1. Presentation by Dan W. Butin Dean, School of Education, Merrimack College Executive Director, Center for Engaged Democracy dan.butin@merrimack.edu For Indiana University’s Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Series March 29, 2013

2. This Should be Easy…But We Have Reached an “Engagement Ceiling” The Potential for the Engaged Campus What’s at Stake

3. CIVIC ENGAGEMENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING & LEARNING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH SERVICE- LEARNING COMMUNITY- BASED RESEARCH PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

4.  RELEVANCE: Academic integrity  RECIPROCITY: Meaningful community voice, impact, and participation  REFLECTION: Experience is never transparent  RESPECT: Avoiding the “community as lab” phenomenon

5. RESEARCH- BASED NRC’s How We Learn SL “At a Glance” NSSE EMPIRICALLY- DRIVEN UCLA’s HERI Campus Compact AAC&U POLICY- SUPPORTED Carnegie Kettering US Dept. of Ed.

6. Rhetoric/Reality Gap Minimal community impact (80% of CBR projects have no community outcomes; Stoeker, 2010) Minimal social & political framing (<5% of students viewed SL from such a perspective; Westheimer & Kahne, 2004) Institutional Diversification (>40% community colleges, 12% for-profits, 3% Liberal Arts; NCES 2013) Shallow Institutionalization Self-selected audience (<8% of student and faculty engagement; Campus Compact, 2013) Student demographics ( 50% need remedial education; NCES, 2013) Faculty work (>67% non-tenure-stream & >80% lecture; NCES 2011 & 2007)

7. BREADTHDEPTH DiffuseFocus AnswersQuestions ToolkitsHandbooks A CampaignA Discipline (or SoTL) SOCIAL MOVEMENT INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT

8. CONTENT KNOWLEDGE TECHNICAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & CULTURAL COMPETENCY CULTURAL SOCIAL & POLITICAL ACTIVISM/SOCIAL JUSTICE POLITICAL COGNITIVE DISSONANCE ANTI-FOUNDATIONAL

9. As the question  Depth of practice As critical inquiry  Pedagogical legitimacy As embedded  Course integrity As text  academic freedom “who benefits?” “can you walk away?”

10. Is there a place for the civic in a place-less world?