Service-Learning Council
The Service-Learning Council is a collaborative, interdisciplinary group committed to integrating community-engaged scholarship through service-learning and place-based strategies. It provides strategic guidance to the Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, fostering mutually beneficial partnerships, encouraging critical reflection, and overseeing the University's for-credit community engagement initiatives, including the UAM 3100 policy. Guided by Gordon da Cruz's six major components (identify, investigate, partner, generate, exchange, and produce), the Council serves as a foundational resource for advancing scholarship in practice. Recommended readings are available below.
Council members
| Office/Department | Name |
|---|---|
| Center for Student Engagement | Amy Koeckes |
| College of Business | Samantha Bickert |
| College of Education and Human Development | Abbie Olszewski |
| College of Education and Human Development | Ian Mcgregor |
| College of Education and Human Development | Jenna Dewar |
| College of Liberal Arts, Communication Studies | Jimmie Manning |
| College of Liberal Arts, Criminal Justice | Jennifer Lanterman |
| College of Liberal Arts, Department of English | Cody Hunter |
| College of Liberal Arts, Department of Gender, Race, and Identity Studies | Lydia Huerta |
| College of Liberal Arts, History | Christopher Von Nagy |
| College of Liberal Arts, Political Science | Brad A Johnson |
| College of Liberal Arts, World Languages and Literatures | Erin Edgington |
| College of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Lexi Spoon |
| College of Science, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | Cary Lindsey |
| Nevada Career Studio | Melissa Rickenbacher |
| Office of Government and Community Engagement | Shelby Bietz |
| Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement | Matthew Little- Chair |
| Orvis School of Nursing | Theresa Watts |
| School of Public Health, CASAT | Jordan Baez |
| University of Nevada Press | Caddie Dufurrena |
| Upward Bound | Noah Walls |
| Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education | David Shintani |
Recommended readings
- Dostilio, L. D. (Ed.). (2017). The community engagement professional in higher education : a competency model for an emerging field. Campus Compact.
- Dostilio, L. D. (2019). The community engagement professional’s guidebook : a companion to The community engagement professional in higher education. Campus Compact.
- Fitzgerald, H. E., Bruns, K., Sonka, S. T., Furco, A., & Swanson, L. (2016). The Centrality of Engagement in Higher Education. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement.
- Gordon da Cruz, C. (2017). Critical Community-Engaged Scholarship: Communities and Universities Striving for Racial Justice. Peabody Journal of Education.
- Keywords for American Cultural Studies: Engagement, Third Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett, and Glenn Hendler, New York University Press, 2020.
- Keywords for American Cultural Studies: University, Third Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett, and Glenn Hendler, New York University Press, 2020.