Session 2: Working with Campus and Community Partners

8:45-9:15         Breakfast

9:15-10:30       Discussion: Best practices for community engagement

10:30-10:45     Break

10:45-12:00     Panel Discussion: Campus- and Community-based Partnerships

• • • • • • Maria Pio (Godwin-Ternbach Museum at QC)  
          • Annie Tummino (QC Archives and Special Collections)  
          • Nick Normal (QC Makerspace)  
          • Lou Reyes (Queens Botanical Garden Compost Project)  
          • Zani Simmons (Pomonok Center, Queens Community House)  

 12:00-1:00        Working Lunch: Small group discussions with panelists

1:00-1:15            Break

1:15-2:05            Open Educational Resources and Pedagogies of Place

• • • • • • Leila Walker, Assistant Professor, Humanities & Digital Scholarship Librarian

2:05-2:15             Closing Activity, Wrap-up, and Reminders

Required Texts

• Mitchell, Tania. “Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning: Engaging the Literature to Differentiate Two Models” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 14, no. 2 (2008): 50-65. [PDF]
• Dacheux, Tiffany. “Beyond a World of Binaries: My Views on Service-Learning.” In Butin, D. Service-Learning in Higher Education: Critical Issues and Directions (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). 67-70. [PDF]
• Knight, Aimee. “Chapter 1: How Might We Enact a Transforming Commitment to Social Justice by Engaging in Projects That Benefit Both the Community and the University?” In Community is the Way: Engaged Writing and Designing for Transformative Change (2022).
• DeRosa, Robin and Scott Robison, “From OER to Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the Power of Open,” in Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science, ed. Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (Ubiquity Press, 2017).

Recommended Readings

• Abbey Elder and Stacy Katz, “Introduction to Open Educational Resources,” in The OER Starter Kit Workbook (Manifold Press, 2020).
• Sean D. Visintainer, Stephanie Anckle, and Kristen Weischedel, “Whose History?: Expanding Place-Based Initiatives Through Open Collaboration,” in Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations, ed. Alexis Clifton and Kimberly Davies Hoffman (Milne Library, 2020).