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Community Engaged Scholars. Public Service Project Workshop. Overview. This workshop is primarily to help you understand what’s needed to graduate as a Community Engaged Scholar, especially the Public Service Project All questions are welcome!
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Community Engaged Scholars Public Service Project Workshop
Overview • This workshop is primarily to help you understand what’s needed to graduate as a Community Engaged Scholar, especially the Public Service Project • All questions are welcome! • You must pass a quiz with a grade of 70% or higher to receive credit.
Steps to Becoming a Community Engaged Scholar • Complete six hours of course credit in Service-Learning Designated Courses, earning a B- or higher • Take the workshop (receive a 70% or higher on the quiz) • Complete a Public Service Project
Public Service Project: Before you begin! • Be certain that you are ready to work hard! • There is an expectation that your project will reflect a significant effort • Before (planning, researching, meeting) • During (working on the project) • After (writing, sharing results)
Service-Learning Service-learning has undergraduates actively engage in well-organized direct service, projects and research in ways that respond to community-identified needs and enhance the wellbeing of people and places while allowing students to reflect and learn about the connections between their courses and their work.
Public Service Project Step 1: Identifying a community partner • Find a community partner who is willing to collaborate with you on identifying an area of need and helping to plan a project to address that need • For example …. Your community partner’s mission is to end chronic homelessness in Asheville. The organization needs help planning a benefit to raise funds to support the work of the organization. Also, for grant writing purposes, it would be helpful for them to know statistics about Asheville’s homeless community and how they compare to the state and national statistics.
Public Service Project Step 2: define your project If you are doing a product project, explicitly name what it is (i.e. resource manual, documentary, art project, etc.).
Public Service Project Step 3: Research & Academic Ties It’s highly advisable at this point to do or have done some research about your topic. You will be expected to have references from scholarly sources in your paper for the Key Center Journal – but those references should guide your work, not just be window dressing. Of course, you can use your expertise to help shape the work. *You are creating a partnership.
Public Service Project Step 3: Research & Academic Ties • You also need an academic advisor. • If your project is growing out of a class, it should be that professor. • Otherwise, a professor who has the ability to help you guide the project due to his/her expertise on the issue is needed. It is possible to have more than one academic advisor.
Public Service Project Step 4: Complete the application • Once the nature of the project is settled, complete the application for a project. • Link to application document http://keycenter.unca.edu/forms • The Key Center’s Advisory Council will review your application and may make suggestions to help guide you to a successful project.
Institutional review board • IRBs or Institutional Review Boards exist to protect human participants in research. • If your project involves any systematic collection of data from people to answer a question, you most likely need UNCA’s IRB to review and approve your study. • Your faculty advisor should have completed the course modules required to submit an IRB application. • Depending on the nature of the study, it could take weeks for approval, so plan ahead. • More information about the process and the forms needed are available at www.unca.edu/irb.
Ethics The most important point is to consult with others – particularly your community partner and faculty advisor, should difficulties or dilemmas arise. “Can you think of any examples of difficulties you might encounter?”
Step 5: Implement the Project • Once you have received approval you may implement you project!
Step 6: Final tasks*Public Service Project:Final paper After the work of the project is done, you’ll need to: • Write a report of a minimum of 5,000 words that includes: • explanations of the project's origins • the methods and work undertaken, ties between the work and your academic field(s) • challenges faced and methods used • the results • the likelihood of sustainability of the work • conclusion discussing implications of the project for the community partner and for my field of study • This report can be adapted from a class report or report for the agency, but cannot simply be copied for the Key Center Journal, where it will be published. It should include scholarly sources, usually at least 10, which should be referenced at the paper’s end.
Public Service Project:FINAL STAGES After the work of the project is done, you’ll need to: • Receive the endorsement of the community partner, academic advisor and department chair. (signed completion form) • Have the report undergo a review by a faculty member who is not your advisor and make any recommended changes. • Present the project at an end-of-semester poster session on campus (see Key Center website for info on posters).
