Join the Engagement Scholarship Consortium in its pre-conference workshop for Ph.D. students, Extension and academic staff, and early career faculty members with an interest in community-engaged research or practitioner. This workshop will help participants enhance their practice and knowledge of community-engaged scholarship. The workshop will take place on Monday, October 7 and Tuesday, October 8, 2024, immediately before the Engagement Scholarship Consortium conference in Portland, OR. The theme of this year's conference is "Pathways to Prosperity: Building Sustainable Futures through Community Engagement". The deadline for applications is April 8, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
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Funding Opportunity: Engagement Scholarship Consortium Engaged Scholarship Research/Creative Activities Grants
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium has created grants to help facilitate mutually beneficial community engagement. The funding can be allocated to projects across disciplines within a university as well as used for faculty, graduate, undergraduate, community partner, and administrative stipends; supplies and expenses; and/or project-related travel. The deadline to apply is May 3, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
Save the Date: The 24th Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities Summer Institute
Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities will be hosting its Summer Institute on August 1-4, 2024. The institute will include presentations, keynote speakers, and round table talks. There will be live and recorded presentations. Registration will open in May and a call for proposals will be posted in April.
Register Now: International Journal of Research on Service-Learning& Community Engagement Panel on Demystifying the Submission and Review Process
Join the editors of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning& Community Engagement and members of the IARSLCE Scholarship & Publications committee in a conversation about the manuscript submission and review process. This panel will take place on April 17, 2024, at 12:00 pm. Click here to learn more and register.
Register Now: International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement 2024 Conference
Early bird registration has begun for the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement 2024 Conference on October 2-4, 2024 at the University of San Diego in California. This year's theme is "Intersections", where the conference will discuss the intersections between these local, national and global issues, practices, backgrounds, and lived experiences. Click here to learn more and register.
Register Now: Community Engagement Alliance Consultive Research Speaker Series: Community-Centered Research Design
Join the Community Engagement Alliance in a webinar about community-centered research design. This webinar will explore strategies for engaging in research with community organizations. The webinar will take place on April 19, 2024, at 1:00 pm. Click here to learn more and register.
Register Now: Credo + AAC&U Leadership Institutes for Women and Gender-Diverse Leaders
Registration is now open for the Credo + AAC&U Leadership Institutes for Women and Gender-Diverse Leaders. The institute's theme is “Leading with Hope,”. The institute will include a mix of panel discussions, attendee-presented sessions, time with industry experts, and space for leader-to-leader conversation and reflection. It will be held November – Click here to learn more and register.
Apply Now: The Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop
The deadline for the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop has been extended until April 8, 2024. The workshop hosts Ph.D students, post-docs, Extension professionals, academic staff, and early career professionals with interests in community-engaged research and/or scholarship of engagement. At the workshop attendees will learn through panels, group discussions, and more. The workshop will be held on October 7-8, 2024 in Portland, OR. Click here to learn more and apply.
Good Reads: Alignment of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging with Community and Civic Engagement Functions in Higher Education
Take a look at this report from Castel Sweet that "offers an environmental scan of Campus Compact members and the broader higher education community around the alignment and structural integration of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging with community and civic engagement functions on campuses". This report was published by Campus Compact. Click here to read.
Register Now: Anti-Racist Community Engagement Workshop Series
Campus Compact is hosting a series with the editors and writers of Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices. In this series they will be discussing how university communities implement anti-racist practices. Click here to learn more and register.
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April 18 - Doing the Work: Making Space for Undergraduate Students to Participate in Anti-Racist Community Engagement
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May 16 - Anti-Racist Community Engagement Principle 4 Workshop: Compassionate and Reflective Classrooms On and Off Campus
Sign Up Now: Campus Compact Cultural Competency Training Continuing the conversation
Campus Compact’s 2023-2024 Intercultural Development Fellow, Lissa Schwander is gathering information about Intercultural Development work on campuses. Campus Compact is looking for community engagement practitioners to give feedback and information about the resources and tactics used to prepare students, faculty, staff, and community partners for participation in community/civic engagement. Click here share your experiences and learn more.
Register Now: National Partnership for Educational Access Annual Conference
Join the National Partnership for Educational Access for their fifteenth annual conference. This year the conference will focus on strategies and ideas for reimagining, restoring, and rebuilding work in educational access, college and career success, and equity and justice for students. The conference will have keynote speakers, Dr. Sonya Douglass, Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, and GW's Dr. Dwayne Kwaysee Wright. There will also be more than thirty-five workshops and opportunities to network. The conference will take place on April 17-19, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland. Click here to learn more and register.
Call for Proposals: Collaboration for a Better World: Global Learning, Hope, and Justice
The 7th Community-Based Global Learning Summit will be hosted this November from the 8th-10th at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. The topic is "Collaboration for a Better World: Global Learning, Hope, and Justice". The summit's sub themes are "The work and challenge of supporting transformative, ethical community-based global learning through student engagement and outcomes", "Best practices, program models, and ethical approaches for global community-based global learning and community-campus partnerships", and "Impact of community-based global learning and engagement on larger systems (e.g. epistemic justice, civic engagement, inequality, climate justice, educational systems, etc.)". Click here for the full call for proposals. Proposals are due March 29th, 2024.
Apply Now: Knowledge in Action Career Internship Fund
Encourage students to apply to the Career Services' Knowledge in Action Career Internship Fund. KACIF provides grants to undergraduate and graduate students participating in high-quality necessarily unpaid internships. Applications will be accepted April 1 through April 30, 2024. Click here to learn more and apply.
Register Now: Info Session for Campus Compact Democracy Audit Design Team
Join Campus Compact and the American Association of Colleges and Universities in the effort to better the strategies used to increase student civic engagement. They will be creating teams to audit the strategies that have already been in place as a means to creating new and improved ones. The info session for this program will be held on March 27,2024 at 2:30 pm. Click here to learn more.
