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Item 2023 Community Engagement Associates Mentor Questionnaire Report(2023-04-24) Hahn, ThomasThis report provides the results of the end-of-year questionnaire to faculty/staff mentors of students participating in the Community Engagement Associates (CEA) Scholarship Program for AY 2022-2023. The CEA program is an employment program in which community engaged faculty and staff apply for funding to employ students to provide support for courses, programs, or projects that advance the community engagement mission of IUPUI.Item 2023 Direct Assessment of University Profiles through Written Reflections of Engaged Learning Experiences Using the AAC&U Written Communication, Integrative Learning, and Civic Engagement VALUE Rubrics(2023-11-01) Hahn, ThomasThis report describes a direct assessment activity within the IUPUI Institute for Engaged Learning (IEL) for students participating in IEL programs during AY 2022-2023. The IEL Assessment Workgroup assessed written reflection artifacts of 100 students from 6 co-curricular programs. Using selected rows from the Written Communication, Integrative Learning, and Civic Engagement VALUE Rubrics, the raters assessed the Communicator, Problem Solver, and Community Contributor Profiles of Undergraduate Learning.Item Bonner Leader Scholars Assessment Report (AY 2022-2023)(2023-08-11) Hahn, ThomasThis report provides the results of the end-of-year questionnaire to Bonner Leader Scholars for AY 2022-2023. The Bonner Scholars Program is a service-based scholarship program. Scholars support a variety of community organizations and pursue their interest in social issues such as food insecurity, community development, education, and sustainability. Scholars participate in trainings aimed to develop them personally and professionally, leadership opportunities through facilitating campus-wide service events, and opportunities through the Bonner Foundation to travel and engage with like-minded students. This report is an indirect assessment, based on a confidential questionnaire administered to the students in April 2023. It captures students’ perceptions of their knowledge and skills, as well as their satisfaction with various program components. Additionally, students had the opportunity to respond to open-ended questions and offer their suggestions for program improvement.Item Civic Engagement among Middle Eastern and North African Refugees and Immigrants(62nd Annual Program Meeting, Atlanta, 2016. Atlanta, GA: Council on Social Work Education, 2016-11) Makki Alamdari, Sara; Alhajeri, Wafa; Kim, Hea-WonThis research explored the attitudes toward, frequency and predictors of civic engagement among the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) immigrants and refugees. Respondents (n=106) reported strongly positive attitudes and engaged in various civic activities. Attitudes were found as main predictor for level of civic engagement.Item Creating The Well-Rounded Student: The Merging of Experiential Learning, Civic Engagement & Media Practice(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Rogers, ChristianMedia production courses often focus on the technical and artistic aspects of creating a project. Often, the passion to expose students to a real-world experience in a diverse environment is not considered. This poster will present two studies that involved forty-three students from two sections of a Computer Graphics Technology course. The students were placed in unfamiliar learning environments as a part of their second project in the course. The purpose for doing so was to provide an experiential learning experience, increase the students’ awareness of an unfamiliar, and oftentimes intimidating environment and providing them with a unique learning experience where they could develop their skills in video production and civic engagement. A survey was developed in partnership with the Office of Service & Learning. Results showed an increase in civic and diversity awareness that exposed the students to the world of video production in a new light.Item Designing Programs with a Purpose: To Promote Civic Engagement for Life(6/1/2011) Bringle, Robert G.; Studer, Morgan; Wilson, Jarod; Clayton, Patti H.; Steinberg, Kathryn S.Curricular and co-curricular civic engagement activities and programs are analyzed in terms of their capacity to contribute to a common set of outcomes associated with nurturing civic-minded graduates: academic knowledge, familiarity with volunteering and nonprofit sector, knowledge of social issues, communication skills, diversity skills, self-efficacy, and intentions to be involved in communities. Different programs that promote civic-mindedness, developmental models, and assessment strategies that can contribute to program enhancement are presented.Item Evaluating Digital Stories as Authentic Evidence of Civic-Mindedness(Center for Service & Learning, IUPUI, 2014-12) Hahn, Thomas W.; Norris, Kristin E.; Weiss, AnneUsing the Civic-Minded Graduate and the Association of American Colleges & Universities VALUE Rubric, digital stories created by recipients of co-curricular service-based scholarship programs were analyzed to document authentic evidence of civic-mindedness. The findings indicate that: * Digital stories are an effective tool to capture evidence of civic learning. * Students showed high levels of civic identity on both rubrics. * The research increased understanding of the similarities and differences in terms of how the two rubrics measure civic learning and capture variance in civic-mindedness.Item Exploration of Perceived Psychosocial Benefits of Senior Companion Program Participation Among Urban-Dwelling, Low-Income Older Adult Women Volunteers(Oxford University Press, 2018-07-12) Hood, Sula; Lu, Yvonne Yueh-Feng; Jenkins, Kristen; Brown, Ellen R.; Beaven, Joyce; Brown, Steve A.; Hendrie, Hugh C.; Austrom, Mary Guerriero; Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public HealthBackground: As the older adult population increases, it is imperative to increase older adults' opportunities for social involvement, thus maintaining their important roles and contributions to society. While there are known health-related benefits of volunteerism among older adults, a dearth of information exists on the perceived benefits of volunteerism among low-income and ethnic minority older adults. Purpose: To understand the perceived psychosocial benefits of volunteering in the Senior Companion Program and to present findings of focus groups conducted with urban-dwelling, low-income older adult women volunteers. Design and Methods: Inductive content analysis and the Dedoose qualitative data analysis software were used for analyzing data obtained from 59 older adult women Senior Companions who participated in nine focus groups. Results: Content analyses of the focus group transcripts identified four major themes: (1) Reducing social isolation; (2) Improving quality of life; (3) Finding purpose and meaning; and (4) Increasing understanding of aging. The majority of our participants (81%) were African American women, with a mean age of 70 years. Approximately 83.1% had completed high school and 62.7% lived below the poverty line. Discussion and Implications: Findings provided data rich in descriptions of positive psychosocial outcomes, finding meaning and purpose, and a better understanding of aging in urban-dwelling, low-income older women volunteers. The findings also provide support for the need for policies and programs that promote civic engagement in this population.Item IEL Students Demographic and Retention Report AY 2022-2023(Indiana University, 2023-11-01) Hahn, ThomasThe Institute for Engaged Learning (IEL) at IU Indianapolis is home to multiple engaged learning opportunities in undergraduate research, leadership, and civic engagement. This report details demographics, school of enrollment, GPA, and retention figures for students who participated in IEL programs in AY 2022-2023.Item Improving civic engagement: A strength-based strategy to address post-resettlement challenges(West Texas A&M University, 2017-03) Makki Alamdari, SaraOverview: Considering the benefits of civic engagement for integrating of refugees into new community, attitudes toward, frequency and predictors of civic engagement are examined among 14 Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) refugees. Goals and Objectives: To demonstrate the importance of civic engagement in post-resettlement adjustment in overcoming individual challenges and becoming integrated in new community; To present results of a quantitative study on civic engagement among refugees from the Middle East and North Africa