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UT-REACH for June 7, 2012 UT-REACH is ordinarily published once a week. **** "When [students] have a proper context to apply math, technology, communication, and yes, even science, skills, they are unbelievably motivated and enthused." - Dr. Curt DeBerg Founder, Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE)<http://www.sageglobal.org/> Professor, California State University, Chico **** 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 4. Knox County Teacher Wins Marian E. Oates Teacher Enrichment Award NATIONAL NEWS: 5. Dr. Andrew Furco 2012 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award Winner CONFERENCES & PAPERS: 6. Live Online: Community Based Participatory Research Seminar 7. Call for submissions: Lessons from the Field: Weaving Community-Engaged Learning and Peer Advocacy into Developmental Education 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 13. Study: Human Subjects Not Uniformly Protected By Institutional Review Boards 14. Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE: **** 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." Read more<http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2012/06/05/search-vice-chancellor-diversity/?&utm_source=tntoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2012-06-05> 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]<mailto:[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. Preliminary Details<http://www.ed.gov/race-top/district-competition> 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<http://president.tennessee.edu/news/051612-strategicplan.html> to the Board of Trustees; one of the plan's five goals is "Fostering Outreach and Engagement." 4. Knox County Teacher Wins Marian E. Oates Teacher Enrichment Award 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. More<http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2012/06/06/knox-county-teacher-wins-oates-award/?utm_source=tntoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2012-06-07> NATIONAL NEWS: 5. Dr. Andrew Furco 2012 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award Winner Campus Compact has named Andrew Furco, Ed.D., associate vice president for Public Engagement and associate professor of Organizational Leadership, Policy & Development at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN as the recipient of the 2012 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. The award is bestowed annually to recognize senior, tenured faculty for exemplary leadership in engaged scholarship, contributions to the public good, and advancing students' civic learning. To qualify for the award, the faculty member in question must boast an extensive career that exhibits a true dedication to engagement, service to their community, and the integrity of higher education. More<http://www.compact.org/initiatives/campus-compact-awards-programs/the-thomas-ehrlich-civically-engaged-faculty-award/> 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 More<http://www.nucats.northwestern.edu/community-engaged-research/grants-workshops-and-training/workshops-and-training/Sarena_Flyer.pdf> 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 Details<http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/cfagc2c.pdf> 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<http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation/funds/index.htm> 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 Full Announcement<http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=173114&mode=VIEW> 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> 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<http://bit.ly/JKn5zl> being offered through the Community-Engaged Research Team Support program<http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/CERTS.CERC%20handout1.pdf> of the Community-Engaged Research Center in the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Download (Scroll to May 1)<http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html> 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.<http://www.alara.net.au/> More<http://www.aral.com.au/areol/> 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. Read first chapter<http://kettering.org/publications/journalism-as-a-democratic-art/> 13. Study: Human Subjects Not Uniformly Protected By Institutional Review Boards (Association of American Medical Colleges, 2012) Article: How Closely Do Institutional Review Boards Follow the Common Rule? Conclusions: essential elements of human subjects' protection are not implemented uniformly across IRBs. Although not directly addressing this issue, the current proposed changes to the Common Rule offer an opportunity to improve, in general, the effectiveness of IRBs to protect human subjects. More<http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/How_Closely_Do_Institutional_Review_Boards_Follow.99608.aspx> 14. Why Every School in America Should Teach Entrepreneurship Citing an article with this title <http://business.time.com/contributor/steve-mariotti/> 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<http://allafrica.com/stories/201205180575.html>. 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: * PCORI's Patient-Centered Research Agenda & Funding Priorities (Free online). June 12, 2012.<http://academyhealth.org/Training/ResourceDetail.cfm?itemnumber=9112> * Community Based Participatory Research Seminar (Free online). June 13, 2012.<ESThttp://www.nucats.northwestern.edu/community-engaged-research/grants-workshops-and-training/workshops-and-training/Sarena_Flyer.pdf> * Landmark conference: "Public Participation in Scientific Research." Early Bird Registration closes June 14, 2012. <http://usscar.tamu.edu/latest-news/92-latest-news/1066-public-participation-in-scientific-research> * CUMU Conference in Chattanooga: "Working Together Works: Partnering for Progress." Submission deadline: June 15, 2012<http://cumuonline.org/conference/2012callforproposals.aspx>. * Volunteer Tennessee seeks Deputy Director of Programs. Deadline June 15, 2012.<http://www.volunteertennessee.net/> * Funding Announcements: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) . LOI: June 15, 2012. Application deadline: July 31, 2012.<http://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/pfa/> * Call for Proposals: CDC's Community Transformation Grants-Small Communities Program. LOI June 18, 2012; Proposal July 31, 2012.<http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=173114&mode=VIEW> * 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/> * The Role of Higher Education in Local and Regional Social and Economic Development. Proposal Deadline: June 25, 2012; full papers due Oct. 9, 2012; Conference Oct 29-31, 2012. <http://www.univ-brest.fr/conferencepascal2012/> * Funding Opportunity Announcement: DOJ's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Deadline June 28, 2012.<http://www.ojjdp.gov/grants/solicitations/FY2012/CBVPFIRE.pdf> * Call for papers: Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning & Community-Based Research. Due June 30, 2012<http://www.bk.psu.edu/Academics/33679.htm> July 2012: * Proposals for Spencer Foundation Small Grants. Deadline: July 1, 2012<http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/teaching-learning-and-instructional-resources> * Call for submissions: Lessons from the Field: Weaving Community-Engaged Learning and Peer Advocacy into Developmental Education. Deadline July 1, 2012.<http://www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/cfagc2c.pdf> * National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality requests member nominations. Nomination deadline July 3, 2012.<http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-03/html/2012-10595.htm> * Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. Deadline July 9, 2012.<http://www.manufacturing.gov/accelerator/docs/advanced-manufacturing-ffo.pdf> * Landmark conference: "Public Participation in Scientific Research." Regular registration closes July 16, 2012. <http://usscar.tamu.edu/latest-news/92-latest-news/1066-public-participation-in-scientific-research> * Funding Announcements: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) . LOI: June 15, 2012. Application deadline: July 31, 2012.<http://www.pcori.org/funding-opportunities/pfa/> * Call for Proposals: CDC's Community Transformation Grants-Small Communities Program. LOI June 18, 2012; Proposal July 31, 2012.<http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=173114&mode=VIEW> August 2012: * Call for Papers and Products: "Maximizing Community Contributions, Benefits, and Outcomes in Clinical & Translational Research." Deadline August 6, 2012.<http://bit.ly/z71SfP> * NSF announces funding for Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL). Preliminary proposals due August 13, 2012; Full proposals due January 14, 2013. <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12560/nsf12560.txt> September 2012: * Call for papers: Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference. Deadline September 15, 2012<http://www.frbatlanta.org/documents/commdev/research_conf_2013_call_for_papers.pdf>. October 2012: * The Role of Higher Education in Local and Regional Social and Economic Development. Proposal Deadline: June 25, 2012; full papers due Oct. 9, 2012; Conference Oct 29-31, 2012. <http://www.univ-brest.fr/conferencepascal2012/> * Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities' National Conference, hosted by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, "Working Together Works: Partnering for Progress." October 13-16, 2012.<http://cumuonline.org/conference/index.aspx> January 2013: * NSF announces funding for Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL). Preliminary proposals due August 13, 2012; Full proposals due January 14, 2013. <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12560/nsf12560.txt> 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/> * Call for papers: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 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