The Buffalo State Pedagogical Institute is a week of professional collaboration that develops instructional skills and integrates campus resources. The 2024 Institute is scheduled for May 20–23.  Instructors and coordinators of Student Success, first-year, and general education courses, TRIO personnel, student services professionals, and administrators will benefit from the workshops and discussions. All sessions will be in Bacon 115.

Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for an introduction to service-learning and community engagement.

Are you new to community-engaged learning and interested in understanding how you might incorporate a community engagement project into your course? Would you like a refresher on the fundamentals of community-engaged learning? This interactive session will help faculty and staff new to the pedagogy as well as those who could use a brush-up on community-engaged learning and the practice of incorporating a community-based project into a course.

     Topics will include:

• an overview of the theory and practice of service-learning
• strategies for identifying reciprocal and meaningful community partnerships
• a discussion of effective methods of incorporating student reflection to connect the service and course learning
• how our CEL office supports faculty through the process of teaching community-engaged learning courses

A Light Breakfast will be provided at 8:30 a.m.

Presenter: Laura Hill Rao and Alice Villaseñor