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More than 130 people attended "Politics, Incivility & the Media" earlier this week at the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. If you missed it, a video of the event will be posted soon.

To See Photos/Learn about Upcoming Events

2. UT Development Officer to Present A-P-L-U Outreach and Engagement Session

Keith Barber, Vice Chancellor of Development for the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture, will co-present a session entitled “Citizen Alum: Engaging Alumni in Service to Higher Education” next month at the annual meeting of the Association for Public and Land-Grant University’s (A-P-L-U, formerly called NASUGLC). Barber’s co-presenter is David Weerts, member of the A-P-L-U’s Council on Engagement and Outreach, and author of ‘If only we told our story better…’: Re-envisioning state-university relations through the lens of public engagement.” (2011)

To Read Weerts’ Article

3. UT Faculty Publish Framework for Assessing Effectiveness of TN Higher Ed

(hat-tip to P. Allen Dupont, UTHSC) Professors David Wright, Grant Thrall, Celeste K. Carruthers, Matthew N. Murray, and William F. Fox have recently published an article, “Market Outcomes: An Input-Adjusted Framework for Assessing the Effectiveness of Tennessee’s Higher Education Institutions” as part of the Context for Success project. The objective of the Project, sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was to ask selected scholars of higher education to weigh in on the issues – both theoretical and practical – that need to be considered in designing “input-adjusted metrics” for judging the effectiveness of postsecondary institutions.

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4. Last chance: NSF "Becoming the Messenger" workshop

A National Science Foundation communications workshop designed to improve the public communications skills of researchers and communications officers will be held on the University of Tennessee campus on November 7-8, 2012. "Science: Becoming the Messenger" is designed to help university researchers at all experience and education levels communicate effectively with a broad public. Your students are welcome!! Public information and communications officers are also invited to attend. There is no registration fee, but preregistration is required. Sessions will be held in the UT Conference Center. TN-SCORE and the UT Office of Research are cohosting the event.

Online registration deadline: October 26, 2012

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5. International Association for Public Participation Seeks USA Board Nominations

IAP2 USA is a nonprofit organization which supports the advancement of public participation in the United States. Strengthening public engagement in solving complex problems and making difficult decisions of our times is now more critical than ever. New notions of what it means to be a community member or public servant are driving a demand for the wisdom and professional standards that IAP2 USA promotes. IAP2 USA has new opportunities to carry forward both a movement and a profession, to help deepen our democracy and to focus our collective attention on new skills, roles, norms and protocols, and invites nominations (including self-nominations) for members to serve on the 2013-15 IAP2 USA Board of Directors.

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CONFERENCES & PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES

6. Call for Papers: Kentucky Service-Learning & Civic Engagement Conference

Kentucky Campus Compact and its member institutions shall host the 2013 Gulf South Summit in Louisville, Kentucky, Feb. 27-March 1, 2013. This year’s conference theme: “Re-Engaging Democracy in the 21st Century: Preparing Students to Lead Civic-Minded Lives.” The recent publication, “A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future,” calls on the nation to reclaim higher education’s civic mission…calling on educators and public leaders to advance a 21st century vision of college learning for students—a vision with civic learning and democratic engagement an expected part of every student’s college education.”

Proposal Deadline: November 19, 2012

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7. Call for Proposals: North Carolina Civic Engagement Conference

North Carolina Campus Compact is now accepting workshop proposals for the 2013 PACE Conference. This annual conference is for community engagement faculty, staff, researchers and community partners who want to gain skills, knowledge and best practice models for a spectrum of civic engagement pedagogies and activities from service-learning to social entrepreneurship. Proposal deadline: December 10, 2012

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8. Call for Proposals: Feminist Methods and Community Engagement

Participatory action research, social justice, community engagement, service learning – these are just a few of the pedagogical and scholarly traditions currently in vogue. A special issue of Feminist Teacher wants to examine tactics and strategies that can open up new possibilities for students, faculty, administrators and community partners. Proposals are sought that attempt to connect with—or interrupt—community engagement work as a way to generate meaning in the lives of students, faculty, administrators and community partners.

Deadline: February 15, 2013

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9. Edna McConnell Clark Foundation: SIF Grants for Organizations Serving At-Risk Youth

Tell your community partners: EMCF plans to make investments in three to five nonprofits that help economically disadvantaged youth improve academic achievement, attain employment and avoid risky behaviors. Each investment may total up to $2-5 million over two to three years, with the largest amounts flowing to organizations with the strongest evidence and greatest growth potential.

Deadline: November 20, 2012.

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10. EmcArts Invites Proposals From Performing Arts Organizations for Innovation Lab Program

With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, EmcArts is accepting proposals for its Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts, an immersion program created to advance the development of new and innovative strategies by performing arts organizations in order to address well-defined adaptive challenges. The organizations will be examining three such challenges: (1) Dancewave: How can we build an innovative, structured curriculum that values both high artistic development and supporting services capable of decreasing delinquent behaviors and increasing engagement in at-risk members? (2) Geva: How can we forge a new bond between patrons and artists through engagement, relationship building and artist-patron centered programming that will create both deeper appreciation of and greater support of the artist’s voice? (3) ICE: How can we put the artist at the center of not only artistic but operational, decisions?

Deadline: December 4, 2012

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11. “Crowd funding” for Community Engagement: Does it Work?

Case Study: Arts Council of Greater New Haven hosts panel discussion with local leaders who discuss their experiences raising money with internet “crowdsourcing” or “crowd-funding” platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

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12. UT’s Ready for the World Funding

UT’s Ready for the World program provides funding opportunities for projects that promote international and intercultural awareness.

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13. 25 Ways to Boost Community Engagement on Your Website

A list of great ideas for anyone wanting to boost public interaction and interest in your website, blog, or facebook page. Check it out!

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14. The Urgency of Now: Report on Public Education and Black Males

The Schott Foundation has just released “The Urgency of Now: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males.” “…if we are to be totally honest,” writes CEO John H. Jackson, “the necessary systemic reforms and investments to significantly improve Black males’ outcomes and to provide them with a fair and substantive opportunity to learn have come at a painstakingly slow pace or not at all. . . only 10 percent of Black males in the United States are deemed proficient in 8th grade reading, and only 52% are graduating from high school in a four-year period. Thus the penal institutions remain populated with too many Black males and the classroom student rolls with too few.”

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15. 'Funding for the Arts' Month: Arts and Community Engagement

“More grantmakers also are coming to recognize the role the arts play in economic development and community revitalization. As documented by Americans for the Arts in its Arts & Economic Prosperity series, the nonprofit arts sector generates significant revenues, both direct and indirect, for communities in which those activities take place. But it also contributes to a stronger sense of social cohesion. Indeed, according to Civic Health and Unemployment II: The Case Builds, a report from the National Conference on Citizenship, communities with a robust ecosystem of nonprofit organizations that engage directly with residents tend to have lower unemployment rates.

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16. Using Mixed Methods to Measure the Perception of Community Capacity in an Academic–Community Partnership for a Walking Intervention

(Hat tip to CCPH- From Journal of Health Promotion Practice) H.U.B. City Steps is a 5-year community-based participatory research walking intervention designed to help lower blood pressure in a majority African American population in southern Mississippi via community collaboration and capacity building. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to assess how three groups of project stakeholders perceive the community capacity-building efforts of the project: researchers and staff, community advisory board, and intervention walking coaches.

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17. 12 Guidelines for Deciding When to Persist, When to Quit

(Harvard Business Review, Oct 23) “Efforts that begin with high hopes inevitably hit a disappointing sag. It's Kanter's Law: ‘Everything can look like a failure in the middle.’ In the messy middle, unexpected obstacles pop up because the path is uncharted. . . Tough challenges almost inevitably take longer and cost more than our optimistic predictions. That's why persistence and perseverance are important for anyone leading a new venture, change project, or turnaround. But the miserable middle offers a choice point: Do you stick with the venture and make mid-course corrections, or do you abandon it?”

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QUICK LINKS: ENGAGEMENT FUNDING, SUBMISSION CALLS, CONFERENCES, AND MORE:

October 2012:

· Apply Now to Attend 2nd National Community Partner Forum on Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research. Application Deadline: Oct. 12, 2012.

· Call for Nominations: Courage to Climb Award for UT students. Nomination deadline October 12, 2012.

· NSF CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) solicitation. Proposal Deadline October 12, 2012.