SUMMIT '08 Overview
Service-learning, community engagement, civic responsibility and democratic renewal are key themes for higher education, K-12, and community agencies. The Gulf South Summit brings together national speakers and over 350 practitioners for dialogue on these themes and provides a forum for best practices, sharing of research, and development of a professional network of practitioners in all aspects of service-learning. Faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and community partners are invited to participate in the Summit.
- Themes for 2008:
- Program development: from first steps to well-established: navigating logistics, classroom-community connections, learning goals, faculty and institutional issues
- Sustainability in service-learning: from single experience to ongoing engagement with community, justice, and policy issues
- Ethical issues and diversity issues in service-learning and civic engagement for institutions and practitioners
- Service-learning and social entrepreneurship
- International service-learning: linking service-learning and study abroad; service-learning and global issues
- Effective partnerships among higher education, K-12, and community-based organizations and projects
- The impact of service-learning: new research and assessment strategies
- Service-learning as professional development for faculty and community leaders
- Using the scholarship and practice of engagement in disaster preparation, response, and recovery
Nashville is one of the nation’s unique cities, with a changing urban landscape, a lively music scene, a diverse population, sixteen colleges and universities, and an array of entertainment venues. The conference location at the Vanderbilt Plaza is near Music Row, the Broadway entertainment district, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the Frist Museum of Visual Arts, Ryman Auditorium, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and numerous listening rooms. *
