UT-REACH June 27, 2013

UT-REACH is published by the Office of Community Engagement & Outreach

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“Not experienced enough to know better, I bought the hype: that to be truly altruistic and efficient, we needed to operate at the highest possible levels of self-sacrifice.”

- Kjerstin Erickson, Special Project Fellow at GuideStar (June, 2013)

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ENGAGEMENT NEWS

1. UT’s Collaboration with Appalachian Teaching Project Enters 13th Year

2. UT-Project GRAD Partnership “Graduates” 130 High School Students

3. UTIA Faculty publish in JOE: Extension Agents' Perceptions of Performance Appraisal

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

4. CUMU Conference in Louisville, Kentucky

5. Kentucky Engagement Conference: Using Data to Make a Difference

6. Call for Book Chapters: Engagement in the Disrupted University

FUNDING

7. Central Appalachian ERC seeks Pilot Projects on Occupational Safety, Health

8. HUD: Regional Design Competition to Promote Resilience For The Sandy-Affected Region

9. Sunlight Foundation: Open-Source Technology Projects That Foster Greater Government Transparency

NEW RESOURCES & READING

10. Confessions of a Do-Gooder Who Starved an Organization

11. Idea File: Virginia Commonwealth University ASPiRE Program

12. Focus Group Interviewing 101

13. Learn More: STEM High Schools Built on More Than Science and Math

14. New Book from NERCHE: Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education: Forging New Pathways

15. NIH : Development, Funding, and Peer-Review for Community-Engaged Research

16. New Online: June Issue of Research Ethics Journal

17. Generator School Network (GSN) : Free Online Community & Resource

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ENGAGEMENT NEWS

1. UT’s Collaboration with Appalachian Teaching Project Enters 13th Year

UT’s Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP), directed by Dr. Tim Ezzell, is among most sustained student engagement/service learning initiatives on the Knoxville campus. The ATP is a partnership of 15 colleges and universities and the Appalachian Regional Commission, a Federal agency established by an act of Congress in 1965. The project gives college students the opportunity to engage directly with Appalachian communities in research projects that address endemic challenges facing those communities. Student projects are presented at a conference held each year in Washington, D.C. UT’s 2013-14 project will examine the potential economic impact and social consequences of new and emerging technologies on small rural communities. Using Ducktown, Tennessee (pop. 427) as a case study, students will examine a wide range of issues and policy topics, including workforce development, infrastructure, local perceptions, and local capacity.

UT’s 2012 ATP project: http://www.etsu.edu/cass/projects/ut/2012.aspx

Contact: Tim Ezzell, [log in to unmask]

2. UT-Project GRAD Partnership “Graduates” 130 High School Students

130 Knoxville high school students “graduated” from UT this month, as part of the Project –GRAD Knoxville Summer Institute, a one week college-readiness and college scholarship program co-sponsored by UT. To qualify for participating in the the UT residency, all students had to have completed a previous Summer Institute session at Pellissippi State Community College. Project-GRAD Knoxville is a public-private partnership with a mission to impact generational change through education. GRAD’s K-16 approach as the premier nationally recognized college/career program focuses on: (1) college/career access and success; (2) social services support, (3) family, neighborhood & community engagement, and (4) intentional support for disadvantaged students.

http://www.projectgradknoxville.org/

3. UTIA Faculty publish in JOE: Extension Agents' Perceptions of Performance Appraisal

UT Extension Specialist Joseph Donaldson and UT Professor Emeritus Russell French are co-authors of Tennessee Extension Agents' Perceptions of Performance Appraisal. The Journal of Extension (JOE) is the official refereed journal of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System, and brings the scholarship of university outreach and engagement to educators and practitioners around the world. Dr. Donaldson is also lending his considerable expertise to the UTK-UTIA writing team for our upcoming, joint application for the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification!

http://www.joe.org/

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

4. CUMU Conference in Louisville, Kentucky

With the theme “Transforming and Sustaining Communities through Partnerships,” this year’s Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities’ conference will highlight exemplary university/community partnerships that are transforming communities in areas such as education, health, environment, and economic and community development.

Deadline: Register by June 30 to get early-bird discount

http://cumuonline.org/conference/

5. Kentucky Engagement Conference: Using Data to Make a Difference

The Kentucky Engagement Conference is now accepting proposals for poster sessions and oral/panel sessions for its 2013 conference. This year's conference will take place on November 6, 2013, at Eastern Kentucky University. The theme of the 2013 Kentucky Engagement Conference is "The Impact of Engagement: Using Data to Make a Difference."

Deadline for Proposals: June 30, 2013

http://kycompact.nku.edu

6. Call for Book Chapters: Engagement in the Disrupted University

As part of The Center for Engaged Democracy’s Palgrave’s Pivot Series, Book editors Scott Crabill, (Oakland University) & Dan W. Butin, (Merrimack College) are soliciting chapter submissions for their forthcoming book, Engagement in the Disrupted University: The Future of Civic and Community Engagement in the Age of Online Learning.

Deadlines: Inquiries and submission of a 1000 word précis due by July 1, 2013, with final chapter submission expected in late 2013: publication slated for spring 2014.

http://www.merrimack.edu/live/files/479-call-for-chapterscivic-and-online-1pdf

FUNDING

7. Central Appalachian ERC Seeks Pilot Projects on Occupational Safety, Health

The Central Appalachian Regional Education and Research Center is seeking proposals to support pilot projects addressing occupational safety and health concerns in mining, forestry and logging, manufacturing, transportation/trucking, law enforcement, and other hazardous career activities. The projects must address the needs of at-risk workers in 177 central Appalachian counties in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Doctoral students, post-docs, occupational medicine residents, junior faculty, and faculty new to occupational safety and health may apply. Awards may range to $12,000, and the study must be completed by June 30, 2014. The University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University are leading the program, which is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Deadline: September 1, 2013 — submission of application

Details: http://www.mc.uky.edu/erc/research/

8. HUD: Regional Design Competition to Promote Resilience For The Sandy-Affected Region

In an effort to promote resilience for the Sandy-affected region, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has just launched REBUILD BY DESIGN, a multi-stage regional design competition. The goal of the competition is to attract world-class talent, promote innovation and develop projects that will actually be built. Once the best ideas are identified, HUD will incentivize their implementation using funds made available through the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery. Please read solicitation for staging deadlines and other details.

Deadline for Stage 1: Friday, July 19, 2013

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/sandyrebuilding/rebuildbydesign

9. Sunlight Foundation: Open-Source Technology Projects That Foster Greater Government Transparency

The Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that uses cutting-edge technology and ideas to make government transparent and accountable. Through its OpenGov Grants program, the foundation will award one-time grants ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 to support the development of civic innovation tools, apps or web sites; tools that facilitate data sharing with the public; efforts to collect government data at all levels.

Deadline: Rolling

http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/grants/opengovgrants/ata

NEW RESOURCES & READING

10. Confessions of a Do-Gooder Who Starved an Organization “Not experienced enough to know better, I bought the hype: that to be truly altruistic and efficient, we needed to operate at the highest possible levels of self-sacrifice… Overhead is not dirty because it represents inefficiency, waste, and greed; it is dirty because of the powerful myth it has promulgated. That myth – the one that equates “low” overhead with high performance and “high” overhead with greed and irresponsibility – leads to a very dangerous and unsustainable outcome.”

http://overheadmyth.com/nonprofit-emaciation/

11. Idea File: Virginia Commonwealth University ASPiRE Program

VCU’s ASPiRE is a living-learning community that supports both curricular and co-curricular experiences in a new residence hall that hosts up to 450 undergraduate students. This new video was created to introduce potential students, community partners, and others to this unique program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8fxDPtIJk8

12. Focus Group Interviewing 101

(Hat-tip CCPH) Focus group interviewing is widely used by academic and applied researchers. Given the popularity and strengths of this method, it is surprising how rarely focus group interviewing is taught in the undergraduate classroom. This article, Teaching Focus Group Interviewing: Benefits and Challenges, describes how to integrate a complete research project with student-led focus groups into a single semester course.

http://tso.sagepub.com/content/41/3/257.abstract?etoc

13. Learn More: STEM High Schools Built on More Than Science and Math

(U.S. News & World Report, June 20, 2013) STEM high schools, such as Knoxville’s L&N Academy, are not built on science, technology, engineering and math courses, said Aimee Kennedy, chief academic officer of Metro Early College High School in Ohio. "If that's all it took to be considered a STEM school, any school in the country could do it," Kennedy said Wednesday during a panel discussion at the 2013 U.S. News STEM Solutions conference in Austin. Instead, these niche schools are built on project-based learning, critical thinking and collaboration - a model that can be replicated at schools across the country, according to STEM school leaders.

http://news.yahoo.com/stem-high-schools-built-more-science-math-153619991.html;_ylt=A2KJ2PYiSsNRty0AtmjQtDMD

14. New Book from NERCHE: Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education: Forging New Pathways

Release Date: September 19, 2013 Ariane Hoy (Editor), Dr. Mathew Johnson (Editor), Robert Hackett, Heather Schill, Patrick Gruber, Abby Kiesa, Nicole Saylor, John Saltmarsh, Marshall Welch, & Ashley Cochrane demonstrate how colleges and universities can increase the engagement of their students, faculty, and institutional resources in their communities. This volume features strategies to make this work deep, pervasive, integrated, and developmental. Respected scholars and practitioners at more than a dozen campuses present proven models for student leadership and development, sustained partnerships, faculty engagement, and the institutionalization of campus centers.

http://www.nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1264:deepening-community-engagement-in-higher-education-forging-new-pathways&catid=915&Itemid=113

15. NIH : Development, Funding, and Peer-Review for Community-Engaged Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's Council of Public Representatives has produced this article to advance community engagement in research. Community Engagement in Research: Frameworks for Education and Peer Review describes frameworks that funders and educational institutions can use to develop community engagement in research training programs and peer-review processes that include values, strategies to operationalize each value, and potential outcomes of their use, as well as a peer-review framework for evaluating research that engages communities.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901283/

16. New Online: June Issue of Research Ethics Journal

(Hat-tip CCPH) Research Ethics is aimed at all readers and authors interested in ethical issues in research, the regulation of research and the procedures and process of ethical review. The journal aims to promote, provoke, host and engage in open and public debate about research ethics but also to contribute to the education of researchers and reviewers of research. Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. The quality of submitted articles is evaluated independently by double-blind peer review.

http://rea.sagepub.com/content/9/2.toc?etoc&utm_campaign=G_ALL_F_2013&utm_medium=interest&utm_source=social_Facebook&utm_content=Visibility_and_reach_O&utm_term=Research_Methods_and_Evaluation

17. Generator School Network (GSN) : Free Online Community & Resource

The National Youth Leadership Council NYLC launched GSN in 2009 as an online community of adult educators committed to improving their service-learning practice. To date, more than 2,800 youth and adult members have shared 436 projects and 1600 resources. Membership is free and includes: free professional development opportunities such as monthly webinars, access to recorded webinars, and over 1,200 free resources; access to hundreds of service-learning projects posted by other professionals from the field; meeting space to convene peers from anywhere in the world by creating a group online; and access to more than 200 active conversations on topics that will inspire your creativity.

http://www.nylc.org/generator-school-network

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

June 2013:

· NSF: Mentoring Through Critical Transition Points in the Mathematical Sciences. Deadline: June 4, 2013.

· Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring. Proposals due: June 5, 2013 (and annually thereafter, in June).

· ASPB Education Foundation: Advancing Public Knowledge & Appreciation of Plants. Deadline: June 6, 2013.

· Project:Connect-Summer Youth Programming Competition. Deadline: Online applications are due June 10, 2013, at 5pm PST.

· Spencer Foundation: How K-8 Student Performance Data Informs Instruction. Deadline: June 11, 2013 (Preliminary proposals).

· EPICS conference: Integrating Design and Service-Learning within the Curriculum. Conference Dates: June 12-14, 2013.

· RGK Foundation: Education, Community, and Health/Medicine Grants. 2013 Review Deadlines: March 1, June 14, & September 20.

· AHRQ: Closing the Gap in Healthcare Disparities through Dissemination and Implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research. Letter of Intent: June 14, 2013.

· NSF: Workforce Program in the Mathematical Sciences. Deadline: June 15, 2013.