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Service-Learning Does Not Stop Over the Summer
ATLANTA – Oglethorpe University’s Center for Civic Engagement does not slow down when Oglethorpe students are away on summer vacation. The center will host the Campus Compact Professional Development Institute’s Fifth Annual Summer Conference, a national service-learning conference, on the university’s campus Monday, July 28 through August 1. For the first time in the southeast, 75 participants from the United States, Canada, Japan, Egypt, Lebanon and Ireland attend Campus Compact.
The conference will provide must-have knowledge for new community service and service-learning professionals. The institute offers instruction, from some of the most respected service-learning practitioners in the field. This unique gathering offers participants the chance to learn and understand key information and principles in service, service-learning and higher education; and allows them to discuss with experienced practitioners the critical questions and skills needed to be successful.
Dr. Kendra King, professor of politics and the director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership Program at Oglethorpe will speak in the opening session held at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia at Perimeter (4355 Ashford Dunwoody Rd., Atlanta 30346) July 28, at 5:00 p.m. Tamara Nash, director of Oglethorpe’s Center for Civic Engagement, Heather Staniszewski, assistant director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Oglethorpe junior Kendra Grays will present the session entitled Community as Partners: Developing and Sustaining Campus-Community Partnerships on July 30, from 8:45 until 10:30 a.m. at Oglethorpe University. For more information please call 404.504.1978.
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