MCC Summer Network Retreat

Presentations and Materials from the 2011 MCC Summer Network Retreat

The Engaged Campus: From Service to Community Outcomes by Mary Beckman

Workshops
Voices for Action: Poverty Reduction Campaign
Rural/Urban Service Exchange
Data Collection & Assessment
Research & Scholarship

Round Tables
MCC Programming
Creating a Culture of Engagement
Service-Learning in Graduate Courses
Service-Learning for Online Courses
Alternative Breaks Advisors
Service-Learning as a Factor in Tenure and Promotion
Rural Service-Learning
Telling the Visual Story of Service-Learning

Summer Network Retreat Information

What: The first MCC Summer Network Retreat was a day and a half in the beautiful Upper Peninsula where MCC members learned from and shared with each other.

When: Monday-Tuesday, July 25-26, 2011

Where: Northern Michigan University, Marquette MI

Featured Speaker: Mary Beckman, Ph.D.

Mary Beckman, Ph.D., is the Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Research at the Center for Social Concerns at Notre Dame University. She contributes to the evolving vision of the Center and offers guidance to Center colleagues who direct immersion and community-based learning courses and conduct research on impact of Center efforts on undergraduates and in the local community.  She assists faculty at the university with the development of courses through which students engage in the local community. She has initiated Center efforts in community-based research and facilitates faculty-student-community investigations that assist local partners.

Mary earned her BA in theology and English from the University of Notre Dame. After a number of years working as an issue organizer in New York City and spending some time in Latin America, she returned to Notre Dame and completed a Ph.D. in economics.  She was a tenured faculty member at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania for many years. She returned to Notre Dame in 2001 to assume the position of Associate Director of the Center.

Currently Mary teaches courses on poverty and urban issues through the Department of Economics and Policy Studies. Her publications can be found in a number of journals includingCollege Teaching, Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Radical Teacher, Review of Radical Political Economics, Transformations, and Women's Studies Quarterly.\

Service Project

We collected 25 books to donate to MARC (Marquette Alger Reading Council).

Agenda

Monday, July 25

8:00    Breakfast
8:30    Welcome
9:00    Speaker  - Mary Beckman, Ph.D.
10:30  Innovation series
12:00  Lunch
1:30    Workshop: 1. Michigan Voices for Action: Poverty Reduction Campaign 2. Rural/Urban Service Exchange
3:00    Break
3:15    Round Tables 1
3:45    Break
4:00    Round Tables 2
(Round Table Topics: Social Media and Service, MCC Programming, Service-Learning in Graduate Courses, Creating a Culture of Engagement, Service-Learning for Online Courses, Alternative Breaks, Service-Learning as a Factor in Tenure & Promotion, Rural Service-Learning, Telling the Visual Story of Service-Learning)
4:30    Closing

Tuesday, July 26

8:00    Breakfast
8:30    Welcome
9:00    Workshops: 1. Data Collection 2. Research & Scholarship
10:30  Closing
11:00  On the road before lunch!