National and regional conferences, institutes, workshops that faculty may want to attend.
Join the Engagement Scholarship Consortium and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach in a virtual discussion on the journal’s peer review process, including best practices for conducting a review and strategies for integrating reviewer feedback as an author. The talk will take place on April 24, 2024, from 12:00-1:00 p.m.. Click here to learn more and register.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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National Center for Science and Civic Education (NCSCE) and Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) will be focusing on education and research on the critical civic challenge of water. Floods, droughts, toxins, pollution, sea level rise--all threaten human health and well-being. Indigenous people have always known that "Water is Life," and the use, misuse and waste of water is an existential matter for all humans. Current projects focus on building water literacy and the water workforce, and supporting wastewater research in the US and abroad to identify and track emerging disease outbreaks. A recent presentation of NCSCE Global Water Fellows project is here: Water: The Wickedest Problem
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.
