ISSL 2024

• Faculty - $300
• Students - $50
• Community Partners/Affiliated Agencies - $100

Register to PResent at ISSL 2024

• Faculty - $350
• Student - $75
• Community Partners/Affiliated Agencies - $125
• Special/VIP Guests

Register to Attend ISSL 2024

2024 Pre-Conference: Pen to Paper

A retreat focused on preparing scholars to publish their community-engaged work.

• Faculty / Professional Staff / Community Partners - $75
• Students - $50 

Pre-Conference Agenda

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Get from your hotel in downtown to the symposium location easily with the IndyGo Red Line bus pass. The IndyGo Red Line bus rapid transit system runs from Broad Ripple, through downtown, to the University of Indianapolis, giving you convenient access to several Indianapolis areas and cultural districts with frequent service.

Enjoy an evening at the Indianapolis Victory Field located in Downtown Indianapolis! We will be visiting the field on Wednesday, May 29th, after the ISSL2024 opening festivities to enjoy an evening of friendship and collegiality. Home to the Indianapolis Indians, the ballpark draws many visitors and is a popular attraction for baseball fans! Located in the White River State Park, Victory Field is found near the Indianapolis Zoo and Lucas Oil Stadium, with many people visiting all three while they are in the area.

Join us for a day of exploring Indiana! We will visit Brown County State Park, Indiana's largest park, with nearly 20 miles of tree-lined roads and many scenic vistas overlooking miles of uninterrupted forestland. We will stop by the quaint village of Nashville, Indiana, for a lunch-on-your-own visit. Nashville is known for its unique craft, specialty, and antique shops, and it is best known as the center of the Brown County Art Colony. On our way back to the city, we will stop for some local wine tasting!

Enjoy an evening of fun and music, and...grilling out some amazing hot dogs and burgers, and celebrating what makes America so unique...the melting pot of different cultures and cuisine! A few international food tracks will also be providing some amazing food for us all to try, and we will spend the evening eating, dancing, and being together.

The purpose of the 9th International Symposium on Service-learning is to promote global citizenship, scholarship, and resiliency in a time of uncertainty and rapid worldwide change. The symposium will continue to focus on the development of reciprocal and transactional relationships as well as the development of innovative and fresh service-learning initiatives in higher education globally. These focal points will be threaded throughout a variety of presentation types and formats to allow for meaningful dialogue and work exchange among academics, students, community partners, and other professionals. The 9th ISSL aims to:

• Highlight service-learning as a catalyst for societal, institutional (policy change), and student transformation
• Encourage the integration of service-learning and multicultural education in academia globally
• Promote service-learning as ethical leadership and educate about the challenges for academic institutions
• Bring awareness to the challenges in engaging service-learning in higher education post-global crises and events, both practical and theoretical approaches
• Promote the integration of service-learning through multicultural and/or multidisciplinary collaborative methodologies and engaged scholarship in higher education
• Emerge global theoretical perspectives that link to the student transformation into critical and engaged citizens
• Promote and support the transformation of education and resilience of service-learning approaches through global crises and events