Building Sustainable Community Advisory Boards: The Chester-Swarthmore Fellows Council Model

Thursday, July 17th at 11:30 AM ET (10:30 AM CT / 9:30 AM MT / 8:30 AM PT)

Join us to learn more about the Chester-Swarthmore Fellows Council, a group of Chester resident-leaders with wide and deep local roots in the city, comprises an advisory body that informs and contextualizes Swarthmore College’s place-based engagements in Chester, PA. Through this innovative approach, Swarthmore College was awarded Campus Compact’s new Excellence in Civic & Community Engagement Programming Award, which recognizes the many forms that effective on-campus civic and community engagement can take to address areas of need and make deep and long-lasting positive change.

The Fellows convene several times per year, sometimes as a whole and more frequently in smaller subgroups, alongside faculty, staff, and students from Swarthmore’s Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. The goals are to shape student training programs; to consult on place-based initiatives such as the Chester Community Fellowship and "ChesterSemester"; to explore the feasibility of potential projects and related, collaborative activities; and to implement long-term, transformational strategies. Chester partners also participate as compensated co-educators and guest speakers in Swarthmore classes.

In this webinar you will hear more about this model of sustainable community partnership building and how you can bring this to your campus!

Ben Berger

Executive Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Learning
Michigan State University

Ashley Herny 

Assistant Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Learning
Michigan State University

Katie Price

Assistant Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Learning
Michigan State University