The Office of Service Learning is currently accepting nominations for Campus Compact’s 2008 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.

One faculty member will be selected as UGA’s applicant for this national award. The deadline for submitting nomination packets to the Office of Service-Learning is Monday, February 25, 2008. All materials should be emailed directly to with the subject line: Campus Compact Awards.

The Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning

Campus Compact, a national organization devoted to promoting civic engagement and service-learning in higher education, recognizes one faculty member each year for exemplary leadership in advancing the civic learning of students, including public scholarship, building campus commitment to service-learning and civic engagement, and fostering reciprocal community partnerships. The award is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University. The intent of the Ehrlich Faculty Award is to recognize and honor faculty for their significant contribution to advancing the practice of service-learning through teaching, scholarship, and institutionalization. One award of $2,000 will be granted to a faculty member, and ten finalists will also be selected and recognized. The award recipient will be notified in May 2008.

Eligibility

Nominees should hold one or both of the following:
• A full-time faculty appointment, contract, tenured, or tenure-track.
• A full or part-time, permanent or temporary administrative position directing community engagement/service-learning activities as a primary appointment that has emerged out of and is still associated with a faculty appointment (i.e., a faculty member who has assumed the leadership of engagement activities).

Selection Criteria

• Extensive experience in teaching service-learning: evidence of innovative ways of employing a reflective teaching methodology to connect community and public service experience with academic study. (Service here is broadly defined to encompass a variety of activities — including research, organizing, and advocacy — that address important public issues.)
• Evidence of engaged scholarship: scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and/or teaching, including, but not limited to, community-based action research, scholarship on the pedagogy of service-learning, or research on the impact of service-learning on students, campuses, or communities.
• Evidence of institutional impact: demonstrated leadership that promotes service-learning on one’s campus, within higher education, or in one’s discipline, and efforts aimed at redesigning curriculum and faculty development.

Nomination Materials

• A 2-3 page essay from nominee that specifically addresses the selection criteria
• A Curriculum Vitae (no more than 10 pages)
• A service-learning syllabus and permission for Campus Compact to publish the syllabus and post it on its website
• A letter of support from person nominating candidate (this can come from a faculty member, student, administrator, or community partner).

Submission of Materials

All nomination materials should be emailed directly to the Office of Service Learning - with the subject line: Campus Compact Awards. The deadline for receipt of materials is Monday, February 25, 2008. For questions, contact Susan Parish at 706-542-8924, .

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