National Conference on Citizenship
Outreach Scholarship Conference
Ten years ago, a small group of Penn State professors and administrators created a forum to deliberate, recognize, and document outreach scholarship in the University. The Partnership has now grown to include nine research universities.
Eighth International Research Conference on
Service-learning and Community Engagement.
The theme of the conference is The Scholarship of Engagement: Dimensions of Reciprocal Partnerships. Campus-community collaborations can take many forms and provide academic, social, civic, and economic benefits to a broad range of individuals and organizations.
Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility:
Deepening Student and Campus Commitments
Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 1-3, 2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota
About the Conference educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student and Campus Commitments will bring together faculty, student affairs personnel, academic administrators, students, and others to explore how to move education for personal and social responsibility to the center of institutional culture and academic practice. The program will feature promising practices that develop students’ civic engagement and social responsibility in both a local and global context; personal and academic integrity; ability to examine and understand differing (and often competing) perspectives; and ethical and moral reasoning.
The central premise of the conference is that personal integrity and ethics cannot be developed in isolation from a commitment to and engagement with others, and that students’ ethical, civic, and moral development must be addressed as part of their basic responsibilities as learners. At a time when our nation faces ethical and civic challenges of daunting complexity, it is crucial that we return to the core commitments of personal and social responsibility inherent in liberal education.
Colleges and universities widely espouse the pursuit of excellence, integrity, and civic responsibility with their students, and many have taken active steps to address these issues on campus. Yet a gulf remains between our collective aspirations and our current practices. Despite strong agreement that education for personal and social responsibility should be a major focus of college, explorations of values, ethics, and civic responsibility frequently occur in “pockets” within the curriculum and co-curriculum and are typically undertaken by already-interested students, faculty, and student affairs staff. As part of this conference, participants will work together to consider how to take their most promising practices to the “next level” of institutional pervasiveness.
The conference is shaped by the ongoing work of the AAC&U initiative, Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility, which calls on colleges and universities to be more explicit, purposeful, and consistent in creating environments that enhance all students’ competencies in personal and social responsibility. It is also informed by AAC&U’s Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility initiative, which is focused on curriculum development to deepen students’ global knowledge, and by a partnership with the Council of Europe to promote education for democracy, human rights, and civic responsibility. An AAC&U-affiliated project, Bringing Theory to Practice, has also generated new research and promising practices related to the role of engaged learning and civic involvement in helping students make responsible choices in their personal lives.
For more information, please call 202.387.3760 or write to network@aacu.org.
Clinton Global Initiative University
Mission Statement Through sustained partnerships with colleges and congregations, the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation seeks to improve the lives of individuals and communities by helping meet the basic needs of nutrition and educational opportunity. http://www.bonner.org/
Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation: Service Book Awards
Are you interested in doing research into what and how your students learn? In improving your teaching and enhancing your students’ learning? In being part of a research community with colleagues from Elon and with local high school teachers? In getting paid to do all of that?
Elon has a program, funded by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, that will support you as you conduct a year-long scholarship of teaching and learning research project.
Applications are due February 18, 2009.
Interested? A short description of the program is below, and all of the details (including the application form) are on the web at http://org.elon.edu/etlp/
Questions? Contact either Peter Felten or Katie King.
Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
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The Elon Teaching and Learning Partnership (ETLP) is a collaborative scholarship of teaching and learning program for secondary and post-secondary school faculty. ETLP involves year-long inquiry communities of high school and university faculty investigating common questions about student learning, leading to improved teaching at both the high school and college level.
The Partnership will involve 16 participants annually, with 8-10 coming from the public school systems in Alamance, Orange, and Guilford counties, and 6-8 from the faculty at Elon University. We have grant funding to support the program in 2008-09, 2009-10, and 2010-11.
During a week-long summer institute (in early August 2009), participants will develop research projects addressing questions they have about student learning. Through the 2009-10 academic year, participants will collaborate and update one another both online and in occasional face-to-face meetings. At the end of the 2009-10 academic year, each participant will make public her or his research process, findings, and implications for classroom practice.
Participants will receive a stipend of $4000 for successfully completing the year-long program.
A brief overview of the research projects being conducted during the first year (2008-09) of ETLP is available at http://org.elon.edu/etlp/cp.html
Applications are due by February 18, 2009. More information and the application form are available at http://org.elon.edu/etlp/
ETLP is sponsored by a grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
Student Initiative Grant
For individual students who see a need in the surrounding community and have a strong desire to work with local partners in order to create and implement projects that will meet those needs. Students who receive the Student Initiative Grant will be awarded up to $1,000 to complete their projects within one calander year.
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Revised 10th Anniv 2nd Edition) Patricia Hill Collins
Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World
by Laurent A. Parks Daloz
Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral
and Civic Responsibility by Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont
and Jason Stephens
Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible
Political Engagement by Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont
and Josh Corngold
A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic Life, and the
Changing American Citizen by Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Molly Andolina
and Krista Jenkins
Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life by Harry C. Boyte
Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum: A Resource Book for
Faculty in all Disciplines (Campus Compact, 2002); by Rick Battistoni
Experiencing Citizenship: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in
Political Science by Rick Battistoni (co-edited with Bill Hudson)
Public Schooling and the Education of Democratic Citizens by Rick Battistoni
ANNOUNCING A NEW ACADEMIC JOURNAL
March 3, 2008
Dear Faculty Colleague:I am pleased to announce that The University of Alabama will be the inaugural home for a new research journal that will provide a mechanism for faculty, staff, students, and community partners to disseminate scholarly works from all academic disciplines with the goal of integrating teaching, research, and community engagement.
The journal is a project of the Council of the Center for Community-Based Partnerships (CCBP) and has the unanimous support of the 40-person Council.
The Council is comprised of scholars and administrators from academic disciplines
all across campus, along with community partners from government and the
private sector.
The name of the new publication is the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. It will address critical problems identified through community-based participatory research, a rapidly developing approach to cutting-edge scholarship in which students and community partners play important roles.
The founding editor is Dr. Cassandra Simon, associate professor in the School of Social Work. The first edition will be published in fall 2008.
Our vision is that the Editorial Board will include community partners and will be balanced in terms of region and theoretical and methodological approaches. Members will serve three-year terms.
This announcement serves as our initial call for manuscripts. See submission and other details about the journal on the back of this letter. We look forward to receiving your manuscripts.
For questions related to the journal, contact the editor at jces@ua.edu or call her at 205-348-4586.
Journal of Community Practice.
Service learning as an educational strategy has tremendously expanded its reach to colleges and universities nationally and internationally. While schools of social work have long led the way in promoting community engagement and partnership that integrates service into teaching and research, many other professions and disciplines have grown their own curricular initiatives. Recently, service learning has truly come of age with the establishment of the new Community Engagement Elective Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
"Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities" (National Service Learning Clearinghouse).
Higher education institutions have found service learning an excellent strategy for enhancing the application of classroom learning in the community, building stronger community partnerships, strengthening civic engagement and citizenship, advancing community-based participatory and applied research, and fostering scholarship that unifies teaching,research and service. As a tool for community engagement and partnership, service learning advances the mission of higher education locally, nationally and internationally.
The Journal of Community Practice is an interdisciplinary journal designed to provide a forum for the development of knowledge related to numerous disciplines, including social work and the social sciences, urban planning, social and economic development, community organizing, policy analysis, urban and rural sociology, public administration, and nonprofit management. The Journal of Community Practice is sponsored by the Association for Community Organization & Social Administration (ACOSA), and published by Taylor & Francis. ******************************************************************************Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly defined)through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Become a member today at www.ccph.info******************************************************************************
Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship
The Editorial Board of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) invites the submission of manuscripts that relate to its mission: to provide a mechanism through which faculty, staff, and students of academic institutions and their community partners disseminate scholarly works from all academic disciplines with the goal of integrating teaching, research, and community engagement.
All forms of writing and analysis will be acceptable for the journal with consideration being given to traditional research and creative approaches that apply a variety of methodologies. Manuscripts that demonstrate central involvement of students and community partners will be given favorable consideration.
Manuscripts must be typewritten and double spaced in 12-point type. Article length, except in rare instances, should not exceed 25 pages including text, tables, and references. Tables and other graphics should be submitted as separate documents with their place in the manuscript indicated. The abstract and cover pages are not included in the page count.
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th edition) is the required reference style. Author(s) should supply a separate cover sheet with the name(s), affiliation(s), and other identifying information and contact information (address, phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses) for each contributing author. Additionally, authors should include four to six keywords at the bottom of the cover sheet. All identifying information or references to the author(s) must be removed from the manuscript.
Each manuscript must also include an abstract of 150 words or less that summarizes the major themes of the manuscript. It is assumed that manuscripts are submitted for exclusive publication in JCES and have not been simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in this journal if accepted for publication. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal. Nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially the same form. Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should consult the editor.
Authors are required to submit written permission to reprint from the original publisher any quoted material of 300 words or more from a single source; any quoted material from a newspaper, a poem, or a song (even a phrase), and any table, figure, or image reproduced from another work.
Submissions for the premier issue of this peer reviewed journal are due by July 1, 2008. Manuscripts will undergo blind review and require electronic submission in Microsoft Word. All images must also be submitted electronically, in TIF format with no less than 200 pixels per inch resolution for black and white and 300 for
color images.
Inquiries and submissions should be e-mailed to Cassandra E. Simon, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, The University of Alabama, at jces@ua.edu. Confirmation of receipt of a submission will be sent within one week of receipt.
Civic Enterprises works on issues ranging from the high school dropout crisis, to national parks, malaria, civic engagement, and private investment in Rwanda. We are looking for motivated fellows to join our team for a semester or summer fellowship to assist on critical research, strategy sessions and the drafting of national reports. We are a small, dynamic team looking for fellows interested in working on public policy surrounding significant issues.
http://www.civic enterprises.net/
What: The IUPUI Research Academy is an interactive summer workshop to develop skills, learn about methods and literature, develop a research project and advance research related to service learning in higher education
Sponsored by: IUPUI Center for Service and Learning and National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Targeted Audience: Service learning researchers; well-suited for faculty developing research projects, as well as graduate students
Dates: Begin at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday May 14th, end at noon on Saturday May 16th, 2009
Location: University Library <http://www.iupui.edu/building/UL.html> at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis. Located near downtown Indianapolis, IN
Purpose:
* Improve and strengthen research on service learning
* Provide consultation and feedback on research proposal development
* Support faculty development by advancing scholarship of teaching and learning
* Build a network of service learning scholars
* Identify resources and expertise to research projects
Topics:
* Research Design
* Measurement and questionnaire development
* Research Methodology
* Proposal Development
* Statistical analyses
* Ethical Issues
* Theory
* Writing research proposals (e.g., grants) and research manuscripts
Faculty and Facilitators will include:
* Dr. Robert Bringle - IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
* Dr. Julie Hatcher - IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
* Dr. Kathryn Steinberg - IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
* Dr. Patti Clayton - NC State University
* Dr. Liberty Smith - National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Costs: $80.00; in addition each attendee will cover their own cost of travel, food,
and accommodations
Application: Applications can be found at http://surveycentral.uc.iupui.edu/ira09.aspx and are due by March 27, 2009. All applications will be reviewed by the Conference Committee, and those that are accepted will be notified by April 3, 2009. Charges for attending will be assessed after one has received notification of application acceptance.
Please see the event website at:http://csl.iupui.edu/ira.asp for further information, including suggested travel options and hotel accommodations.
Direct questions about the goals of this conference to:
Robert G. Bringle, Ph.D. Director,
Center for Service and Learning
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
801 West Michigan Street, BS 2010
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5153
Telephone: 317-278-3499
Fax: 317-278-7683
E-mail:rbringle@iupui.edu
Direct questions about conference logistics to:
Matthew J. Williams, Graduate Assistant Center for Service and Learning
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
801 West Michigan Street, BS 2010W
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Telephone: 317-278-3655
Fax: 317-278-7683
E-mail: mjw1@iupui.edu
