Community Scholars Program

The Community Scholars Program is a professional Community of Practice designed to support UNF faculty members and student affairs professionals in the practice of Community- Based Transformational Learning (CBTL) activities, enhance practitioners’ knowledge of and expertise in CBTL and develop strategies to infuse CBTL forms of learning throughout the University. Faculty members and student affairs professionals chosen as Community Scholars are awarded a one-time $3,000 stipend.

UNF faculty members and student affairs professionals who participate in the Community Scholars Program can expect to:

increase their professional and community-based social networks;
identify their strengths and/or weaknesses as CBTL practitioners;
enhance their understanding of their assumptions that shape and the theories behind the best practices of CBTL;
view their practice of CBTL pedagogies as proficient and with confidence;
share their expertise regarding CBTL with other UNF faculty members and student affairs professionals;
understand the role of community as co-instructor in their practice of CBTL;
learn more about community issues, assets, and needs.

UNF’s Community Scholars will:

Attend required one-day orientation session, titled "Our Jax";
Participate in six, three-hour seminars during the spring semester relating to real issues in CBTL (i.e., instructional design, assessment, university-community partnerships, etc.) or urgent developments important to the expansion of CBTL at UNF;
Produce a written (1) plan to enhance CBTL instruction elements in an existing course, (2) syllabus that adds CBTL instructional elements into a new course, or (3) product, such as contribute to a collection of short position papers or briefs on CBTL, a CBTL focused UNF summer research grant proposal, presentation or poster session for a regional or national conference, external grant proposal supporting CBTL programming, peer reviewed presentation or publication;
Serve as peer consultants regarding CBTL.

For more information about the Community Scholars Program contact Heather Burk, Assistant Director, Center for Community-Based Learning.

Get to know UNF's Community Scholars

Please click on the image for more information about each cohort.

Cohort 1	Cohort 2
L-R: Carol Spector, Sejal Parikh, PeDro Cohen, Stephynie Perkins, Marcia Ladendorff, Chris Janson, JeffriAnne Wilder, Mark Falbo, Dan Richard, Marnie Jones, Jim Crook	L-R: PeDro Cohen, Mark Falbo, Mary Lundy, Barbara Olinzock, Martina Perry, Annabel Brooks, Julie Merten, Diane Denslow
Cohort 3	Cohort 4
L-R: Joy Feria, Marnie Jones, Jennifer Spaulding-Givens, Gigi David, Larry Daniel, Barb Kruger, Mark Workman, Pam Chally, Mark Tumeo, Christopher Johnson, Christopher Brown, Ajay Samant, Kate Mattingly-Learch The scholars from each cohort are listed in blue.	L-R: John Delaney, Connie Roush, Karthik Umapathy, Jody Nicholson, Debbie Reed, Tarah Trueblood, Tom Serwatka, Bobbi Doggett, Michelle Boling