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Civic Engagement Center
at National-Louis University
2008-2009Accomplishment
s
Developed in Spring 2009
Features information and resources about academic service-learning, civic involvement, services trips and volunteer opportunities.
Provides opportunities for the NLU community to become civically engaged.
The CEC Website
http://www.nl.edu/cec
Additional Web Presence
• www.twitter.com/NLUcec
• http://nlunola2009.blogspot.com/
• http://photobucket.com/NLU-NOLAtrip
• http://www.youtube.com/nlucivicengagement
Nonprofit volunteer and internship fair to the NLU community
Made initial contact with over 200 nonprofit organizations in the Chicago area
34 organizations attended Over 90 attendees
The Annual S.E.R.V.I.C.E Fair
2009 NOLA Service Trips
Over 60 members of the NLU community have travelled to NOLA since the summer
of 2007
Sponsored by Illinois Campus Compact Hosted at NLU's Chicago campus Forum for leading professors at Chicago
universities to discuss the effects of globalization on today's college students
Globalization & Leadership Symposium
Topic: Civically-Engaged Scholarship: Service-Learning Pedagogy
Keynote speaker: Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry, Professor at University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Many faculty from NLU and Chicago-area universities shared service-learning ideas and course projects
Students presented service-learning projects to attending faculty
Service-Learning Symposium
• The IDS-OCC, an Interdisciplinary Studies major, was approved for development in Spring 2009.
The course schedule and syllabi are in development.
For marketing purposes the CEC is creating a list of similar programs available in the U.S.
It is locating nonprofit and grassroots organizations whose members might be interested in the IDS-OCC program.
Master of Science in Organizational & Community Change
Send Silence Packing Coordinated with the Office of Counseling
and Health Services Guest speakers discussed types of sexual
violence and its effects on victims Provided information and resources for
survivors
Sexual Violence Awareness Month
Hosted by Service for Peace at Chicago Public Schools
Participants played basketball at Dr. King High School
Free legal advice provided by volunteering lawyers
MLK Day of Service at CPS