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UT-REACH for April 5, 2012 UT-REACH is ordinarily published once a week UT ENGAGEMENT NEWS: 1. UT Submits College of Social Work Project for 2012 C. Peter Magrath 2. Three Faculty win Scholarships to Engaged Scholarship Conference 3. UT's Forensic Anthropology Program: CSI, it isn't 4. UT partner requests help for community meeting 5. STEM Education Outreach Brown Bag RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES: 6. University of Iowa announces new book series: Humanities and Public Life 7. HUD webcasts and materials now online FUNDING: 8. Proposals for Spencer Foundation: Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE: Quick Links **** "It is my pleasure to support the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's application for the 2012 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award. This university's institutional investment in the Knox Homeless Management Information System (KnoxHMIS) has supported many, exemplary examples of engaged scholarship on this campus, while also reinvesting in the local community ." - Jimmy G. Cheek, Chancellor **** UT ENGAGEMENT NEWS: 1. UT Submits College of Social Work Project for 2012 C. Peter Magrath A UT-based program to measure, understand, and respond to the complexity and tragedy of homelessness forms the basis of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's 2012 submission for the national C. Peter Magrath Engagement Award. The Knoxville Homeless Management Information System (KnoxHMIS), directed by Dr. David A. Patterson, is the only university-based HMIS in the country. KnoxHMIS creates an empirical window into the experience of homelessness, linking Knoxville's homeless service providers to help coordinate services and draw millions of dollars of new funding into Knoxville. * About the Award: http://www.aplu.org/page.aspx?pid=304 2. Faculty Win UT Scholarships to Engaged Scholarship Conference Dr. Sarah Hillyer, Dr. Ashleigh Huffman (Kinesiology, Recreation & Sport Studies), and Dr. Thomas K. Davis (Architecture and Design) will represent UT at the 2012 National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Hillyer and Huffman, co-founders of UT's new Center for Sport, Peace and Society, submitted a conference proposal entitled "Service-Learning: Sport and Community Development with Iraqi Refugees." This proposal highlights a new Service-Learning course created in conjunction with local Iraqis refugees that uses sport, physical activity, and recreation to encourage transitions to the Knoxville community. Davis's project, "Advocacy for Livable, Transit-Oriented Development: A Collaborative Community Outreach," describes a collaboration between UT Urban Design students and Vanderbilt Real Estate Development students to design and promote sustainable growth in downtown Lebanon, Tennessee. Informed by this work, in 2010 Nashville developers announced the State's first transit village project, located in Lebanon. * Conference details: http://www.nosc2012.ua.edu/ 3. UT's Forensic Anthropology Program: CSI, it isn't More than a quarter of the nation's board-certified forensic anthropologists have studied at UT's world-renowned Anthropological Research Facility-more commonly known as the Body Farm. With a 2011-12 outreach grant co-sponsored by UT's Office of Research and the Academic Outreach and Engagement Council, forensic anthropologist Dr. Dawnie Steadman developed a program that trains teams of students to go into Knox County high schools with hands-on materials, presentations, and exercises for students in criminal science investigation classes. Thanks to generous donors, the Center has a state-of-the-art building now, too. Top 25, here we come! * Read more: http://tinyurl.com/7zfg5ch 4. UT partner requests help for community meeting SODELA is a local non-profit formed with the help of many UT faculty and students to help local Burundian and other families with refugee status transition to life in the U.S. . SODELA will be having a community meeting on Saturday, April 14 to elect new officers, and hopes that many families will come participate in their first election. However, the refugee families need assistance with entertaining and watching over their children while the adults participate in this very important process. Previous experience has shown that UT students are a perfect age for this work, as they are both old enough to command the older kids' respect and young enough to be of great interest to these children, more and more of whom are, themselves, thinking of going to college. Note: this would be a great group opportunity, too. * If you can help: please contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by April 9. * More about UT/SODELA partnership: http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/11/11/uts-work-refugees-highlighted/ 5. STEM Education Outreach Brown Bag The first meeting was great, so we're having another! Please join us on Friday, April 9, from 12 noon - 1pm in the Office of Research (1534 White Avenue, next to UT Law School). * Questions/ RSVP: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES: 6. University of Iowa announces new book series: Humanities and Public Life The University of Iowa announces new book series that will focus on publicly engaged scholarship - deep, meaningful collaborations in which scholars and artists from institutions of higher learning work with rather than for communities. Such publicly engaged humanities projects grow from reciprocal relationships; the series is therefore likely to include books co-authored by community project directors, who often form the crucial connection between colleges and universities and the communities in which they are located. * Details: http://www.uiowapress.org/authors/humanities-and-public-life.htm 7. HUD webcasts and materials now online The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of University Partnerships has posted webcasts and corresponding presentation materials for its 2011 Empowerment Series Round Table Events, including "The Key to Unlocking Homelessness in America: Emerging Trends in HUD-Sponsored Research"; "Evidence of Success: Institutions of Higher Education Engaging Communities"; and "Anchor Institutions: Focus on the Future." * Find them here: www.oup.org/conferences/presentations/empseries_presentations.asp<http://www.oup.org/conferences/presentations/empseries_presentations.asp> FUNDING: 8. Proposals for Spencer Foundation: Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources Concerned with advancing the learning and development of children and adults, The Spencer Foundation is interested in studies that lead to better understanding and improvements in the intellectual, material, and organizational resources that contribute to successful teaching and learning. Service-learning courses or curricular outreach/engagement, anyone? * Due date: July 1, 2012 * Details: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/teaching-learning-and-instructional-resources QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE: April: * Registration: Virginia Tech's Monitoring and Measuring Community Engagement Executive Development Program, April 11-13, 2012. Register by April 4, 2012<http://www2.cota.vt.edu/engagementacademy/measuring/index.html> * Tennessee Solar Institute and Tennessee Valley Authority: Solar Solutions Conference. April 10-11, 2012<http://www.tnsolarsolutions.org/> * Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference, April 18-21, 2012. Registration open<http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf12-overview.html> * Submissions: Imagining America National Conference: Linked Fates and Futures: Communities and Campuses as Equitable Partners? Due April 23, 2012<http://bit.ly/z6aqIH> * Submissions: 2012 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. Due April 27, 2012<http://www.nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=584%3A2011-lynton-award-application-instructions&catid=25&Itemid=120> * Public and Land-Grant Conference on Energy Challenges: The Next 50 Years<http://energyinnovation2012.osu.edu/> May: * Call for Papers: Service-Learning in the Humanities. Due May 1, 2012<http://www.h-e-r-a.org/hera_journal.htm> * Registration: Virginia Tech's Engaging Your University in Regional Economic Development Executive Development Program, May 21-23, 2012. Register by May 11, 2012<http://www2.cota.vt.edu/engagementacademy/econdev/index.html> June: * Registration: Virginia Tech's Fundraising for Engagement Executive Development Program, June 8-10, 2012. Register by June 1, 2012<http://www2.cota.vt.edu/engagementacademy/fundraising/index.html> * International "Town & Gown" Conference in Kentucky. June 4-8, 2012<http://www.itgau.org/2012conference> * Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education: 3rd Annual Summer Research Institute. Conference June 23-24<http://www.merrimack.edu/academics/education/center_for_engaged_democracy/future_of_community_engagement_in_higher_education/> * Call for papers: Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research. Due June 30, 2012<http://www.bk.psu.edu/Academics/33679.htm> July: * Proposals for Spencer Foundation: Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources. Deadline July 1, 2012<http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/teaching-learning-and-instructional-resources> Ongoing: * Call for papers: International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. Ongoing<http://www.columbiasc.edu/SeviceLearningLeadershipSocialChange/> Call for papers: eJournal of Public Affairs on Public Scholarship. Ongoing<http://ejournal.missouristate.edu/> *** Please send news, resources, opportunities, and ideas to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> *** UT-REACH is published by UTK's Office of Research. To view the archives, subscribe, or change your mail settings, visit: http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=UT-REACH -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To view the CAMPCOMM archives or Join/Leave the list: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/campcomm.html