Engaged Scholarship at Stanford
The Haas Center is committed to helping faculty engage in teaching, research, and service that strengthens student learning while addressing significant community needs. Through service-learning courses and research with a public purpose, engaged scholarship recognizes the multiple ways of knowing and acting that shape university and community collaborations directed toward greater understanding of and sustainable action on public issues.
 | Engaged Research Highlight
This past spring and summer, Janani Balasubramanian '12 joined the research team of Milbrey McLaughlin, John Gardner Center Founding Director and David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy; Mary Hofstedt, Program Manager, Youth and Development Engagement; and Beth Ross, Environmental Initiatives Manager, Redwood City. Together they explored connections between classroom learning and environmental field education to develop means for instilling a sense of environmental stewardship among local youth. Learn more.
|  | Community Partnership Highlight
Matthew Evans, Consulting Professor in the Department of Biology and researcher at the Department of Plant Biology at the Carnegie Institution, has started a partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula (BGCP) and the Haas Center's Science in Service (SiS) Program. With support from the National Science Foundation, Evans will bring highly-interactive lessons in maize genetics to teens with the help of undergraduate research-teaching interns in his lab and SiS mentors. He envisions a mentorship cycle in which he mentors two research-teaching interns in his lab during the summer, the interns then create lesson plans that relate to his research, the SiS mentors facilitate the lesson plans with teens at BGCP, and, finally, the teens visit Evan's lab at the end of the cycle. Learn more. |  | Service-Learning Course Highlight
URBST 127: Planning for Climate Change and Peak Oil
This service-learning class, taught by Haas Center Visiting Practitioner Bethany Steiner, explores how communities can take steps to help decrease carbon emissions and prepare for climate change and rising fossil fuel costs. Students work in teams to develop implementation steps for Redwood City's Community Climate Action Plan, a local "call to action to encourage residents and local businesses to take a leadership role, together with the City, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curb the impacts of global warming."
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Resources and Events to Support Faculty Engagement
| Service-Learning Course Development Grants
Creating a new service-learning course? Consider applying for funding through the Haas Center. Visit our website for details and an online application.
|  | Webcast: November 3, 2009 at Haas
The Struggle for the Future of Higher Education
Join us at the Haas Center Donald Kennedy room for a brown bag lunch event while we participate in the webcast "Agents and Architects of Democracy: The Struggle for the Future of Higher Education," which will focus on the following questions: How can higher education reverse the disturbing trends we see occurring: pressures for higher education to become increasingly a private good with students as customers, institutions as industries, and competitive success measured by how many are refused admissions? Contact Karin Cotterman for more information.
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| Upcoming Faculty Forum: November 30, 2009
The Autumn Quarter Faculty Forum will take place on Monday, November 30 at noon (location TBA). The forum, Engaged Scholarship: Connecting Community, Research, and Teaching, will feature Dr. Judith Ned, Executive Director of the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program, and Dr. Marilyn Winkleby, Professor (Research) of Medicine (Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention). RSVP to Karin Cotterman.
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| Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Proposals
13th Annual Continuums of Service Conference
March 31–April 2, 2010 in Portland, Oregon
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Conference
May 12–15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon
Many conferences focused on academic disciplines have preconference workshops in service-learning and engaged scholarship. Here are workshops at the upcoming National Communication Association Conference in Chicago.
|  | Recent Publications in the Field
The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning
edited by Randy Stoecker and Elizabeth A. Tyron with Amy Hilgendorf
The Future of Service Learning: New Solutions for Sustaining and Improving Practice
(featuring a chapter co-authored by Tania Mitchell, Associate Director for Undergraduate CSRE and Director of Service Learning)
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| Publishing Opportunities
We have expanded the Haas website to include links to faculty publications related to engaged scholarship. If you or your colleagues have books, journal articles, or presentation materials that you would like us to feature or link to from our website, please contact Karin Cotterman.
Publishing Opportunities and Call for Papers
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