UT-REACH for May 31, 2012

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“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”

- Thomas Jefferson, 1820

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UT OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT:

1. UT among 17 Universities to be Featured at 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival

2. UT-Assisted Community School Pilot Gains Traction in Knox County

NATIONAL NEWS:

3. NERCHE Releases New Annual Report: "Profiles of Public Engagement"

4. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement introduces new category

CONFERENCE:

5. Call for papers: Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference

FUNDING

6. Funding Opportunity Announcement: DOJ's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

7. Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Challenge Unveiled

8.      NSF Seeks Ideas for Mathematics Education Initiative

9. ISOTOPE: Informing Science Outreach & Public Engagement

NEW READINGS & RESOURCES:

10. The Impact of a University-Based School Science Outreach Program on Graduate Student Participants’ Career Paths and Professional Socialization

11. A Community-University Exchange Project Modeled after Europe’s Science Shops

12. A University Library Creates A Digital Repository for Documenting and Disseminating Community Engagement

13. Using Relational Dialectics to Address Differences in Community-Campus Partnerships

14. *New* The Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science

JOBS & INTERNSHIPS:

15. Visiting Service-Learning Tutorship in Hong Kong

QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE

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UT OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT:

1. UT among 17 Universities to be Featured at 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The University of Tennessee’s Living Light zero-energy house will be displayed next month at the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival program Campus and Community: Public and Land-grant Universities and the USDA at 150, celebrating the 150^th anniversary of the legislation that created the American land-grant university system. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, establishing new, public institutions to teach agriculture, military tactics, the mechanic arts, and classical studies to members of the working classes. Today, this land-grant mission remains evident in research, learning and community engagement projects. The Second Morrill Act (1890) extended access to higher education to blacks, and Native American Tribal colleges were granted land-grant status in 1994. Read more

2. UT-Assisted Community School Pilot Gains Traction in Knox County
UT professor Bob Kronick, along with many UT students, helped establish a community school pilot program that Knox County is now calling a success story. School officials have seen fewer absences and discipline referrals, less tardiness, and improved student scores in reading and math. Under the community schools concept, schools work with community partners to turn school buildings into community hubs that stay open after hours to host health clinics, classes, and other resources for the community. Knox County’s new $35 million spending plan request includes about $5 million to expand the community school program in 3-5 schools, beginning in the fall.
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NATIONAL NEWS:

3. NERCHE Releases New Annual Report: "Profiles of Public Engagement"
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) is committed to collaborative change processes in higher education to address social justice in a diverse democracy. The new report offers an analysis of data from applications submitted in 2009, 2010, and 2011 for NERCHE’s Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. It examines both institutional and individual data, and draws findings from materials provided by Award nominees and nominators.
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4. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement introduces new category
The new issue of Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) is now online, and is the Journal’s largest publication to date. The current issue includes a new category called “projects with promise,” in hopes to help and encourage faculty members to write about their university-community engagement work.
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CONFERENCE:

5. Call for papers: Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference
The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System have announced a call for paper submissions for the eighth Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference to be held April 11–12, 2013, at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. This conference, entitled "Resilience and Rebuilding for Low-Income Communities: Research to Inform Policy and Practice," hopes to feature new action-oriented and academically rigorous research on resiliency and rebuilding initiatives that can directly inform community development policy and practice. Papers that focus on rural and minority communities are especially desired.
Deadline: September 15, 2012.
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FUNDING

6. Funding Opportunity Announcement: DOJ's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has posted a funding opportunity under its Community-Based Violence Prevention Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program. Specifically, the office seeks methodologically rigorous research and evaluation studies that inform policy and practice consistent with the Department of Justice's mission. The office will fund field-initiated studies to inform what is understood about how communities can prevent and reduce violence involving youth.
Deadline: June 28, 2012
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7. Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Challenge Unveiled
The Obama Administration has just unveiled a new $26 million Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a multiagency competition to strengthen advanced manufacturing and clusters and to create jobs across the nation. The Challenge is a key component of President Obama’s plan to ensure American-built products are sold here around the world. American manufacturing accounts for 70 percent of private-sector research and development and 60 percent of U.S. exports—including a record $1.3 trillion in goods exported in 2011. After a decade in which the United States lost nearly 6 million manufacturing jobs, there is now positive momentum. Over the past 25 months, manufacturers have created nearly half a million jobs—the best streak since 1995. Approximately 12 projects are expected to be chosen through a competitive interagency grant process.
Application deadline: July 9, 2012.
Solicitation

8.      NSF Seeks Ideas for Mathematics Education Initiative
The National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the U.S Department of Education interested in input about new activities and programs that may support and improve K-16 mathematics education. The President's 2013 budget to Congress proposes $60 million K-16 mathematics education initiative jointly-funded the two agencies. What do you think are the highest priority issues or challenges that need to be addressed in order to improve K-16 mathematics teaching and learning in the country?  Specifically: (a) Explain the priority issue, challenge, or opportunity; provide an brief rationale for its importance; and comment on the implications it has for the teaching and learning of mathematics at the K-16 level, and (b) Provide the evidence or research base that supports the priority issue, challenge, or opportunity you have identified, including references, if appropriate.
Submit ideas by July 1, 2012 
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9. ISOTOPE: Informing Science Outreach & Public Engagement
The ISOTOPE website contains resources from the science outreach and public engagement (SCOPE) community. Resources include funding opportunities in science communications and public engagement, evaluation resources, science outreach ideas and examples, links, and further readings.
ISOTOPE website

NEW READINGS & RESOURCES:

10. The Impact of a University-Based School Science Outreach Program on Graduate Student Participants’ Career Paths and Professional Socialization
(Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, June 2012)
This study examined how immersive experiences as science outreach educators in K-12 schools influenced the career paths and professional identities of science and engineering graduate students. School outreach experiences provided specialized knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the profession; direct involvement with the profession’s activities, colleagues, and personal meanings; and personal investment in the role and status of the profession.
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11. A Community-University Exchange Project Modeled after Europe’s Science Shops
(Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, June 2012)
A pilot project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for a new structure for community-based learning and research is based on the European-derived science shop model for democratizing campus-community partnerships using shared values of mutual respect and validation of community knowledge. Stakeholders have found meaning in the process of building an infrastructure that creates more authentic, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial campus-community partnerships.
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12. A University Library Creates A Digital Repository for Documenting and Disseminating Community Engagement
(Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, June 2012)
Digital repositories are new tools for documenting the accumulated scholarly work produced at academic institutions and disseminating that material broadly via the internet. Digital repositories support all file types and can be adapted to meet the custom design specifications of individual institutions. A section for community engagement initiatives was created within the digital repository for University of Massachusetts Amherst. Collected materials can provide a comprehensive record of partnerships, results, and products that advance institutional goals while facilitating the development of individual academic portfolios.
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13. Using Relational Dialectics to Address Differences in Community-Campus Partnerships
(Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, June 2012)
Community and campus partners face inherent differences due to their distinct cultures, assumptions, practices, and constituencies. How partners handle the resulting tensions can impact how well the partnership functions. This article introduces relational dialectics as a framework to think about recurring tensions as natural and normal when partners span structural and cultural boundaries to work together.
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14. *New* The Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science
The Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science (DEMESCI) is a new, international journal that publishes original works on the relationship between science and the rest of society. Specifically, the articles provide insight into areas such as public participation in scientific decision-making. DEMESCI will publish articles based in several bodies of knowledge such as sociology, political science, science studies, history, and philosophy, among others. DEMESCI also promotes the transdisciplinary character of science, encouraging the submission of articles that combine these and other disciplines in a single academic work.
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JOBS & INTERNSHIPS:

15. Visiting Service-Learning Tutorship in Hong Kong
Lingnan University is now accepting applications for two-year, Visiting Service-Learning Tutorships. Housing, salary, and fringe benefits. Duties include conducting at least one assigned research and paper related to Service-Learning and assisting in implementing Lingnan’s service-learning programs. Successful applicants should have a degree in any discipline; have service-learning experience, and an interest in Asia and Hong Kong.
Key Dates: Deadline of the Application: June 22, 2012 Selection Period: June 25, 2012 – June 29, 2012 Announcement of the Result: July 6, 2012 Contract Period: August 15, 2012 - August 14, 2014
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