4D Symposium: Popcorn Presentations

CCESL Luminaries and Stars Shine a Light on Community Engagement Projects

Maria Vukovich, PhD + Aleysia Whitmore, PhD + Rebecca Galemba, PhD

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CCESL Luninaries are faculty advocates who have experience in campus-community partnerships and support DU faculty, students, and CCESL staff through consultations, syllabi review, mentoring, and sharing best practices. In this session Luminaries and faculty will share their community engaged research projects in order to provide attendees with illustrations of community-engaged work going on at DU and in our larger communities.

Humans, Animals, and Our Environment: Strong Faculty-Student Partnerships at IHAC

Kevin Morris, PhD (American Humane Endowed Chair, Research Professor, Executive Director, Institute for Human-Animal Connection)

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As the only academic unit focused on interactions between humans, animals, and the environment situated within a School of Social Work in the United States, the University of Denver’s Institute for Human-Animal Connection (IHAC) brings a unique perspective on how human-animal-environment interactions affect individual and community-wide health and well-being. This presentation will highlight how IHAC as a research and education institute has accomplished remarkable faculty-student partnerships that engage students in advanced research projects and positions them to pursue forward-thinking careers for public good.

Leadership "Intentional Emergence"

Paul Kosempel, PhD + Joe Walsh, PhD

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What happens when we combine intention and emergence in the classroom? Join faculty members from the Leadership Studies department as we introduce an innovative pedagogical approach called Intentional Emergence. We might think of intention in terms of our learning objectives and course goals and emergence as the lived moments that occur in the here and now of the classroom. In the overlap of these two spheres lies the potential for significant learning. Participants will leave this session with a basic understanding of this model along with multiple specific ideas for how to transform their own classrooms into more emergent spaces.

Signature work is a high impact practice through which students 1) transfer their learning from classes to projects that address complex problems of importance to the student and the public good; 2) have agency and play a key role in defining and carrying out projects in which they immerse themselves; and 3) receive individualized mentoring. As such, Signature work can manifest in many different ways; the creativity and scholarship evidenced at DU through faculty-student collaborations is inspiring. Join us to learn more about past and current examples of Signature Work, and future possibilities for integrating Signature Work into classes, research, creative work, and other forms of collaborative, impactful scholarship.