New Course on Community Engagement in Higher Ed

 We are pleased  to have the support of faculty from UMass Boston for our AmeriCorps member training program.  Dwight Giles, one of the professors we are working with, is offering a new course on "Community Engagement in Higher Education."  The graduate level course is open to anyone interested that has a Bachelors degree--i.e. you don't need to be enrolled at UMass Boston.  So I thought I'd share here as it might be of interest to some in our network.  The course summary is pasted in below, with the full flier attached which includes Prof. Giles' contact info.

Course Description  Wed. 5-7:30 p.m.

Community Engagement in and by Higher Education has had a long an episodic history in the United States; in the past decade, however, interest in community engagement and the civic mission of higher education has increased noticeably.  The most recent and visible manifestation of this is the Carnegie Foundation’s new voluntary Community Engagement Classification.  This course will review the philosophical, historical and programmatic antecedents of this movement in higher education along with current examples of community engaged campuses. We will critically review engagement across the domains of teaching, scholarship and service and in regard to various types of campuses.  We will also grapple with the particular challenge of assessing community engagement.