Office of Academic Enrichment Service-Learning Support for Learning through Service

Service-Learning Conference Opportunities

The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (IARSLCE)

IARSLCE supports the process of discovery by assembling school practitioners, funders, and students to share and discuss their research related to service-learning and community engagement. https://www.iarslce.org/conference

American Education Research Association

AERA hosts a special interest group (SIG) on experiential education and community engagement. The SIG’s purpose is “bringing together both researchers and practitioners to build and promote understanding of experiential education and community engagement for the betterment of the field and the reform of K-16+ education.” The SIG also sponsors presentations on service-learning at the AERA’s annual conference. https://www.aera.net/SIG041/Experiential-Education-and-Community-Engagement-Scholarship-and-Practice

Engagement Scholarship Consortium

The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) is a non-profit educational organization composed of higher education member institutions that work collaboratively to promote strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship, and designed to help build community capacity. https://engagementscholarship.org/

Campus Compact

This conference showcases and celebrates advanced and innovative efforts in campus civic engagement including experimentation with creative partnerships and a focus on holistic practice—collective, strategic and aligned institutional involvement in local communities. https://compact.org/events

Society for Experiential Education

This conference brings together practitioners and researchers from a variety of experiential education forms to share best practices, new developments, case studies, and more across the shared practice of high-impact experiential learning.  https://www.nsee.org/annual-conference

National Service-Learning Conference

This conference highlights and promotes service-learning as a way of teaching and learning that builds academic and citizenship skills while renewing communities. https://nylc.org/slc/