This conference advances the understanding that our teaching, learning, scholarship, and service are enriched when we integrate the often fragmented dimensions of our institutions and greater society.
In the spring of 2007, a group of faculty, staff, and students from state Campus Compact offices and public and private colleges and universities from across the Midwest gathered at St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame, Indiana. Motivated by the idea of collectively organizing a national conference focused on the integrative significance of faith, justice, and civic learning in higher education, we began working together and partnering with others across this country to design and plan this conference. Today, we invite you to contribute to the teaching, learning, and scholarship of this national gathering.
- To disseminate research findings on the intersecting areas of faith, justice, social responsibility, and civic or service-learning.
- To share faith perspectives on ideas and practices of justice and social and civic responsibility.
- To focus on justice and its relation to civic and service-learning, and/or a faith perspective.
- To discuss the practice of service-learning and its impact on faith and vocation at both secular and faith-based education institutions.
- To explore the role of reflection, in particular, in connecting faith, service and learning.
