IARSLCE Conference Scholarship Funds and news

 [Announcement from IARSLCE]

May 28, 2015 www.researchslce.org Conference Scholarships Available Planning for the 2015 conference in Boston is underway and conference registration opens tomorrow, on May 29, 2015.  IARSLCE recognizes that attending a conference may be a financial hardship for some of our members.  As such, IARSLCE will provide need-based scholarships of $200 towards the cost of registration for up to 12 individuals in each of the following primary membership categories, for a total of up to 48 scholarships. These scholarships will be given on a first come-first served basis. 1. Non-US based conference attendees 2. Students (Note: These scholarships are completely separate from our longstanding student scholarship awards.  Applications for student scholarships are currently being accepted. Details here: www.researchslce.org/awards-nominations.)  3. Community Partner agency representatives 4. Scholar-practitioners/adjunct faculty without institutional support PLEASE NOTE: We encourage members who have institutional financial support or do not have to fly to this year's conference not to request a scholarship.  Members can apply for funding from no more than one of these four categories Though students may apply for funding support from category 2 above and from the longstanding Student Scholarships.  To take advantage of these scholarships, register as usual and use the following codes.  The code will be available to the first 12 registrants using each code. Scholarship Category CODE Non-US bases attendees INTERNATIONAL Student STUDENT Community Partner agency representatives COMMPART Scholar-practitioners/adjunct faculty without institutional support SCHOLPRACT Please contact us with questions. Help Us Recognize Your Outstanding Work Have you checked out the 2015 call for nominations for IARSLCE's "Recognitions of Exemplary Contribution through Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement"? We've made some changes to better recognize the amazing work YOU and your colleagues do. For your guide on the expanded IARSCLE recognition categories, visit http://www.researchslce.org/awards-nominations. Our "Recognition of Exemplary Contribution through Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement" is categorized into four types: The Distinguished Career Recognition acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through a body of work that has broad and deep impact on service-learning and community engagement--including the study of it, the practice of it, and the cultures and systems within which it is undertaken. The Early Career Recognition acknowledges and celebrates intellectual leadership through an emerging body of work that has begun to demonstrate broad and deep impact on service-learning and community engagement -- including the study of it, the practice of it, and the cultures and/or systems within which it is undertaken. The Dissertation Recognition acknowledges and celebrates a dissertation that advances research on service-learning and community engagement through rigorous and innovative inquiry and has the potential for impact -- including on the study of it, the practice of it, and/or the cultures and systems within which it is undertaken. NEW THIS YEAR! The Community-Engaged Research Team Recognition acknowledges and celebrates the scholarly contributions of teams, in which community members are co-researchers with scholars in educational institutions, that both (a) demonstrate the potential for impact on service-learning and community engagement -- including on the study of it, the practice of it, and/or the cultures and systems within which it is undertaken -- and (b) model a high standard of reciprocity in the inquiry process and in the implementation of the partnership. Ten $500 Graduate Student Scholarships are provided by the Association to support graduate student participation in the 2015 IARSLCE Conference in Boston, MA. Scholarship recipients fall into two categories: (a) early graduate students and (b) advanced graduate students. A total of ten scholarships will be awarded across the two categories. Within each category, at least one scholarship will be awarded to an international graduate student based outside the US. Nominations for 2015 recognitions and applications for graduate student scholarships are due by June 12th and should be submitted electronically to info@researchslce.org; self-nominations are welcome. All nominees and scholarship applicants will be notified of their status in July. Nominees for recognitions will be invited to share a poster, and recognition recipients will facilitate an interactive session on their work at the annual conference (November 16 - 18, 2015, in Boston, MA, USA). For details about the conference, please visit http://www.researchslce.org/conferences/.   Special Thanks! IARSLCE would like to thank Jeffrey Howard, Eric Hartman and Richard Kiely for leading the first two webinars in the IARSLCE Advancing Research Webinar Series. The sessions were excellent! Special thanks to all of the conference reviewers and the following Section Chairs for their hard work in helping shape this year's conference. Jeffrey Anderson Glenn Bowen Patti Clayton Diane Doberneck Tim Eatman Celeste Fraser-Delgado Andy Furco Patrick Green Eric Hartman Julie Hatcher Valerie Hill-Jackson Emily Janke Kevin Kecskes Eric Kiely Abby Kiesa Alan Melchior Barbara Moely Katrina Norvell Laurie Ross Elaine Ward