Presentations at National Conferences

CIEL members have presented jointly on their participation in CIEL and the positive impacts of consortium participation on their home campuses.

AAC&U Meeting January 2008, Washington, D.C.
Presentation: Fostering Engaged Student Learning: NSSE as a Tool for Understanding and Building a Campus Culture
Half-Day Workshop: Reflective Self-Evaluation: Connecting Pedagogy, Engaged Learning, and Assessment

AAC&U Meeting January 2006, Washington, D.C.
Presentation: Globalizing Liberal Learning: Perspectives from Three Innovative Liberal Arts Colleges
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AAC&U Annual Meeting January 26-29, 2005, San Francisco, CA.
Panel Presentation: Leveraging Institutional Transformation Through Creative Partnerships.
The Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning (CIEL) provides a case study of how a partnership model can drive institutional change in progressing toward the New Academy. Presenters:
Karen I. Spear, Executive Director, Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning; Edwin Clausen, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Daemen College, Tim Riordan, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Alverno College; Paul Burkhardt, Interim Director, Arizona International College

AAC&U Annual Meeting January 21-24, 2004 Washington, DC.
Panel Presentation: Building Bridges: Understanding and Practicing Democracy
Panel members (faculty, students, and administrators) from the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning (CIEL) discussed curriculum geared toward civic engagement, and successful partnerships between college and community organizations and among the colleges participating in the consortium. Small groups discussed pedagogy that supports civic engagement, models for successful partnerships with community organizations and student response to the experience of civic engagement.
Presenters:
Rita A. Pougiales, Member of the Faculty in Anthropology and Academic Dean, The Evergreen State College; Carol Brandt, Vice President for International and Special Programs, Pitzer College; Paul Burkhardt, Interim Director & Professor of Cultural Studies, Arizona International College of The University of Arizona; Mary Bombardier, Director of Community Partnerships for Social Change, Hampshire College.

FIPSE Project Directors’ Meeting November 23, 2002, Washington , D.C. As a co-author of the awarded grant proposal to establish CIEL, Elizabeth Quinn Owen spoke on "Problem Solving, Innovation, and Change in Student Learning: Institutional and Consortia Approaches to Core/General Education Curricula.”