Community-Engaged Learning Workshop: 'The Case for Community Engagement' with Lorilee Sandmann

Mississippi State University's Center for Community-Engaged Learning and Center for Teaching and Learning are partnering to present a keynote address focused on community engagement. The featured speaker is Lorilee Sandmann, professor emerita in lifelong education, administration and policy in the College of Education at The University of Georgia. Sandmann’s research, teaching, writing, advising and consulting focus on leadership and organizational change in higher education with special emphasis on the institutionalization of community engagement, as well as faculty roles and rewards related to community-engaged scholarship. She has been the director of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement, leader of the Engagement Academy for University Leaders for eight years, and she serves as a core reviewer and on the National Advisory Panel for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. Sandmann will present a 2-4 p.m. workshop following her keynote presentation. Click the link below to register for this and other engaged-learning workshops in October and November.