Early Afternoon Concurrent Sessions D – G

Session D - What It Means to Be an Engaged Campus: The Carnegie Community Engagement Classification as a Framework for Institutional Engagement

Presenter: John Saltmarsh
Description: This workshop provides an introduction to the Elective Community Engagement Classification offered every five years through the Carnegie Foundation. We will review the history and purpose of the classification, the benefits of the classification, and the institutional policies, structures, and practices that constitute what the Carnegie Foundation calls the “documentation framework” through which campuses provide evidence of engagement.
Presentation Materials: Download Saltmarsh workshop Carnegie 2020 Master.pptx



Session E - Engaging Students with Contents from the ArtStor Digital Library

Presenter: Jen Hoyer
Description: This session will outline how faculty can the use of images from Rider’s libraries subscription to the ArtStor Digital Library to help increase student learning and engagement, bring the arts, humanities and social sciences to life, and promote visual literacy across departments. The presenter will show the breadth of the Artstor Digital Library’s 1.8 million images from authoritative sources worldwide and demonstrate how its online tools help make it easy to use them for effective teaching and research. We will then look at interdisciplinary projects created in the Digital Library, and introduce ArtStor’s expanding collection of faculty-curated Curriculum Guides to showcase how images are being used to teach literature, architecture, philosophy, and more.
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Session F - From the Workplace to the Classroom: Lessons from Employee Engagement

Presenters: John Donovan, Gene Kutcher
Description: There has been a significant amount of recent attention in the Organizational Behavior field dedicated to the construct of Employee Engagement, which is generally defined as a focused passion, energy and enthusiasm that employees apply to their work performance. Parallel to this, in the Education domains, is a movement to understand, model, and enhance student engagement in the classroom and at their institutions. In this session, we will review some of the Employee Engagement research, including our own works in progress, in an attempt to draw connections between the two areas of inquiry.
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Session G - Facilitating Protocols with Your Students to Deepen Discourse and Engagement

Presenters: Jennifer Kamm
Description: No matter what course you teach, getting students to actively participate meaningfully can sometimes be a challenge. Look no further because utilizing protocols in your classroom is an easy, yet effective way to get every student thinking and participating critically about your course content. According to the National School Reform Faculty, protocols are “structured processes or guidelines to promote meaningful and efficient communication, problem solving, and learning.” In this session, you will participate in some protocols and walk away with many more that will become a staple in your classroom.
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