I am pleased to share with you a video series organized this fall by Loyola's Center for Community Service and Justice on Telling the Story of Community Engagement: Assessment for Impact. In two parts, we look at how assessment can be used to show how we are engaged with the community, and also help both the university and our partner organizations tell the story of our collective impact. I am sharing with this group because you may find them useful points of comparison for your own work and your institutional partnerships.
Part I: Serve, Reflect, Repeat: Findings from a Decade of Service-Learning Data, features Paola Pascual-Ferrá, Assistant Professor of Communication at Loyola, and Kate Figiel-Miller, Assistant Director of Service-Learning in the Center for Community Service and Justice, showing how analysis of CCSJ's end-of-semester service-learning surveys can be used to show the impact of reflection-- in particular, multiple forms of reflection in the same course.
Part II: Assessing Community Impact, has been broken into two parts for your viewing convenience. Part 1, Moving the Line on Poverty with Loyola University, features Rachael Neill and D'Anne Avotins of GEDCO/CARES in Baltimore, who explain the impact that their ongoing partnership with Loyola has for their organization. Part 2, Assessment for Impact, features the director of CCSJ, Erin O'Keefe, leading Loyola faculty in a discussion of the video from Part 1, leading into a broader discussion of how faculty create and assess impact in their own work as well as for partner organizations and the community at large.
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Happy happy holidays to all!
Jean
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Jean Lee Cole
Loyola University Maryland
Professor of English •
Faculty Director of Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship • Editor, American
Periodicals • loyola.academia.edu/JeanLeeCole
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