UT-REACH October 3, 2013

 

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Dr. Julie E. Williams, senior vice provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach at the University of New Hampshire, addressing a UT audience during her Sept. 26  lecture, What Does an Engaged University Look Like?  (photo: Andelyn Barclay, The Daily Beacon)

 

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ENGAGEMENT NEWS

1.      UT’s Paul Terry: Engaging the Community For Life

2.      Making Art Side-by-Side with University Assisted Community School Students

3.      UT's Landscape Architecture Program Partners with City, PlanET, to Protect Water Sources

4.      Three UT Fulbright Scholars to Focus on International Concerns

5.      UT Social & Environmental Impact Fair

 

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

6.      Call for Papers: Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

7.      Nashville Conference: Taking Protection of Human Subjects to the Next Level

8.      Anchor Institutions Task Force Conference Registration Now Open

 

FUNDING

9.      LAST CALL: 2013 Call for Proposals:  UTK Engagement Funding

10.  Highlander Center: Appalachian Transition Fellowship

11.  Making All Voices Count: International Grand Challenge for Development

12.  A Blade of Grass:  Socially Engaged Art

13.  Open Society Foundations Fellowships

 

NEW RESOURCES & READING

14.  Community-engaged research expert participates in Congressional briefing

15.  New: NIEHS Manual: Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Evaluation

16.  Community-Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education: An Action Agenda

17.  New Online: Social Metrics Primer

18.  Interactive Map: 2012 Poverty Data by Congressional District

 

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

 

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ENGAGEMENT NEWS

 

1.      UT’s Paul Terry: Engaging the Community For Life

This week we're celebrating the community-engaged work of Dr. Paul Terry!  Terry, associate professor of public health, received a 2012 Outreach Incentive Grant to engage the community in two large-scale educational seminars on the importance of colorectal cancer screening, an effective but underused way of saving lives.

More: http://service.utk.edu/funding/examples/paul-terry/

 

2.      Making Art Side-by-Side with University Assisted Community School Students

Stephanie Cramer, Assistant Professor, Theory & Practice in Teacher Education,  used her 2012 Outreach Incentive grant to make art with UAS children and then to exhibit it at both the Beck Cultural Arts and Exchange Center and the Knoxville Museum of Art.  Cramer was UTK Community Engagement’s Facebook star all last week!

More: http://service.utk.edu/funding/examples/elizabeth-stephanie-cramer/

 

3.      UT's Landscape Architecture Program Partners with City, PlanET, to Protect Water Sources

UT faculty and students worked with the City of Knoxville and the Plan East Tennessee (PlanET) to create a guide to protect the region’s water sources. This regional initiative was supported by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

More: https://issuu.com/utkcoad/docs/2013_0807_-_lid_opportunities_for_t/3?e=0

 

4.      Three UT Fulbright Scholars to Focus on International Concerns

Wanda Costen, associate professor in Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management;  Scott Frey, professor of sociology and co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice;  and Rebecca Klenk, lecturer in interdisciplinary programs and affiliated faculty member with the Anthropology Department and the Disaster, Displacement, and Human Rights Program were selected for prestigious Fulbright Scholarships for their work in international communities.

More:  http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2013/10/01/costen-frey-klenk-named-fulbright-scholars/?utm_source=tntoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2013-10-03

 

5.      UT Social & Environmental Impact Fair Oct 9!

UT’s Career Service’s Center for Impact Careers and the Center for Leadership and Service will host the Social & Environmental Impact Fair for students interested in career, intern, volunteer and Service Corps opportunities in social impact and environmental sustainability.

Date:  October 9, 2013, 2-5 pm, UC Ballroom

Details: http://impactcareers.utk.edu/impact-career-program/social-environmental-impact-fair/

 

 

PAPERS, PROPOSALS, CONFERENCES & WEBINARS

 

6.      Call for Papers: Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy

Special Issue of the Journal calls for submissions that critically and creatively consider both media and methods that open up traditional educational settings to more democratic and diverse modes of learning and knowledge production.

Deadline: October 20, 2013

More:  http://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/   

 

7.      Nashville Conference: Taking Protection of Human Subjects to the Next Level

The Office for Human Research Protections Research Community Forum will be hosted in Nashville, TN by Vanderbilt University in partnership with Meharry Medical College and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The RCF will be a two-day event focused on the regulatory and ethical issues for protecting human subjects.  (H/T @CCPH2010/Twitter)

Key Dates: Conference October 24th and 25th, 2013. at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel.

Details: http://www.cvent.com/events/innovative-strategies-taking-the-protection-of-human-subjects-to-the-next-level/agenda-e35ffa5d19e84aae89c4a460d66f56c2.aspx

 

8.      Anchor Institutions Task Force Conference Registration Now Open

The Anchor Institutions Task Force is an ongoing think tank developing long-term strategies, and making the case for the crucial role of anchor institutions in economic and community development.

Date of Conference:  December 10, 2013, John Hopkins University

Details: http://www.margainc.com/initiatives/aitf

 

FUNDING

 

NOTE: In the wake of the federal shutdown, UT has some information from federal sponsors to share with you. UT’s website will be updated daily:  see http://research.utk.edu/budget-outlook/   

 

9.      LAST CALL: 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/

 

10.  Highlander Center: Appalachian Transition Fellowship

This new program that will offer emerging leaders and host communities an opportunity to engage in community based projects, training, and mentoring that will advance economic and social change in the region to create an economically just an thriving Central Appalachia. This fellowship application process will open soon: community host sites are currently being finalized.

Details: http://www.appfellows.org/

 

11.  Making All Voices Count: International Grand Challenge for Development

Making All Voices Count is a global initiative that supports innovation, scaling-up, and research to deepen existing innovations and help harness new technologies to enable citizen engagement and government responsiveness.  Making All Voices Count is supported by the U.K Department for International Development, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and many others.  (H/T @CCPH2010/Twitter)

Deadline: November 8, 2013

Details: http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/

 

12.  A Blade of Grass:  Socially Engaged Art

A Blade of Grass funds artists who are working in leadership roles, in active partnership with communities, in ways that are relevant in everyday life, at ambitious scale, to enact social change. The program also offers project support to arts organizations that enable ambitious relevant socially engaged art projects by placing artists in leaderships roles and building active and sustainable community partnerships. With all our grants and fellowships, we prioritize initiatives that happen outside traditional art contexts by actively engaging communities in a meaningful way.

Deadline: December 2, 2013 (Letters of Interest)

Details: http://www.abladeofgrass.org/application/guidelines/

 

13.  Open Society Foundations Fellowships

The Open Society Fellowship supports individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches that will enrich public understanding of fundamental open society challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world. Applicants should possess a deep understanding of their chosen subject and a track record of professional accomplishment. Note: fellowship does not fund enrollment for degree or non-degree study at academic institutions, including dissertation research. Stipends of up to $100,000.

Deadline: February 1, 2014

Details: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/open-society-fellowship

 

 

NEW RESOURCES & READING

 

14.  Community-engaged research expert participates in Congressional briefing

(Friday, Sept. 27, 2013) Steven Woolf, M.D., professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, was one of four featured speakers on Capitol Hill this week discussing, “What’s Ailing America?”   “This was an important briefing because it carried the message to Congress that the research to solve the U.S. health disadvantage will not occur exclusively in laboratories or teaching hospitals,” Woolf said.  (H/T @CCPH2010/Twitter)

More: http://www.news.vcu.edu/article/Whats_ailing_America

 

15.  New: NIEHS Manual: Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Evaluation

The Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Evaluation Metrics Manual, produced by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (a subset of NIH), provides examples of tangible metrics that PEPH grantees and program staff can use for both planning and evaluation. Example logic models are used as a means to develop evaluation metrics for cross-cutting PEPH themes such as Partnerships, Leveraging, Products and Dissemination, Education and Training and Capacity Building. PEPH grantees (including all project partners) are the primary target audience for this document.

Details: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/sphb/programs/peph/metrics/index.cfm

 

16.  Community-Engaged Scholarship in Higher Education: An Action Agenda

The latest issue of Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning includes an article co-authored by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's senior consultant Sherril Gelmon, CES4Health Editor Cathy Jordan, and CCPH Executive Director Sarena Seifer.  The article makes recommendations for how higher education can fully embrace community-engaged scholarship. Reprints may be requested by email: [log in to unmask]

 

17.  New Online: Social Metrics Primer

This primer guides readers through the process of measuring social outputs and valuing social outcomes in both qualitative and quantitative ways.  The primer is accompanied by an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to complete the exercises. (H/T @CCPH2010/Twitter)

Details: http://www6.carleton.ca/3ci/2013/new-social-metrics-primer-measuring-social-value

 

18.  Interactive Map: 2012 Poverty Data by Congressional District

Wondering how many children are living in poverty in your community? Find out using this helpful tool. (H/T @CCPH2010/Twitter)

More: http://halfinten.org/issues/articles/interactive-map-2012-poverty-data-by-congressional-district/

 

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

 

 

October 2013:

·         Call for Proposals:  6th Living Knowledge Conference. Deadline:  October 1, 2013.

·         Call for Conference Proposals:  Borders and Boundaries in an Age of Global Urbanization. Deadline: October 1, 2013.

·         National Endowment for Democracy:  Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. Deadline: October 1, 2013

·         Toshiba America Foundation: K-5 Science and Math Projects. Deadline: October 1, 2013.

·         HUD Introduce New metrics, Dashboard for Meeting Low-Income Community Needs. Key Date:  October 2, 1:00 - 3:00 pm (ET).

·         2013 Call for Proposals:  UTK Engagement Funding. Application Deadline: October 4, 2013, 5 pm.

·         Call for Presenters: 6th Annual SALSA Service-Learning Conference. Proposal Deadline: October 4, 2013.

·         NIH: Innovative Measurement Tools for Community Engaged Research Efforts (R01) (R21). Deadline (R01/R21): Oct 5/16, Feb 5/16, Jun 5/16

·         EPA:  Healthy Schools: Environmental Factors, Children’s Health and Performance, and Sustainable Building Practices. Deadline: Oct 8, 2013.

·         2013 Outreach and Engagement Staff Workshop. October 7, 2013 (NOSC Conference: Oct 8 & 9, 2013).

·         UT Social & Environmental Impact Fair. Date:  October 9, 2013, 2-5 pm, UC Ballroom.

·         Conference: Aligning Civic and Community Engagement with Mission and Institutional Effectiveness . Key Dates:  Hotel Registration Deadline is October 2nd;  Conference Registration Deadline is October 16th.

·         Creative Capital, Doris Duke, & Mellon Foundations: Multi-Arts Production Fund. Deadline: Letters of Inquiry – October 4, 2013.

·         NIH Grant: Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13). Deadline: October 18, 2013.

·         Call for Papers: Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy. Deadline: October 20, 2013.

·         Open Society Foundations:  Soros Justice Fellowships. Deadline: October 23, 2013.

·         Nashville Conference: Taking Protection of Human Subjects to the Next Level. Key Dates: Conference October 24th and 25th, 2013. at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel.

·         NIH program supports small projects. June 25, October 25, and February 25 — standard deadlines for general research; September 7, January 7, and May 7 for AIDS-related projects.

·         NSF: Research on Education & Learning (REAL).  Letter of Intent due October 25^th, 2013;  Proposals due 1/10/14.

·         NIMHD: Basic & Applied Research on Minority Health and Health.  Key Dates:  Letter of Intent due October 26, 2013; Full Application due November 26, 2013.

·         Secure spot now for CUMU Conference tours in Louisville, KY. Key date:  Conference October 27-29, 2013.

 

November 2013:

·         NEA: Research: Art Works. Deadline: November 5, 2013.

·          2013 Kentucky Engagement Conference. November 6, 2013, at EKU.

·         Grinnell College: 2014 Prize Honoring Young Innovators for Social Justice. Deadline: November 8^th, 2013.

·         Call for Grant  Proposals: International Grand Challenge for Development. Deadline: November 8, 2013.

·         Gates Foundation Invites Proposals for Round 12 of Grand Challenges Explorations. Deadline: November 12, 2013.

·         Fifth Global Communique in Community Engaged Research and Engagement.  Key Date: Conference, Nov 18-20, 2013, in Hong Kong.

·         Alliance of Women Philanthropists Accepting Giving Circle Applicants. Deadline:  November 22, 2013.

 

December 2013:

·         Call for Proposals:  Socially Engaged Art. Deadline: December 2, 2013 (Letters of Interest).

·         NSF: Discovery Research K-12 (DRK-12). Deadline: December 6^th, 2013.

·         Anchor Institutions Task Force Conference Registration Now Open. Date of Conference:  December 10, 2013, John Hopkins University.

·         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).

·         New Journal Calls For Papers: Global Social Welfare: Research, Policy and Practice. Deadline: Dec. 31, 2013.

 

January 2014:

·         William T. Grant Foundation:  Social Settings Research Grant.Key Date: January 8, 2014 (Letters of Inquiry).

·         William T. Grant Foundation:  Use of Research Evidence Grant.Key Date: January 8, 2014 (Letters of Inquiry).

·         AAUW: Community Action Grants. Deadline: January 15, 2014.

 

February 2014:

·         PeyBack Foundation: Grants for Programs Serving At-Risk Children. Deadline: February 1, 2014. 

·         Individuals Addressing Open Society Challenges Invited to Apply for Open Society Foundations Fellowship. Deadline: February 1, 2014.  

·         Jack Kent Cooke Foundation: Interdisciplinary Dissertation Fellowships. Deadline: February 4, 2014.

·         NIH: Innovative Measurement Tools for Community Engaged Research Efforts (R01) (R21). Deadline (R01/R21): Oct 5/16, Feb 5/16, Jun 5/16

·         Association of Performing Arts Presenters: Cultural Exchange Fund. Deadlines (Rolling, depending on travel dates): August 15, 2013; February 13, 2014; August 14, 2014.

 

March 2014:

·         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).

 

June 2014:

·         NIH: Innovative Measurement Tools for Community Engaged Research Efforts (R01) (R21). Deadline (R01/R21): Oct 5/16, Feb 5/16, Jun 5/16

·         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).

 

August 2014:

·         Association of Performing Arts Presenters: Cultural Exchange Fund. Deadlines (Rolling, depending on travel dates): August 15, 2013; February 13, 2014; August 14, 2014.

 

September 2014:

·         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).

 

October 2014:

·         Save the Date! 15th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference Oct 5-9, 2014.

 

December 2014:

·         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).

 

Ongoing:

·         Call for papers: International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. Ongoing

·         Call for papers: eJournal of Public Affairs on Public Scholarship. Ongoing

·         Call for papers: Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Ongoing and special issues.

·         Call for papers: International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering

·         Call for submissions: Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice

·         Bank of America (Funding): Arts and Sports Sponsorships to Maintain Vibrant, Healthy Communities.

·         *New Journal* Public - A Journal of Imagining America (to begin accepting proposals early 2013)

·         Sunlight Foundation: Open-Source Technology Projects That Foster Greater Government Transparency. Deadline: Rolling.