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UT-REACH for August 2, 2012
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I can describe the food and the people and the weather; I cannot do enough justice with description to explain what it is like to watch tears roll down the cheeks of a former
child soldier who is crying not because of lost time in the bush, or over his years spent struggling to get an education, but because he is lonely; he is finally about to earn his degree, but the
war took all of the people he would have like to have shared his success with.
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UT Student
Hannah Durick, writing from Uganda
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OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT NEWS:
1.
UT Faculty and Service-Learning Students: Now Blogging in Uganda
2.
Update on 2015 Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification
CONFERENCES & PAPERS
4.
The Role of Higher Education in Local and Regional Social and Economic Development
FUNDING
5.
NEA Funding for Research on How Art Works
8.
Center for Global Partnership Accepting Applications for Journalist Fellowships
9.
HRSA: R40 Maternal and Child Health Research Program (MCHR)
NEW READINGS & RESOURCES
10.
Broader Impacts Idea: AcademicRoom.com
11.
Inventory of Tools to Assess Capacity, Support, and Outcomes of Community Engagement
13.
Effective Community Engagement with “Flipped” Strategic Planning
14.
Civic Engagement Linked to Urban Planning
QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
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OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT NEWS:
1.
Engaged Faculty and Service-Learning Students: Now Blogging in Uganda
The University of Tennessee’s summer Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program in Northern Uganda, officially launched in 2011, combines academics with internships
in order to facilitate learning while allowing students to work with individuals and groups who are promoting peace and development in this war-affected region. Professors Trish Hepner (Anthropology) and Rosalind Hackett (Religious Studies), along with their
students, are currently documenting their experiences in real time,
2.
Update on 2015 Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification
2015 will be the next opportunity for campuses to receive the Elective Community Engagement Classification. An announcement about the application process will be posted on the NERCHE website early in January 2013. The deadline for registering to apply is May
1, 2013; applications will be released in September, 2013, and are due in April 2014.
3.
Rewarding Community-Engaged Scholarship: a Request from
The Community-Engaged Scholarship Partnership in Canada
Increasingly, universities are addressing complex local, regional, and global issues by engaging with key stakeholders outside of the academy. For most
universities, however, the incentives and supports needed for faculty to engage in this way are not widely in place.
The Community-Engaged Scholarship Partnership in Canada is seeking examples of faculty reward and recognition language related to community engagement and community-engaged
scholarship (CES). This might be found in tenure and promotion criteria, annual performance review criteria, collective agreement provisions and departmental and faculty-level policies. The group will be compiling examples of supportive language to share with
colleagues at other universities. Please contact Ijeoma Madueke, Research Assistant, CES Partnership Faculty Assessment Workgroup, at
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CONFERENCES & PAPERS
4.
The Role of Higher Education in Local and Regional Social and Economic Development
PASCAL International Observatory is holding its 10th Conference in Brest, France, October 29-31, 2012. Early-bird registration has been extended to August
31st. Conference will be conducted in English. Conference themes: local development in the context of an aging population; healthy cities; contribution of universities in a time of crisis; the role of higher education institutions in remote regions
and territorial impact. Founded in 2002, PASCAL International connects policy makers, practitioners and researchers to exchange cutting-edge knowledge and practices that foster regional development that balances economic efficiency and social equity. PASCAL
is a response to the growing international demand from cities, regional and local governments and other organizations for knowledge and expertise.
FUNDING
5.
NEA Funding for Research on How Art Works
The NEA will make awards to support research on how "art works." Consistent with its strategic plan, the NEA distinguishes between research projects seeking
to define value for the U.S. arts sector, and those seeking to demonstrate the arts' impact on American life. "Value"-oriented research will measure or otherwise clarify one or more components of how Americans participate in the arts. Such research
also may probe the underlying conditions and vehicles for arts participation; for instance, it can examine how key inputs such as training, education, and infrastructure, directly affect arts creation, arts audiences, or other aspects of arts engagement.
Deadline: November 6, 2012
6.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Invites Applications for New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming Midcareer Consultant Program
The program invites midcareer consultants from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to address program priorities for RWJF's teams and portfolios. These priorities include childhood obesity, healthcare coverage, human capital,
public health, healthcare quality/equality, and vulnerable populations. Up to
three grants of up to $100K.
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August 29, 2012 (Brief Proposals)
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Tikkun Olam Grant Program
The goal of the Jewish Helping Hands’ Tikkun Olam grant program in 2012 is to inspire and support
tzedakah, or justice and righteousness, in projects that will make a tangible and lasting difference in the lives of the populations served. This fund will support projects that focus on reaching needy and vulnerable populations in the United States
and abroad, particularly those that have been overlooked or marginalized. Through cooperation with local communities, JHH hopes to support programs and projects that are sustainable and scalable through financial and hands-on support. Grants of up to $5,000
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Deadline: October 1, 2012 (Letter of Application)
8.
Center for Global Partnership Accepting Applications for Journalist Fellowships
The Abe Fellowship for Journalists is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern to the United States and Japan through individual short-term policy-related projects. The Program defines policy-relevant research
as the study of existing public policies for the purpose of: a) deepening understanding of those policies and their consequences; and b) formulating more effective policies. Policy-relevance also pertains to the public dialogue on contemporary social issues.
Fellowships will provide stipends of up to $25,600.
[log in to unmask]" alt="Description: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/images/spacer.gif">Deadline:
September 15, 2012
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HRSA: R40 Maternal and Child Health Research Program (MCHR)
This program supports applied research relating to maternal and child health services including services for children with special health care needs, which show promise of substantial contribution to advancement of the current knowledge
pool, and when used in States and communities should result in health and health services improvements. Findings supported by the MCH Research Program are expected to have potential for application in health care delivery programs for mothers and children. Research
proposals should address critical MCH questions such as public health systems and infrastructure, health disparities, quality of care, and promoting the health of MCH populations, which also support the goals of the Health Resources and Services Administration.
Deadline: September 12, 2012
NEW READINGS & RESOURCES
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Broader Impacts Idea: AcademicRoom.com
Academic Room is a social enterprise that facilitates the sharing of academic material online. Its mission is to democratize access to scholarly resources, which are organized in over 10,000 academic sub-disciplines. Academic Room was selected as a finalist
in the 2012 MITX Innovation Awards, and is also listed among as a finalist in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2012 list of top “Technology Innovators”
11.
Inventory of Tools to Assess Capacity, Support, and Outcomes of Community Engagement
This inventory is designed as a resource for those interested in assessing university capacity, support, and outcomes for community
engagement and community-engaged scholarship (CE/CES). Developed through a search of primarily quantitative assessment tools identified within the grey literature and peer-reviewed articles, this inventory should be treated as a starting point for discussion.
Community Engagement involves collaborating with other people – and make no mistake,
collaboration is extraordinarily difficult. It is also extraordinarily beautiful and even funny sometimes.
Click through to watch
this video, and be sure to scroll down to see what “Dancing Matt” learned while he was making it.
13.
Effective Community Engagement with “Flipped” Strategic Planning
The Nanaimo Ladysmith school district chose to adopt a type of flipped strategic planning, an “inquiry model approach”
in which engagement with their community became their vehicle for school and district planning. This approach allowed the district to get its community involved and contributing in meaningful ways, while also allowing the community to jointly approve and monitor
the plan’s effectiveness.
14.
Civic Engagement Linked to Urban Planning
(Vancouver Sun, June 25, 2012)
There is a strong relationship between the way neighborhoods, town and cities have been planned, designed and developed over the last five or six decades and an associated
decline in civic engagement in those communities. The Vancouver Foundation recently published the results of a survey that begins to delve into what prevents people from being more connected with their fellow citizens and neighborhoods.
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QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT PAPERS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:
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:
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HRSA:
R40 Maternal and Child Health Research Program (MCHR). Deadline: September 12, 2012.
October 2012:
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NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) solicitation. Proposal Deadline October 12, 2012.
November 2012:
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NEA Funding for Research on How Art Works. Deadline: November 6, 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
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