Don't Miss Your Chance to be Recognized!

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Don’t Miss Your Chance to be Recognized!

Are you or is someone you know doing great service-learning work in the community? Have you completed a project or program that you think is exemplary? Why not get recognized for your work and apply for or nominate someone for one of our awards! The deadline to nominate or apply is Friday, December 4. Awards will be presented on Friday, April 1 at Educate. Ignite. Transform., the 27th Annual National Service-Learning Conference®, hosted by the National Youth Leadership Council in Minneapolis, MN. Learn more about each of the awards below!

Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award

The Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award recognizes those who have equipped young people to lead and serve, both through their direct work with youth and by nurturing other practitioners. Nominations are accepted from the general public, and a committee of leaders from the service-learning field will select the winners.

» Nominate a Practitioner for the Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award

Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award

The Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award recognizes service-learning programs and projects that demonstrate outstanding youth leadership. This award focuses on projects that show a high level of youth initiative in all areas including identifying an authentic need, planning the service, and putting that plan into action. Teams of young people participating in service-learning projects can apply.

» Apply for the Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award

Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award

NYLC's Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award honors exemplary leaders who, by example, have inspired the service-learning field, have had a positive impact on the lives of young people, and have motivated others to take up the banner of service. This award is named for British humanitarian Alec Dickson (1914-94), whose vision, innovation, and commitment has inspired so many individuals to lead lives dedicated to service. His legacy continues to influence young people, teachers, agencies, schools, and communities.

» Apply for the Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award

G. Bernard Gill Urban Service-Learning Leadership Award

This award honors individuals who, by example, have played a leadership role in urban schools, communities, and the lives of young people. Bernard Gill, a beloved NYLC staff member, was a pioneering leader in the urban service-learning movement. He organized the first and successive National Urban Service-Learning Institutes and was passionate about the engagement of African-American males and the impact service-learning could make on their lives.

» Apply for the G. Bernard Gill Urban Service-Learning Leadership Award

Evan Dalgaard Leadership Award

This award recognizes a young person who exemplifies leadership, social justice, and a love for life; all of which Evan Dalgaard stood for. Since 2008, the National Youth Leadership Council has honored the memory of Evan Dalgaard by bestowing this award to a dedicated young champion of service.

» Apply for the Evan Dalgaard Leadership Award

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Jason Stewart

Conference and Events Planner

National Youth Leadership Council
1667 Snelling Avenue North, Suite D300
Saint Paul, MN 55108
PH 651-999-7360
FX 651-631-2955
www.nylc.org

Serve. Learn. Change the world. ®

Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

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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 issue, Volume 6, Number 3 (2015), points to and complicates emergent notions of public participation. This special issue includes articles that illustrate how community-engaged scholarship is increasingly reshaping the way communities and universities and colleges are generating, mobilizing, and evaluating new knowledge.

http://libjournal.uncg.edu/index.php/prt/index

The special issue includes the following contributions:

Introduction to Special Issue 2015

Brandon W. Kliewer (Kansas State University) & Judith Ramaley (Senior Scholar, AAC&U)

Articles:

§  Rust to Green: Praxis as University-Community Placemaking

Paula Horrigan (Cornell University)

§  Towards Productive Disagreement: Deliberative, Democratic Processes in Community Engagement and Service-Learning

Kathryn Ynakura Swacha (Purdue University)

§  Collectivizing our Impact: Engagement Departments and Academic Change

Kevin Kecskes (Portland State University)

§  Governing Academic Civic Engagement: Lessons and Challenges from Four Engaged Campuses

Jennifer Dugan (Randolph College)

Partnerships continues to accept manuscripts on a rolling basis that examine the processes and outcomes of partnerships that define service-learning and civic engagement projects and programs. Visit the Call for Manuscripts to learn more.

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

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Final Reminder: Appalachian Summit 2016 RFP Due November 23

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Hello, 

We are getting close to the deadline for the RFP for Appalachian Summit. The 2016 Appalachian Summit will be held Saturday, February 6, 2016, and RFPs for workshop proposals are due November 23, 2015.  We are determined to make 2016 our best Summit yet. The overarching focus of the Summit is to create tangible outcomes to assist faculty in integrating service-learning into the classroom and initiating greater civic dialogue. The regional focus will broaden civic development and resilience in Appalachia. 

You can learn more about the Appalachian Summit and submit a workshop proposal here.

You can register here.

There is a non-refundable registration fee of $25 for individuals or $120 for groups of five participants. Attendance for students and AmeriCorps VISTAs is free. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. You can reach us through Anya Piotrowski at apiotrowski@cn.edu or on the phone at 865-471-4830.

We hope to see you there!

Summer of Service and Community Leadership Washington, DC - Dec. 10 Deadline

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Dear Service Learning Colleagues,

The early deadline of December 10 for the Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service is fast approaching. This is a program designed for students interested in Community Leadership and Service. Ensure your students qualify for the 5% tuition discount by encouraging them to begin their application today.

I also invite you to nominate top students for special scholarship consideration by visiting www.DCinternships.org/Nominate. We award close to a million dollars annually and preference is given to nominated students.

More information on our programs may be found at www.DCinternships.org/IPVS. Please contact me with any questions. We may be reached at admissions@tfas.org or 202.986.0384. Thank you so much for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Mary Stankus

Director, Recruitment & Admissions

U.S. Programs

How will you make a difference this summer?

The Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service offers you a chance to make an impact this summer. Spend either 4 or 8 weeks taking action while getting a hands-on learning experience in the nation’s capital. Your internship will put you on the front-lines working to solve local and national issues.

This academic internship program equips students with the practical and ethical tools needed to strengthen their leadership and professional skills.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

·         Internship - Competitive placements with local and national nonprofit organizations

·         Classes - Up to 9 credits, accredited by George Mason University

·         Housing - Furnished on-campus housing

·         Leadership & Professional Development - Mentoring and career building activities including seminars, site briefings, and guest lectures

·         Community Involvement - Hands-on service projects, fundraising activities and briefings at local nonprofit facilities

For more information, visit www.DCinternships.org/IPVS.

Questions? Contact Mary Stankus, at admissions@tfas.org or (202) 986-0384.

Release of Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education (Volume 5)

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Missouri Campus Compact is pleased to announce the release of the 2015 volume of The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education. This peer-reviewed journal provides a space for scholarly reflection on engaged teaching, learning, research, and service and adds to the body of work within our field of higher education community engagement.

The journal has been released on the JPSHE website at http://jpshe.missouristate.edu/ (located within the Issues section). The 2016 call for manuscripts and new author guidelines have also been uploaded to the website. Please consider sharing the 2015 volume and 2016 call for manuscripts with your colleagues.

JPSHE provides a venue for higher education faculty and administrative leadership to reflect on the ways that community engagement affects work in higher education – and its outcomes for broad issues such as classroom teaching, the advancement of research and knowledge creation across the disciplines, faculty development, tenure and promotion processes, the preparation of graduate students, etc. The journal welcomes diverse manuscripts, from empirically-based examinations to critical reflection pieces, theoretical investigations, commentaries, case studies, and pedagogical and research designs. All submissions must identify implications for the growth and viability of public scholarship in the academy.

We hope you enjoy this volume of The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, and that you will refer this publication to your colleagues as a possible journal to which they may consider submitting their original work.  Information about submitting manuscripts may be found online at http://jpshe.missouristate.edu/.

Tabitha Underwood 

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Tabitha Underwood, Ph.D.

Executive Director

Missouri Campus Compact

Missouri State University

Reminder December 1 deadline for Special Issue GJCPP on Community Psychology Competencies Intl Colleagues Please Submit

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Call for Contributions to a Special Issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice:

SCRA Community Psychology Practice Competencies Contributions and Controversies: How are the competencies being received and used in the field by practitioners, academics, and students.

In 2012 Dalton and Wolfe published in the TCP the eighteen competencies for community psychology practice that had been developed jointly by the SCRA Council of Educational Programs and the Community Psychology Practice Council with input from the membership at large and the SCRA Executive Committee. The goal of developing and issuing the list of competencies was to stimulate thinking and actions on how these competencies are critical to the practice and teaching of community psychology.

In 2013 Wolfe, Chien Scott, and Jimenez published a special issue of the GJCPP (vol 4, Issue 4 2013) on Global Perspectives on the competencies particularly in relation to the conceptualization and enactment of education programs in Western Australia, Italy, Egypt, and the United States

Now almost three years later we see frequent references to the competencies by many in the field. We also hear of the use of the competencies , by students seeking employment, by universities in examining and mapping their curricula, by university internships in defining what they learn and by employers, and others. The controversies surrounding the competencies have not disappeared. International partners raise questions about the appropriateness of these competencies around the globe (even though they were developed for a US audience), the issue of whether competencies lead to accreditation has not disappeared, the need for academic community psychology competencies is now being explored, etc.

This special issue welcomes all who have used the 18 Community Psychology Competencies in any aspect of their work or thinking over the last three years to submit short or long pieces for consideration. Students, faculty, practitioners in the US and abroad are encouraged to submit.

We are especially interested in parallel efforts around the globe and global reaction to this American version of practice competencies.

Editors for this special issue are Tom Wolff, Greg Meissen, and Vince Francisco (focusing on International aspects)

Deadlines:  December 1, 2015 to submit ideas for a contribution

                      June 1, 2016 to submit the article

Address all correspondence to Tom Wolff tom@tomwolff.com

Release of Michigan Journal V 22 N 1 with 2 Special Sections

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Announcing

Volume 22, Number 1 (Fall 2015)

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

Since 1994, The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) has been the premier national, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues related to academic (curriculum-based) service- learning and community-engaged scholarship in higher education. The Michigan Journal, published by the University of Michigan’s Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, contributes to advancing our work.

I am VERY PLEASED to announce that the Fall Issue (Volume 22 Number 1), which is about to be released, contains TWO SPECIAL SECTIONS: one on GLOBAL SERVICE-LEARNING and one on the SERVICE-LEARNING/COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FUTURE DIRECTIONS PROJECT. See the Table of Contents below for more about these two Special Sections.

The yearly subscription rate for Volume 22, which includes both the Fall and Spring issues (released respectively in November 2015 and April 2016), is $30 (individual) and $40 (institutional). Shipping is included in the price except for Canada ($5) and International addresses ($20).

Volume 22 Number 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS:

·         Service-Learning and White Normativity: Racial Representation in Service-Learning’s Historical Narrative (Melissa Bocci)

·         A Case for Community: Starting with Relationships and Prioritizing Community as Method in Service-Learning (Keith Morton and Samantha Bergbauer)

·         Decoding Ourselves: An Inquiry into Faculty Learning About Reciprocity in Service-Learning (Janice Miller-Young, Yasmin Dean, Melanie Rathburn, Jennifer Pettit, Margot Underwood, Judy Gleeson, Roberta Lexier, Victoria Calvert and Patti Clayton)

SPECIAL SECTION: GLOBAL SERVICE-LEARNING
GUEST CO-EDITORS: RICHARD KIELY AND ERIC HARTMAN

·         Reflexivity in Research: Reflecting on the Borders and Boundaries of the GSL Field (Richard Kiely and Eric Hartman)

·         How the I Shapes the Eye: The Imperative of Reflexivity in Global Service-Learning
Qualitative Research (Emily Morrison)

·         Crossing Boundaries: Tension and Transformation in International Service-Learning, Patrick M. Green and Mathew Johnson, Editors
(Reviewed by Nora Pillard Reynolds)

·         Working Side by Side: Creating Alternative Breaks as Catalysts for Global Learning, Student Leadership, and Social Change, by Shoshanna Sumka, Melody C. Porter, and Jill Piacitelli
(Reviewed by Cynthia Toms)

SPECIAL SECTION: THE SLCE FUTURE DIRECTIONS PROJECT
GUEST CO-EDITORS: PATTI CLAYTON, SARAH STANLICK AND EDWARD ZLOTKOWSKI

·         Introduction: Special Section on The SLCE Future Directions Project (Sarah Stanlick and Patti H. Clayton)

·         Twenty Years and Counting: A Framing Essay (Edward Zlotkowski)

·         Double Consciousness and the Future of Service-Learning (Gabrielle Hickmon)

·         The Future of Service-Learning and Community Engagement: Asset-Based Approaches
and Student Learning in First-Year Courses (Tamara Bauer, Lori E. Kniffin and Kerry L. Priest)

·         Deepening Service Abroad: A Call for Reciprocal Partnerships and Ongoing Support (Kathryn Pisco)

·         A Strategy for Community-Driven Service-Learning and Community Engagement:
Fair Trade Learning (Eric Hartman)

·         Engaging Place as Partner (Cheryl K. Siemers, Barbara Harrison, Patti H. Clayton and Talmage A. Stanley)

·         Democratic Relationships in Service-Learning: Moving Beyond Traditional Faculty,
Student, and Community Partner Roles (Travis Hicks, Liz Seymour and Allison Puppo)

·         Critically-Reflective Civically-Engaged Academics Shaping the Future of an
Academy Striving for Social Justice (Brian Ó Donnchadha)

·         Community Engagement Professionals in the Circle of Service-Learning and the Greater Civic Enterprise (Lina D. Dostilio and Mandi McReynolds)

·         Getting “Real” about Transformation: The Role of Brave Spaces in Creating Disorientation and Transformation (Sarah Stanlick)

·         Transforming Higher Education Through and For Democratic Civic Engagement: A Model for Change (John Saltmarsh, Emily M. Janke and Patti H. Clayton)

·         A Call for a National Strategic Plan (Jeffrey Howard and Sarah Stanlick)

BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

·         Longing For Justice: Higher Education and Democracy’s Agenda, by Jennifer S. Simpson
(Reviewed by Arthur S. Keene)

·         Engaging in Social Partnerships: Democratic Practices for Campus-Community Partnerships, by Novella Zell Keith
(Reviewed by Barbara Jacoby)

·         Feminist Community Engagement: Achieving Praxis, Edited by Susan Van Deventer Iverson and Jennifer Hauver James
(Reviewed by Johanna Phelps-Hillen)

To learn more and place an order:   ORDER ONLINE

Thank you for your support of the Michigan Journal.

Jeffrey Howard

Editor

michigan journal of community service learning

ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/

Call for papers for Special Edition of Journal of Community Practice

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Call for Papers

Special Issue, “Community Practice in an Increasingly Diverse Society:

Essays in Memory of Dr. Felix Rivera”

Co-Editors, Lorraine Gutiérrez & Michael Reisch

Two decades ago, Felix Rivera and John Erlich published three editions of their groundbreaking

book, Community Organizing in a Diverse Society. Written from a social change perspective,

each chapter focused on a specific community (e.g., African Americans, Chicanos, Filipino-

Americans, Women of Color) and applied relevant theories and community practice methods to

these communities. The book also covered such issues as the differential impact of the U.S.

child welfare system, the consequences of welfare reform, the effects of HIV/AIDs, the needs of

immigrants and refugees, and discussed the moral, ethical, and practical dilemmas inherent in

organizing with communities of color. In memory of the late Felix Rivera, the Journal of

Community Practice will publish a special issue in early 2017 that commemorates the

anniversary of the book’s publication and reflects on contemporary community practice in the

increasingly diverse environment of the United States.

Possible topics include:

• The evolving meaning of diversity in U.S. society and its impact on community practice;

• Newer theoretical perspectives or conceptual frameworks on community practice with

and on behalf of diverse populations;

• The relationship between community practice with diverse populations and social justice;

• New ethical, moral, and political dilemmas in community practice;

• The implications of contemporary social movements (e.g., “Black Lives Matter”,

marriage equality, immigration reform) for community practice;

• The impact of new and re-emerging issues – climate change, environmental justice,

health care reform, terrorism, racial profiling – on community practice with diverse

populations;

• Community practice in an increasingly interdependent world;

• Community practice across identity boundaries – coalitions, collaborations, conflicts;

• Case studies of effective community practice with diverse populations.

Contributions can include:

• Full-length articles (up to 25 pages) following the journal’s regular format;

• Comparative book review essays;

• From the Field - Notes from practice.

Manuscripts should be submitted online by May 15, 2016 and labeled FOR SPECIAL ISSUE for

consideration by the special issue editors. Submission is via

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcom. Manuscripts may be approximately 25 typed pages

double-spaced (including the abstract, references, tables and figures). Please contact Lorraine

Gutierrez (lorraing@umich.edu) with any questions about this special issue.

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Melissa Strompolis, PhD

Public Policy Committee, SCRA

Divisions for Social Justice, APA

123 Top Forest Drive | Columbia | SC | 29209

phone: 704-281-7675 | mstrompolis@gmail.com

Job Announcement: Louisiana State University

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Hello colleagues,

I’m excited to share that Louisiana State University is hiring a full-time coordinator in our office of Campus Life.  The position serves in Campus Life between the Activities and Volunteerism/Service areas. This individual is responsible for several large scale events for the University, advising Campus Life student organizations (and/or components of), and working within the activities and volunteerism/service areas to plan, implement, and evaluate programs and initiatives.

The position is open until filled with review beginning November 10.

For a full position description and to apply visit the LSU HRM web site:  lsusystemcareers.lsu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=59909.

Thank you!

Josh Dean
Assistant Director
Campus Life
Louisiana State University
350 LSU Student Union, Baton Rouge, LA  70803
office 225-578-5160 | fax 225-578-9311
jdean15@lsu.edu | lsu.edu | www.lsu.edu/campuslife

Job Announcement: Coordinator for Social Justice Education and Service Learning at UA

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Hi all,

Please see the position announcement below. Please note that the priority review date is November 4th, 2015.

Kindly,

Megan Forecki

Coordinator, Student Governance and Programs

The University of Arizona

Phone: 520-621-4508

Find volunteer opportunities at: arizona.volunteermatch.org

Facebook.com/volunteeruarizona

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Coordinator of Social Justice Education and Service Learning

The University of Arizona

We are currently recruiting for the Coordinator of Social Justice Education and Service Learning.  This position is housed in Residence Life and reports to the Associate Director of Residential Education.  It is a live off position focused on expanding Residence Life’s social justice and service learning goals.  The person in this position will be responsible for social justice training for both staff and students, advising a student advocacy group, and more.  They will also have the opportunity to develop all aspects of the new service learning program.  You can read more about the position here: http://uacareers.com/postings/6111 or by searching for job posting A20366 at www.UAcareers.com.  The priority review date is November 4^th .