June 2011
Character Clearinghouse
Vol 2, No. 2
June 2011
Click below to read about the latest programs, practices, and resources relating to moral and civic development of college students. Character Clearinghouse is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs at The Florida State University with funds from a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Katherine Dorner is a student leader at the
Center for Community Action and Service Learning (CCASL) at
Gonzaga University. She is an active participant in the student immersion program, Mission: Possible, and is involved in a month-long service-learning program in Zambia, Africa, this summer.
Clearinghouse is pleased to announce that
Eric Lovik, director of institutional effectiveness at the
College of The Albemarle, has won the
Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values Dissertation Award. This award goes to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation relevant to the field of college student character and values development.
Congratulations to the
Valuing in Decision-Making Department at
Alverno College for winning the
Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values Best Practices Award. This award recognizes a program or practice that has contributed significantly to the field of college student character and values development.
Jacob Okumu, a
doctoral student in higher education and student afffairs at
Ohio University, first became interested in service learning during his study abroad experiences in the republic of Tchad, North Africa, as an honors student in philosophy and humanities from the University of Zimbabwe in Southern Africa.
The
TRIPS program at
St. Norbert draws from the resources of the Office of Leadership Development, Service and Engagement, as well as the Campus Ministry. Read about this program as well as other programs we have featured in earlier issues.
Clearinghouse, in this ongoing series, examines the roles persons in the profession assume that make a difference in the lives of young people, their college campuses, and the extended communities in which they work. In our second feature, we talk with
Kristin Harper, director of the Bunting Center at
Birmingham-Southern College.
The society identifies five engagement areas (leadership, internship, service, international, and research) designed to help facilitate involvement and recognize the engaged, well-rounded undergraduate student.
The
Institute on College Student Values began in Wakulla Springs in February 1991 with keynote speakers
Arthur Levine, Janet Burroway, William Jones, Margaret Barr, Jon Dalton, and Arthur Sandeen. Read the program, online for the first time, twenty years later, which includes the addresses of these noted leaders in higher education.
Here is a selection of mission statements from
Central College, Roosevelt University, Wabash College, Olivet Nazarene University, Morehouse College, Agnes Scott College, and others.
The goal of social entrepreneurship is to bring about social change. Here are examples of college programs across the country.
Here is a selection of examples of residential learning programs including
Valdosta State University, North Dakota State University, George Washington University, and Miami University of Ohio.
Clearinghouse editor Pam Crosby provides a brief overview of the role of the female student in selective women’s colleges as described in publications in the 1930s.
Sarah Lawrence College is the focus of this second essay in this series that looks at the emergence of women's progressive colleges in the US.
The
current issue focuses on the
Personal and Social Responsibility initiative of the
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Also, don't miss the
most popular papers; the rankings are updated daily.
The summer conference at
DePaul University will include 40 workshop and paper presenters from across the country—faculty, staff, students, and community partners—representing colleges, universities, and faith and social justice organizations.
Noted author and professor
Benjamin Barber will be the keynote speaker at this summer institute at
Boston University.
CC lets you know about the past and future happenings going on in college programs and other organizations today.
Contact Information
Please send all correspondence to Pamela Crosby, editor, at
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