Center for Teaching Excellence
ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012, 8:30 am-3:30 pm
Hālau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies,
Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Register at: http://www.cte.hawaii.edu/OnlineReg.html
The purpose of the conference is to inspire and support faculty who incorporate or plan to incorporate civic engagement in their curricula and research. The conference will provide a forum for exchange of ideas, practices, and assessment of civic engagement and liberal education with a focus on high-impact teaching practices and essential learning outcomes. Selected papers will become the basis for a peer-reviewed publication on Civic Engagement and Liberal Education.
Since the Spring of 2011, the CSS Commitment to Liberal Education Initiative has gathered and supported faculty working to strengthen academic research and exchange on civic engagement and liberal education. A national conversation on the importance of preparing all students for informed and engaged citizenship inspired the theme of this conference. Through their "Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP)" initiative, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has issued a call for action in the report, "A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future," (http://www.aacu.org/civic_learning/crucible/documents/crucible_508F.pdf, the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, free copies of the report will be available at the conference). We will take up the challenge as expressed in the report to discuss civic learning across the curriculum and renew the long-standing mission of colleges and universities to educate students for informed, engaged citizenship.
We are planning a day of lively and inspirational exchange between national and local speakers, faculty, and community leaders about short-term planning and implemented actions as a preparation for developing an in-depth, coherent, longer-term approach to liberal education at our college and in the UH system in general.
Tentative program
PROGRAM
| 8:30 am | Registration |
| 9:00 am | 'Oli (chant). Welcome by Denise Konan, Dean of the UHM College of Social Sciences |
| 9:15 am | Dr. Konrad Ng, Professor, UHM Academy for Creative Media, and Director, Smithsonian Insitution's Asian Pacific American Program: "A Case for Civil Engagement as Learning" |
| 9:45 am | Dr. Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, Association of American Colleges and Universities: "A Crucible Moment, College Learning and Democracy's Future" |
| 10:45 am | Break |
| 11:00 pm | Faculty panel I |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch - Dahlia Asuega, Resident Services Manager, Mutual Housing - Pālolo Homes: "Working with Instutions of Higher Eduation for Social Change: A View from the Community" |
| 1:30 pm | Faculty panel II |
| 2:30 pm | Dr. Robert Franco, Professor and Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness, Kapiʻolani Community College. "Community, Capability, and Completion: A Lasting Agenda for Higher Education" |
| 3:30 pm | Closing |
Please join us and share your research and teaching experiences with us
For more information, please contact the planning committee: Dr. Ulla Hasager (CSS Civic Engagement Specialist) and Dr. Louise Kubo (Coordinator of the CSS Commitment to Liberal Education Initiative, CSS Associate Specialist) at uhliberaleducation@gmail.com
Register at: http://www.cte.hawaii.edu/OnlineReg.html
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Sponsored by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, College of Social Sciences.
Co-sponsors: The UHM Center for Teaching Excellence and Ethnic Studies Department.
