Project on Civic Reflection director Elizabeth Lynn presented and consulted on the uses of reflection in service learning at Southern New Hampshire University on October 21st. Throughout the day she met with small and large groups of faculty, staff and students from disciplines across the university, including liberal arts, education, graphic design, accounting and hospitality management.

As one of four speakers in a series of luncheon conversations for 2009-2010 Civic Engagement and Service Learning at SNHU, Elizabeth made a plenary presentation on "The Civically Reflective Practitioner" and led a discussion of Robert Frost's poem "For Once, Then, Something"—an appropriate choice for a campus that boasts a Robert Frost Hall. Participants talked about what Frost's narrator is looking for when he peers into the well, what they themselves are seeking when they reflect, and what they hope, as teachers, that their students will see when engaged in reflective discussion. Elizabeth was invited to speak by Eleanor Dunfey-Freiburger, professor of ethics and civic engagement at SNHU, who was a facilitator trained by the Project on Civic Reflection through the New Hampshire Humanities Council's initiative on religion and civic life in America.

Reflective reading and discussion will be incorporated into faculty, staff and student life at SNHU in a variety of ways during the 2009-10 academic year and beyond—e.g., for service learning in diverse academic disciplines, for staff and faculty development, and for a student service trip to West Virginia during spring break.