Professional Development & Conferences

Place Based Service-Learning: Summer Institutes for Faculty

wagnerwFebruary 15, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

The Community Works Institute announces early bird rates for their 2020 Summer Institute on Place Based Service-Learning and Sustainability.

June 22-26, 2020, Brooklyn, NY

Provided description:

Who Should Attend
Institute participants are diverse and inspiring K-16 teachers and leaders, from schools large and small, rural and urban, independent and public, along with environmental and community based educators. The Institute is the ideal opportunity for individual educators or teams to begin or advance projects and programs, within classrooms or across grade levels.

2020 CWI Summer Institute Outcomes

participants will learn new skills and strategies that build capacity for
• The community as the classroom.
• Designing projects around students’ personal passion and interests.
• Connecting social emotional learning goals to learning projects.
• Designing project based learning with compelling civic and public purpose.
• Focusing on students as active contributors to sustainable communities.
• Integrating student voice, reciprocity, and reflection.
• Using ethnography to explore human connection and and social justice.
• Employing strategies for program growth, team building, and buy in.
• Inspiring and advancing a collective vision and practice as a leaders.

Medical Faculty Development Post-doctoral Research Awards for Addressing Health Disparities

wagnerwFebruary 10, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

Please see this announcement from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2020 Call for Applications. The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. Scholars should be committed to working toward eliminating health disparities by achieving senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing.

The program provides scholars with:

development of research, academic, and leadership skills;
ongoing mentoring by a distinguished national advisory committee;
a grounding in the social determinants of health, health equity, and the elements of a Culture of Health.

In this grant cycle, RWJF will fund up to 10 four-year awards of up to $420,000 each. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each, complemented by a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities.

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: Engagement Scholarship Consortium

wagnerwFebruary 5, 2020February 21, 2020Leave a comment

This year's Engagement Scholarship Consortium annual conference will be nearby in Philadelphia, September 13-14, 2020. As a pre-conference event, the Consortium will be hosting a one-day intensive professional development program for early career faculty on community engagement. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2020. https://engagementscholarship.org/networks-partnerships/esc-partnerships/emerging-engagement-scholars-workshop

If you have an interest in attending, please contact Wendy Wagner, wagnerw@gwu.edu to discuss potential financial support from the Nashman Center.

IJRSLCE: Call for Manuscripts for Volume 8

wagnerwFebruary 1, 2020April 21, 2020Leave a comment

The IJRSLCE Editors have issued a call for manuscripts for Volume 8 of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. The Editors are seeking submissions that reflect the breadth of scholarship in the service-learning and community engagement field, with articles from different disciplines and countries, reflecting a range of methodologies.

The Journal has five main sections: (1) Advances in Theory and Methodology; (2) Community Partnerships and Impacts; (3) Faculty Roles and Institutional Issues; (4) International Service-Learning and Community Engagement Research; and (5) Student Outcomes – Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education. In addition, there is a Book Review section.

The Author Guidelines are available at the IJRSLCE website; submissions are managed by ScholasticaHQ. To submit a manuscript, registration on the site is required. The deadline for submissions for Volume 8 is May 15, 2020.

IUPUI Research Academy Accepting Registrations

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Registration is now open for the 2020 IUPUI Research Academy.

"Convened from May 13-15, 2020 on the IUPUI campus, the Research Academy is an intense, interactive 3-day workshop designed to develop research, assessment, and evaluation skills, learn about methods, and develop a research and/or assessment project on high impact practices or other engaged learning. Convened since 2009, the Research Academy historically focused on service learning research. However, beginning in 2019 the Research Academy has expanded its scope to cover other types of high impact practices and engaged learning (e.g., themed learning communities, ePortfolios, global engagement)."

If you want to learn more, please read this article: https://www.airweb.org/collaborate-learn/reports-publications/eair-newsletter/article/2019/12/17/facilitating-the-study-of-engaged-learning-the-iupui-research-academy

Contact Tom Hahn (tomhahn@iupui.edu) if you have any questions.

Register for the Research Academy at: https://indianauniv.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/register.aspx?OrgCode=10&EvtID=9623&AppCode=REG&CC=119121004007

Imagining America: 2020 National Gathering, Oct 9-11

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Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and Tulane University has announced their 2020 National Gathering will be held October 9-11 in New Orleans, less than one month before the national Presidential election. The two organizations will work with local institutions and leaders in organizing this dynamic national conference.

"The Imagining America (IA) Gathering is an annual convening of public scholars, artists, students, designers, and leaders who are addressing critical public issues through creative cultural organizing, collaborative research, and engaged learning. The conference offers participants a three-day immersive experience in which to connect, dialogue, learn, and strategize around the ways to build new knowledge and inspire collective imagination towards transformative education and action.

New Orleans will serve as a powerful context in which to showcase local and global work around this year’s Gathering themes of displacement and movements."