Continuums of Service Conference, Committee Opportunities

Continuums of Service Conference - Seattle, WA - April 16-18, 2009

Save the date! This conference, one of the first regional service-learning conference in the country, has been instrumental in providing opportunities for faculty, administrators, students and community partners to convene, learn, teach, and strengthen the service-learning field since it's inception in 1996.

Your leadership is vital in shaping the 2009 conference: building on the successes we've had and taking the conference to the next level. This year we hope to create greater focus, increase rigor, and strengthen and expand the service-learning networks across the western region. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Advisory Committee

We are underway with planning for the 2009 Continuums of Service conference! We invite you to consider joining a team of your colleagues from across the western region to serve on the advisory committee for this important event. The time commitment is as little or as much as your time and interest permits and we will do all of our planning via conference calls. The next call is Thursday, November 12: 11-12:00pm.

To participate in this Advisory Committee, please contact Emily Gilliland at 503-725-8140 or elg(at)pdx.edu.

Proposal Review Committee

RaeLyn Axlund, Research and Assessment Director at Washington Campus Compact, will oversee the review process. If you are interested in participating as a reviewer, please let her know at raelyn.axlund(at)wwu.edu. You can still participate even if you plan to submit a proposal yourself - you just won't be given your own proposal to review. The call for proposals will be released on Wednesday, November 12.

Washington Campus Compact staff will conduct an internal review of all submitted proposals in order to group them by topic. We will then match each set of proposals with at least two reviewers who have expertise and interest in the specific topic.

The role of a COS proposal reviewer will be to:

* Participate in a conference call to discuss the process for reviewing proposals: Thursday, December 11, 1-2:00pm PST.

* Review and evaluate a topic-specific set of proposals using a predetermined set of criteria: December 12-18.

* Participate in a conference call to discuss your set of proposals and make recommendations for the final selection of presenters: Friday December 19, 11-12:00pm PST.

If you would like to participate in the COS Proposal Review Committee, please contact RaeLyn Axlund at raelyn(at)wwu.edu.