Ideas for Moving Forward

Thanks again to you all for an interesting first session!  At the end of the session, we discussed ways to move forward on the fellowship program, to support both your individual projects and the fellowship concept itself.  Rick and I talked today, and discussed some of the "next steps." Here are the ones we identified, but please feel free to add, subtract, or clarify as needed:

1. Find ways to collaborate.  This includes both our professional collaboration (book, articles, conferences, online content) and a desire to enhance our students' opportunities to share their work with an audience that is wider than instructors, classmates, or individual institutions.  Cmapus Compact has some existing venues, but there may an interest in developing specific projects and venues.  Let's continue the discussion.
2. The Fellows can be an excellent opportunity to provide support and guidance to each other in the work we do in engaging students in community.  Would it be worthwhile to set up smaller "working groups" of colleagues with similar projects?  If so, should we do this before the November meeting? (Lori - the tentative date is Friday the 18th of November, sometime in the 4-7 pm range (with dinner!).
3. It would be great to share techniques/approaches/ research/ common work in some way.  The first step is to read each narrative provided by fellows in their application and to continue the conversations started yesterday.

One last thing I thought of - would the people who were not able to share their projects fully wantto write an entry doing so here?

That is enough for now...