From: Laura Reindl
Date: August 31, 2020
Subject: Resources for Faculty - Community-Engaged Teaching, Research and Scholarship


CCE Faculty Newsletter

Aug. 2020 | Volume 8, Issue 8

Faculty engagement associate updates

Barrett Brenton, faculty engagement associateBarrett P. Brenton, PhD
Faculty Engagement Associate, UU-137
bbrenton@binghamton.edu, 607-777-2859

I hope everyone had a nice summer, challenges aside. As we go into an uncertain fall semester preparing for and managing distance learning for most of our courses, do not give up on developing community-engaged learning and research opportunities. During the spring semester there were many ways in which faculty, students and community partners managed to maintain a virtual and online commitment to community engagement. To that end, a number of resources on “Promising Practices in eService-Learning and Digital Civic Engagement” are available as part of a Summer 2020 National Campus Compact Webinar.

I am also here to work with you one-on-one to develop or modify your distance-learning community-engaged teaching and research plans for fall 2020. In addition, the CCE is maintaining on our website a list of online and virtual service opportunities.

As always, the CCE staff and I are all here to facilitate and strengthen community connections for sustainable and mutually beneficial community-based learning and research, whether that experience is in person or through some other means.

The goal for each of the CCE newsletters is to share opportunities for professional development related to community-based teaching, research and scholarship. Feel free to reach out to me at any time to discuss your interest in these activities.

Faculty announcements

2020 CCE/CLT workshops

CLT Focused Conversation: Virtual Community-Engaged Learning

1–2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18

Online teaching environments can actively involve students in virtual community-based learning and research experiences.  This conversation will discuss strategies for revising existing courses and creating new courses for online delivery that integrate methods for virtual community-engaged learning. Watch Dateline for the opportunity to register, or contact the Center for Learning and Teaching.

The Establishing Online Community-Engaged Learning Opportunities (E-Service Learning) workshop held on Friday, April 17, 2020, can now be accessed online.

Register your students to vote!

Help your students make their voices heard! CCE staff are available during your class meetings to register your students to vote, explain the absentee ballot process and answer questions about student voter rights and responsibilities. Presentations are expected to last about 15 minutes and will take place virtually via Zoom. We will walk students through the process and provide instructions on how to submit their forms.

The New York voter registration deadline for the 2020 general election is Friday, Oct. 9. Submit your requests early to help us accommodate as many classes as possible.

For more information contact us at cce@binghamton.edu.

Constitution Day 2020: Deliberation on Voting in the United States

From from 4-6 p.m. on Sept. 17, SUNY will be hosting a system-wide event. It will be in the form of a public deliberation on the history, problems and future of voting in the United States. Students will have the opportunity to meet with other SUNY students to discuss these topics in small groups via Zoom. Consider having your students register and participate in the event.

Professional development

AAC&U resources for education, anti-racism and assessment

AAC&U has made available an extensive list of online resources for strategies on teaching and practicing civic engagement online during COVID-19, anti-racism resources, and ways to assess student civic learning.

Upcoming workshops and symposiums

Engagement Scholars Consortium Outreach and Engagement Practitioners Network — Virtual Meeting: Reaffirming our Work as Boundary-Spanners. 1-3 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, 2020.

Campus Compact (Southern New England) Virtual Symposium: Advancing Equity Through Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Transforming Faculty Reward Policies & Practices. Sept. 21, 2020.

CCE resources

The Center for Civic Engagement provides resources and tools for faculty interested in incorporating community engagement into their teaching, research and scholarship. Learn more below.

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