Bringle Civic Engagement Showcase

Suggested Poster Topics

Suggested poster topics include:

• Impact of reciprocal campus-community partnerships
• Student learning and development in service learning courses or co-curricular engagement opportunities
• Synopsis of research data collection and analysis
• Mentoring models for working with students as service learning assistants
• Tools and resources developed to aid in the planning or execution of community engagement initiatives (curricular or co-curricular)
• Institutionalization of service learning or community engagement in higher education
• Models of intra- and inter-campus partnerships
• Methods to increase the number of effective campus-community partnerships
• Teaching methods or strategies utilized in community engaged classrooms
• Innovations or strategies to improve health, life, and well-being

We welcome other topics as they relate to community engagement, campus partnerships, and strategies to address health, life, and well-being.

Poster Tracks

Poster tracks include:

• Campus and community strategies to support health, life, and well-being
• Advocacy, philanthropy, public policy, and political engagement
• Assessing and documenting community partnership outcomes
• Co-curricular program design and assessment
  • Includes but is not limited to community service, scholarship, or mentoring programs, etc.
• Instructional design and assessment
  • Includes but is not limited to domestic and international/global service learning, graduate and professional service learning, social justice pedagogy, civic learning, civic literacy, engaged departments, faculty development, etc.
• Constituent perspectives and scholarship
  • Includes but is not limited to community partners, faculty, student, staff/administrators
• Research and scholarly perspectives
  • Includes but is not limited to the scholarship of teaching and learning, community-based participatory research, public scholarship, etc.
• Technology innovations and community engagement
  • Includes but is not limited to online service learning course design, internet-based platforms for civic engagement, online national issues forums, etc.

Submission Review Process

The CES Poster Committee will review and select poster submissions based on:

• Concept of the poster
  • The general ideas, including relevance to campus and community engagement.
• Depth
  • The details offered into what was learned through the project, research, or topic.
• Content of poster
  • Clearly conveying a snapshot of the work intended to engage the audience; what is novel and important about your work.
• Connections
  • Identifying best practices or lessons learned regarding your work.

Benefits of Presenting a Poster

Presenting a poster is a great opportunity to obtain interesting and valuable feedback for projects, research, or practices from a knowledgeable crowd. It also allows you to network with other scholars who are interested in the same topic area(s). Also, you are able to practice public speaking in a low-pressure, informal setting. This is an opportunity to make valuable connections with other students, faculty, staff, and community leaders. Don't forget that you can add this accomplishment to your CV or resume.

Who Should Submit a Poster

• University faculty and staff engaged in the assessment and design of (co)curricular service learning courses and programs, as well as practitioners of the scholarship of engagement.
• Undergraduate and graduate students participating in service learning and community engagement (inside or outside of the classroom).
• Community partners working with faculty or staff at colleges and universities.
• Higher education administrators who foster institutional support for students, faculty, and staff to engage with communities through scholarship and evidence-based practice.

Submissions Need to Include

• Lead presenter information (name, title, institution, and e-mail address)
• Co-presenter(s) (name, title, institution, and e-mail address)
• Poster title
• Poster track
• Abstract (not to exceed 250 words)
• Session description (no more than 75 words)
• Identification of the applicable community capital(s) to frame your poster
• Intended audience