Learning in Community Showcase--December 9, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Illini Union 2nd floor Ballroom

If you're on the University of Illinois campus on Monday night (December 9), please join us for the Learning in Community Showcase!

Hope to see some of you there.  Cheers, Valeri

Ph.D. program in Civil Society & Community Research at UW–Madison

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Dear SCRA members,

We are currently accepting applications for the Ph.D. program in Civil Society & Community Research (CSCR) in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The philosophy of the School of Human Ecology is that human development and well-being are promoted through the interactions between people and the ecological settings (organizations, social networks, communities) of which they are a part.

The CSCR program offers opportunities to conduct research in community settings, often in collaboration with community organizations or coalitions, and to become participant-scholars in change processes. Current students are involved in action research projects related to promoting positive youth development, civic engagement, health equity, primary prevention, youth-adult partnership, community organizing, and systems change. The CSCR program supports students to build expertise in mixed-methods research design that draws on theory from multiple disciplines. The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a dynamic research environment with leading graduate programs across the social sciences. It is also the state's land grant institution, and our faculty and students often conduct work in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin–Extension, offering additional opportunities for community-based research and outreach.

We are able to provide financial support for graduate studies through research and teaching assistantships that provide tuition remission and a stipend.

Applications must be received by: January 3rd, 2014 For additional information, please visit: http://www.sohe.wisc.edu/is/is-graduate-overview-of-degrees.htm

For questions related to the application process, please contact Liv Lindenberg [llindenberg@wisc.edu] For questions about the program, please feel free to contact me or other Human Ecology faculty.

Brian D. Christens

Assistant Professor, School of Human Ecology University of Wisconsin–Madison bchristens@wisc.edu

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. Volume 4 Number 2 (2013) includes:

• Invited articles from Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Judith Ramaley, and Dr. William Muse;
• Submitted articles from Dr. Alexa N Darby, Dr. Frances Ward-Johnson, Gabrielle Newman, Margot Haglund and Tammy Cobb of Elon University and Dr. Julie Shackford-Bradley of the University of California at Berkeley; and
• Book Reviews from Dr. Susan Stinson and Dr. Cathy Hamilton of UNC Greensboro.

Call for Submissions: Partnerships 2015 Special Issue

The editorial staff of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement announces a special issue to be published in 2015 with guest editors Brandon W. Kliewer at Florida Gulf Coast University and Judith Ramaley, President Emerita, Portland and Winona State Universities. Please read in Volume 4, Issue 2, the complete call  for Reconsidering spaces of participation and democratic engagement: The public life of higher education reconsidered. We look forward to your interest, questions, and submissions. Abstracts due: March 15, 2014 Final drafts due: October 30, 2014 Expected publication date: Summer 2015

New issue of Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning!

[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship]

Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,

The Fall Issue (Volume 20 Number 1) of The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is about to be released. Volume 20 Number 1 includes the following articles:

  *  Community as Teacher Model: Health Profession Students Learn Cultural

     Safety from an Aboriginal Community (Cathy Cline, William Godolphin,

     Gagun Chhina, and Angela Towle)

  *  The Relationship between Service-Learning and Degree Completion (Kelly

     Lockeman and Lynn Pelco)

  *  Act Local or Global?: Comparing Student Experiences in Domestic and

     International Service-Learning Programs (Elizabeth Niehaus and Lena

     Kavaliauskas Crain)

  *  Do University Communications About Campus-Community Partnerships Reflect

     Core Engagement Principles? (Christy Kayser Arrazattee, Marybeth Lima,

     and Lisa Lunday)

  *  Book Review Essays, including one by Dwight Giles, University of

     Massachusetts Boston and and Janet Eyler, Vanderbilt University, as well

     as one by Darcy Lear, University of Chicago.

The yearly subscription rate for Volume 20, which includes both the Fall and Spring issues (released respectively in November, 2013 and April, 2014), is $29.00. Shipping is included in the price except for Canada ($5) and International addresses ($20).

For more information, visit ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions.

Join us at CCPH’s 13th International Conference: From Rhetoric to Reality:

Achieving Authentic, Equitable & Transformative Partnerships, April 30 - May 3, 2014, Chicago, IL https://ccph.memberclicks.net/conference-overview

Become a CCPH member and access resources to support genuine community-academic partnerships!

https://ccph.memberclicks.net/join-or-renew

Stay on top of the latest CCPH news through Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter!

http://www.ccph.info

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New Issue Published--Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

[Announcement from ijcre listserv]

Readers:

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement has just published its latest issue at http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Margaret Malone Managing Editor, Gateways Margaret.Malone@uts.edu.au

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Vol 6 (2013) Table of Contents

http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/issue/view/286

Research articles (Refereed)

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Levels and networks in community partnerships: A framework informed by our overseas partners (1–21)

              

Community-based research decision-making: Experiences and factors affecting participation (22–37)

              

Choice, power and perspective: The neglected question of who initiates engaged campus-community partnerships (38–56)

             

Building equitable community-academic research collaborations: Learning together through tensions and contradictions (57–76)

               

Every teacher is a language teacher: Preparing teacher candidates for English language learners through service-learning (77–92)

            

A robust University-NGO partnership: Analysing school efficiencies in Bolivia with community-based management techniques (93–112)

          

Community–University Partnerships: Using Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR) (113–30)

       

Needs and readiness assessments: Tools for promoting community-university engagement with Aboriginal communities (131–49)

          

Practice-based articles (Non-refereed)

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Successes, challenges and lessons learned: Community-engaged research with South Carolina's Gullah population (150–69)

             

Community monitoring: A strategy to watch out for (170–77)

              

Knowledge Transfer in Asia

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A Hong Kong University first: Establishing service-learning as an academic credit-bearing subject (178–98)

           

All my friends are here: Four initial case studies on student design agencies (199–217)

         

In Light of Visual Arts –  A knowledge transfer partnership project as experiential learning (218–27)

               

Reviews

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Community-university research partnerships by P Hall and I MacPherson (eds) (228–30)

              

Higher education and civic engagement by L McIlrath, A Lyons & R Munck (231–32)

             

Transforming cities and minds through the scholarship of engagement by L Hoyt (233–35)

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Paul Ashton, Marilyn Krogh, Margaret Malone, Phil Nyden and Pauline O'Loughlin Editorial Committee Gateways

Civic Engagement Virtual Think Tanks

[Announcement from Comm-engagedscholarship]

Join the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) for two Virtual Think Tanks on Civic Engagement.  NERCHE’s Virtual Think Tanks are webinars, or virtual discussions, designed to engage higher education practitioners in the exploration of collaborative change processes which address social justice in a diverse democracy.

On November 13th, 12:00-1:30 PM (Eastern), Caryn McTighe Musil (AAC&U) will be drawing on the national report,  A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future, to discuss civic learning outcomes.  Michael Bernstein (Tulane University) will be speaking on December 18th, 12:00-1:30 PM (Eastern) about how colleges and universities can integrate faculty engagement in academic-review processes.

For more information, and to register, please visit NERCHE at our website.

Thanks!
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Kristal Enter

Resource Assistant and Conference Coordinator

New England Resource Center for Higher Education

UMass Boston

100 Morrissey Blvd.

Boston, MA 02125

617-287-7670

Call for Papers - Organization Theory in Community Contexts Special Issue in the Journal of Community Psychology

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Call for Papers

Organization Theory in Community Contexts

Proposals due by December 30, 2013

A special issue of the Journal of Community Psychology
Guest editor:   Neil Boyd, Bucknell University

In recent years, scholars have fostered an increased level of attention to the intersection of organization studies and community psychology.  A number of events have marked a renewed interest in the intersection including special issues, conference symposia and presentations, and single article publications. 

A recent meta-analysis of the organization studies literature in community psychology demonstrated that the number of studies increased which were located in organizational settings and those which utilized organizational constructs.   However, there remains an opportunity to apply organization theory in community contexts.  

Therefore, this special issue aims to advance the literature on organization theory in community psychology and in community contexts.   Proposals (up to 750 words) for manuscripts are invited which address the aim.

Community psychologists study the reciprocal relationships between individuals and the social system which constitute community contexts.   Community contexts include neighborhoods, towns, regions, self-organizing groups, grass-roots organizations, institutional systems (healthcare, education, corrections, welfare, etc…), community organizations, human service organizations, non-profits, public agencies, NGOs, and many others.   In addition, community psychologists seek to understand the quality of life of individuals, communities, organizations, and society. Their aim is to enhance quality of life through collaborative research and action.

The special issue is open to Organization Theory at all levels (Multi-level, Macro, Mid-Level, and Micro Organization Theories).  

Multi-level theory is applicable given the fact that many community psychologists orient toward ecological systems-like thinking, and believe that solutions to social problems are rooted at various levels of analysis, and in different parts of a system.

Macro-level theory is specifically applicable to large institutions and organizations in explaining a variety of organizational or community context outcomes.

Mid-level theory is useful in helping community psychologists understand group-level phenomena in community and organizational contexts and functional unit approaches in organizational settings. 

Micro-level theory can be helpful in understanding particular individual behaviors within community settings.

Manuscripts may be conceptual, empirical studies, or praxis-oriented pieces, but all must hold promise for linking organization theory to community psychology. Thus, proposals should include a description of how the manuscript makes these links.

Submission process: Authors should submit proposals (up to 750 words) by email to the Guest Editor of the Special Issue no later than December 30, 2013.  The Guest Editor will review the proposals and invite authors within 4 weeks to submit a full manuscript, subject to peer review and consistent with JoCP guidelines for reviewers. All submissions should be in English and proposals should state the type of article proposed as described in the JoCP Instructions for Authors available on the Journal website (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6629/homepage/ForAuthors.html).

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is June 30, 2014. Initial acceptance and Online publication is anticipated as early as Fall 2014/Spring 2015. Send proposal submissions or inquiries to the Guest Editor: Neil Boyd at Neil.Boyd@Bucknell.edu.

Please share this call for proposals with interested colleagues.

Thanks,

Neil

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Neil Boyd, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Management

C. Graydon and Mary E. Rogers Faculty Fellow

School of Management

Bucknell University

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837

Job Posting: Asst. Director of Community Engaged Learning

[Announcement from he-sl]

Hello all,

Please share the below information regarding a position opening here at the University of Dayton.  The main responsibility for this position is running our Semester of Service Program, which is a Bonner/AmeriCorps program.  

APPLICATIONS DUE OCTOBER 31st.

Position Opening in the University of Dayton's Fitz Center for Leadership in Community:  Assistant Director of Community Engaged Learning

The University of Dayton's Fitz Center for Leadership in Community seeks an Assistant Director of Community Engaged Learning to support and advance the Center's mission of educating leaders to build community and providing opportunities to connect learning, scholarship, and civic engagement.   

The assistant director's primary responsibility is the management of the Semester of Service program, an experiential and servicelearning internship opportunity for students with placement in community partner agencies.  Students in this program have the opportunity to build capacity for community partners, build relationships with the city of Dayton, explore career and vocational possibilities, develop perspectives on social justice, and be exposed to enrichment experiences designed to promote personal leadership development and an expanded worldview.

 Other responsibilities include assisting with

1.      Support, design, and/or implementation of other community engaged learning initiatives, including student internships, student leadership development programs, student civic engagement projects, and community partner initiatives.

2.      Sustaining reciprocal partnerships for community engagement.

3.      Operations and communication for the community engaged learning unit, as assigned by Director of the unit.  

This is a full-time, 12-month professional staff position.  Online application, resume, cover letter, and list of references are due October 31^st. 

Posting:   http://jobs.udayton.edu/postings/10416

Thanks,

Kelly Bohrer 

Director, Community Engaged Learning

Fitz Center for Leadership in Community

University of Dayton

Zehler Hall 205

Email:  kbohrer1@udayton.edu

Phone:  (937)229-4642

website: http://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/fitzcenter/

Call for proposals: Academic Libraries & Service-Learning

[Announcement from he-sl]

Call for proposals

Join us for Extending Our Reach: The Inaugural Colloquium on Academic Libraries & Service Learning. The colloquium invites all who are interested in current and potential partnerships between academic librarians, faculty who teach service learning courses and service learning partners. The conference is designed to facilitate the sharing of research, ideas, perspectives and best practices in library engagement with/in academic service learning.  The colloquium will feature a keynote speaker, 30-minute presentations, round table discussions, and poster sessions. The conference will be limited to 75 attendees to facilitate opportunities to network and connect with colleagues in this emerging focus area of librarianship. The deadline for submissions is January 31.

Full call for proposals: http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/libraries-and-service-learning/

Maureen Barry

First Year Experience Librarian

Wright State University

3640 Colonel Glenn Highway

228 Dunbar Library

Dayton, OH 45435

(937)775-3515

Follow me on Service Learning Librarian http://www.libraries.wright.edu/servicelearning

Call for Proposals: SCRA Program at MPA 2014

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Dear SCRA,

Below (and attached) please find the call for proposals for the SCRA program at the 2014 Midwestern Psychology Association conference in Chicago, IL May 1-3.

Please distribute widely to interested colleagues and students.

Please note the deadline for submission is October 31^st, 2013.  You may direct inquiries to Luciano Berardi by emailing, mpa.scra.2014@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Luciano Berardi

SCRA Midwestern Regional Coordinator

  

The 2014 Annual Meeting of

The Midwestern Psychological Association

Division 27: Society for Community Research and Action

Chicago, IL

May 1-3, 2014

Call for Proposals

The Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27) encourages proposals for poster presentations, symposia, and roundtable discussions that will facilitate the exchange of innovative ideas and promote constructive dialogue on topics involving community research and action. Program proposals that emphasize active interaction among presenters, the audience, and community members and that include presenters from different university and community settings are especially encouraged. Proposals by undergraduate and graduate students also are encouraged.

We welcome submissions that involve any area of community research and action, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Contributions to the theory, methods, or practice of community research and action

• Program development, implementation, dissemination and evaluation

• Innovations in or reflections on training in community psychology and allied disciplines

• Examples of interdisciplinary and community collaborations

• Translation of research on community practice to social action

Program Formats

• Poster Presentations can include results from individual research papers, descriptions of community-based programs, results from program evaluations, or other community based projects.

• Symposia offer a forum for discussion and debate of diverse perspectives as they pertain to significant issues in the field. Symposia should include 3 to 4 presentations organized around a common theme, issue or set of questions. Symposia should allow significant time for discussion and audience participation. Inclusion of community members is welcomed but not required.

• Roundtable Discussions provide a more interactive and less formal forum for dialogue. This format is appropriate for sessions that involve active discussion among panel members and audience members, and sessions in which the presenters' role is to facilitate audience exploration of an issue.

 

  

Student Poster Awards

Three monetary poster awards will be given to the top student posters. Top posters will be identified by a panel of judges at the conference based on strength of methodology, relevance to community psychology, and visual presentation of the information on the poster. Please see instructions for authors (below) if you would like your poster to be considered for the student poster award. 

Instructions for Preparing Program Submissions

Proposals should be submitted by email by October 31, 2013.

Please send submissions to:

mpa.scra.2014@gmail.com

Submissions must be sent via a single attached document (preferably in PDF).  You may direct inquiries to Luciano Berardi by emailing at: mpa.scra.2014@gmail.com.

The following information must be included in each proposal:

Authors: on a separate page, list names, affiliations, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for each author in the order of authorship. It is expected that the first author will be the primary presenter. For symposia and roundtables, please also indicate session organizer(s).

Format: poster, symposium, or roundtable. Students submitting posters as first authors and who are interested in being considered for a student poster award should indicate interest here by typing: Poster (student poster award)

Title: limited to 10 words

Abstract: limited to 200 words for overview of posters, symposia and roundtable discussions. Symposia proposals and roundtable discussion proposals should include descriptions of each author’s contributions.

Authors will be notified by email regarding acceptance by January 25, 2014.

For more information about the MPA conference (e.g., lodging, fees, eligibility) please visit the MPA website at:  http://midwesternpsych.org. 

Thank you and see you in Chicago!

Luciano Berardi, Ph.D.

DePaul University

Department of Psychology

Chicago, IL 60614