Engaged Faculty Fellows Application

2016–2017 Academic Year

DEADLINE:Tuesday May 31, 2016

The Center for Social Concern (CSC) is the student life office dedicated to community service and civic engagement and operates under the umbrella of Johns Hopkins University’s Academic Services.The CSC emphasizes the value of servicewithothers, rather than the commonly accepted concept of servicetoothers. The volunteer and client enter into an educational process where both benefit from the interaction and reciprocal learning is the common ground for all of our initiatives. Our programs and efforts are striving to create a "better community" in and around the Johns Hopkins campus.

THE CSC

  • Houses over60 community service groupsthat perform direct service to the Baltimore Community
  • Oversees the JHU Tutorial Project, an in-house tutoring program for Baltimore area elementary school students
  • Oversees the Community Impact Internships Program (CIIP), recruiting, selecting and supporting 50 undergraduate interns for community-based summer internships in Baltimore nonprofits and government agencies.
  • Provides seed money for individual students who wish to coordinate community-based programming in Baltimore
  • Administers a community-based Federal Work Study program
  • Serves as a resource for students, faculty, and community organizations who want to develop community-based learning (CBL) opportunities

COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING

CBL is a pedagogical model that connects classroom-based work with meaningful community involvement and experiences. Within the context of equitable partnership, community organizations and students mutually benefit from the CBL experience both by meeting course objectivesand by addressingcommunity-identified goals. Students may engage with groups including, but not limited to: nonprofits, government agencies, grassroots collectives, and other educational institutions.

THE PRINCIPLES OF CBL INCLUDE:

  • Faculty, students, and community groups collaborate in pursuing community-identified goals and academic course objectives over a semester or longer.
  • Courses provide relevant reading, research (if applicable), and evaluation, including reflection, and meaningful learning objectives for community work; faculty meet their course objectives by preparing students for community entry, providing meaningful outlets for critical reflection, and adopting methods of rigorous evaluation.
  • Assurance that the community benefits from the relationship with Hopkins and the students’ community-based project.
  • Academic credit is given for classroomandcommunity-based learning, demonstrated by the students’ preparation for their experiential learning, community service activities, reflection and evaluation.Credits are assigned based on these factors, not on the community engagement by itself.

HOW DOES COMMUNITY-BASED LEARNING WORK AT JOHNS HOPKINS?

Although a number of faculty members at Hopkins already offer classes which incorporates community engagement, these experiences have not been formalized. The CSC is stepping into this gap to offer support to faculty who would like to teach community-based learning courses, as well as advocate for community-based learning to be more widely used and recognized on the Johns Hopkins campus.

ENGAGED SCHOLAR FACULTY AND COMMUNITY FELLOWS PROGRAM

Entering its second year, the Engaged Scholar Faculty and Community Fellows Program represents a powerful initiative to more formally train faculty and community partners in CBL best practices.

The program will also help foster a growing network of scholars at JHU who possess a broader knowledge of CBL. By encouraging a greater role for CBL at JHU, we are working to help give community members a greater voice in campus life and to bridge the campus with the surrounding community.

If you are interested in joining the 2016–2017 cohort, please complete the attached application. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the staff at the Center for Social Concern.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:

  • Participate in a two-day training to be held during the week of August 15th 2016.
  • Offer a CBL course spring semester 2017. The course may be offered in any discipline, but must embody one or more of the CSC’s civic values or competencies (see attached document).
  • Attend eveningcohortsessions, to be held once a month;
  • Encourage students from your courses to submit dissemination products for a closing reception in May 2017

BENEFITS:

  • Formal training in principles and best practices of Community-Based Learning
  • Title of “Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellow”
  • A stipend of $2000 to be used at the Faculty Fellow’s discretion.
  • Courses will receive $1,000 as a course assistant stipend supplement and the opportunity to request a small amount of course supply funds.

APPLICATION PROCESS and GETTING STARTED:

  1. Interested faculty should complete and submit the included Faculty Fellows application by Tuesday, May 31st.

II.Accepted Fellows will be contacted to talk more about a potential Community Fellow. The CSC can assist faculty in needs of identifying a community fellow if needed. Once identified and approved by the CSC, the Community Fellow will be invited to complete a Community Fellow Information Sheet.

III.Community and Faculty Fellows should work together to complete a Course Logistics Formoutlining projected logistical needs and submit it by Friday, July 15th.

IV.Faculty Fellows and Community Fellows will attend the August retreat.

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Please provide detailed answers to the questions below by attaching additional pages to your application. (Please limit your responses to 250–500 words.)

  1. Please describe what you hope to gain from participation in the Engaged Scholar Faculty and Community Fellows Program at Johns Hopkins University.
  1. Please describe a course that you have taught, or hope to teach, in which you incorporate(d) community engagement. For existing courses, what are the aims of the course? Prerequisites? Requirements? Goals of direct engagement with the community? How did students and community partners benefit from participation?
  1. How do you intend to continue contributing to the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore communities after successful completion of the Engaged Scholar Faculty and Community Fellows Program?
  1. Faculty Fellows will work with a team that includes a Community Fellow and one course assistant. Do you already have a community agency in mind and/or an undergraduate student that might work with you on a course? If not, the CSC will connect you with an agency and/or undergraduate student.

Applicant Signature:Date:

Please inform your department or program chair of your intent to participate in the Engaged Scholar Faculty and Community Fellows Program and offer a future Community-Based Learning course, should you be selected.

Department Chair (Print):Date:

Department Chair (Signature):Date:

Applications should be directed to: Gia Grier McGinnis, Associate Director,, 410-516-4777, Fax: 410-516-5123

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Engaged Faculty Fellows Application

2016–2017 Academic Year

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