Not Just for Undergraduates
Community Engaged Teaching and Learning
Current Data and Prospects
Graduate Affairs Committee
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Mary F. Price, PhD.
Director of Faculty Development
IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
Community-Based Learning
Not all community-based instruction is
service learning.
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Field work experiences
Location of activity is
Cooperative Education
insufficient….
Internship
Practicum
Service Learning
Pre-professional field experiences, Clinicals, Student Teaching
Applied Learning
Experiential Learning
Student Engagement
What do we mean by “service
learning”?
• Service learning is a course or competency based,
credit-bearing educational experience in which
students
 a) participate in mutually identified service activities that
benefit the community, and
 b) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain
further understanding of course/academic content, a
broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced
sense of personal/professional values and civic
responsibility. (Bringle and Clayton, 2012, adapted from
Bringle and Hatcher, 1995)
Flavors of Service Learning
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Amount of service
Community partner selection
Direct/indirect service
Domestic/international
setting
Community-based research
Disciplinary/
Interdisciplinary
Some internships
Both undergraduate &
graduate/professional level
Conceptual Limitations
• Historic emphasis on undergraduates
• Issues of language (service, community-based,
community-engaged, participatory, etc.)
• Masks key curricular and faculty issues for
research universities and professions
• Faculty pipeline (preparing future faculty)
• Preparing future professionals, researchers and faculty for
future societal conditions and demands (includes but is not
limited to labor conditions)
• Social trustees of knowledge
Institutionally, how do we connect
connect the dots?
• How do we know we are doing “it” well?
• What are the “its” we are trying to accomplish?
• How do we know if the “it” aligns with our institutional,
departmental, organizational values related to
community engagement and graduate/professional T/L?
• How do we best deploy resources of the right types to
enhance/diffuse/expand/sustain instances where “it” is
working?
• How can these processes be monitored at various scales
at the Center or institutional level?
• How do we support critical reflection on the process and
outcomes of engagement?
Sample Experiential Learning
Transcript Notations (refer handout)
• Organized Community Service
• Significant Time in Community
• Immersed in Different Culture
Pre-date RISE Challenge
course tags.
• Community-Based Resrch & Org'd Community Service
• Significant Time in Community-Based Research
• Community-Based Research in Different Culture
• Significant Time in Organized Community Service
• Org'd Community Service Immersed in Different Culture
• Significant Community Time Immersed in Different Culture
New Approaches to
Monitoring Needed…
No single data source on campus
captures the information our Center
needs to connect the dots related to
SL…
Data Sources
Course
Service
Name
Service
required/optional
Students
Enrollment data
Partner
Information
Names of up to
6 community
partners per
course section
Faculty
Name
Role/appt. type
Number
# of students
participating in
service
Type of work
Department and
school affiliation
Section
Semester offered
Avg. minimum
number of service
hours per student
per semester
Section tags…
gateway to student
specific data
Email
Zip code
Relationship to CSL
Our Journey….Continues
An unexpected development…
Service Learning at IUPUI 2012-13
Undergraduate versus Graduate
Breakdown by School
100
90
80
70
60
54
82
50
40
59
30
20
10
0
24
17
57
41
5
2
7
21
12
1
4
7
13
28
4
25
2
25
11
Undergraduate
Graduate
What Does This Effort Yield?
Course Sections
Undergrad
428
Graduate
73
Total
501
100 Level
200 Level
300 Level
400 Level
Graduate
Total
SL Course Sections
by Level
TOTAL N BY LEVEL
Count Enrollment Service Hours
81
2,271
21,205
96
2,585
28,218
129
1,901
63,531
122
1,418
131,485
73
896
33,208
501
9,071
277,647
Service Hours by Course Level
12% 8%
15% 16%
19%
24%
26%
100 Level
200 Level
300 Level
400 Level
Graduate
Student Enrollment in SL
896, 10%
10%
1418, 16%
2271, 25%
23%
47%
100 Level
200 Level
1901, 21%
300 Level
400 Level
Graduate
100 Level
200 Level
2585, 28%
300 Level
400 Level
Graduate
IUPUI Documented Grad/Professional
SL Course Sections 2011-2013
Source: Campus wide SL Inventory
35
30
# Sections
25
20
15
2011-12
2012-13
10
5
0
2011-12
2012-13
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14
17
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19
16
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32
4
28
SWK
2
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Contributions to Community
Capacity Building
Estimated Economic Contributions of Students in
Service Learning Courses 2012-13
Source: 2012-13 IUPUI Service Learning Inventory
Grad/Prof.
34,200,
$4,258,705.00
Calculations based on the
standard volunteer rate
(Ugrad) and Pro Bono rates
(Grad/prof.).
Ugrad
243,447,
$5,389,916.58
What does this effort yield?
Participation Rates by Faculty
SL Teaching Load by Faculty Role
Total # of Sections
25%
39%
36%
SL Teaching Load by Faculty Role
Total Service Hours by Section
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
22%
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Students
58%
20%
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Students
Lecturers/Clinical
Lecturers/Clinical
SL Teaching Load by Students
Participating in SL
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
38%
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
26%
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Students
36%
Lecturers/Clinical
An Opportunity and a
Challenge to Get at Process
38% (n=189/501) of
course sections included in
the 2012-13 Inventory
included additional
descriptive tags.
Codes
N=Sections
Activity
EL01/EL05
6
Community Based Research
3.17%
EL02/EL06
84
Organized Community Service
44.44%
The rate is higher for graduate and
70
Significant Time in the Community
professional level course sections
EL04
5
Immersed in a Different Culture
(N=35/73); 48% include additional tags
EL03/EL07
Percent
37.04%
2.65%
EL12/EL56
4
Comm Rsrch & Org'd Comm. Service
2.12%
EL13
7
Significant Time in Comm Rsrch
3.70%
EL24/EL68
7
Immsd Diff Cultr Org. Comm. Serv.
3.70%
EL67
6
Significant Time in the Community
3.17%
Totals
189
An Opportunity and a
Challenge to Get at Process
Codes
N=Sections
EL01/EL05
6
EL02/EL06
EL03/EL07
EL04
EL12/EL56
EL13
EL24/EL68
38% (n=189/501) of
course sections included in
the 2012-13 Inventory
included additional
descriptive tags.
Activity
Community Based Research
Most of these descriptors likely inherited from
Organized Community Service
previous84semesters…
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structureTime
but…
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and course
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recorders?
•Do they understand the structure and what it implies?
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Comm Rsrch & Org'd Comm. Service
•Do they want to know…question of relevance?
•Is the system flexible to allow for shifts in the
7
Significant Time in Comm Rsrch
deployment of specific teaching strategies?
•Is there agreement
onDiff
what
these
termsServ.
mean in
7
Immsd
Cultr
Org. Comm.
practice and within departments?
EL67
6
Totals
189
Significant Time in the Community
Percent
3.17%
44.44%
37.04%
2.65%
2.12%
3.70%
3.70%
3.17%
Why More May Not Always
Be Good….
Ever increasing numbers of
students in SL may not be
the best goal:
Efficient & effective must
– For partners
be considered in the
– For students
context of workload,
roles, values and
– For faculty/staff
capacities for all
– For campuses/ communities
involved……
This question is not unique
to SL as an HIP…
Questions Raised For GAC
• Awareness?
• Relevance?
• Recruitment and Retention (faculty and
students)?
• Policy Issues and Faculty Oversight?
• Best Practices?
• Outcomes and Monitoring?
• Impact?
• Is there a way the CSL can better support
your individual or collective goals?
Upcoming
• 2013-14 SL Inventory Data Collection—begins in
mid-March
• Call to Action - to Deans and chairs, mid-late
February
• Want to learn more or to inform the process?
• Monday, February 24th, 2014 (noon – 1:30 p.m.)
• Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 (9 a.m. – 10:30
a.m.)
SCALAR PERSPECTIVES: Departmental
GWCHS/IUPUI Partnership Partial Network View…using SL Course Data
• One of IUPUI’s signature comprehensive
partnerships: University-Assisted Community School
model
• Institutional resources: staff, funds, scholarships
• Significant community buy-in and participation:
School liaison, parent network, community advisory
council
IUPUI/GWCHS Partnership: Digging into a
Variable
collaboration
Carmel Clay Schools (Carmel Elementary)
Carmel Clay Schools (Creekside Middle)
Number
Course Sections
25
Students
174
Questions Raised:
Hours
11,963 (GWCHS
only)
•Many faculty sending their students
to
multiple
Inclusive Hours
14, 625 (includes
PARCS 3,562 hrs)
partners…implications for practice?
•How engaged are these faculty with GWCHS?
•Is there a tendency toward more transactional
connections working a specific levels of the
curriculum?
•Is the weight of student supervision falling to
teachers and staff at GW? With so many Nursing
students, is
Sociology
the load too much?
Education
•How might IUPUI Circles
and=GWCHS
work
together
to
faculty
Geography
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GWCHS?
of
Health, Phys Ed, &
Hawthorne Community Center
A Caring Place (Catholic Charities)
Carmel Clay Schools (West Clay Elementary)
Aftercare in Mentoring
SITE (transition-to-work program for IPS students w/ special needs)
Wishard Health Services
Ben Davis High School
Indiana Public School (IPS) #51
Mary Rigg Multiservice Center
Exodus
PARCS (LEGACY)
George Washington Community High School
PARCS (GWCHS)
George Washington Community Center
Friends of White River
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful
Central Indiana Land Trust
Marion County soil and Water Conservation Service
Theater on the Square
Wheeler Mission Ministries, Inc.
Midwest Food Bank
Edna Martin Christian Center
Dayspring Center
Joy's House
course sections
Recreation
2012-13 IUPUI SL Inventory
Participation Rates by Faculty
SL Teaching Load by Faculty Role
Total # of Sections
25%
39%
36%
SL Teaching Load by Faculty Role
Total Service Hours by Section
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Students
22%
58%
20%
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Students
Lecturers/Clinical
Lecturers/Clinical
SL Teaching Load by Students
Participating in SL
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
38%
26%
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Students
36%
Lecturers/Clinical
Faculty Workload (gender concerns)
Carmel Clay Schools (Carmel Elementary)
Carmel Clay Schools (Creekside Middle)
Hawthorne Community Center
A Caring Place (Catholic Charities)
Carmel Clay Schools (West Clay Elementary)
Aftercare in Mentoring
SITE (transition-to-work program for IPS students w/ special needs)
Wishard Health Services
Ben Davis High School
Icon Size= total
student service hours
supervised by an
individual faculty
member.
Indiana Public School (IPS) #51
Mary Rigg Multiservice Center
PARCS (LEGACY)
George Washington Community High School
PARCS (GWCHS)
Exodus
George Washington Community Center
Friends of White River
Central Indiana Land Trust
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful
Theater on the Square
Marion County soil and Water Conservation Service
Wheeler Mission Ministries, Inc.
Midwest Food Bank
Edna Martin Christian Center
Dayspring Center
Male
Joy's House
Female
Faculty: Gender/Status Dynamics
Carmel Clay Schools (Carmel Elementary)
Carmel Clay Schools (Creekside Middle)
Hawthorne Community Center
A Caring Place (Catholic Charities)
Carmel Clay Schools (West Clay Elementary)
Aftercare in Mentoring
SITE (transition-to-work program for IPS students w/ special needs)
Wishard Health Services
Ben Davis High School
Indiana Public School (IPS) #51
Mary Rigg Multiservice Center
PARCS (LEGACY)
George Washington Community High School
PARCS (GWCHS)
Exodus
George Washington Community Center
Friends of White River
Central Indiana Land Trust
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful
Theater on the Square
Marion County soil and Water Conservation Service
Wheeler Mission Ministries, Inc.
Midwest Food Bank
Joy's House
Edna Martin Christian Center
Dayspring Center
Associate
Faculty/Staff/Graduate
Male
Lecturers/Clinical
Tenured/TenureTrack/Emeritus
Female
Questions?
Contact Information:
Mary Price, price6@iupui.edu
Steve Scally, sscally@indiana.edu
IUPUI Center for Service and
Learning