UT-REACH September 12, 2013

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

https://www.facebook.com/UTKCommunityEngagement

******

“Universities need better ways to measure their impact on surrounding communities, according to a new report. “The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs,” released on Tuesday by the Democracy Collaborative, a research center at the University of Maryland at College Park, seeks to provide the basis for such a methodology in the form of a broad set of goals for communities and indicators of progress toward those goals.”

- The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 10, 2013 (more, below)

******

ENGAGEMENT NEWS

1. Physical Activity Assessment in the Real World: A Safe Routes to School Learning Experience for Kinesiology Students

2. What Does an “Engaged” University Look Like?

3. UT Faculty & Students Receive HRSA Funds to Partner with Local Community for Disaster Preparedness

4. UT Honors 50th Anniversary of Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

5. Architecture Professors to Present on Solar House at Tomorrow's Science Forum

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

6. Early Bird Deadline: "Transforming and Sustaining Communities through Partnerships” CUMU Conference

7. Early Bird Deadline: “Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness” Campus Compact Conference

FUNDING

8. 2013 Call for Proposals: UTK Engagement Funding

9. NSF: Research on Education & Learning (REAL)

10. NSF: Discovery Research K-12 (DRK-12)

11. $100K Prize Honoring Young Innovators for Social Justice

NEW RESOURCES & READING

12. New Report: The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs

13. TRUCEN Announces 4th Edition of Engagement Toolkit

14. Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (TED Talks video)

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

******

ENGAGEMENT NEWS

1. Physical Activity Assessment in the Real World: A Safe Routes to School Learning Experience for Kinesiology Students

This week, UT-REACH celebrates 2012-13 Outreach Grant Winner Eugene Fitzhugh, Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies. Fitzhugh and his students partnered with Knox County to evaluate the effectiveness of a “Walking School Bus” program. Knox County's program was named this summer by First Lady Michelle Obama as an exemplar of the national Let's Move program.

http://service.utk.edu/funding/examples/eugene-fitzhugh/

2. What Does an “Engaged” University Look Like?

Julie E. Williams, Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach at the University of New Hampshire, will deliver a special presentation on Sept 26 in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Open and free to the public. Please encourage your colleagues, students, and community partners to attend. Julie is a UT Alumna, too!

Key Date: Thursday, September 26, 1-2 pm in the Hodges Library Auditorium.

http://www.utk.edu/events/index.php?eID=53814

3. UT Faculty & Students Receive HRSA Funds to Partner with Local Community for Disaster Preparedness

Nursing professors in the Global Disaster Nursing program are working with architecture and environmental engineering professors, law enforcement professionals, graduate students, and Clay County community partners to improve the area’s community wellness and disaster preparedness. The project is made possible through a $1.5 million grant over three years from the US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2013/09/06/ut-nursing-professors-aim-prepare-appalachian-region-worst/

4. UT Honors 50th Anniversary of Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

On September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded in a basement lounge of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and injuring more than 20 others, an event that that altered the course of the Civil Rights movement--and led to the final push for voting rights and achieving the 1965 Voting Rights Act. UT Libraries have prepared a library display and resource guide. A special campus screening of Spike Lee’s film, "4 Little Girls" will be sponsored tomorrow by Multicultural Student Life, UT Libraries, and OUTreach Resource Center. This quietly gripping documentary examines race relations and civil rights in the 1960s by exploring the people and events involved in this watershed crime.

Four Little Girls Screening: Friday, September 13, 12:00 p.m., Hodges Library Room 129

UT Resource Guide: http://libguides.utk.edu/content.php?pid=509285&sid=4190969

5. Architecture Professors to Present on Solar House at Tomorrow's Science Forum

Living Light, the award-winning solar house built for the 2011 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, will be the topic of the second Science Forum of the semester. Amy Howard, architect and director of development, and James Rose, adjunct assistant professor and interim director of the Institute for Smart Structures, will present “The UT Solar House—A Prototype for Zero-Energy Living,” tomorrow in the Thompson-Boling Arena. Bring a lunch: event is free and open to the public.

Key Date: Friday, September 13, Room C-D of the Thompson-Boling Arena.

http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2013/09/11/architecture-professors-present-solar-house-science-forum/

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

6. Early Bird Deadline: "Transforming and Sustaining Communities through Partnerships” CUMU Conference

Sign up by Friday, Sept. 13 to save $100 on registration. Friday is your last chance to snag an early bird rate for the 2013 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Conference, to be held October 27-29, 2013 at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Accommodations are also filling up quickly. If reserving over the phone, be sure to mention that you are with CUMU to get a special rate.

Key Dates: Early Bird Registration: September 13, 2013; Conference: October 27-29, 2013

http://www.cumuonline.org/conference/

7. Early Bird Deadline: “Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness” Campus Compact Conference

The Eastern Region Campus Compact's Conference will be held October 23-25, 2013 at Philadelphia’s Downtown Marriott. Features include: Pre-Conference Institutes; Presentations by Kerry Ann O’Meara, Tim Stanton, Matt Hartley, Laurie Worrall, Barbara Holland, Wendell Pritchett, and others; Campus-Wide Assessment Summit (for all participants); Concurrent Workshop Sessions; Poster Sessions; and Presidents Panel, moderated by Dr. Ira Harkavy.

Key Dates: Early Bird Registration: September 13, 2013; Hotel Registration Deadline: October 2nd; Conference: October 27-29, 2013

www.ercompact.org

FUNDING

8. 2013 Call for Proposals: UTK Engagement Funding

As part of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s commitment to community collaboration and engaged scholarship, the Chancellor provides special project funding for proposals that specifically enhance the public engagement mission of the university. Proposals may be for community-engaged projects or partnerships that promote the principles of engagement as applied to research, teaching, or outreach. The 2013 program is primarily directed at faculty-led initiatives, though the involvement of students is encouraged. Prospective applicants are also strongly encouraged to review funding guidelines and previously-funded projects.

Application Deadline: October 4^th, 2013, 5 pm

Full Announcement: http://service.utk.edu/funding/

9. NSF: Research on Education & Learning (REAL)

What is distinctive about the new REAL program is the emphasis placed on the accumulation of robust evidence to inform efforts to (a) understand, (b) build theory to explain, and (c) suggest interventions (and innovations) to address persistent challenges in STEM interest, education, learning, and participation.

Key Dates: Letter of Intent due October 25^th, 2013; Proposals due 1/10/14.

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13667

10. NSF: Discovery Research K-12 (DRK-12)

The Discovery Research K-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools (RMTs). Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.

Deadline: December 6^th, 2013

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500047

11. $100K Prize Honoring Young Innovators for Social Justice

The Grinnell Prize — which annually presents winners with a prize of $100,000 — honors young innovators under the age of 40 who have demonstrated leadership in their fields and who show creativity, commitment and extraordinary accomplishment in effecting positive social change. The program especially seeks nominations of those who work in areas that may not be traditionally viewed as directly connected to social justice, such as the arts and business. No affiliation with Grinnell College is required.

Deadline: November 8^th, 2013

http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/studentaffairs/chaplain/socialjusticeprize

NEW RESOURCES & READING

12. New Report: The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs

(Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/10/2013) “Universities need better ways to measure their impact on surrounding communities, according to a new report. ‘The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs,’ released on Tuesday by the Democracy Collaborative, a research center at the University of Maryland at College Park, seeks to provide the basis for such a methodology in the form of a broad set of goals for communities and indicators of progress toward those goals.” (H/T Engagement Scholarship Consortium)

To see report & indicators for measuring community impact: http://community-wealth.org/indicators

13. TRUCEN Announces 4th Edition of Engagement Toolkit

The Research Universities Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) has just released the fourth edition of the Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit, which can be accessed on the Compact website here: http://www.compact.org/initiatives/trucen/trucen-toolkit/

14. Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability (TED Talks video)

Engaged Scholarship sometimes entails looking at research and data in different ways; Community engagement entails looking at ourselves in different ways, too. In this funny and inspiring talk, research professor Brené Brown (University of Houston) addresses the scholarship of connection in the context of her past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She poses the question: How do we learn to embrace our own vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can more fully engage in our own lives and those of others?

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

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

September 2013:

· BTtoP: Engaged Learning, Civic Engagement & Development, and Psychosocial Well-Being of College Students. Deadline: Proposals are accepted on quarterly deadlines through 2014 (June 15, September 15, December 15, and March 15).

· Call for book chapters due Sep 15: Feminist Community Engagement.Deadline: Précis (1,000 words max) due September 15, 2013.

· Call for Conference Proposals: Equity, Power, and Progress: Understanding and Changing Systems to Promote Social Justice. Deadline extended to Sept 15, 2013

· Knoxville Parks & Recreation seeks proposals for challenge grants. Deadline: Sept 16, 2013.

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

· Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Health & Society Scholars Program. Deadline: September 20, 2013.

· Pollination Project : Seed grants for School Social Change Projects. Deadline: September 22, 2013.

· W.K. Kellogg Foundation: family engagement to support early childhood education success. Letter of intent due Sept 23, 2013.

· Call for Proposals: National Service-Learning Conference. Deadline: September 27, 2013.