Civic Engagement Center

at National-Louis University

2008-2009Accomplishment

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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