This day and a half long workshop will help you build your skills doing Academic Civic Engagement in the classroom and to connect with others with similar interests in and outside of the college.

The first morning will have two tracks

1. For those who are new to ACE, a "how to" session
2. For those with more experience, a time to deepen your understanding and practice of ACE in your assignments.

In the afternoon we will break into groups by sectors and work with community partners around working areas such as Census 2010, land use and environmental interests, education and children, local history, and public health. These topics are potential ones and we are open to other areas of faculty interests.

The second morning will be devoted to working on assignments with other faculty, either to think comprehensively about a sector or to further develop your individual assignment. Throughout the workshop we will ask the question of how numbers or quantitative reasoning are relevant to your projects and what kinds of data and information you are working with or wish that you had available for you and your students.