AS-L Faculty Fellows Winter 2019 Seminar

We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

– Grace Lee Boggs

Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty & Full-Time Lecturers

Apply for the

Community-Based Learning &

Academic Service-Learning Faculty Fellow Seminar

Winter 2020

What is Community Based-Learning?

Community-Based Learning (CBL) is a teaching and learning strategy that works to integrate community through mutual collaboration into courses and/or curriculum in order to enhance student learning and increase community capacity.

If accepted faculty fellows are required to:

attend weekly 1.5 to 2-hour semester-long seminar of sharing, exploring, and learning about academic service-learning (AS-L) & community engagement with other faculty members.
Develop a course or curriculum enhancement, and/or creative/scholarly initiative with students, which integrates community-based learning
Offer the course/curriculum integration within a year of the fellowship.

Accepted Faculty Fellows will receive a one (1) course release time for Fall 2020.

What do we provide?

Engage@EMU's Office of Academic Service-Learning (AS-L) provides support for faculty to plan, implement, and assess academic service-learning and community-based learning in their courses and/or curriculum. The Office of AS-L also helps to identify and/or provide funding opportunities for faculty research and creative activity in community engagement, engaged scholarship, and Academic Service-Learning.

Please submit the application by November 20, 2019.