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Buffalo State College will host “Thought to Action: Engaging College, Community, and Students through Service-Learning Partnerships,” a service-learning conference on local, regional, national, and international service-learning partnerships, on October 24–25. Sponsored by Buffalo State, the New York Campus Compact, and the Western New York Service-Learning Coalition, the conference will offer presentations, workshops, and panel discussions for community partners, faculty, and service-learning administrators.

Edward Zlotkowski will deliver the conference keynote on Friday from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Rockwell Hall. A renowned expert in the field of service-learning, Zlotkowski is a professor of English at Bentley College who in 1990 founded the Bentley Service-Learning Center, an institution-wide program that has involved all of Bentley’s undergraduate academic departments, more than a quarter of its full-time faculty, and several thousand students.

Zlotkowski writes and speaks extensively on a wide range of service-learning and engagement-related topics, and has served as general editor of the American Association for Higher Education’s 21-volume series on service learning in the academic disciplines. He has also served as editor of Successful Service-Learning Programs,Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience, and other publications.

The conference keynote is free and open to all. Students are encouraged to attend. A full listing of conference workshops and registration information can be found on the conference Web site.