Call for Proposals: Conference on Millennials Making a Difference

The Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education invites you to submit a presentation proposal for its Sixth Annual Conference,

Millennials Making a Difference
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska
September 23-25, 2009

Please join us and Keynote Speakers:

Mark Milliron, Catalyze Learning International
Shelley Billig, RMC Research Corporation

As we consider these conference themes:

• Innovative use of Social Media to develop, promote and manage service-learning projects.


• Academic Service-learning – Best practices of integrating service-learning into curricula, in methods of assessing learning in the experiential context and in strategies of project evaluation.


• Professional Development – Best practices in research-based, collaboratively planned, ongoing professional development for
  
  - Faculty and staff
  - Community partners
  - Student leadership


• Community Partnership Development – Best practices in engaging and sustaining reciprocal, collaborative partnerships focused on addressing community issues.


• Research
  
  - Best practices in developing collaborative community based participatory research projects in which students and faculty apply research methods to community identified and guided studies.
  
  - Best Practices in applying research to the pedagogy of service-learning for continuous improvement.

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2009

Please see our web site for more information and to submit online: http://www.midwestconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=229:call-for-proposals&catid=55:2009-conference&Itemid=141