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Category: Professional Development Events and Resources

National and regional conferences, institutes, workshops that faculty may want to attend.

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Join Campus Compact for May's The Research University Civic Engagement Network conversation about collaboration between universities and localities on the matter of climate change. This virtual event will take place on May 17th, 2023 from 2:00-3:15 pm. Click here to learn more and register.

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Join The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative in partnership with Creative Inquiry@Lehigh University to host this year's Collaborative Unconference titled "Reimagining the "Impact" in Impact-Focused Education". Join like-minded scholars in discovering pathways toward innovative best practices in the field of inquiry-driven, impact-focused higher education. The conference will take place from June 7-9, 2023 at Leigh University. Click here to learn more and register.

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Join AAC&U and Credo in their 2023 Women in Leadership Institutes. This year's theme Leading with Longevity: Sustaining Self & Profession will be a mix of panel discussions, attendee-presented sessions, time with industry experts, and space for leader-to-leader conversation and reflection. This in-person institute will take place in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 28–29 for cabinet leaders and November 29–30 for presidents. Click here learn more and register.

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The 2023 Imagining America National Gathering will focus on Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change. The conference will invoke "the cleansing work of fire, the changing form of water, the steadiness of the earth, and the ethereal nature of air, the 2023 IA National Gathering conjures the elements to guide the radical work of reckoning with the past to create a future of collective liberation". The conference will be held in person October 20-22, 2023 in Providence, Rhode Island. Click here to learn more and apply. 

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The Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will open on Thursday, April 13th, with the faculty panel and continues on Friday, April 14th, beginning with a keynote speech followed by student presentations of their research. Starting with words from Faculty Chair, Américo Mendoza-Mori, PhD, of Harvard University’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, engaging in a dialogue with Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, PhD, Professor of Modern Languages, coordinator of French Global Studies, and Founding of South Carolina Centro Latino (El Centro) at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Mneesha Gellman, PhD, Associate Professor of political science in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, Wade Campbell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Archeology and Anthropology, Boston University, and Michel DeGraff, PhD, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Director of the MIT-Haiti Initiative and founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy, about the impact of identity on scholarship. For more information or to register click here. 

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The Summer Institute on Teaching Social Action is a three day virtual institue aims to teach the experiential learning model where educators incorperate students creating socail campaigns as psrt of the course.The institute will take place virtually June 6 - 8 2:00 PM TO 4:00 PM EST. Click here to learn more about the institue and apply.

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Join the GivePulse staff, campus representatives from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Eastern Virginia Medical School for a webinar about how campuses address health equity and social determinants of health in their communities and they use GivePulse to do so. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, March 28th at 2 pm eastern/11 am pacific. To learn more and register click here.

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The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning is hosting a panel discussion on "Peer Review in Community Engagement Journals" next Friday, March 24th from 1-2:30 PM ET on Zoom.  Register here. ...continue reading "Save the Date: Panel on Peer Review in Community Engagement Journals"

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The Faculty Learning Community on Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Community Engaged Scholarship gathered for our second meeting on March 9th. Note that as we gather resources, these will be ultimately shared on the Nashman Center website. Anyone interested in student learning outcomes assessment is still most welcome to join this group.

...continue reading "FLC Assessing Student Learning in CES"

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Teaching to Increase Diversity and Equity in STEM builds the capacity and efficacy of individuals and teams in exploring the root sources, unwritten codes, and systemic origins of the underrepresentation of minoritized groups in STEM. Through experiences and presentations, participants will learn professional development skills. The institute will take place from June – 

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The Engagement Scholarship Consortium seeks proposals for our annual conference on October 4-5 in East Lansing, Michigan. Our 2023 theme will be “Mobilizing Change through Engaged Scholarship". Proposals are due March 31. Click here to learn more and submit a proposal.

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The Compact24 conferences focus on the role of higher education in building healthy communities and fostering a just society. The conferences will take place in person from April 7th-10th 2024, in Denver Colorado. Compact24's call for proposals will open and early registration on May 15th click here to be notified. Click here to learn more about the conferences.

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The Engaged Scholars Initiative (ESI) is a one-year leadership and professional development program designed to develop a diverse group of early-career faculty and staff. Participants will meet both virtually and in person to develop their skills to strengthen the community-engaged scholarship community at their institution. Click here to learn more about ESI. The application for the program is due on May 8th, 2023. Click here to apply

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Re-envisioning Publicly Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure (2023). Featuring Tim Eatman, Emily Janke, and David Donahue. Recording available here.

This event was held in November 2023, as part of theWebinar Series on Reforming Promotion and Tenure, hosted by LEAD California, NC Campus Engagement, and the Collaboratory.

Panelists include Dr. Timothy Eatman, Dean of the Honors Living-Learning Community, Rutgers University, Dr. Emily Janke, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, UNC Greensboro, Dr. David Donahue, Professor of Education, University of San Francisco.

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Educational Partnerships for Innovations in Communities Network (EPIC-N) is a network that bridges community engagement and local government. EPIC-N is hosting a virtual conference on How Can We Leverage Teaching, Research, and Service to Build a Better World?. The conference will take place virtually from Monday, June 12 - Wednesday, June 13. EPIC-N is also looking for presenters for this event. Consider presenting at the EPIC-N Conference this summer using THIS LINK. Proposals are due Friday, March 24. They are doing a call for several kinds of sessions:

  • Research Presentation - 60 mins - Faculty and academic staff are encouraged to present about how they have been or are thinking about leveraging EPIC-N projects for their research agendas.
  • Practitioner Presentation - 60 mins - A session that has one or more presenters presenting about diving deeply into a certain subject relevant to planning, managing, implementing, or evaluating an EPIC-N program.
  • Peer Coaching Salon - 30 - 60 mins - This is an interactive session that encourages peer coaching between people in the network. You will pitch a problem you’re having in your work, and participants will roll up their sleeves and help you problem-solve.
  • Flash Talk - up to 10 mins - This session highlights an interesting project or an idea that you’re working on at your institution or with a community partner.
  • Other - Please propose other formats as desired. New engaging sessions are of interest to conference organizers.
If you have any questions, you can e-mail:
Gavin Luter, gavin@cows.org, or Ada Inman, ada@epicn.org.
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