Description
Build Unique Opportunities for Students to Create Civic Engagement & Develop Leadership Skills
Many campuses are finding it hard to recruit and engage student leaders because of the lack of continuity in student participation due to COVID-19 and limited knowledge of prior in-person community engagement. This gap has resulted in the need for additional training, orientation and education of those students who are engaging in community-based learning opportunities. Community organizations also had significant interruptions to their operations so those who coordinate engagement at colleges are scrambling to rebuild these essential long-term reciprocal partnerships.
Gather your faculty and staff who oversee service and community engagement opportunities on your campus. Our presenter will share how through a reimagined student preparation and training program, peer support and mentoring model, and directed community partner check-ins, her team was able to rebuild intentional and critical community engagement programs on her campus.
Leave this session with a broader view of community engagement – beyond traditional service-learning and volunteerism – to create a variety of learning and meaningful leadership development opportunities for your students.
Topics Covered
Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:
- Develop a framework for training curricula that integrates community engagement learning and leadership development, centering on critical reflection.
- Utilize a rubric to assess how partnerships are going for both the students and the agency to assess capacity, needs and create open communication channels.
- Provide the “why” behind community engagement, the importance of intentional and critical community engagement so that students are applying their classroom learning in practical, hands-on experiences.
- Overcome the participation gap by fostering peer support and mentoring programs to recruit and engage student participation to add another layer of support to new/emerging leaders.
- Rebuild previous relationships with community organizations through intentional communication and outreach initiatives.
Presenter
Courtney Holder currently serves as the Assistant Director for Leadership & Community Service-Learning, Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park.
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Included When You Purchase
- 90-minute online session with carefully selected expert(s)
- Unlimited access to view webinar recording on demand
- Materials for your team (handouts, discussion questions, etc.)
- Certificate of completion for each participant
- Weekly newsletter – What's Working on Campus
Instructions for access are available immediately upon checkout. You may share this On-Demand Training with any staff members from your campus community for unlimited viewing. For information about licensing this webinar for unlimited distribution on your institution’s internal network/server, email info@paper-clip.com.
