Engaged learning focus of fall workshops
Lorilee Sandmann
The Center for Community-Engaged Learning at Mississippi State is partnering with the Center for Teaching and Learning to offer several workshops in October and November on engaged learning.
A workshop on Oct. 9 is being led by Lorilee Sandmann, professor emerita in Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. She serves as a core reviewer and on the National Advisory Panel for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. Her research, teaching, writing, advising and consulting focuses on leadership and organizational change in higher education with special emphasis on the institutionalization of community engagement, as well as faculty roles and rewards related to community-engaged scholarship.
For over 45 years, Sandmann held administrative, faculty, extension and outreach positions at the University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, Cleveland State University, as well as UGA. She is also the former editor of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.
In addition to Sandmann's presentation on Oct. 9, other workshops include:
* Tuesday [Oct. 2] – Reflective Writing – Carmen Wilder, interim associate director, Student Leadership and Community Engagement
* Oct. 22 – Addressing Risk, Protection of Minors, and IRB Luncheon – Joy Graves, university compliance officer, and Nicole Cobb, Human Research Protection Program officer
* Nov. 7 – Preparing Students to Work in the Community – Meggan Franks, interim director, Student Leadership and Community Engagement
You can register for any or all of these workshops at www.ctl.msstate.edu/events.
