Intl. Confer. on Developing Global Citizens in Schools, Higher Education, and the Community--Early registration Feb 11

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5^th International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education (CRE)

Developing Global Citizens in Schools, Higher Education, and the Community

March 14 – 19, 2012

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Save!  Early Registration due Feb. 11^th.  Special rates for college and university faculty, staff, and students! 

Registration information and details at: http://creducation.org/cre/goto/5th

Choose from 44 workshop options and 7 pre-conference intensive trainings conducted by more than 75 presenters representing 8 states and 7 countries!

Specific to Colleges and Universities

·         Presenters include representatives from 19 colleges and universities. 

·         Plan to attend the FREE Network Meeting of Colleges and Universities developing peace and conflict studies programs March 15th, 6:30PM – 9:30PM (Registration Required)

·         Attend Pre-Conference trainings (March 14^th - 15^th) such as those conducted by James Madison University, UNCG, Ohio Campus Compact, and Virginia Tech on: Restorative Justice in Higher Education, Bullying Prevention, Service Learning, or Inter-Cultural Communication

·         (March 18^th – 19^th) Attend the Community Colleges Seminar: Developing peace and conflict studies programs

·         Additional details below….

Credits offered: Graduate, Social Work, Counselor, and CEUs

Global Issues Resource Center and Library at Cuyahoga Community College is partnering with colleges and universities, local, national, and international non-governmental and governmental organizations to host the 5th International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education (CRE), Developing Global Citizens in Schools, Higher Education, and the Community in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.  Earlier conferences and working group meetings brought together government representatives from among the 50 states, around the globe, and their non-governmental organization partners who have legislation or policies in place to deliver CRE/SEL/PE and Civics Education at the K-12 level and in universities.  Conference and meeting publications are available at:  www.CREducation.org 

March 14^th – 15^th         Pre-Conference Trainings

March 16^th – 17^th         Main Conference – Keynotes and Workshops

March 18^th – 19^th         U.S. Community College Seminar: Developing Peace and Conflict Studies Programs

Keynote Speakers (March 16 and 17, 2012):

Organization of American States	Empowering Youth as Democratic Citizens in the Community and the Classroom
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict	Jekyll and Hyde: The Two Faces of Social Media in Conflict
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting	Conflict Resolution through the Lens of International Journalism and Education: The Pulitzer Center Model
The Democracy Commitment	Empowering Students to be Active Global Citizens (K-12 and Higher Education)

Pre-Conference Trainings (March 14 and 15, 2012):

•  More than Volunteering: How to Effectively Develop a Service Learning Experience, Ohio Campus Compact (March 14)
• How to Promote and Protect Child Rights (K-12), International School Psychologists Association (March 15)
• Intercultural Communication: Perception, Self-Reflection, and Change, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (March 14- 15)
• Actively Caring for People: Preventing Bullying by Improving Individuals, Classrooms, Schools, and Communities, Virginia Tech, University of Akron (March 15)

·         Introduction to Restorative Justice, James Madison University (March 14)

·         Applying Restorative Justice in a Higher Education Setting, James Madison University (March 15)

·         People Power and Pedagogy: Methods for Teaching about Nonviolent Struggle, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (March 15)           

Special Events

·         March 15th, 6:30PM – 9:30PM - Network Meeting of Colleges and Universities developing peace and conflict studies programs (Free to Colleges and Universities – Registration Required)

·         March 16th - Association for Conflict Resolution: Education Section Meeting

·         March 18 - 19 - Open to All Community College Faculty and Staff Community Colleges Seminar: Developing peace and conflict studies programs

The 5^th International Conference on CRE is an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and research on issues related to the development of infrastructure in CRE. Presentations will focus on innovations in the fields that are making broad impacts in local, state, national, and international communities.  Participants will exchange best practices, evaluation methodology, creation of policy implementation structures, consideration of obstacles to success, and new and innovative use of training, resources and technology. Conference participants will be drawn from the local, state, national, and international community.  College students and faculty are encouraged to attend and present their findings.  On-site events include a meeting of Ohio Colleges and Universities developing peace and conflict studies programs, March 15th, 6:30PM – 9:30PM, an Association for Conflict Resolution Education Section meeting and a capacity building seminar for U.S. Community Colleges developing peace and conflict studies programs on March 18^th and 19^th, 2012.

Audience:  Those interested in CRE/Social and Emotional Learning(SEL)/peace education (PE), global education, citizenship education, democracy education, including policy makers, practitioners, researchers, educators, college and university faculty, staff, and students, K-12 educators, public health officials, prevention specialists, local, national, and international policy makers, and individuals who work with youth serving organizations.

Additional Details?

Conference and meeting publications are available http://creducation.org/cre/goto/5th  For more information, please contact Global Issues Resource Center, Cuyahoga Community College at 216-987-2224.

Hosted by:

Global Issues Resource Center and Library at Cuyahoga Community College and our many college, university, government, and non-governmental organization partners and sponsors. 

Call for Nominations for YWCA Leadership Awards

YWCA of the University of Illinois

Est. 1884 - 127 yrs on campus

January 18, 2012

YWCA Leadership Awards Call for Nominations       The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.        The YWCA Leadership Awards were created to recognize the achievements and contributions of exceptional women in the greater Champaign-Urbana community whose work advances the mission of the YWCA. These individuals display leadership, initiative, creativity, and dedication. Through their involvement, they inspire others to get involved and make a difference in the lives of others.          Nominations may be submitted in the following categories: Advocacy, Business, Education, Science, Social Justice, Philanthropy, and Trailblazer.  Deadline for nominations is Wednesday, January 31, 2012.       Awards will be presented at the 2nd Annual Leadership Luncheon to be held on Friday, March 2 at the I Hotel.      The recipients of the 2011 awards were; Advocacy: Marci Dodds, Business: New Prairie Construction, Julie Birdwell & Jill Mulder; Science: Dr. Shobha Vasudevan, Racial Justice: Dr. Brendesha Tynes, Trailblazer: Dr. Phoebe Lenear.      We are sure that you know of exceptional women who deserves to be recognized and celebrated!  To receive information about awards including criteria  for individual categories and to request nominating forms please send email requests to info@ywcauofi.org or call (217) 344 - 0721.  Deadline for nominations is Wednesday, February 1, 2012.

News about Service-Learning Asia Network from Lingnan University

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Service-Learning Asia Network from Lingnan University

Dear colleagues,

Greeting from Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University, Hong Kong!

Lingnan University is very honored to be chosen as the secretariat of the Service-Learning Asia Network (SLAN) since June 2011. The purpose of SLAN is to promote the common interests and networks of student exchanges, faculty research, curriculum development and program evaluation among colleges and universities interested in Service-Learning in Asia. SLAN members share ideas about the development of Service-Learning in the region and have united together to encourage cross-national collaborations. With support from SLAN members, Lingnan University have developed the website and published the first newsletter for the Network in December 2011. It helps provide a platform to make exchanges and to support each others’ work. For more information, please refer to www.ln.edu.hk/osl/slan.

To know more about the Service-Learning programs in Lingnan University, please read our latest annual report at http://www.ln.edu.hk/osl/publications/annual_report_1011.pdf Thanks!

If there is any question, please feel free to email to osl@ln.edu.hk

Best Regards,

Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

Call for expressions of interest to guest-edit a special journal issue on 'Ageing and Community' - Feb 15 deadline

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Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,

The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology invites expressions of interest from individual, pairs, or teams of potential guest-editors, to guest-edit a special issue of the journal on the theme of "Ageing and Community" (Guest-editors have scope to modify the title and focus, within this broad theme).  

Expressions of interest should include (i) a 2-3 page proposal indicating aims, scope, potential topics and potential authors; (ii) brief CV(s) demonstrating the suitability of the proposed guest editor(s).

Submit expressions of interest to the Editor, Flora Cornish

(f.cornish@lse.ac.uk) by 15 February 2012.         

For more information about the journal, see http://bit.ly/Agq0Or

Thanks,

Rahma Osman

Program Assistant

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Call for Nominations: 2012 Lynton Award

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2012 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the
Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)

The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.

Community engagement describes the collaboration between faculty and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.

--Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

The Lynton Award emphasizes community-based scholarly work across faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement (also known as outreach scholarship, public scholarship, scholarship for the common good, community-based scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship) represents an integrated view of faculty roles in which teaching, research/creative activity, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly work tied to a faculty member's expertise, is of benefit to the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects the mission of the institution. In addition, NERCHE conceptualizes scholarly engagement in terms of social justice in a diverse democracy.

The award will be presented at the 18^th Annual Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) which will be held from October 13-16, 2012, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. CUMU is a co-sponsor of the Award.

The recipient of the award will have several opportunities to disseminate his or her community based work, including presenting at the CUMU conference, publishing in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, and participating in one or more of NERCHE's webinars focused on community-based scholarly work.

2012 Lynton Award Nominations:

• Nominations can be made by academic colleagues, administrators, students, and community partners.
• More than one faculty member from a single college or university may be nominated. Please complete separate applications for each nominee.

Nominators will submit nominations via an online application.  To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions.

Application Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2012.

If you have any questions regarding the Lynton Award, please contact NERCHE via email at nerche@umb.edu or by phone at (617) 287-7740.

To learn more about the Lynton Award, click here.  To view examples of syllabi submitted by previous nominees, click here.  To download a copy of the 2011 Lynton Award Profile, click here.