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Service Learning Expert to Visit UNCG Sept. 18-19

GREENSBORO -- "Service" is the motto of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and service learning is rapidly becoming a core ingredient of its curriculum.

UNCG's Faculty Senate is bringing Dr. Edward Zlotkowski, an international expert on service learning, to speak to the UNCG campus community at a Faculty Senate forum on Wednesday, Sept. 18, from 3-5 p.m. in the Alumni House.
 Zlotkowski will be on campus Sept. 18-19 to discuss the philosophy of service learning and how it can be incorporated in the curriculum and extracurricular activities at UNCG. His visit will include a faculty training session and meetings with the Deans Council, department heads and assistant deans.

He also will speak at a dinner on Sept. 18, being hosted by UNCG, to celebrate the beginning of North Carolina Campus Compact, a consortium of 15 state universities and colleges dedicated to service and civic engagement. In addition to UNCG, the charter member institutions are Appalachian State University, Catawba College, Duke University, Elon University, Gardner-Webb College, Guilford College, High Point University, Meredith College, N.C. Central University, Peace College, Pfeiffer College, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University and Warren Wilson College.

A professor of English at Bentley College in Massachusetts, Zlotkowski is a senior associate at the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) and a senior faculty fellow at Campus Compact. In 1990, he founded the Bentley Service Learning Project, a program that has involved all of the college's academic departments, more than a quarter of its full-time faculty and several thousand students.

Since 1995, he has been a senior associate at AAHE, serving as general editor of a monograph series on the relationship between service learning and academic disciplines and disciplinary areas. In 1999, he was named a senior faculty fellow at Campus Compact, responsible for developing professional development opportunities in service learning for provosts and deans as well as a series of summer institutes for academic departments. He has published and spoken extensively on service learning topics, and regularly uses a service learning approach in his own teaching.

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