Accomplishments: Service Learning & Leadership

Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) made two presentations at the recent SUSTEX 2021 Summit. The workshop, Leading Regenerative Systems: Imagining Systems Built to Thrive, and the panel presentation, Intersectionality and Sustainability," included content from a forthcoming publication from Information Age Press and reflected…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) served as lead author on the article 'Contextualizing our leadership education approach to complex problem solving: Shifting paradigms and evolving knowledge - Priority 5 of the National Leadership Education Research Agenda 2020-2025' published in the Journal of Leadership Studies. …
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) presented six panels and workshops at the International Leadership Association's 22nd Annual Global Conference earlier this month. He serves as co-founder and co-convener of the International Leadership Association (ILA) Sustainability Leadership Member Community and co-chair of the ILA…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) completed co-hosting a four-part "Critical Conversation" series over the last month for leadership educators through the International Leadership Association. The free series, designed and facilitated by the Leadership Education Academy facilitators group for which he serves as co-chair…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) recently contributed to the new book Transforming Learning: Instructional and Assessment Strategies for Leadership Education (Information Age Publishing, 2020). His contribution, titled "Iterative Concept Mapping in Service-Learning," provides faculty implementing service-learning pedagogy…
While we can't be together for the annual Campus Life Top Tier Awards this year, please join us in recognizing this year's nominees and winners. These awards span the different values of the Campus Life cluster including social justice, student and staff development, student engagement, economic viability, infrastructure,…
Janna Bernstein (Service Learning and Leadership) was nominated and has accepted the nomination to serve as a Jameson Fellow for 2020. This Las Vegas-based initiative is intended to connect community members with one another to create a culture of greater cohesion across nonprofit sectors. It is an honor to…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) co-authored a chapter in the newly published open-access book Developing change agents: Innovative practices for sustainability leadership titled "Developing leaders in place: Graduate leadership education for a sustainable and peaceful future." The chapter — and entire book — is available…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) and Tamara Marino (Community Engagement) presented at the recent Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities annual conference in Philadelphia. Their presentation was titled "Grounding Service-Learning Theory and Practice in Las Vegas." Additionally, Satterwhite presented three…
Anabel Chavva (Service Learning and Leadership), Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice), Cecil Yeckes (Sociology) Theresa Butler (Urban Studies), and Zarria Benniefield (Engineering) were part of a panel hosted by the HOPE Scholars Program and Faculty Center last month. Panel members discussed ways to support students who are…
Leanne Soter and Stine Odegard (both Service Learning and Leadership) co-presented earlier this month at the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada's (GSSNV) 7th annual LEAD Conference: Your Next Step In Leadership.  Their session, "The Service Mindset," was aimed at supporting troops and service units to take the leap to do more community…
Rian Satterwhite (Service Learning and Leadership) recently completed his third time as facilitator for the International Leadership Association's Leadership Education Academy, an initiative that he helped found in 2015. The academy was created as an intensive professional development experience for people engaged in leadership education, …