The Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning offers DU faculty members a variety of ways to get involved with community-based initiatives on campus:

Community-Engaged Learning Scholars Program:  The Service Learning Faculty Scholars Program is for faculty members who are new to service learning.  Participatns receive a $1200 stipend and participate in a 2-day workshop (December 1 and 2, 2011) as well as meet as a group once each quarter in Winter and Spring.  Faculty members are required to develop a service learning syllabus that they will implement within the following academic year.
Applications are due by noon on October 26, 2011. Apply now!

Colorado Campus Compact Engaged Faculty Institute: Service Learning 101: This Engaged Faculty Institute is for faculty members who are new to service learning.  Up to 5 DU faculty members will be selected to participate in the Engaged Faculty Institute, which will bring together faculty from multiple metro-area institutions to focus on integrating service learning into classes. Participants receive a $750 stipend to attend six 2-hour meetings from January 27-March 3, 2012.
Applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on November 4, 2011. Apply now!

Advanced Practitioner: This project is for DU faculty members who have participated in the Community-Based (Service) Learning Scholars program and/or who have experience implementing community-based learning classes.  Advanced practitioners receive free registration plus a $400 stipend to attend an advanced practitioner training hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder with Dr. Robert Bringle on November 11, 2011. In addition to attending the full-day event, Advanced Practitioners commit to attend at least on discussion group at DU in either Winter or Spring to address implementation material from the training
Applications are due by noon on September, 19, 2011. Apply now!

Service Learning Associate: Faculty participating in (as well as those who have completed) the Community-Based (Service) Learning Scholars Program are eligible for the Service Learning Associates (SLA) Program. Students who have previously taken service learning (community-based) learning classes receive training to become SLAs.  SLAs then work with faculty to support the implementation of the service-learning components of the classes.
For more information, contact Sarah McCauley (sarah.mccauley@du.edu).   

Faculty Learning Pods: Faculty Learning Pods are small groups of faculty members working together on community-based issues that matter to them. Pods are designed and created by faculty with support from CCESL (for example, CCESL can help Pod leaders identify relevant faculty members to invite to participate in the Pod: funds, up to $2,000 are available to support the work of the Pod; etc.). 
Applications for Faculty Learning Pods are accepted on a rolling basis. Apply now!

Community-Engaged Learning Writing Group: This group is designed for DU faculty members interested in writing about their community-engaged and/or service-learning work. Meeting times are used to review drafts, brainstorm ideas and discuss pertinent issues that will lead toward the writing and publishing of community-based learning essays. Participants receive up to an $800 stipend to participate in monthly writing group meetings (November, 2011-June, 2012).
Applications for the Community-Engaged Writing Group are due by noon October 26, 2011. Apply now!

Community-Engaged Learning Mini-Grants: Community-Engaged Learning Mini-grants are available for faculty who are looking to: travel to conferences; purchase books, journals or other materials related to community-engaged learning or work with students to implement a service-learning project. This is designed to allow faculty to be innovative in promoting their service-learning work to a broader audience.
Applications for Mini-Grants are accepted on a rolling basis for up to $1,000. Apply now!

Research & Scholarship: The University of Denver supports community-based research projects through the Public Good Fund. 

For questions regarding any of these programs, please contact Anne DePrince (anne.deprince@du.edu, 303-871-2939) or Cara DiEnno (cara.dienno@du.edu, 303-871-2158).