NORTH CAROLINA CAMPUS COMPACT

2009 P.A.C.E. Conference (formerly the Service-Learning Conference), February 11, 2009 @ Elon University

Call for Proposals

NC Campus Compact is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for the 2009 P.A.C.E. (Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement) Conference.*  We invite faculty, scholars, administrators, community partners and students who are involved in civic engagement research, instruction and practice to submit presentation proposals.  Conference participants will include learners and educators form these constituencies.  Participant familiarity with civic engagement will range from novice to advanced.

*Please note that this is the new name for the former Service-Learning Conference. While we believe that service-learning is a critical pedagogy that assists faculty in integrating academic learning with civic practice, we acknowledge that it is just one pathway for connecting the campus with the community to create the "engaged campus."  In recent years the conference themes and topics have expanded beyond service-learning to include such topics as community-based research, philanthropy and campus-community partnership development. While we continue to welcome presentations focused on service-learning, we believe this new name allows for broader inclusion and more accurately reflects the conference intent and content.

Please visit the link below for the detailed Call for Proposals which includes a link to the online proposal form, conference goals, selection criteria and guidelines. The proposal deadline is November 7, 2008.

http://org.elon.edu/nccc/events/CallforProposals09.html

You are receiving this e-mail because you have registered to attend an NC Campus Compact service-learning conference previously. If you are a key civic engagement professional on your campus, this may be a duplicate mailing. If you would like to be removed from the conference mailing list, please send an e-mail to lgarvin@elon.edu

Active Global Citizenship Conference

November 17, 2008, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA NEW!

The purpose of the 2008 Active Global Citizenship Conference at Lock Haven University is to empower delegates to become conscientious citizens who create sustainable relationships among and within local, regional, and global communities. Through workshops, panels, poster sessions, and discussion groups, the Active Global Citizenship Conference will provide a forum where critical approaches to understanding globalization and global citizenship are explored and debated. By facilitating the free exchange of ideas, we hope to stimulate a sense of responsibility where campuses and citizens become active political, environmental, and economic agents of change.

Students, faculty, community service/service- learning administrators, international studies/study abroad administrators, and national service members are encouraged to participate.

Topics:

Participants are invited to address any of the following topics. Human Development, Health, Trade, Peace & Conflict, Gender, Globalization, Poverty & Inequity, Social Movements, Resources and the Environment, Study Abroad, and Global Service Learning. Other topics that are relevant to the conference’s overarching theme of Active Global Citizenship are also welcome.

Participation Categories:

The conference includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. Participation categories include panels, student panels, roundtables / discussion groups, workshops and posters.

Call for Proposals: Include title and style of presentation (see above for examples), names and contact information for presenters, and a brief abstract (100 words or less) describing the session via email by October 1, 2008 to:

Dr. J. Todd Nesbitt, conference organizer

Associate Professor of Geography - Lock Haven University

tnesbitt@lhup.edu - include “Active Global Citizenship Conference” in the subject heading.

NC Campus Compact 2008 Student Conference

Call for Proposals

We are now accepting proposals from students and VISTAs to present at the Conference.  Session topics have included environmental sustainability, community service, leadership, service-learning, advocacy and activism. Visit this link to download a proposal form. Submission Deadline:  October 10, 2008.

The First National Conference on What Works in Education Partnerships

February 20-21, 2009, Phoeniz, AZ
Call for Proposals  NEW!

 
This conference is designed to bring together leaders from the education community, educational researchers, evaluation experts, practitioners, policy-makers, and philanthropists as well as many other individuals, organizations and foundations that are committed to improving educational systems in our communities. 
 
You are cordially invited to participate in this inaugural “What Works” conference featuring best practices across the country for cultivating university-school partnerships. Please visit the conference website at http://educationpartnerships.asu.edu/conference or contact Dr. Mehmet "Dali" Öztürk (ozturk@asu.edu) for further information.
                                         

COMM-ORG 
Call for Papers

Are you writing a paper on community organizing, community development, community planning, community-based research or a related area? COMM-ORG is looking for papers to post on the COMM-ORG Papers page. All papers are posted on the COMM-ORG website and announced on its accompanying list-serve, which reaches over 1000 people across more than a dozen nations. They welcome discussion of all papers on the list-serve and encourage our members to also send comments directly to authors.

They are especially interested in papers on the following and other topics:

What works and what doesn't in community organizing,planning, and development?

Real-life stories of community organizing and/or development campaigns. 

The relationships between theories and practices in community organizing. 

The history of community organizing in a changing structural-historical context.

Linkages between community organizing and community development.

Linkages between community organizing and planning. 

The roles of religious institutions in community organizing.

Linkages between community organizing and social movements. 

The roles of gender, race, identity, and ideology incommunity organizing. 

Activist-academic collaborations in community organizing. 

The paper must be submitted electronically to Randy Stoecker at randy@comm-org.wisc.edu using a word processing or html format; absolutely no pdf files will be considered. * Text must be in single column format. You agree that your paper will be formatted in html using theCOMM-ORG style. Authors retain complete control over their work, and COMM-ORG supports authors revising their papers for submission to journals, trade publications, or anywhere. Because COMM-ORG is an on-line "conference,"papers presented on COMM-ORG are regularly published in journals and other publications. COMM-ORG welcomes papers from scholars, organizers, and scholar-organizers. They also welcome previously published hard-to-find writing. 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 11th Conference

"Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation Through Partnerships,"

April 29-May 2, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin NEW!

Proposals for pre-conference workshops, story sessions, skill-building workshops, film screening and discussion session, and posters are sought that relate to one or more of these sub-themes (see the complete call for proposals for specific examples). 

(1) Journeys of Transformation - proposals that demonstrate the transformational power of community-campus partnerships. 

(2) Sustaining partnerships and the outcomes they achieve - proposals that demonstrate how partnerships and the outcomes they achieve can be sustained over time. 

(3) Building capacity - proposals that demonstrate strategies for building capacity among all partners involved in a partnership. 

(4) Community-campus partnerships as a global movement - proposals that demonstrate community-campus partnerships from across the globe. They are especially interested in sessions that are proposed and sponsored by international networks of these partnerships. 

(5) Innovative and promising partnership practices - proposals that demonstrate innovative and

promising practices in partnerships.

(6) Community-based participatory research as a tool for social justice - proposals that demonstrate community-based participatory research (CBPR) as a tool for social justice.  Proposals that use a different term to describe work that has similar meaning (e.g., action research, empowerment research, community owned and managed research) are welcome. 

(7) Interprofessional, interdisciplinary and/or intersectoral collaborations - proposals that demonstrate interprofessional, interdisciplinary and/or intersectoral collaborations. 

(8) Youth and student leadership - proposals that demonstrate the leadership roles played by youth and students in community-campus partnerships.

You can access the complete Call for Proposals under "coming up" at www.ccph.info. 

The proposal deadline is October 10, 2008. 

2009 Gulf-South Summit

March 25-27, 2009, Baton Rouge, LA

Call for Proposals  NEW!

Join nationally renowned speakers and practitioners from around the country for professional networking, sharing of research and dialogue on the theme of Civic Engagement at the Crossroads: Rethinking Stakeholder Roles and Responsibilities. Faculty, staff, students, community leaders, and community partners are invited to submit proposals for the 2009 Summit.

Proposals for individual papers and presentations, panels, interactive workshops, and posters are now being accepted. Please see the website for more details on registration, awards, and RFP: http://www.lsu.edu/summit09. Deadline for proposals is October 17, 2008.  

NAFSAs 61stAnnual Conference & Expo

"Fostering Global Engagement Through International Education
May 24-29, 2009, Los Angeles, CA

Call for Posters  NEW!

Submit your poster proposals for the 2009 NAFSA Conference & Expo. Your expertise is needed in these focus areas for the 2009 conference: Advocacy, Internationalization, Theory, Research and Measurement, Global Issues and Politics, Social Responsibility, Technology, Ethics, Personal and Professional Development and other focus areas not listed above of critical interest to the field.

The deadline for poster submissions is November 14, 2008. Visit this link for more details.

Journal for Civic Commitment:  

a twice-yearly, online journal dedicated to 

service learning and civic engagement

The Community College National Center for Community Engagement announces the 11th Issue of the 

Journal for Civic Commitment.  Please Click Here  to view this issue or go to our home page at

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement and click on the Journal for Civic Commitment button.

We are currently accepting articles for possible publication in the Spring issue of The Journal for Civic Commitment. Deadline for submission for the Spring 2009 issue is December 31st.

You can find the authors' guidelines on our website at http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/engagement/Journal.

If you have any questions, feel free to email the journal's editor, Gary Daynes at gdaynes@westminstercollege.edu.

Please submit articles electronically to the editor as word documents.