This year's Bay to Bay Learning Symposium was dedicated to exploring Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum. (14 February 2020)
Keynote Speakers included Dr. George Mehaffey "Are We Still Bowling Alone? Lessons from the American Democracy Project"
(Note: Dr. McLauchlan is the USFSP campus rep for the ADP: https://www.aascu.org/programs/ADP/ Our activities are coordinated through the USFSP Center for Civic Engagement)
and Dr. Ashley Finley: "Civic Engagement at Scale: Quality, Equity, and Accountability"
In between, there was a student panel, featuring our Road to the White House 2020 students, and a faculty panel that featured several members of our Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum Faculty Learning Community.
I was delighted that we could include a panel of Road to the White House students and showcase their work and their reflections on democracy and civic engagement as a result of their participation in this extraordinary Citizen Scholar course.
We had been home for less than 36 hours - so - there was not too much time to prepare for this panel.
I was so very proud of the students on this diverse panel: Jazzy Duarte (Klobuhar), Trevor Martindale (Sanders), Halley Hobbs (Buttigieg), Jacob Terrell (Warren), and Andrea Campos (Sanders).
I wish we had it recorded so that I could share a link with you here. As a substitute, you can learn more from the students about their internship experiences, you can read their blogs: https://www.usfsp.edu/road-to-the-white-house/2020-student-blogs/
Dr. McLauchlan and Tom Gay are leading a Faculty Learning Community this academic year, "Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum" - and Tom moderated a panel in the afternoon that included several members of our FLC, along with our counterpart in Tampa, Dr. Lilian Wichinsky, who is Director of OCEP (Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships). Several of our FLC members also presented research posters during the Idea Lab Happy Hour poster session.
A special thanks to Dr. Tim Henkel, Director of CITL, and David Brodosi and the OLITS team for another engaging Bay to Bay Learning Symposium!
Here is a short video about the conference:
https://vimeo.com/389827338
Here is the conference website:
https://www.usfsp.edu/bay-to-bay/
These were the PPT slides that I created to serve as the backdrop for our Road to the White House student panel -- collections of some favorite pictures from the New Hampshire presidential campaign experience/New Hampshire itinerary:
 |
| It was great to have Dr. George Mehaffey at USFSP! |
