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2020 February 12, 2020 Elon University Elon, North Carolina
2020 PACE Conference
Opening session, lunch, and afternoon break are in McKinnon Hall, Moseley Center.
Workshops are located throughout Moseley Center and Koenigsberger Learning Center.
Directions to workshop rooms are in your conference folder.
#NCPACE20
8:30 a.m. Check-in and Continental Breakfast
9:30 a.m. Opening Session
Welcome
Connie Ledoux Book, President, Elon University
Awards Ceremony
Leslie Garvin, Executive Director, NC Campus Compact
Nido R. Qubein, NC Campus Compact Board Chair, and
President, High Point University
Introduction of Plenary Speaker
Harold L. Martin, Sr., Chancellor, North Carolina A & T State University
"Higher Education’s Role in Cultivating Democratic Engagement"
Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, Executive Director, ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Workshop Block I
12:20 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:20 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Workshop Block II
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Workshop Block III
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Networking and Dessert Break
3:50 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Workshop Block IV
4:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Receive an Appreciation Gift from NC Campus Compact
Professional Resource Giveaway
Return Nametags
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Password: Event2020! (case sensitive)Welcome
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
You probably already recognize a few of these quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am always humbled by his immense capacity to love, forgive, and hope. When I consider
that he said these things while regularly witnessing and experiencing clear evidence of
humanity’s relentless capacity for hate and violence, I am especially in awe.
Yet, when I consider the turmoil I see in our nation and world, I often find myself filled
with despair and hopelessness. But then, I remember. I remember the visible leaders
like King and John Lewis and the everyday people of the Civil Rights Movement who
marched, sat-in, rode, boycotted, stood up, and kept hoping against hope that these actions
would translate into freedom and justice. I remember how they bravely withstood the attacks they faced believing that their
actions would ultimately tear down barriers and open doors for me and others to walk through. I remember the young people
who, in the past six years, have taken to the streets from Ferguson to Egypt to Parkland to Hong Kong, and beyond, calling for
an end to police brutality, oppressive regimes, gun violence, and sexism or calling for democratic reforms, freedom, and action
on climate change. I remember that, despite the persistent narrative that young people don’t show up or participate, in the
2018 midterm nearly 40 percent of students who were eligible to vote cast ballots, a significant upswing from 19 percent in the
2014 election. I remember the transformative and impactful civic and community engagement work happening across the state,
some of which you can read about in the pages of this booklet in the civic engagement award overviews and the workshop
descriptions. Every day on our 40 member campuses, folks are preparing students for civic and social responsibility, partnering
with their communities for positive change, and strengthening democracy.
We are often warned that it is not good to dwell on the past. I agree that the past can both enamor and paralyze us.
But I believe memory can also remind, bolster, inspire, compel, and motivate. It can show us the path to avoid or model
the way forward.
Today as I welcome you to the 2020 PACE conference, I hope that you will gain knowledge and skills, and make connections
to help you strengthen and deepen your current community, civic, and democratic engagement efforts.You will see that we
have included a special track this year “Special Track – Promoting Civic Discussions and Civil Discourse” intended to offer
tools for helping students deliberate about solutions to challenging social issues, think critically about divisive topics, examine
their own biases, and promote greater understanding across differences.
I hope that today will become a memory that you will carry forth as a buffer against the
waves of hopelessness. As King reminds us “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the
flood of fear.”
Today I am choosing faith and hope over fear and despair. I invite you to join me.
Leslie Garvin, Executive Director
North Carolina Campus CompactGeneral Conference Information
Workshop Location Recycling
Workshop rooms are located throughout Moseley Center, Your meals and breaks are served on
Lakeside, and Koenigsberger Learning Center. Directions compostable materials throughout
to each location can be found on the yellow page in your the day. Please use the containers
conference program. appropriately marked for this
purpose.
Acknowledgements
Recycle your name badge at the
Many thanks to Elon University for hosting, and to their registration table in the lobby of
incredible events and facilities teams. Moseley as you leave this afternoon.
We are grateful to Dr. Jennifer Domagal-Goldman and
the workshop presenters for sharing their knowledge and Professional Resource Giveaway
insights. We invite you to visit the resource tables to review
Special thanks to all who submitted proposals and publications. Thank you to the publishers who generously
nominations, and to the 2020 committee members. donated resources. For your convenience, several of the
publishers provided conference discount order forms.
Workshop Selection Committee:
Laura Gonzalez, UNC Greensboro Submit your name to receive a resource. You must be present
Scott Hicks, UNC Pembroke during the closing session to win.
Jacki Purtell, Duke University Brookings Institution Press
Alessandra Von Burg, Wake Forest University Information Age Publishing (IAP)
Award Selection Committee: Jossey Bass John Wiley & Sons
Bob Frigo, Elon University Kettering Foundation Press
Jenn Marts, Queens University of Charlotte Michigan State University Press
Ryan Nilsen, UNC-Chapel Hill Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Saul Paterson, NJ Campus Compact Springer Publishing
Jaime L. Russell, UNC Wilmington Stylus Publishing
Debbie Terlip, OK Campus Compact Teachers College Press
Laurie Worrall, Campus Compact of NY & PA Temple University Press
Vanderbilt University
Thank you Chad Fogleman for writing several of the award
winner profiles. Thank you to our Sponsors
Please visit Diane Osmundsen, a representative of YMCA
Dietary Restrictions/Requests Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, NC. She can
Food buffet items are labeled appropriately for our guests by provide you with valuable information about opportunities
Elon's Harvest Table Catering Services so that you may make available to groups.
the best personal choice for your lunch meal.
Thank you to our advertising partners, Gulf South Summit,
Stylus Publishing, and The Fund for American Studies.
Media Opt-Out
Visit the registration desk to obtain an “opt-out” sticker to Feedback
be placed on your name badge if you do not wish to be
included in any photos we take today. We appreciate your participation in an online evaluation. We
will send the link this Friday.General Conference Information
Books Available for Purchase
Throughout the day, NC Campus Compact will be selling
the books pictured. Swing by the information table to
purchase a book. Several contributing authors are in
attendance if you would like yours signed!
Practical Wisdom for Conducting Research on Service Learning
(Stylus Publishing)
Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: Principles and
Techniques (Stylus Publishing)
Critical Intersections in Contemporary Curriculum and Pedagogy
(Information Age Publishing)
Plenary Presenter
JENNIFER DOMAGAL-GOLDMAN, PHD, is the Executive Director, ALL IN Campus
Democracy Challenge at Civic Nation. Prior to joining the Challenge, Domagal-
Goldman served as the national manager of the American Democracy Project, a national
civic learning and democratic engagement network of the American Association of State
Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
Domagal-Goldman serves on the editorial board of the eJournal of Public Affairs. She has
contributed to a number of civic engagement publications, including co-authoring chapters
in Reimagining Democratic Societies: A New Era of Personal and Social Responsibility (2013),
Becoming a Steward of Place: Four Areas of Institutional Focus (2014), and Student Civic Outcomes
in Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Methods (2017). She also contributed to Higher
Education’s Role in Enacting a Thriving Democracy: Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement
Theory of Change (2018).
Domagal-Goldman earned her PhD in higher education from Penn State. She received her MA in higher education and
student affairs administration from the University of Vermont and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester.
You can follow Domagal-Goldman on Twitter @JenDomagalG
2020 PACE Conference 2RECOGNITION OF EHRLICH AWARD
During the Civic Engagement Awards partners, and with very modest resources,
ceremony we are pleased to acknowledge Guilford has hosted 53 refugees - 26
DIYA ABDO, PHD, one of two winners of them children - from Syria, Iraq,
of the 2019 Campus Compact Thomas Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, and the DRC.
Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. Guilford hosts the families in campus
Presented annually since 1995 the award houses and apartments and supports
recognizes faculty for their exemplary their resettlement, while doing the
engaged scholarship, teaching, and research. important work of educating students
Recipients are selected on the basis of and communities on issues of forced
their collaboration with communities, migration, displacement, and resettlement.
institutional impact, and high-quality In the past four years, the ECAR
academic work. The Award is presented by initiative has expanded to institutions in
Campus Compact and the Swearer Center Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Florida, and
at Brown University. The 2019 awards will be presented in North Carolina and continues to grow.
Seattle, Washington on March 29, 2020 during the Campus
Abdo, a first-generation Palestinian who was born and raised
Compact national conference. Abdo is the first North
in Jordan, received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Drew
Carolina recipient of this award.
University She has focused her scholarship on Arab and
Abdo, an Associate Professor of English at Guilford College, Islamic feminisms with a particular interest in Arab women
recently accepted the Directorship of the Center for New writers.
North Carolinians at UNC Greensboro. In 2015, she
For her work on ECAR, Abdo was named a finalist in the
founded the Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) initiative
Arab Hope Makers Award (2018). She also was the recipient
at Guilford College. ECAR advocates for housing refugee
of the Gulf South Summit’s 2017 Outstanding Service-
families on campuses, based on the idea that colleges and
Learning Collaboration in Higher Education Award and was
universities have all the resources necessary — housing,
the foundation for Guilford College’s recognition for The
food, care, and skill-building — to take in refugees and
Washington Center’s 2017 Civic Engagement in Higher
support them as they begin their lives in their new homes.
Education Award.
Since January 2016, through a collective of community
3RECOGNITION OF EDITOR
PARTNERSHIPS: A JOURNAL OF SERVICE-LEARNING
AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Today we would like to thank • Appalachian State University who
SPOMA JOVANOVIC, PHD, for her hosted the journal from 2009 to 2012 and
tireless effort and dedication as editor of UNC Greensboro who has hosted since
Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and 2012.
Civic Engagement, NC Campus Compact’s
• Dr. Norman Clark, Appalachian State
peer-reviewed, online journal hosted
University, who served as the initial
by the University of North Carolina at
“Technical Director” and ensured
Greensboro. Jovanovic has played a vital
Partnerships was fully online.
role in keeping Partnerships strong and
relevant over the last eight years and • UNCG graduate students who served
greatly expanded the quality and reach as Editorial Assistants working on the
of the journal, all while balancing her technical details of journal management
obligations as a Communication Studies and coordinating publication
Professor at UNC Greensboro. Jovanovic is also Director communication with authors.
of the NCA Center for Communication, Community
Collaboration, and Change, and a 2019-2020 Fellow for • Book editors: Dr. Rebecca Dumlao, East Carolina University
the National Center for Free Speech & Civic Engagement. (2009-12); Dr. Cathy Hamilton (now retired), UNC
Further, Jovanovic is an outstanding community engaged Greensboro (2012-2018); and Tempestt Adams, Appalachian
scholar-practitioner who has integrated service-learning State University (2019-present).
into her courses for over a decade and has established several
• Reviewers, authors, and those who have served on our
long-term, deeply reciprocal community partnership. Spoma
Editorial Board.
was the 2012 recipient of NC Campus Compact’s Engaged
Faculty Award (formerly the Sigmon Service-Learning However, we are most deeply indebted to our hardworking
Award). editors who have played the most critical role in sustaining
the journal throughout it’s decade of existence.
Since launching in 2009, Partnerships has contributed greatly
to the higher education service-learning and community • Dr. Tracy Espy, Pfeiffer University (2009-11).
engagement field – nationally and internationally - by • Dr. Beth Warner, Elon University (during the transition).
producing articles demonstrating how theories and practices • Dr. Spoma Jovanovic, UNC Greensboro (2012-2020).
can inform and improve partnerships, connections, and
collaborations between students, faculty, community agencies, After release of the Spring 2020 issue, NC Campus Compact
administrators, disciplines, and more. Multiple entities and will cease publication of Partnerships. Resources will be
individuals have contributed to and supported the journal redirected to promote the scholarship of engagement through
over the years. initiatives focused specifically on North Carolina colleges and
universities.
This list includes:
• Dr. Lisa Keyne, former Executive Director, NC Campus
Compact, and participants in the Faculty Development
Initiative who initially conceived of the journal in 2007 and
brought it into fruition in 2009.
2020 PACE Conference 4THE 2019 JOHN H. BARNHILL CIVIC TRAILBLAZER AWARD
The John H. Barnhill Civic Trailblazer Award recognizes one student in the state who, like Mr. Barnhill, demonstrates
innovation in civic engagement and creates foundations that expand or deepen campus community partnerships.
Neariah Mandisa-Drummond, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Senior, NEARIAH MANDISA- Mandisa-Drummond’s has dedicated most
DRUMMOND, has developed her of her undergraduate career to enhancing
passion for serving as a member of the culture of civic engagement on
UNC Charlotte’s inaugural class of campus. She was the student representative
Bonner Leaders. In her first-year as a to the Civic Action Planning (CAP) group,
Bonner Leader, Mandisa-Drummond a committee of faculty and administrators
worked at Friendship Tray, a meal-on- from across campus responsible for
wheels program for people in Charlotte designing strategies to strengthen engaged
experiencing food insecurity. Mandisa- scholarship on campus, build partnerships
Drummond, who has distinguished herself with community organizations, and
by taking initiative, worked with her team to integrate civic learning into the
to research the possibility of developing curriculum. Despite the fact that this
a food rescue program connected to group met every other week at 8 am for
Friendship Trays. In her second year of two semesters, Mandisa-Drummond was
volunteering at the non-profit organization, she used her skills actively engaged. One nominator noted that her perspective
as a communications major to work on a social media and was invaluable and “helped to institutionalize best practices in
video marketing strategy. civic engagement at UNC Charlotte.”
Mandisa-Drummond has also committed herself to Last summer, Mandisa-Drummond lead the planning team
building bridges between the campus and greater Charlotte to design and implement the inaugural Gold Rush Day of
community. She, along with a small team of Bonner Leaders, Service to occur during the Week of Welcome. She secured
convened students and local law enforcement officers to volunteer projects with community partners, recruited
discuss building trust following the death of Keith Lamont participants, and publicized the event on social media.
Scott in September 2016. Furthermore, she submitted a Her efforts resulted in 75 incoming student serving in the
Chancellor’s Diversity Grant with the intent of having a safe Charlotte community and it helped elevate the culture of
space for conversation between UNC Charlotte campus civic engagement. Through the Office of Leadersip and
police, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, and UNC Charlotte Community Engagement, Mandisa-Drummond is part of the
students. Emerging Leaders program, the Junior Lead Team, and earned
the Certified Leader certificate.
This award is named in honor of JOHN BARNHILL and the passion for service he demonstrated
while a student at Elon University resulting in him devoting almost 30 hours a week in direct
service. He co-founded Elon’s Habitat for Humanity chapter in 1989, which today remains one
of the most active in the country. In 1990 he created Elon Volunteers! (EV!), a student community
service group that today involves 80 student leaders who coordinate a wide variety of co-curricular
service opportunities at Elon University. After graduating he became Elon’s first paid staff to
coordinate volunteer service and spearheaded the creation of the endowed, nationally recognized
Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement. When NC Campus Compact
formed in 2002, John became the founding executive director, serving until 2006.
52020 COMMUNITY PARTNER AWARD
This Award recognizes a community partner that has engaged in the development of a sustained,
reciprocal partnership with an NC Campus Compact member institution.
Haywood Pathways Center
Partner Institution: Western Carolina University
Even before the HAYWOOD PATHWAYS CENTER “My experience with Pathways has been one of the most
opened five years ago, folks from Western Carolina University personally and academically humbling and rewarding
supported its vision: to engage a community and turn a opportunities of my time at WCU,” wrote one Capstone
former minimum-security prison into a place of shelter and student in nominating the agency.
support.
This spring, a new connection with WCU’s Recreation
Working with local nonprofits that would occupy the Therapy department will see Pathways become a learning lab
new center, a WCU marketing professor and her students where students will work with adults and children. In another
developed a social media campaign, “Tear Down these example of true reciprocity, the directors of WCU’s CCESL
Fences.” The campaign earned enough online votes to help and of Pathways each sit on the other organization’s advisory
the Pathways project win a national competition. The prize, board.
sponsored by a mortgage company, was $50,000 and a visit
from home makeover celebrity Ty Pennington. The resulting A final episode illustrates the deepening relationship between
three-day renovation and fundraising event engaged more WCU and Pathways. In June 2019, WCU’s Rotaract Club
than 1,500 community members, including hundreds of and other community partners celebrated the opening of
WCU students, faculty, and staff. Pathway’s newest facility: the Myr-Ken Women & Children’s
Shelter. In addition to volunteering as tutors, babysitters, and
Since then, connections between the Haywood Pathways meal servers, Club members helped raised more than $5,000
Center and WCU have grown, producing new supports to outfit two technology rooms in the shelter. At the students'
for people experiencing life’s toughest challenges and new request, one of the rooms is named in honor of WCU’s late
opportunities for students to learn and serve. A faith-based Chancellor David Belcher, who challenged his students:
non-profit, Pathways works with 300 men, women, and “Experience, knowledge, and values are useless without
children each year through a variety of programs, including DOING something. If this is the time to make the world
adult and family emergency shelters, a halfway house for men better – and it IS the time – what will I DO? Am I going to
and women recently released from prison, and a community be a noun or a verb?”
kitchen. With Pathways help, more than 80% of guests have
stable monthly income. Belcher’s quote appears on the wall of the room, a fitting
tribute to the thousands of local volunteers, WCU students,
Pathways has an especially strong relationship with WCU’s Pathways staff, and Pathways guests who continue “DOING
Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning something” to make their own lives, community, and world
(CCESL), which has brokered at least 10 service-learning better.
courses and helped engage 500 curricular and co-curricular
volunteers at Pathways over the years. For example, Pathways
hosts social work interns who support case management,
nursing students who offer health education, and students in
an Integrated Health capstone class who organize free health
clinics and assist with data collection.
2020 PACE Conference 62020 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR AWARD
This award recognizes a staff person at an NC Campus Compact member campus who
has worked for the institutionalization of service, fostered a campus-wide vision of service, supported
faculty and students, and formed innovative campus-community partnerships.
Lori Kniffin, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Despite her relatively brief tenure as a Assistant Professor Michael Hemphill,
community engagement professional at who works with Kniffin on both projects,
UNC Greensboro, LORI KNIFFIN, praises her “passion and integrity.” In
PHD, has made an outsized impact on nominating Kniffin, he writes, “Before
how the university develops community joining the faculty of UNCG, I was
partnerships and nurtures engaged scholars. committed to community engagement.
However, my perspective of engaged
In 2017, after a one-year stint as a graduate scholarship was limited by the need to
assistant, Kniffin became Assistant Director achieve scholarly outputs and I failed to
of UNCG’s Institute for Community and fully consider the needs of community
Economic Engagement (ICEE). Since partners.... The committed leadership
then, Kniffin has managed such programs of Dr. Kniffin has created space for me
as the new Partnerships and Pathways and others like me to forge a more just
(P2) project and the ICEE’s Community pathway as engaged scholars.”
Engagement Faculty Fellows program.
Even as a graduate student, Kniffin was strengthening
Partnerships and Pathways is a three-year, cohort program the field of community engagement, serving as chair of
for teams of students, community partners, and faculty/ International Association for Research on Service-Learning
staff to foster long-term, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial and Community Engagement’s (IARSLCE) Graduate Student
engagement. Beyond managing budgets, trainings, and Network (GradSN). In the role, she mentored and supported
reporting, Kniffin has introduced the concept of “adaptive fellow students, later becoming an IARSCLE board member
leadership,” where (in contrast to the singular, hierarchical and committee co-chair.
structure of traditional leadership) all team members step
forward to contribute based on their desire and capacity; and Kniffin has also served on the leadership team of the
all play a role in ensuring success. This has meant changes Service Learning and Community Engagement Future
in vocabulary (no one is “principal investigator,” all are Directions Project; and she shares her work in peer-reviewed
“scholars”), changes in communication (all receive project articles, blog posts, and presentations at state, national, and
management emails), and changes in how team members international conferences. Kniffin is a board member of the
relate with each other. Indiana-based non-profit the Facing Project and serves as a
facilitator for the Tenant Leadership Academy, a project of
“Dr. Kniffin challenged us to think differently about how to UNCG’s Center for Housing & Community Studies which
engage teams - ultimately challenging traditional notions of aims to empower renters and reduce the number of evictions
community-university grant administration,” writes ICEE in Greensboro.
director Dr. Emily Janke.
Kniffin earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from
Kniffin also plays a key role facilitating the ICEE’s Faculty Kansas State University, where she also was an instructor
Fellows program, which supports selected faculty members and academic advisor in the Stanley School for Leadership
as they in turn facilitate learning communities that engage Studies. She earned her doctorate in educational studies from
students, faculty, staff, and community members. For example, UNC Greensboro.
Kniffin takes part in a weekly community engaged writing
group for faculty that promotes engaged scholarship.
72020 ENGAGED FACULTY AWARD
This award recognizes one faculty member from a North Carolina Campus Compact member institution for exemplary
engaged teaching and/or scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ community and civic learning, conducting
community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-
learning and community engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good.
Elizabeth Wall-Bassett, Western Carolina University
Given her outstanding engaged of engagement. Working with WCU’s
scholarship over five years at Western Center for Community Engagement
Carolina University, it is no surprise and Service-Learning, Wall-Bassett
Catamount colleagues would nominate designed a four-semester sequence of
ELIZABETH (BETH) WALL- courses, securing a service-learning
BASSETT, PHD, RDN, for the course designation for each. Students
Compact’s Engaged Faculty Award. who undertake the sequence serve with
What’s striking is folks from her former the same agency throughout their studies,
institution, East Carolina University, also taking on new roles and creating new
support her nomination. products that align with evolving learning
objectives. Together, Wall-Bassett’s students
In making their joint case for Wall- have worked with 22 different community
Bassett, scholars from the two universities partners and spent more than 2,500
lauded her devoted and prolific practice hours in service, including, for example,
of engagement, noting, “She has been developing and testing recipes for recipe
in the UNC-system for over a decade and left her mark as modification projects, raising awareness of nutritional issues
a community engaged professor from the mountains to the through advocacy projects, and conducting formal nutritional
coast.” needs assessments. In turn, partner agencies complete
performance evaluations for each student.
Wall-Bassett currently serves as an associate professor, as
director of the Nutrition and Dietetics Program, and as Of Wall-Bassett, one community partner writes: “She respects
the associate director of the School of Health Sciences at the role that community partners play and is constantly
Western Carolina University. Her scholarship seeks to advance finding ways to strengthen our relationship with the students
the health and well-being of limited resource and diverse and university. Her commitment to creating a beneficial
populations. Her work includes investigating the impact of experience for all parties involved is profound.”
socioeconomic factors on nutritional status and examining
how linkages within local food systems, including community Wall-Bassett has also been a champion of community
gardens, can improve nutrition. Community engagement and engagement across the university. As an NC Campus
service-learning have become a major focus of her scholarship Compact Faculty Fellow from 2017-2018, Wall-Bassett
and effort. worked to establish the Faculty Institute on Community
Engagement, an intensive, cohort-based faculty development
“Simply stated,” Wall-Bassett writes, “I highly value pedagogy program. By July 2019, 25 tenured or tenure-track faculty
with engaged scholarship. Service-learning and community had completed the FICE curriculum and received $25,000 in
engagement provide me the framework to focus my teaching community engagement professional development grants to
of and research in nutrition and dietetics in a way that no support course development, new projects and partnerships,
other resource has.” or scholarship.
Her development of a service-learning continuum
curriculum for her students illustrates her belief in the power
2020 PACE Conference 8UNCG/NCCC INAUGURAL ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE
Graduate Student Prize Awarded $500
The brainchild of Chancellor Frank Gilliam, the Engaged Scholarship Prize – given by the Compact in
partnership with UNCG – recognizes scholars whose academic work seeks to address public issues and
engage communities in collaborative processes that produce or apply knowledge.
These scholars – one faculty member and one graduate student – advance service-learning and civic
engagement in higher education and disseminate their work to a broader public.
JESSICA SOLDAVINI, MPH, RD, an afterschool, hands-on cooking and
LDN, is a Doctoral Candidate in the nutrition education program for 3rd-5th
Department of Nutrition, Gillings School graders. The popular program now serves
of Global Public Health, UNC Chapel seven afterschool sites and is the subject of
Hill. Soldavini’s dissertation.
As a doctoral student, Jessica Soldavini In her research and evaluation projects,
fights child hunger by evaluating and Soldavini consults with partners to ensure
implementing programs that expand the data and products she provides are
food security and improve nutrition. useful – for program planning, to enlist
Soldavini focuses on increasing access the support of stakeholders, or to secure
to underutilized federal child nutrition grant funding. She is also conscious of
programs through her work as a graduate building community through her work.
research assistant with No Kid Hungry NC. To improve College students take part as service-learners and volunteers;
the Summer Food Service program, for example, Soldavini and children, families, and staff provide input and feedback to
partners with the NC Department of Public Instruction, inform program development. Soldavini shares lessons learned
analyzing data to create county-level profiles, conducting through numerous channels, including the No Kid Hungry
an annual survey of summer feeding sponsors and sites, NC website, presentations at national and state conferences,
and sharing her findings at the agency’s SummerPalooza! and in peer-reviewed journals.
Summits.
“My goal is to help alleviate food insecurity and improve
Since 2016, Soldavini has worked with Chapel Hill-Carrboro nutritional outcomes among underserved populations in
City Schools to grow the district’s Food for the Summer North Carolina,” Soldavini writes, “and I cannot do it alone.”
Meals program, serving as part of the leadership team,
conducting a formal program evaluation, and sharing the
program model. In 2017, Soldavini began work with Orange
County Schools to develop Cooking Matters for Kids,
9UNCG/NCCC INAUGURAL ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE
Faculty Prize Awarded $1,000
ERIN MCKENNEY, PHD, is a lecturer practices for sourdough baking techniques
and Academic Coordinator in the that incorporate microbial ecology.
Department of Applied Ecology, College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences, NC State McKenney believes the work on
University. fermented foods is a natural path to
engage the public in citizen science, as
Through her research, teaching, and the topic provides – in her words – an
outreach, Erin McKenney not only grows “approachable, dynamic, and compelling
knowledge of microbiomes, she empowers system to address science, education, and
students and the general public to see food equity. Everyone eats.”
themselves as scientists. In her research
career, McKenney has investigated the McKenney’s research has been published
gut microbes of primates and the root in peer-reviewed journals; and she shares
microbes of plants. Currently, she is focusing on the microbial her work in numerous webinars, workshops, and invited talks
ecology of fermented foods, including sourdough starters. for both academic and public audiences, including a recent
Along the way, McKenney has partnered with colleagues, keynote address at the International Bread Symposium.
educators, and practitioners to translate research findings
to outreach activities, including a series of citizen science Most of all, McKenney puts empowerment and inclusivity
projects that engage middle and high school students. at the center of her practice. She writes: “I want my students
to feel that science is immediately relevant … and to feel
For example, McKenney recently partnered with three empowered to explore and share their diverse perspectives
Wake County middle schools and with Boulted Bread, a – and to know that their diverse perspectives contribute as
local bakery, on the Sourdough for Science project. For the much value to science as their data.”
project, 275 middle schoolers grew and collected data on
their own sourdough starters, then selected the top six based
on scientific criteria. The bakery baked these starters into
loaves for students to sample, and McKenney chronicled
the effort in a series of blog posts for the NC Museum of
Natural Sciences. She now consults with a growing network
of farmers, millers, and bakers to experimentally develop best
2020 PACE Conference 102020 LEO M. LAMBERT ENGAGED LEADER AWARD RECIPIENT
Chancellor Elwood L. Robinson, Winston-Salem State University
The thirteenth Chancellor of Winston- Robinson also champions the university’s
Salem State University, ELWOOD role in strengthening the broader
ROBINSON, PHD, is a leader who community, including work to address
understands how higher education can health disparities. For example, the
transform the life of a student and the university’s Know H.O.W. mobile clinic
future of a community. As a native of – the only such clinic at an HBCU – has
Ivanhoe, NC, as the first person in his expanded its work from basic screenings
family to graduate from college, and as to clinical care and pharmacy services,
the first person from his community to with regular clinic hours in nearby high-
receive a PhD, Robinson has dedicated need communities.
his career to building strong programs
that provide meaningful opportunities for During Robinson’s tenure, WSSU’s
underrepresented students to excel and endowment exceeded $40 million for
succeed. the first time, and the university secured funding for more
than $75 million in capital projects, including a new freshman
Since coming to WSSU in 2015, Robinson has been an living-learning community and a sciences building. In 2019,
animating force. He led the development of a new strategic WSSU welcomed its largest freshman class since 2008.
plan for 2016-2021 that incorporates social and economic
justice and expanded high-impact learning opportunities In nominating Robinson for the Lambert Engaged Leader
– such as internships, research projects, and study abroad Award, Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch
experiences – to ensure graduates gained critical thinking, praised his cross-town neighbor: “Chancellor Robinson has
communication, and collaboration skills needed for careers of demonstrated a leadership style that is dynamic, visionary,
the future. Indeed, WSSU has been ranked first in the state for engaged, and personal.... From my vantage point, the profile
graduating Black students in nursing and health professions of WSSU within the higher education community has
and number one in the UNC system for early career earnings. probably never been as well-defined or as positive.”
In 2019, Money magazine ranked WSSU the number one
public HBCU in the nation in its “Best Value Rankings.” Robinson received his undergraduate degree in psychology
from North Carolina Central University, his master’s degree
Under Robinson’s leadership, WSSU has earned arguably from Fisk University, and his doctorate in clinical psychology
its most notable accolades as an engine of social mobility, from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to leading WSSU, he
helping economically disadvantaged students graduate into served as Provost and Vice-President of Cambridge College
good paying jobs. WSSU is one of only four universities in and as the founding Dean of NCCU’s College of Behavioral
the country to rank in the top 20 on CollegeNet’s Social and Social Sciences, among other roles. Active in professional
Mobility Index for five consecutive years, and the university and civic organizations, Robinson has been honored as a
has been named a “Social Mobility Innovator” three years National Institutes of Health Fellow, Omega Psi Phi Founder’s
running. In 2017, WSSU received a $3 million dollar grant Award recipient, recipient of an Image Award from the
from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
Center for the Study of Economic Mobility. The center will and a member of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
place special focus on understanding factors contributing
to a lack of social mobility among low-income residents of
Forsyth County.
11LEO M. LAMBERT ENGAGED LEADER AWARD
During the 2012 celebration of the 10th anniversary of NC Campus Compact, the executive board created this award
to honor President Lambert’s significant contributions to our shared work.
The Board annually selects a North Carolina college president or chancellor, nominated by their peers, who is
committed to creating and sustaining engagement that deeply impacts community and campus.
LEO M. LAMBERT led Elon’s rise to energy consumption and set conservation
national prominence from 1999 to 2018, standards for university construction and
promoting a student-centered culture operations. In addition, the university
that values strong relationships between created the Elon Environmental Center
students and their faculty and staff mentors. on the Loy Farm property as a hub for
Focused on developing students as global engaged learning, where students learn
citizens, ethical leaders and creative practical skills in sustainable agriculture,
problem-solvers, Lambert led two strategic design and construction techniques. The
plans, creating a model for the modern Center includes a large solar farm and
liberal arts university. serves as a place for students to study
the environmental, business, social, and
Led by President Lambert, Elon built political implications of renewable energy
a national reputation for academic at Elon.
excellence across the curriculum, and
for its innovative programs in study abroad, undergraduate In 2009, he received the inaugural William M. Burke
research, leadership, interfaith dialogue, civic engagement and Presidential Award for Excellence in Experiential Education
community service, and preparing students for meaningful from the National Society for Experiential Education. In
careers and advanced study. 2010, he received the Periclean Service Award from Project
Pericles. As a prominent figure in North Carolina’s Triad
In 2002 Dr. Lambert convened a group of 15 presidents and region, Lambert was named one of the “most influential
chancellors to launch a Campus Compact affiliate in North leaders” for six consecutive years by the Triad Business
Carolina and agreed to host the state office at Elon. He served Journal. In 2011 he was named the #1 large workplace
as the NC Campus Compact Executive Board Chair until leader in a survey by the Greensboro News & Record. He
2008. He also served on the national Campus Compact Board also received the Thomas Z. Osborne Distinguished Citizen
of Directors from 2003-2009. Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Greensboro, N.C.,
Chamber of Commerce, and was named a “Father of the Year”
With a priority on expanding partnerships with K-12 by the American Diabetes Association Greater Greensboro
public education, Lambert was instrumental in the creation Area Father’s Day Council.
of the Elon Academy in 2007, an enrichment program for
academically talented high school students in the Alamance- Lambert has written extensively about post-secondary
Burlington School System who have financial need or have education and is co-author of a book, The Undergraduate
no family history of college attendance. The program has Experience: Focusing Institutions on What Matters Most, published
become a national model of excellence, enrolling nearly all of by Jossey-Bass (2016). Lambert assumed the title of President
its graduates in higher education. Emeritus on March 1, 2018, and is spending a sabbatical year
working on a new book project with Elon faculty member
Under Lambert’s guidance, land was designated for the Peter Felten. He will teach in the university’s master of higher
creation of the Elon University Forest, and the university education program when he returns from sabbatical.
created an environmental sustainability master plan to reduce
2020 PACE Conference 12Previous Award Recipients
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR AWARD
2019 - Sean Langley, UNC Charlotte 2012 - Aubrey Swett, UNC Pembroke
2018 - Dr. Charlotte Williams, Lenoir-Rhyne University 2011 - Mary Morrison, Elon University
2017 - Dr. Smith Jackson, Elon University 2010 - Jenny Huq, UNC-Chapel Hill
2016 - Emerging Leader: Kelly Misiak, Pfeiffer University 2009 - Emerging Leader: Julie Lawson, Peace College
Sustainer: Cathy Kramer, Warren Wilson College Sustainer: Dr. Stacey Riemer, Davidson College
2015 - Emerging Leader: Dr. Lane Perry, Western Carolina University Innovator: Dr. Susan Harden, UNC Charlotte
Sustainer: Dena Shonts, Central Piedmont Community College 2008 - James Shields, Guilford College
2014 - Emerging Leader: Dr. Joe Blosser, High Point University 2007 - Jenny Koehn, Appalachian State University
Sustainer: Dr. Emily Janke, UNC Greensboro 2006 - Jason Denius, East Carolina University
2013 - Dr. Elaine Madison, Duke University
ENGAGED FACULTY AWARD/SIGMON
2019 - Dr. Alessandra Von Burg, Wake Forest University 2012 - Dr. Spoma Jovanovic, UNC Greensboro
2018 - Dr. Annie Jonas, Warren Wilson College 2011 - Dr. Della Pollock, UNC-Chapel Hill
2017 - Dr. David M. Malone, Duke University 2010 - Dr. Michele Gillespie, Wake Forest University
2016 - Dr. Patricia Bricker, Western Carolina University 2009 - Pam Kiser, MSW, Elon University
2015 - Travis Hicks, M.Arch., UNC Greensboro 2008 - Dr. Cheryl Brown, Greensboro College
2014 - Dr. Jim Cook, UNC Charlotte 2007 - Dr. Rachel Willis, UNC-Chapel Hill
2013 - Dr. Rebecca Dumlao, East Carolina University 2006 - Dr. Betsy Alden, Duke University
LAMBERT ENGAGED LEADER AWARD
2019 - President Hope Williams, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities
2018 - President Carol E. Quillen, Davidson College
2017 - President William "Bill" G. Ingram, Durham Technical Community College
2016 - Chancellor Steve Ballard, East Carolina University
2015 - President Nathan O. Hatch, Wake Forest University
2014 - Chancellor Philip L. Dubois, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2013 - Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr., North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
2012 - Chancellor Linda Brady, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
COMMUNITY PARTNER AWARD
2019
Boys and Girls Club of the Coastal Plan
Partner Institution: East Carolina University
13Specialty Workshops
Mini-Sessions (20 minute presentations)
These sessions combine depth with brevity to stimulate idea generation and conversations. Two presentations, on a
related topic, will occur within the one hour session.
Special Track – Promoting Civic Discussions and Civil Discourse
This special track highlights courses, research and co-curricular models that help students deliberate about solutions
to challenging social issues, think critically about divisive topics, examine their own biases, and promote greater
understanding across differences.
Workshop Block I classes and found that transportation costs can be a barrier
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and/or a hidden burden to students interested in courses that
require community engagement.
Duke University
Including Disability in Equity Discussions
David Malone, PhD, Director, Duke Service Learning
(Mini-Session)
Kimmie Garner, MSW, Assistant Director, Duke Service Learning
Topic: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Joan Clifford, PhD, Faculty Consultant, Director of Community-
Location: Koenigsberger 125 Based Language Initiative, and Assistant Professor of the Practice
of Spanish, Duke Service-Learning
Although every organization and school has discussions and
committees that focus on Equity and Inclusion, oftentimes
“Disability” is either left out of the discussion or, at best, an Community Engaged Writing and FYS: A
afterthought. The presentation will provide an overview of Foundation for Civic Identity Development
Equity and Inclusion issues related to disability.
Location: Koenigsberger 230
Duke University
This workshop explores the integration of one institution’s
Daniel Ellison, JD,Visiting Lecturing Fellow, Department of First Year Seminar (FYS) outcomes with the institution’s
Theater Studies Writing Across the Curriculum outcomes in support of civic
identity development. The workshop provides an overview
of the course design, the specific professional development
Transportation of Engaged Students: An Urgent
for faculty, examples of student writing as well as preliminary
Issue of Equity (Mini-Session)
data from evaluation of the course's impact on civic identity
Topic: Promoting Equity and Inclusion development.
Location: Koenigsberger 125 Warren Wilson College
Over the past several years, Duke Service-Learning has Annie Jonas, EdD, Director of Faculty Community Engagement
explored equitable ways to cover transportation costs for Julie Wilson, PhD, Director of Writing Studio and Writing Across
students enrolled in service-learning courses. In 2017, we the Curriculum
conducted an extensive survey of all undergraduates in SL
2020 PACE Conference 14Special Track: A Multifaceted Approach to Civic Experiencing Mapping for Integral, Relational, and
Conversations in Different Curriculum Generative SLCE Opportunities
Location: Lakeside 212 Location: Moseley 105A, Ward Octagon
Faculty are embracing discourse, conversation, and dialogue How can we better understand the experiences of others
within their teaching at Queens University of Charlotte. and use what we learn to change how we collaboratively
This workshop highlights two different approaches to imagine future engagement opportunities? This session
deliberative dialogue in action within different academic teaches participants how to use experience mapping in order
disciplines. Best practices for utilizing these methods, based to uncover areas for deeper exploration and create novel
on course needs, while focusing on social issues affecting our opportunities for collaborative engagement projects.
local community will be discussed. Elon University
Queens University of Charlotte Danielle Lake, PhD, Director of Design Thinking and Associate
Jennifer Marts, EdD, Director for the Wells Fargo Center for Professor
Community Engagement MacKenzie Hahn, Design Thinking Student Catalyst, International
Yvette Clifton, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry Studies and Political Science Major, Class of 2020
Maggie Commins, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science
Making Capstones Community-Responsive:
Building Community Capacity Through Service Lessons from Policy and Public Health
Learning- County by County Location: Moseley 215
Topic: Creating & Sustaining an Engaged Campus This interactive workshop will explore the strengths and
Location: Lakeside 213 limitations of community-responsive capstone courses as
How do you build community capacity? What strategies models of hybrid service-learning and capstone high impact
are most effective in helping college students understand practices. We will compare senior public policy and graduate
civic engagement? And, what pedagogical strategies are level health behavior capstone courses at the University of
most effective in teaching students their importance in North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We will analyze course goals,
building a community’s capacity? Get answers to these and specific components, and ongoing challenges in each course.
other questions in this interactive workshop built around a UNC-Chapel Hill
brand new initiative—The Alabama Community Capacity Ryan Nilsen, MTS, Senior Program Officer for Community
Network. Engagement, Carolina Center for Public Service; Adjunct
The University of Alabama Instructor
George L. Daniels, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Meg Landfried, MPH,Teaching Assistant Professor and MPH
Journalism and Creative Media Practicum Director, UNC Gillings School of Global Public
Matteo Zengaro, Master’s Student, Department of Journalism and Health
Creative Media Dane Emmerling, MPH, PhD Student, UNC Gillings School of
Marvin Adams, Communication Studies Major, Class of 2020 Global Public Health
Anna Krome-Lukens, PhD,Teaching Assistant Professor and
Director of Experiential Education, UNC Public Policy
15Interactive Exploration of CEPs’ Views of a Selected Workshop Block II
Competency Framework 1:20 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Location: Moseley 216
Are you a Community Engagement Professional working
at an institution of higher education within the United Collective Leadership Development: Students
States? If so, this session will allow you to share your views Finding Belonging as Civic Leaders
of a selected competency framework for Community Location: Koenigsberger 125
Engagement Professionals. An overview of the research will
After integrating leadership curriculum into a civic
be provided with time for participants to complete a brief
engagement course in the Principled Problem Solving
survey and Q-sort of selected competency statements.
scholars program at Guilford College, students demonstrated
Fayetteville State University a deeper commitment to reciprocal democratic engagement
Melissa L. Lyon, MA, Service-Learning Program Manager and and increased sense of belonging within the practice of
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Educational Leadership and leadership. Students and faculty will guide participants
School Administration through experiential activities and dialogue around the
Noran L. Moffett, EdD, Professor, Department of Educational collective/democratic leadership and civic engagement
Leadership and School Administration concepts.
Sonalini Sapra, PhD, Assistant Director, Center for Principled
Problem Solving and Excellence in Teaching, Guilford College
Teaching with Service-Learning for Environmental
Lori Kniffin, PhD, Assistant Director, Institute for Community and
Sustainability
Economic Engagement, UNC Greensboro
Location: Moseley 217 Haya Mujali, Class of 2020, Sociology and Anthropology Major,
In response to the threat of global climate change and Guilford College
committed to environmental justice, this workshop Jillian Morrison, Psychology Major, Class of 2021, Guilford
describes service-learning for environmental sustainability College
at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, the
state's historically American Indian university. Panelists will
Special Track: Civil Discourse: A Course on Serving,
describe service-learning in American Indian studies, biology,
Giving, Leading, and Associating
literature, and social work, and audience members will take
part in interactive discussions and leave with materials for use Location: Lakeside 212
in their teaching and learning. This workshop describes a course on civil discourse co-
UNC Pembroke taught by the presenters at Appalachian State University.
The course is designed to get students talking, disagreeing,
Scott Hicks, PhD, Director,Teaching & Learning Center
and critically thinking about foundational areas of civic life.
Jane Haladay, PhD, Professor of American Indian Studies
In addition to discussing the course content, participants
Mary Ann Jacobs, PhD, Chair and Associate Professor of American
will gain practical insight into the course by practicing civil
Indian Studies
discourse though the examination of a selected reading used
Tamara Estes Savage, PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Work
in the course.
Appalachian State University
Macki Snyder, MEd, Assistant Director for Community Service,
Appalachian & the Community Together
Brian MacHarg, PhD, Director of Academic Civic Engagement,
Appalachian & the Community Together
2020 PACE Conference 16Engaging Deliberatively with Political Opposition zip codes surrounding the university. They will discuss
to our Work: Let's Crowdsource Examples and preliminary findings from their project with an emphasis
Response Strategies on challenges they have encountered and their strategies to
overcome these challenges.
Location: Lakeside 213
Johnson C. Smith University
Members of NCCC's Community of Practice, Inquiry,
and Learning (COPIL) share why and how we are Brenda Montanez, Biology Major, Class of 2020, Johnson C.
working together and facilitate discussion of and input on Smith University
a central question we are currently exploring: How can Zabdiel Escalona, Systems Engineering Major, Class of 2020,
the SLCE community prepare ourselves to engage with Johnson C. Smith University
political critiques of our work (e.g., that we are imposing a
misguided social justice agenda on higher education)?
Hungry for Change: Addressing Food Insecurity
COPIL team presenting through Intentional Collaboration (Mini-Session)
Ryan Nilsen, MTS, Senior Program Officer for Community Topic: Food Insecurity
Engagement, Carolina Center for Public Service; Adjunct
Location: Lakeside 214
Instructor, UNC Public Policy, UNC-Chapel Hill
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, PdD, Assistant Professor of the Practice in This session will provide an overview of the steps taken at
Writing and Director of the Duke Faculty Write Program, the University of North Carolina Wilmington to establish
Duke University a campus food pantry and will outline the ongoing efforts
Maggie Commins, PhD, Associate Professor, Political Science, to support food insecure students. Strategies for marketing
Queens University of Charlotte resources, developing partnerships, and engaging students will
Danielle Lake, PhD, Director of Design Thinking and Associate also be discussed.
Professor, Elon University Jaime L. Russell, EdD, Director, Office of Student Leadership and
Melissa L. Lyon, MA, Service-Learning Program Manager and Engagement, UNC Wilmington
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Educational Leadership
and School Administration, Fayetteville State University
Lane Perry, PhD, Director, Center for Service Learning,Western Sustaining Reciprocal Partnerships: Practical
Carolina University Observations from a decade of collaboration
Kelly Misiak, MA, Community Impact Coordinator, United Way Location: Moseley 105A, Ward Octagon
of Stanly County In this workshop a senior professor who has served as
Elizabeth Wall-Bassett, PhD, RDN, Associate Professor, School director of service learning and civic engagement, a long-
of Health Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics Program,Western time highly valued community partner, and a graduate
Carolina University student (former AmeriCorps-VISTA) with perspectives
Patti H. Clayton, PhD, SLCE Practitioner-Scholar & Consultant, from day-to-day operations will pool their observations and
PHC Ventures & Senior Scholar, IUPUI & UNCG highlight practices and events which have kept our mutually-
beneficial relationship flourishing for more than a decade.
Combatting Food Insecurities in Charlotte's The Citadel
Historic West End (Mini-Session) Conway F. Saylor, PhD, Director of Service Learning and Civic
Topic: Food Insecurity Engagement and Professor of Psychology
Shelia Grier, Program Officer, Office of Expanded Learning,
Location: Lakeside 214
Charleston County School District
Students from Johnson C. Smith University will share Ashley Burton, Graduate Student in School Psychology, former
examples from their Grow with the Green project, a multi- AmeriCorps-VISTA and Community Engagement Fellow
faceted approach to addressing food insecurity in the
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