Call for Proposals for 2008 CCNCCE Conference
The Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) invites you to submit a proposal to present at its 17th national annual conference, Recipes for Student Retention through Service Learning and Civic Engagement, to be held on May 21-23, 2008. The deadline for submitting proposals is February 4th, 2008. Conference presentations are 1-hour or 90-minute sessions, which should be designed to be highly interactive.
Proposals to present at the conference must be submitted in electronic form. In keeping with our theme, some of the issues you may wish to address in your workshop are:
- The role of student leadership and service in student retention
- Strategies for retaining students through service learning and civic
- engagement
- How to market your service learning program for student retention
- The role of service learning partners in helping students stay in
- school
- Incorporating service learning and civic engagement into the
- curriculum
- Effective evaluation and assessment of service learning programs
- Research in service learning and civic engagement
- Showcase your innovative service learning program or project
You can submit a proposal directly or visit the program’s site for detailed instructions.
Andy Fluke is the co-founder of NCDD and currently provides creative support to many of NCDD's publications and events. He also works with a handful of other NCDD members on a variety of projects as consultant and designer. More about his work can be found at www.andyfluke.com.
