Award Established in Honor of Bennett
The William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science was established by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement and named in honor of its first recipient…
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NCSCE Awards 20 Sub-Awards to Support Campus Programs
Following a competitive application process, twenty teams received SENCER/NSF Post-Institute Implementation Awards to create or revise courses and curricula, to develop partnerships, and to implement faculty development programs and workshops.…
NCSCE Funds Projects to Improve Teaching and Learning
NCSCE has funded a promising group of projects that emerged from discussions at the 2007 SENCER Summer Institute. Teams of 4-6 people who attended SSI 2007 were eligible to submit…
Three New SENCER Model Courses Address Sustainability, Resources, and the Local Environment
Three courses have been selected to join our SENCER Model Series this summer, bringing the total of our collection of examples of successful, effective methods to address issues of concern…
SENCER/NSF Awardees Plan New Courses, Faculty Development
Awardees of the SENCER/NSF sub-grants plan to infuse new methods into existing curricula and courses in some cases, to revise general education, or to bolster campus-based SENCER dissemination through faculty…
9 Steps to Designing a SENCER Model Course in About an Hour*
by Ellen Goldey, Associate Professor of Biology, Wofford College This exercise is to help teams imagine and design courses, learning communities (LCs), and/or other curricular programs that foster civic engagement…