Schedule

8:30
Registration, Breakfast, Introductions

8:45
Welcome
Nadine Koch, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Community Engagement and General Education
Alfredo Gonzalez, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Speaker Introduction
Dionne Espinoza, Associate Professor of Chicano Studies

9:15
Building Communities
George J. Sanchez

I. Integrating Civic Engagement with General Education Requirements

II. Cultural Asset Mapping of the Community

III. Redefining Public Scholarship

GEORGE J. SANCHEZ is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of College Diversity. He is the author of numerous books including Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford, 1993) and co-editor of Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).  He is past president of the American Studies Association and serves on the National Advisory Board of “Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life.”

Green Alleys
Kelly Budding, Title I Coordinator at Thomas Jefferson High School
David Diaz, Professor of Chicano Studies and Director, Urban Studies

"What's Real?" A Peer Mentorship and Service-Learning Project
Shaunelle Curry, Director, Mother's Day Radio
Student Service-Learning Team

11:15
Walk to the Fine Arts Gallery and Introduction to the Walls of Passion, a Community-based Art History Exhibit
Manuel Aguilar, Professor of Art History

11:30
Brainstorming, Mingling, and Networking in the FA Gallery

Evaluations