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Engaging Students in the Democratic Process: Gearing Up for Fall 2008
Apr 4, 2008
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Chandler-Gilbert Community College
26 East Pecos Road, Chandler
480-732-7000
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This Dialogue Day has been pre-approved for 2.75 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.
Engaging Students in the Democratic Process: Gearing Up for Fall 2008
Apr 4, 2008
Chandler-Gilbert Community College
SC140
9:00am - 12:00pm
MCCCD has embraced the notion of civic engagement, a mission of educating
students for citizenship. As faculty, we not only want to help students
learn
actively, but also want to help them understand the skills of active
citizenship,
from increasing their awareness of issues and developing skills to gather
meaningful information to exploring ways to take action.
At this dialogue day, facilitators will share practical ways to help
students
become more civically engaged, specifically in Fall 2008. To get a feel for
how civic engagement can be a part of instruction, participants will take
part in whole-group civic engagement activities. Then through collaboration
and individual work, participants will develop activities for their classes
for Fall 2008.
Agenda
- 8:30 - 9:00 Registration and light continental breakfast
- 9:00 - 9:10 Reading assignment, welcome, and introduction
- 9:10 - 9:25 Engaging Students in the Democratic Process: President Maria
Hesse
- 9:25 - 9:30 Civic engagement continuum and outcomes
- 9:30 - 9:55 Voting, candidate issues, party platform issues and ballot
initiatives
- 9:55 - 10:10 Break
- 10:10 - 11:00 Civic engagement activities
- 11:00 - 11:30 Table discussions and participants writing of plans for
activities
- 11:30 - 11:50 Share out of activities developed
- 11:50 - 12:00 Closing and evaluation
Biographies
Dr. Maria Hesse serves as President and Chief Executive Officer for
Chandler-Gilbert
Community College. Before becoming President at CGCC, she served as faculty,
the Chief Academic Affairs Officer, and the Chief Student Affairs Officer.
She is committed to promoting student success, employee collegiality and
collaboration, and community service. During her 20 years at CGCC, she has
been actively involved in a variety of teaching and learning initiatives
including cooperative learning, service learning, learning communities, and
civic participation.
Noel Morelos has been Chandler-Gilbert's only residential Political Science
faculty since 2003. He has been one of the leaders CGCC's civic engagement
initiative in which he participates not only in the college's civic
engagement
leadership team, but also MCCCD's civic participation advisory group. Noel
co-chaired Criterion 5 (Engagement and Service) of CGCC's 2006 Self-Study
Report and authored the civic engagement section of that report. Prior to
arriving at Chandler-Gilbert, Noel worked as a community relations liaison
for the Mayor Murphy's administration in San Diego.
Chris Schnick has been a residential English Faculty member at
Chandler-Gilbert
Community College since 1997. As the college faculty development
coordinator,
he schedules and facilitates workshops advancing college initiatives,
develops
and facilitates summer institutes, collaborates with the Maricopa Community
College District faculty development committee, and works with college
committees
to support their faculty development initiatives. Through scheduling and
sometimes facilitating campus events, Chris has helped students attending
CGCC explore inclusion, global issues, sustainability, having difficult
conversations,
and their role in the democratic process.
Faculty Professional Growth
This Dialogue Day has been pre-approved for 2.75 clock hours Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.
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