Dear Community-Engaged Friends at the University of Illinois,
There is an exciting opportunity to
connect with others in the Midwest who are doing community-engaged work and
trying to build effective community-University partnerships.
On October 19, there will be an all-day Midwest Science
Shop Meeting held at the Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola
University Chicago.
The organizers of this meeting would like to have some folks
from the University of Illinois participate and have asked me to add some names
to their contact list so they can send out formal invitations. If you’re
interested and/or know of some U of I people who would benefit from this
opportunity, please send me those names soon so that I can forward them on to the
organizers. Thanks much for your consideration.
Best, Valeri (werpetin@illinois.edu)
What’s the workshop all about?
From one of the organizers: “Soon there should be a questionnaire about
what people would like to share and learn about regarding the Science Shop
concept, or derivatives of it. We’d like to be as inclusive as possible, but
who would benefit the most from this meeting are people who are exploring ways
of getting their institutions more hooked up to the community in a ‘brokerage’
kind of way to make it easier for community organizations to access our
resources, and for us to have the left hand know what the right hand is doing
so we don’t have researchers tripping over each other in the community.”
To learn more about the Science Shop concept, see http://www.livingknowledge.org/livingknowledge/.
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