | Because Char Smiled: Paper Flowers for Cancer Patients
February is National Cancer Prevention Month, and to help raise awareness, we will make paper flowers to give to patients at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Fresh flowers pose a health risk to certain cancer patients, but beautiful paper flowers will help brighten their days.

March 12 and April 2 | None Like You/We Care: Homemade Laundry Soap
Did you know that you can make laundry soap with a few household ingredients? None Like You/We Care helps bring human services and basic essentials like this laundry soap to low-income seniors and families.

April 16 and 30 | Matt Urban Hope Center: Rags to Bags Project
Help turn a T-shirt into a shopping bag! Matt Urban’s "Rags to Bags" project provides environmentally friendly, reusable T-shirt bags to individuals and families to fill up with items from the center’s food pantry.

Join the Civic and Community Engagement’s Student Civic Leadership Board for Tuesday Service Projects every other Tuesday throughout the semester from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Twin Rise/South Wing breezeway. RSVPs are appreciated.

February 12 and 26 | Because Char Smiled: Paper Flowers for Cancer Patients
February is National Cancer Prevention Month, and to help raise awareness, we will make paper flowers to give to patients at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Fresh flowers pose a health risk to certain cancer patients, but beautiful paper flowers will help brighten their days.

March 12 and April 2 | None Like You/We Care: Homemade Laundry Soap
Did you know that you can make laundry soap with a few household ingredients? None Like You/We Care helps bring human services and basic essentials like this laundry soap to low-income seniors and families.

April 16 and 30 | Matt Urban Hope Center: Rags to Bags Project
Help turn a T-shirt into a shopping bag! Matt Urban’s “Rags to Bags” project provides environmentally friendly, reusable T-shirt bags to individuals and families to fill up with items from the center’s food pantry.

Join your colleagues and participate in the Campus Compact webinar "Census 2020 and Higher Education" on Tuesday, April 16, at 4:00 p.m. in the Civic and Community Engagement conference room, South Wing 130.

Through this webinar, we will discuss the vital role that colleges and universities can play in ensuring a fair and complete count in the 2020 census. A complete count is essential to ensuring that states maintain their federal funding levels and their representation in federal government. By working with students, staff, faculty, administrators, and most importantly, community partners, colleges and universities can support their communities in maintaining important resources. In this webinar, we will explore available resources as well as highlight schools gearing up for this work in 2020.

Please let us know you’re coming or watch from your own desk.

Join your colleagues and participate in the Campus Compact webinar "Exploring the Connection: Community Engagement and College Completion" on Tuesday, March 5, at 3:00 p.m. in the Civic and Community Engagement conference room, South Wing 130.

Colleges and universities face the significant challenge to help students from all backgrounds enter and complete college in a timely manner. This webinar will highlight the potential that community engagement offers to increase college completion rates, using specific research studies that have contributed to the growing body of evidence that connects community engagement with student success for all students.

Please let us know you’re coming or watch from your own desk.

Join your colleagues and participate in the Campus Compact webinar "Integrating Civic Outcomes across a Major or Program: Curriculum Design and Mapping for Civic Learning" on Tuesday, February 19, at 3:00 p.m. in the Civic and Community Engagement conference room, South Wing 130. 

Webinar attendees will focus on identifying, articulating, and mapping civic learning and developmental outcomes (civic identity, civic mindedness, civic agency, civic literacy, intercultural competency, etc.) for their program of study or major. A curriculum map is a tool to ensure that the content of a program of study or major is being presented and assessed, that all content is linked to learning goals (e.g., institutional, accreditor), and that content is sufficient to reach learning and developmental goals. A curriculum mapping exercise can show gaps in learning or overlaps in content, and can indicate where weaknesses or opportunities can and should be addressed.

Please let us know you’re coming or watch from your own desk.

Join your colleagues and participate in the Campus Compact webinar "What Went Wrong? A Partnership Analysis Framework" on Thursday, February 14, at 3:00 p.m. in the Civic and Community Engagement conference room, South Wing 130.

Building on the 2014 “What Went Wrong?” conference, this session offers a framework for analyzing and transcending the wrongness of structures and practices in community-academic research, education, and social action partnerships that limit effective democratic participation and the distribution of power of those who experience marginalization.

Please let us know you’re coming or watch from your own desk.

Join your colleagues and participate in the Campus Compact webinar "Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education" on Thursday, January 24, at 3:00 p.m. in the Civic and Community Engagement conference room, South Wing 130.

Widely known through the work of the Harlem Children’s Zone and the federal government’s Promise and Choice Neighborhood programs, geographically specific community-engagement initiatives have the potential to positively address the challenges of inequity and injustice within our communities. While we may be familiar with these types of place-based initiatives from nonprofit organizations or government grants, less is known about this type of strategy in higher education. This webinar will include a presentation of a recent national study and the facilitators’ recent book on place-based community engagement in higher education, followed by an exploration of several of the most salient topics arising from this promising new strategy.

Please let us know you’re coming or watch from your own desk.

Are you new to community-engaged learning and interested in understanding how you might incorporate a community-engagement project into your course? Please join us for an introductory workshop on Tuesday, January 22, from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Caudell Hall 110.

This interactive session will help faculty and staff new to service learning as well as those who could use a brush-up on community-engaged learning and the practice of incorporating a community-based project into a course. Topics will include an overview of the theory and practice of service learning, strategies for identifying reciprocal and meaningful community partnerships, and a discussion of effective methods of incorporating student reflection to connect service and learning.

Please register online.

Learn how to strengthen your online and hybrid skills to enhance your course design and increase student engagement with the Online Course Development Series. This series prepares instructors to design, teach, and enhance online or hybrid courses using best practices of online teaching and learning.

Workshop Information
Both the basic and advanced Online Course Development Series will be offered in an online asynchronous format during the spring 2019 semester. All learning and instructional activities will occur in Blackboard for the duration of the series.

The basic Online Course Development Series is composed of the following six modules: 

1. Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning 
2. Backward Design Step 1: Developing Course Objectives and Priorities 
3. Backward Design Step 2: Developing Course Assessments 
4. Backward Design Step 3: Developing the Learning Plan 
5. Designing and Organizing Your Online Course 
6. Interaction: Communication and Collaboration 

The Advanced Online Course Development Series is composed of the following four modules: 

1. Creating Interactive Content for Your Course 
2. Authentic Assessment 
3. Universal Design for Learning 
4. Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) Rubric

Both of these asynchronous courses will begin Friday, February 1, and end Sunday, March 31. Participants may enroll in one or both series. There is no cost to participate in this series.

For more information about the Online Course Development Series, please visit the Instructional Design and Training website. If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Brooke Winckelmann, instructional designer.

Register for the online asynchronous Online Course Development Series.