Community Engagement
Faculty Events
Engaged @Noon
Where ideas meet impact
Please join us for our hybrid Engaged @Noon Series to discuss various opportunities and resources for faculty at USF. Hosted by the Community Engagement team in the Office of University Community Partnerships.
ASSESSING COMMUNITY ENGAGED LEARNING:
Students, Faculty & Community Partners
Join us for our fall Engaged @Noon session and participate in a conversation about how USF faculty evaluate students in experiential learning courses. Discover innovative methods to assess your learners and understand the significance of feedback from community collaborators.
Featured Speaker:
Lori Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Criminology
Dr. Lori L. Hall is an Assistant Professor of Instruction with over a decade of experience in teaching and research, specializing in critical criminology, trauma-informed practices, and transformative justice. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology with a concentration in Crime/Deviance and Race from Virginia Tech. Dr. Hall also holds an M.A. in Criminal Justice from Arkansas State University and a B.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
With a student-centered approach to teaching, Dr. Hall emphasizes the importance of creating spaces where all students feel supported, valued, and included using a trauma-responsive pedagogy. She incorporates a variety of teaching methods to engage students and ensure that they not only grasp course content but also apply critical thinking to real-world justice issues. To this end Dr. Hall and some of her students’ work have contributed greatly to several podcasts, like Justice Talks.
December 4, 2025
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CGS Room 140 or virtually
Are Your Students Connecting the Dots?
Reflection Assignments
In this energizing Engaged @Noon session, you’ll discover practical reflection models that deepen students’ subject mastery and spark powerful connections of academic theory across disciplines and industries. You will learn why reflection is the foundational tool of community engaged learning. Come explore fresh, ready-to-use strategies that elevate learning far beyond the classroom. Don’t miss this chance to fuel your teaching and inspire your students in new ways!
Featured Speaker:
Molly Hamm-Rodríguez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education
Dr. Molly Hamm-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education specializing in anthropology of education and comparative and international education. Dr. Hamm-Rodríguez completed a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder’s School of Education. She holds an M.A. in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also completed a B.A. in English and B.S. in Secondary Education (6th-12th grade English language arts teaching license) at Kansas State University.
Dr. Hamm-Rodríguez uses ethnography, archival methods, oral histories, community-based and youth participatory action research, and discourse analysis. Her research has been supported by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Her research priorities are developed through reciprocal relationships that center youth and community voices as well as through research-practice partnerships with schools, districts, and community-based organizations.
SAVE THE DATE
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12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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AAC&U Annual Meeting
January 21-23, 2026
Washington, D.C.
Association of Catholic Universities & Colleges
January 31 - February 2, 2026
Washington, D.C.
Gulf-South Summit
March 26-28, 2026
Houston, TX
National Service-Learning Conference
April 8-10, 2026
St. Paul, MN