UT-REACH for June 7, 2012
UT-REACH is ordinarily published once a week.
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“When [students] have a proper context to apply math, technology, communication, and yes, even science, skills, they are unbelievably motivated and enthused.”
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Dr. Curt DeBerg
Founder,
Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE)
Professor, California State University, Chico
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UT OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT:
1.
Search Begins for New Vice Chancellor for Diversity
2.
Knox County Schools Seek UT partners for State Literacy Funding
3.
UT System Task Force to Address IT Needs for Outreach, Engagement
NATIONAL NEWS:
CONFERENCES & PAPERS:
6.
Live Online: Community Based Participatory Research Seminar
FUNDING:
8.
Call for Proposals: CDC’s Community Transformation Grants-Small Communities Program
9.
Free Webinar: PCORI’s Patient-Centered Research Agenda & Funding Priorities
10.
Tips & Strategies for Funding Community-Engaged Research
NEW RESOURCES & READINGS:
11.
Free Online Action Research & Evaluation Course
12.
Journalism as a Democratic Art
14.
Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship
QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
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UT OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT:
1.
Search Begins for New Vice Chancellor for Diversity
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is taking a big step forward in its commitment to diversity. The university has created
a new position, vice chancellor for diversity, to maximize diversity, cultural awareness, and civility initiatives. “Diversity, civility, and community are core campus values,” said Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. “They enhance the academic environment and support
a robust educational experience for its students. Diversity is a key component of our Vol Vision strategic plan and effort to become a Top 25 public research university.”
2.
Knox County
Schools Seek UT partners for State Literacy Funding
Knox County Schools has approached UT with an interest in partnering to pursue new “Race to the Top” funding. Budget range: $15 - $25 million. The
official funding announcement will be released July 2012; proposals are due October 2012; awards to be announced December 2102. If interested, please email a paragraph or two to Elizabeth Burman <[log in to unmask]>
that may be forwarded to Knox County, including a brief description of your expertise and interest that pertain to the focus of this funding: early literacy, personalized student learning, and teacher support.
Please submit interest statements by June 15, 2012.
3.
UT System Task Force to Address IT Needs for Outreach, Engagement
Mary H. Jinks, Vice President for the Institute for Public Service (UT System), will chair a new group whose goal is to represent the unique perspectives and needs
of campus, institute, and system constituencies within the Outreach & Engagement domain in prioritization of IT requests; gathering of business requirements; creation and review of data definitions; recommendation of business processes; consultation on Statewide
IT Priorities & Investments; and effective communication of the outcomes of such activity to appropriate parties. This month, President Joe DiPietro will submit a
new strategic plan document to
the Board of Trustees; one of the plan’s five goals is “Fostering Outreach and Engagement.”
Congratulations to Jamie Stapleton, sixth-grade teacher at Whittle Springs Middle School in Knox County and 2012 recipient
of the Marian E. Oates Teacher Enrichment Award from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The award will allow Stapleton to spend the summer collaborating with Professor Mike McKinney, director of environmental studies in UT’s Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences. Stapleton and McKinney will study the mechanics of composting and recycling so Stapleton can implement similar programs at her school this fall to help teach environmental science.
NATIONAL NEWS:
CONFERENCES & PAPERS:
6.
Live Online: Community Based Participatory Research Seminar
Attend June 15 Chicago Seminar on CBPR Online! Community-Campus Partnerships for Health executive director Sarena Seifer will be giving a seminar in Chicago on
June 13 from 1-2 pm eastern time entitled Community-Based Participatory Research as a Strategy for Health Equity: Where We've Been & Where We Need to Go.
Date: June 13, 2012, 1-2 PM EST
7.
Call for submissions: Lessons from the Field: Weaving Community-Engaged Learning and Peer Advocacy into Developmental Education
Articles for this web-based publication will offer best practices, models, and lessons learned, and research that will address persistence, student success and completion by
programs that have intentionally incorporated community-engaged learning and/or peer advocacy and mentoring as a means to succeed. While preference will be given to submissions from community colleges, editors also seek articles from other colleges and universities
to showcase their thriving developmental education programs. Editors invite submissions from administrators, faculty, staff and students.
Deadline: July 1, 2012
FUNDING:
8.
Call for Proposals: CDC’s Community Transformation Grants-Small Communities Program
The Community Transformation Grants (CTG) program will support community-level efforts to reduce chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes.
By promoting healthy lifestyles, especially among population groups experiencing the greatest burden of chronic disease, these grants will help improve health, reduce health disparities, and control health care spending. Approximately $103 million in prevention
funding has been awarded to 61 states and communities serving approximately 120 million
Americans. These awards are distributed among state and local government agencies, tribes and territories, and state and local non-profit organizations within 36 states, including seven tribes and one territory. At least 20 percent of grant funds will be directed
to rural and frontier areas.
Deadline: LOI June 18, 2012; Proposal: July 31, 2012
9.
Free Webinar: PCORI’s Patient-Centered Research Agenda & Funding Priorities
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was authorized by Congress in 2010 to fund research designed to give patients, caregivers and
clinicians the information they need to make better-informed decisions about health and health care. In this free webinar, learn how PCORI is pursuing that ambitious challenge, and what they hope to learn from the research supported through the initial round
of primary research funding.
Date: June 12, 2012, 1-2:30 pm EST
More
http://academyhealth.org/Training/ResourceDetail.cfm?itemnumber=9112
10.
Tips & Strategies for Funding Community-Engaged Research
Audio file and handouts by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health executive director Sarena Seifer are now online. Presentation is part of a
series being offered through the
Community-Engaged Research Team Support program of the Community-Engaged Research Center in the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
NEW RESOURCES & READINGS:
11.
Free Online Action Research & Evaluation course
Areol: action research and evaluation on line, is a 14-week public course offered twice a year as a public service by
ALARA, the Action Learning Action Research Association Inc.
12.
Journalism as a Democratic Art
(Kettering Foundation, 2012) A new collection of essays by former journalist, university dean, and professor Cole Campbell. Campbell was concerned that market journalism
focused too much on transmitting knowledge from experts to a helpless citizenry. This model deeply conflicted with one of the main premises of Cole’s work: “In a democracy, citizens are experts in their own lives and in their common aspirations,” and journalism
should help promote those aspirations.
14.
Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship
Citing
an article with this title
published in Time Magazine last week, California State University professor Curt DeBurg notes that “a university student with a big heart and no job and big debt after graduation”
is a problem for which social entrepreneurship may be the answer. Today, the #1 degree in U.S. universities is business,
while social entrepreneurial education is becoming more common around the globe.
DeBurg, a long-term advocate of service-learning, therefore finds himself “morphing” into being a greater advocate of social entrepreneurship. “When [students] have a proper context to apply math, technology, communication, and yes, even science, skills, they
are unbelievably motivated and enthused.”
QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
June 2012:
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PCORI’s Patient-Centered Research Agenda & Funding Priorities (Free online). June 12, 2012.
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Community Based Participatory Research Seminar (Free online). June 13, 2012.
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Volunteer Tennessee seeks Deputy Director of Programs. Deadline June 15, 2012.
July 2012:
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Proposals for Spencer Foundation Small Grants. Deadline: July 1, 2012
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Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. Deadline
July 9, 2012.
August 2012:
September 2012:
October 2012:
January 2013:
Ongoing:
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Call for papers: eJournal of Public Affairs on Public Scholarship. Ongoing
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Call for papers: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Ongoing
and special issues.