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Greetings, Campus Communicators: Do you know anyone (faculty, staff, or students) who should be on the growing UT-REACH mailing list for campus engagement and outreach? If so, please pass this invitation on to them, or email their names to the Office of Research, and if they’re not already subscribers, they’ll be sent an invitation -- with your compliments, if you’d like! UT-REACH subscription requests may be emailed to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; subscribe directly online at http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=UT-REACH *** UT-REACH for December 1, 2011 UT-REACH is ordinarily published once a week. 1. UT Undergrad Spearheads Calculator Donation to Knox County Schools 2. Apply now: National Award for Youth Programs 3. Travel Awards for Women in STEM 4. Public Engagement in Higher Education 5. National Survey of Student Engagement Releases 2011 Report 6. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement 7. Calls for Submissions: a. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning b. Journal for Civic Engagement c. Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education d. International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change 8. 20 Practical Suggestions for Successfully Navigating P&T Process as a Community-Engaged Scholar 9. Nominations Invited: Tech Awards Honoring Innovations Benefitting Humanity 10. Knoxville Community Development Meeting TODAY 11. Simple and meaningful holiday service opportunity 12. Idea File: a. Town Hall Nation, a Collaborative Performance Project b. Service-Learning Course Design for Education Majors c. Integrating Civic Engagement in Public Law Courses 13. Position Announcement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin: Environmental Justice **** Stakeholder engagement is the art and science of becoming more connected…It means reaching beyond the usual suspects for information and ideas; listening and applying new learning…; and involving a wider audience of individuals and organizations in… decision making. – Do Nothing About Me Without Me: An Action Guide for Engaging Stakeholders <http://www.geofunders.org/stakeholder-engagement.aspx> **** 1. UT Undergrad Spearheads Calculator Donation to Knox County Schools Students at Knox County’s new Paul L Kelley Volunteer Academy got a generous gift from UT students yesterday. Physics student George Duffy started Calculators to Classrooms to encourage college students who no longer need the expensive devices to donate them to high school students who can't afford them. Duffy employed a beautiful, “engaged outreach” approach by first determining what the schools wanted most (instead of what he most wanted to give), and then by assessing and adjusting to better fit some of the stakeholders in the plan. Duffy said his first attempt to collect calculators consisted of setting up a table with a small sign on it, which flopped terribly. Next, with the help of two student groups, the Society of Physics Students and Students for Education Reform, he got more creative and set up a table offering free cookies in exchange for used calculators: Bingo! • Read the WBIR story here<http://www.wbir.com/news/article/193646/2/Calculators-to-Classrooms-gives-graphing-calculators-to-Knox-Co-school>. • For more information or to support the Calculators to Classrooms program, please visit the website<http://calculatorstoclassrooms.org/> or Facebook page<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Calculators-to-Classrooms/216952771701581?v=info>. 2. Apply now: National Award for Youth Programs Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2012. The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, invites applications for the 2012 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards. Winning programs receive $10,000 and an invitation to accept their award from the President's Committee's Honorary Chairman, First Lady Michelle and will be featured on the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award website. http://www.nahyp.org 3. Travel Awards for Women in STEM Apply by 12/31. Awards $1000-$3000. AWIS Educational Awards to support travel for women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) supports travel for professional development, broadly defined. Any woman who works in a STEM discipline (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and who has earned at least a bachelor’s degree is eligible to apply. Individuals may be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, employed scientists and engineers, or those seeking employment or to return to school. http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=511 4. Public Engagement in Higher Education Saturday, Dec 3, 9-10:30 am: Free, interactive webinar: “Rethinking the Role of Higher Education in Society: Implications for Higher Education Policy,” examines public engagement as it relates to public policy and higher education. UTK invited by engagement expert David Weerts, Co-Director, Jandris Center for Innovative Higher Education at the University of Minnesota. See attached. 5. National Survey of Student Engagement Releases 2011 Report The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) has just released its Annual Results for 2011. This extensive report, published annually in early November, disseminates new research on the quality of students’ educational experiences using the most recent data from NSSE, FSSE, and BCSSE. http://nsse.iub.edu/e-news/ 6. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement Gateways is a refereed journal concerned with the practice and processes of university-community engagement. It provides a forum for academics, practitioners and community representatives to explore issues and reflect on practices relating to the full range of engaged activity. The journal publishes evaluative case studies of community engagement initiatives; analyses of the policy environment; and theoretical reflections that contribute to the scholarship of engagement. New issue now online: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/ijcre 7. Calls for Submissions: • Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning seeks articles for its next volume. Abstracts are due by Dec. 20. http://bit.ly/v9eLMa • Journal for Civic Engagement for Issue 18, Spring 2012, of The Journal for Civic Engagement. Completed articles must be submitted for consideration by March 15, 2012. Click here<http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/Journal/JournalGuidelines.shtml> for Journal Guidelines. For additional information, contact Gary Daynes at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> • Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education For 2012 (Vol. 2) - Deadline Feb 1, 2012. Journal aims to advance the status and prospects for publicly engaged teaching and research in the academy by showcasing the new disciplinary and/or pedagogical knowledge generated by engagement with the community. JPSHE welcomes diverse manuscripts, from empirically-based examinations to critical reflection pieces, theoretical investigations, commentaries, case studies, and pedagogical and research designs. All submissions must identify implications for the growth and viability of public scholarship in the academy. http://jpshe.missouristate.edu/ • International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change Peer-reviewed journal only accepts articles from undergraduate students, and considers three types of articles: Articles that discuss the development of a service-learning project and the impact of the project on the community served; case studies of a service-learning project; reflections on service-learning and the development of personal leadership. http://www.columbiasc.edu/SeviceLearningLeadershipSocialChange/ 8. 20 Practical Suggestions for Successfully Navigating P&T Process as a Community-Engaged Scholar Promotion, Tenure, and the Engaged Scholar: Keeping the Scholarship of Engagement in the Review Process. Two Portland State faculty provide advice for how to prepare for and navigate the tenure and promotion process. http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/Promotion,%20Tenure%20and%20the%20Engaged%20Scholarship2.pdf 9. Nominations Invited: Tech Awards Honoring Innovations Benefitting Humanity The awards recognize individuals, organizations, and companies from around the world that are using technology in an innovative way to address urgent issues in education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. The technology used can be either a new invention or an innovative use of an existing technology. http://thetechawards.thetech.org/nominations 10. Knoxville Community Development Meeting TODAY 5:30 p.m., TODAY (12/1): The Community Development department for the City of Knoxville will hold a public meeting at the Cansler YMCA, located at the corner of Jessamine St. and E. 5th Ave. The department seeks public input for its 2011 Annual Action Plan, which outlines how city will spend anticipated federal funds in the fiscal year beginning 7/1/12. The plan identifies community needs and priorities, including housing, infrastructure, and service. The funds come from Community Development Block Grants, the HOME Investment Partnerships Act (affordable housing), and Emergency Solutions Grants (homeless services). “We are asking citizens to identify community and human needs throughout Knoxville, particularly for low- and moderate-income individuals and neighborhoods,” noted Becky Wade, deputy director of the department. 11. Simple and meaningful holiday service opportunity From Nov. 29-Dec.12, for each person involved in service work during the holidays or in the new year, Hasbro will donate a toy to a child in need through Toys for Tots: up to 100,000 toys. All you have to do is pledge that service. Individuals or groups may register: number of bodies equals the number of toys donated. http://holidaytoys.generationon.org 12. Idea File: • Town Hall Nation, a Collaborative Performance Project Town Hall is a collaborative performance project, conceived by Sojourn Theatre (Portland, OR) and The TEAM (New York City). Town Hall the production (premiering at Kansas City Rep Fall 2012) will combine fictional narratives drawn from research with participatory strategies developed from established and original models of civic dialogue methodology. http://www.townhallnation.org/ • Service-Learning Course Design for Education Majors Article describes a course designed for preservice elementary education majors that is taught at a local zoo and integrates a service learning component. Qualitative measures demonstrate that students believe the service learning components enhanced their understanding of the course material, and helped them to see the connections between what they learned in the classroom and how that learning can be applied to make their local communities better places to live. http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/Journal/Issue17-Fall/haines--final.pdf • Integrating Civic Engagement in Public Law Courses Article discusses logistics (course design and implementation) as well as course outcomes (the effects on what students learned about the judiciary as well as the results of the civically engaged classroom) related to an assignment that required students to visit a variety of federal and state courthouses and to observe criminal and civil cases at the trial and appellate levels. In their research, students were asked to integrate what they learned during courtroom observation with what we were covering in lecture and in assigned readings. http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/Journal/Issue17-Fall/mclauchlan--final.pdf 13. Position Announcement: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin: Environmental Justice The Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin seek an individual with a PhD in sociology or a related social science or humanities field for a tenure track, assistant professor position in environmental justice. Applicants must have completed their degree by summer 2012. http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_072174.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To view the CAMPCOMM archives or Join/Leave the list: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/campcomm.html