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UT-REACH for July 12, 2012
UT-REACH is ordinarily published once a week.
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“Those signing this Treaty are seeking pathways and possibilities for progressing sustainability in higher education. They are committing to contribute towards societies that are fair, participatory,
future facing and peaceful and able to restore the integrity of Earth’s ecological systems, as well as promote human development in an equitable and inclusive manner.”
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People's Sustainability Treaty on
Higher Education, May 2012
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OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT NEWS:
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Help Needed: UT/Community group meeting
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UT among Public Universities Featured At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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UT wins SunShot Rooftop Solar Challenge
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Chancellor Cheek joins A۰P۰L۰U Presidents to Honor Lincoln’s Signing of 1862 Morrill Act
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People's Sustainability Treaty on Higher Education
CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Place as the Context, Service-Learning as the Strategy, and Sustainable Communities as the Goal
FUNDING:
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Funding Opportunity: Disaster Health Information Outreach And Collaboration
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces 2012-13 Health & Society Scholars Call for Applications
NEW RESOURCES & READINGS:
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Resource of Free Educational Web Tools and Mobile Apps for Educators
10.
In response to a state humanities council question: What are the digital humanities, and what should we do about them?
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Evaluating public participation: instruments and implications for citizen involvement
QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE
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OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT NEWS:
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Help Needed: UT/Community group meeting
UT and other community partners are supporting a special event for
SODELA, a local 501(c)3 comprised of a self-organizing group of African
refugees on Saturday, July 21 (2-4 pm). We need male and female volunteers willing to work with the community’s school-age children as the adults conduct their business meeting and celebrate the academic successes of some of their teenaged members. This
is a very important meeting for SODELA, but summer is a hard time to find volunteers, and we need several more or else will have to cancel the event.
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Key date: RSVP by July 19
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More about UT/SODELA partnership
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UT among Public Universities Featured At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
University-related groups from across the country gathered in Washington D.C. earlier this month to showcase the benefits they receive as public universities.
Each university featured at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
display had a unique focus, some featuring replica cows, dinosaur bones, and a game of wheelchair basketball.
UT’s award-winning Solar-Powered House, Living Light, made its second
trip to Washington DC to teach festival goers about sustainable science, technology, and design. The festival program, “Campus and Community: Public and Land-Grant Universities and the USDA at 150,” focused on four themes that reflect the current work of
public and land-grant universities and the Department of Agriculture: reinventing agriculture, sustainable solutions, transforming communities, and building on tradition.
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UT wins SunShot Rooftop Solar Challenge
A University of Tennessee project, led by Dr. Bruce Tonn, was one of 22 teams across the country to be awarded the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Rooftop
Solar Challenge Award. “By streamlining permit processes, updating planning and zoning codes, improving standards for connecting solar power to the electric grid, and increasing access to financing, teams will clear a path for rapid expansion of solar energy
and serve as models for other communities across the nation.” (DOE, 2012). UT’s project is a joint collaboration between the Tennessee Solar Institute and the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy. Part of the project is to collect public input to guide
ongoing research, so the project has just launched a New Facebook page
and invites visitors to share.
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More about UT’s Solar Challenge Project
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Chancellor Cheek joins A۰P۰L۰U Presidents to Honor Lincoln’s Signing of 1862 Morrill Act
June 25, 2012 - Nearly 70 A۰P۰L۰U presidents and chancellors, dressed in academic attire, joined former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley and
leaders from the Library of Congress, National Academy of Sciences, and Carnegie Corporation of New York to lay a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial to honor President Abraham Lincoln and the 37th Congress for the bipartisan establishment of land-grant colleges
in 1862 that led to our country's state college system. The event commemorated the 150th anniversary of the passage of the Morrill Act, which established land-grant colleges by providing all eligible states with 30,000 acres of federal land to be used toward
establishing and funding educational institutions which promote “the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”
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People's SustainabilityTreaty on Higher Education
A group of over 30 agencies, organisations and associations
came together in 2012 to influence Rio + 20 dialogues. These stakeholders are rooted in different regions of the globe and actively engaged in sustainable development at the higher education level. The partnership, led by Copernicus Alliance with the support
of UNU IAS and the International Association of Universities has generated a
Higher Education Treaty for Rio+20. This Treaty is one of a series of People's Treaties developed to influence Rio+20 but also to make visible commitments across various sectors.
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Place as the Context, Service-Learning as the Strategy, and Sustainable Communities as the Goal
Community Works Journal online magazine is looking for stories, essays,
and reflections on learning experiences grounded in the local community and we need your help. Appropriate articles may be K-16 or community based. We are looking for stories of inspiration and challenge, articles that feature educators and students venturing
into new territory and involved in experiences that reflect on the power of community, learning, and service. Since 1995 Community Works Journal has provided a unique resource for educators and community members interested in the transformative power of education
that is directly connected to community.
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Deadline: Ongoing
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FUNDING:
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Funding Opportunity: Disaster Health Information Outreach And Collaboration
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a funding opportunity for small projects to improve access to disaster medicine and public health information
for health care professionals, first responders, and others that play a role in health-related disaster-preparedness, response and recovery. NLM seeks applications from partnerships that include at least one library and at least one non-library organization
that has disaster-related responsibilities, such as health departments, public safety departments, emergency management departments, pre-hospital and emergency medical services, fire/rescue, or other local, regional, or state agencies with disaster health
responsibilities; hospitals; faith-based and voluntary organizations active in disaster; and others.
NLM encourages innovative proposals that enhance mutually beneficial collaboration among libraries and disaster-related agencies. Contract awards will
be offered for a minimum of $15,000 to a maximum of $30,000 each for a one-year project.
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Deadline: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces 2012-13 Health & Society Scholars Call for Applications
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral scholars at all stages of their careers
to build the nation’s capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple determinants of population health and contribute to policy change. The program is based on the principle that progress in the field of population health depends upon multidisciplinary
collaboration and exchange. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to:
Investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and
Develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge, interventions and policies that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.
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Deadline: September 21, 2012
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NEW RESOURCES & READINGS:
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Resource of Free Educational Web Tools and Mobile Apps for Educators
One new resource from this site: Apple’s new “Tune In Series, ” a free series of webcast events covering the iPad and many of the technologies open to
all teachers and IT professionals.
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In response to a state humanities council question: What are the digital humanities, and what should we do about them?
(Steven Lubar on public humanities) “Digital humanities has three areas: (1) Digital tools that give us new ways to answer traditional questions: new
tools to examine traditional texts and images, and perhaps open up new kinds of texts for examination; (2) The traditional questions of the humanities, applied to help us to interrogate and understand the contemporary digital world; (3) Public digital humanities:
new forms of outreach using the web and other digital tools. This would include interactive presentations, mobile devices, and so on. . . As this kind of digital humanities increases, it will reconfigure the constellation of groups you work with. Digital work
not only makes cooperation easier; it also demands it. Data standards and systems interoperability means that groups have new reason to work together.”
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Evaluating public participation: instruments and implications for citizen involvement
The article presents two studies concerning the evaluation of public participation. Study 1 aimed to validate two instruments for measuring the process
and the outcome of a specific participatory procedure. Study 2 explored whether the participants' evaluation of process and outcome predicted the future involvement of citizens in the same type of practices. The results indicated that (a) “dialogue” and “knowledge/understanding”
appeared as distinct mechanisms and (b) participants who experienced respectful and collaborative relationships, and who positively evaluated the results achieved, were more likely to repeat a similar experience in the future, irrespective of the associated
cognitive gains. Implications for community development and empowerment processes are discussed.
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QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
July 2012:
August 2012:
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USDA Rural Cooperative Development Grants. Deadline August 6, 2012.
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NEH to award planning grants for public programming.
Proposals due August 15.
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The Women’s Initiative for photojournalists & photographers. Deadline: August 15, 2012.
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Foundation Announces Call for
Concept Applications for 2013. Deadline August 15, 2012.
September 2012:
October 2012:
November 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.
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Call for papers: International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering