Community Engagement & Service Learning Work Group
Members
Administrators |
Faculty |
Staff |
External/Student |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rex Veeder (co-chair) Wanda Overland |
Isolde Mueller (co-chair) Leeann Jorgensen Mitch Bender Rona Karasik |
Beth Knutson-Kolodzne Andy Ditlevson |
Brian Myres |
Current as of 1/3/08. Subject to change.
Work Group Tools and Resources
Work Group Charge
The Community Engagement & Service Learning work group is charged with drafting a recommendation report for how St. Cloud State University can increase engagement with its external communities through expanding outreach and public service to the Central Minnesota Region and the State of Minnesota. The work group should address specifically:
- Infrastructure requirements
- Process to align SCSU capacity and needs of the region
The recommendation report should include the following information, as appropriate:
- Research question(s) and data used as a basis for recommendations
- Situational analysis for SCSU
- State, Regional and National trends
- Best practices from peers and others
- Opportunities for interdisciplinary work
- Key business processes for redesign
- Opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency through technology or process improvement
- Opportunities to engage with or impact St. Cloud and Central Minnesota
- Facilities implications
- Technology implications
- Fundraising or grant opportunities
- Curricular or other opportunities
- Impact on enrollment
- Opportunities to enhance campus/community diversity
- Identify items that require additional or more detailed planning efforts
The work group is responsible for generating an open dialogue with SCSU’s internal and external community and will seek out key individuals and committees that may have information relevant to their charge. It is expected that the work groups will maintain a transparent process and stakeholder input will be reflected in the final recommendation report. Work group meetings should be open to the campus community and announced in advance. Work groups should provide updates on the progress of the work groups regularly through the Academic Action Planning web site and blog and should provide at least one process report by February 18, 2008. The recommendation report needs to be submitted by March 14, 2008 and will be used to inform SCSU’s Academic Action Plan and other institutional planning efforts.
