1. WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSTIY
CEHS, COLA AND SERVICE-LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PRESENT
DR. ANDREW FURCO
About Dr. Furco
Tuesday, May 8th
CEHS, CoLA and the Center
2:30-4:00 Millett Hall Atrium for Service-Learning and
Civic Engagement are proud
Exploring the Value of Service-Learning for to introduce Dr. Andrew
College Student Development and Faculty Furco.
Scholarship
Furco will be at Wright State
This presentation will offer an overview of the on May 8th and 9th to discuss
research base for service-learning and the Caption goes here community engagement and
current evidence regarding its impact on faculty, service-learning research.
college students, and community members.
Participants will also explore opportunities for
developing research studies and other scholarly Andrew Furco is Associate Vice President for Public
ventures from their own service-learning Engagement at the University of Minnesota, where he also
experiences and venues for publishing their serves as an Associate Professor in the College of Education
service-learning scholarship. and Human Development and as Director of the University’s
International Center for Research on Community
Engagement.
Wednesday, May 9th At University of Minnesota, Furco teaches courses on public
engagement and higher education and on global youth
1:30-3:00 340 Oelman Hall leadership and community engagement. As Associate Vice
President for Public Engagement, his responsibility is to
The Role of Service-Learning in Preparing the further the institutionalization of all forms of community
engagement across the University’s research, teaching, and
Next Generation of K-12 Educators
public service activities.
Across the globe, we are witnessing an increase Furco’s research focuses on experiential learning, civic
in service-learning and related pedagogies in engagement, and service-learning in K-12 and higher
engaging K-12 students in authentic, education systems in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to arriving in
academically rich learning experiences. The Minnesota in 2008, he served for 14 years as director of the
advancement of service-learning in K-12 schools Service-Learning Research and Development Center at the
has implications for how schools of education University of California-Berkeley.
prepare future teachers and the extent to which His publications include the books, Service-Learning: The
future teachers are prepared to use the Essence of the Pedagogy (2001) and Service-Learning:
pedagogy of service-learning. Through a Multidisciplinary Lens (2002), as well as more
than 40 journal articles and book chapters exploring the
practice and study of community engagement.
Funded by a grant from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. To RSVP, please contact Michele
Tyler in the Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement at 775-4262 or at michele.tyler@wright.edu