2015 Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

<http://www.midwestengagementsummit.org/program.html>

June Summit Program Announced

Sessions will feature scholars and practitioners in higher education civic engagement

A complete program has been released for the 2015 Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit.

Theme: The Global Is Local: Civic Engagement across Cultures, Communities, and Nations

Location: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN

Date: June 9-10, 2015

Keynote speakers: Fatima Said, Director of Project FINE and Dr. Tania Mitchell of the University of Minnesota

Deep Dive sessions: holistic partnerships, student autonomy, collaborative partnerships and working with international students.

Over 30 full and mini sessions, including:

  *   Reflection

  *   Global competencies

  *   Partnerships

  *   Diversity and inclusion

  *   And much more

View the full program, network with other attendees, and build your own schedule.<http://www.midwestengagementsummit.org/program.html>

Register by the end of April for discounted rates.<http://www.midwestengagementsummit.org/registration.html>

Best,

Emily

--

Emily J. Shields

Executive Director

Iowa Campus Compact

Pappajohn Education Center

1200 Grand Ave., Suite 200

Des Moines, IA 50309

Office (515) 235-4684

Cell (515) 321-6024

Find out more on our web site<http://iacampuscompact.org> Like us on Facebook<http://facebook.com/iacampuscompact>

Follow us on Twitter<http://twitter.com/iacampuscompact>

Iowa Campus Compact's mission is to advance the public purposes of colleges and universities by deepening their ability to improve community life and to educate students for civic and social responsibility.

New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty - Applications due May 15th

[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship]

Dear Community-Engaged Scholarship Colleagues,

NERCHE's 2015 Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty Call for Nominations

Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and the Center for Engaged Democracy (CED) at Merrimack College, the annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a full-time 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. Applications due May 15, 2015.

Read more at https://adpaascu.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/nerches-2015-lynton-award-for-the-scholarship-of-engagement-for-early-career-faculty-call-for-nominations/

Thanks!

Susan Lee

Program Assistant

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Phone: 206-666-3406 | Email: programs@ccph.info

Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

LATEST EDITION OF PARTNERSHIPS AVAILABLE

Read the latest edition of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, North Carolina Campus Compact's peer-reviewed, online journal hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This special edition is devoted to a critical examination of teaching democratic thinking. Volume 6 Number 1 (2015) includes:

ARTICLES

Community Building in the Classroom: Teaching Democratic Thinking through Practicing Democratic Thinking      

-         Danielle Lake (Grand Valley State University)      

What Kind of Community? An Inquiry into Teaching Practices that Move beyond Exclusion         

-         Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), J. F. Humphrey (North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University),, Spoma Jovanovic (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Hollyce "Sherry" Giles (Guilford College), Dan Malotky (Greensboro College), Audrey Campbell (Bennett College)     

From Teaching Democratic Thinking to Developing Democratic Civic Identity      

-         Robert Bringle (Appalachian State University), Patti Clayton (PHC Ventures), Kathryn E. Bringle (Burke Rehabilitation Hospital)          

Bringing Organizations Back In: Perspectives on Service-Learning, Community Partnership and Democratic Thinking in a Voter Engagement Project     

-         Jennifer Jackman and Tiffany Gayle Chenault (Salem State University), Joy Winkler (University of Massachusetts Boston)

Service-Learning and the “Real World” of Classroom Politics      

-         Oren Abeles (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)  

Rooting the Study of Communication Activism in an Attempted Book Ban          

-         Spoma Jovanovic (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Mark Congdon Jr.(University of Maine), Crawford Miller (York Street CrossFit), Garrett Richardson (Young Innovators, Inc.)          

'The Science of Liberty is Not So Simple': Teaching Democratic Thinking in Revolutionary France

-         Adrian O'Connor (University of South Florida St. Petersburg)        

I Am Not Trying to Be Defiant, I Am Trying to Be Your Partner: How to Help Students Navigate Educational Institutions That Do Not Value Democratic Practice        

-         Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University), Maggie Castor (University of British Columbia)

Asking Another Question: Democratic Thinking Inside and Outside the Classroom - A Forthcoming Interview with Elizabeth Minnich and Si Kahn     

-         Stephen Bloch-Schulman (Elon University)

Thanks to NobleHour for sponsoring Partnerships.   

Leslie A. Garvin, MSW
Executive Director
North Carolina Campus Compact
2257 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
(336) 278-7198   Phone
(336) 278-2834  Fax
www.nccampuscompact.org or http://www.elon.edu/nccc
Uniting campuses, empowering students, impacting communities

Intercollegiate Community Engagement Institute of the Inland Northwest

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Dear Colleagues,

The annual Intercollegiate Community Engagement Institute (CEI) of the Inland Northwest will be held on May 21-22 at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.  The institute brings together administrators, faculty, staff and community representatives from the Inland Northwest to discuss community engagement initiatives, share promising practices and discuss the ways in which institutions may become better able to seek solutions to complex challenges facing our region. 

This year’s key note speaker is Barbara Holland, an internationally recognized expert on service-learning and community engagement.  To learn more about the institute or to register click here.

All the best,

Molly Ayers|Director

Office of Community Engagement

Eastern Washington University
115 Showalter Hall ▪ Cheney, WA 99004
[p] 509.359.2792

Call for Chapter Proposals: Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Call for Chapter Proposals: Civic Engagement and Community Service at Research Universities: Engaging Undergraduates for Social Justice, Social Change, and Responsible Citizenship

Proposal Deadline: April 10, 2015

In the Wingspread Declaration on Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University (Boyte & Hollander, 1999), scholars called for American research universities to renew their missions as the agents of democracy and reshape their cultures to better engage students in the work of citizenship. In our edited volume, authors respond to this call by highlighting the ways in which public research universities are undertaking this important work by developing undergraduates’ civic and democratic capacities.

In this volume, authors may address 1) strategies to develop undergraduates’ sense of civic responsibility, engagement in social change, and abilities to work with others across differences; 2) factors predicting undergraduates’ civic and political behaviors; or, 3) outcomes associated with students’ civic and community involvement. We seek chapters that incorporate a variety of data sources to achieve these outcomes.

The editors of this volume are Dr. Krista M. Soria and Dr. Tania D. Mitchell (University of Minnesota). The text will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters should be no more than 6,000 words and full chapters are due July 30, 2015.

Please submit chapter proposals to Krista Soria at ksoria@umn.edu and include the following information:

1. Overview of chapter: Include the proposed title, sources of data, and any other relevant information to set the context.  
2. Preliminary outline: Include an outline of the proposed chapter.
3. References: Provide selected references that you may include in the chapter.  
4. Biography: Provide a short biography for the author(s).

--

Tania D. Mitchell
Assistant Professor
Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (PsTL)
College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)
University of Minnesota
tmitchel@umn.edu

ASEE Community Engagement Division Video Competition

[Announcement from IJSLE-L]

Hello Everyone:

The ASEE Community Engagement Division is hosting a film festival - a video competition - beginning April 19th (please see ced.asee.org).  Our goal is to document how engineering students from across the country are engaging communities.  There will be a $1000 Best Video Award and a $1000 Community Impact Award.

For this effort, it is important that we stay connected in order to:  a)  help market the submitted videos, and b) to facilitate voting and provide updates on the status of the voting results.  We invite you to:

1.  Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/aseeced)

2.  Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ASEECED)

3.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/aseeced1) 

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you!

Thomas Colledge

ASEE Community Engagement Division

Deadline Extended for Connecting Campuses with Communities in Indianapolis May 11-15th

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

The registration deadline for the 7th Annual Connecting Campuses with Communities event has been extended to April 15th. For more information and to get registered, go here (http://csl.iupui.edu/about/conferences/connecting.shtml). 

We are pleased to be welcoming back our distinguished facilitator, Lina Dostilio, Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Teaching and Research at Duquesne University and former board member for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. 

Whether you are attending the Service Learning Institute (May 11th-13th) or the Research Academy (May 13-15th), you will benefit from what past participants have said, which is that the opportunities to network with other scholars with similar interest and having experts who share resources and relevant research is invaluable. 

In addition to spending a significant amount of time in your small groups, you have an opportunity to attend sessions on topics such as:

Service Learning Institute Session Topics

• The Intersection of Community Engagement & Faculty Reward Systems
• Community Partners as Co-Educators
• How Do I Know If My Students Are Learning? Outcomes and Assessment
• Digital Storytelling, a Critical Reflection Strategy
• Preparing Students for Service-Learning

Research Academy Session Topics

• Theoretical Frameworks for Service-Learning Research
• Collaborative Relationship Mapping: Building Networks to Conduct Research
• Assessment, Program Evaluation, and Research: Rigor and Design
• Designing Surveys to Assess Service Learning
• Measuring Community Impact
• Civic Learning Outcomes and Assessment
• Advancing Scholarship on Teaching and Learning, Boyer Scholar Model
• Publication Outlets and Strategies for Engaged Scholars