IARSLCE News

December 9, 2015 Meet the new IARSLCE logo! Notice anything different up there? We have retired the IARSLCE tree and we have a new look! Thanks to the IARSLCE Membership and Communications Committee, particularly Abby Kiesa and Lane Perry, for all of their efforts in getting the new logo developed. The 2016 Conference Program Committee wants to hear from you! IARSLCE relies on members to shape programming and asks you to please join 2016 Conference Program Chair Elaine Ward on Wednesday, December 16 at 12 Noon CT to provide input for the 2016 conference. To reserve your spot in the meeting, please click here. IARSLCE Hears.... The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is now seeking articles for volume 23 (fall 2016, spring 2017). The first step in the submission process is to send an abstract or précis to Jeff Howard (jphoward@umich.edu) by December 20th that is no more than a page in length. Invitations to submit an article will be made by email no later than mid-January, with invited articles due the last Monday in March (3.28.16). The MJCSL is a national, peer-reviewed journal with faculty and administrator subscribers all over the world, and publishes articles on: research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues pertinent to curriculum-based service-learning, campus-community partnerships,  scholarship of engagement, and   scholarship on engagement. Please consult submission guidelines for more information and to review the kinds of articles we have published in the past. If you have any questions after reviewing the submission guidelines, please email Jeff Howard. Also, please note that the Michigan Journal will be disseminating a call for abstracts on graduate education and service-learning/community-engaged scholarship in a week, the abstract for which will be due January 1, invitations extended by early February, and articles due April 15. This special section will appear in the fall 2016 issue.