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Call for Papers and Request for Info Current Issue -June 2008 Please scroll down for the current listing. Opportunities are listed in chronological order based on the submission deadline. "Thought to Action: Engaging College, Community, and Students through October 24-25, 2008, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY Proposals are being sought for individual presentations, panel discussions, and poster or visual presentations that highlight best practices in local, regional, national and/or international service-learning partnerships. Presentations from engaged faculty, staff, students, and community partners (including team presentations) are encouraged. Concurrent sessions are 60 minutes long and should allow appropriate time for discussion and questions. Community based workshops are 2 ½ hours and take place in the local community (transportation will be provided). This exciting two-day service-learning conference is being co-sponsored by Buffalo State College, New York Campus Compact, and the Western New York Service-Learning Coalition and will include both traditional and innovative community based workshops. Conference keynote speaker, Kenneth Reardon - Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University - will address current trends and impacts of service-learning in higher education as well as new ways of establishing effective partnerships among college, community, and students. The call for proposals deadline is June 27, 2008. On-line registration will begin July 14. Please visit www.wnyslconference.org for submission guidelines and possible topics.
1st Annual University of New Mexico Mentoring Conference "Fostering a Mentoring Culture in the 21st Century Bringing Best Practices and Research to Higher Education" Call for papers Papers are sought which explore effective mentoring strategies and best practices which support students, faculty, researchers and staff in their journey as academicians and professionals in today's (and tomorrow's) higher education settings. Those submitting papers should state whether they are focused on specific groups as mentors and protégées, or if their research is generally applicable to any mentor - protégé relationship. Please submit a 1500 word abstract by June 30, 2008, using this link: http://mentor.unm.edu/confsubmit.html Abstracts will be reviewed, and accepted papers will be affirmed by invitation by July 15th, 2008; complete papers will be due by August 31, 2008. We look forward to this opportunity for interaction and engagement with mentoring researchers and practitioners. Submissions are invited for two types of sessions: 1. Posters - Research topics, questions, results and discussion will be presented on a poster up to 36" by 48". Presenters will be asked to be available to discuss their posters during a particular session, but posters will be viewable to attendees for an extended period. 2. Panels - Researchers, as individuals or small groups, will briefly present studies with opportunities for audience questions and comment. Two or more studies will be presented in each session. The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education Call for Papers Sponsored by Indiana State University's Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, this new journal is intended to serve as a forum for the review of research and practice by professionals in higher education in the fields of community engagement and engaged learning practices. Papers for the first edition are due June 30, 2008 For more information, visit http://www1.indstate.edu/jcehe/. 2008 International Conference on Service-Learning Engaging Your Campus and the World through International Service-Learning October 2-3, 2008, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT Call for Proposals Utah Valley University is hosting an International Service-Learning Conference for campus teams and individuals involved in or interested in international service-learning. Participants will engage in a variety of workshops, panel discussions, poster presentations, plenary sessions, and other activities that will help campus teams and individuals learn about best practices in international service-learning. Additionally, participants will have an opportunity to develop a campus plan for international service-learning programs and academic courses. This conference may be beneficial for study abroad departments, service-learning faculty, international centers, volunteer and service-learning departments, and other organizations interested in service-learning at an international level. Potential topics may include but are not limited to: * Best practice principles and guidelines for implementing international service-learning. * Risk management issues in international serviced-learning. * Conceptual and theoretical frameworks for developing and understanding international service-learning. * Research on learning outcomes for students, as well as outcomes with international partnerships, faculty, and institutions. * Assessment/evaluation tools and strategies. * Best practice principles for developing international service-learning partnerships. Submitting your proposal: * Please e-mail your submission to volunteer@uvsc.edu by July 1, 2008. * The coordinating presenter will receive a confirmation e-mail confirming that the proposal was successfully submitted. * If your proposal is accepted for a presentation at the conference, presenters and co-presenters are expected to pay registration fees and will need to register for the conference via the website www.uvsc.edu/volunteer. Please direct any questions to Dr. Jason Slack, slackja@uvsc.edu or 863-8786. Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service Call for Stories NEW!In April 2008, Youth Service America (YSA) released a guide entitled Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service providing effective practices, steps, research, and commentary for service-learning practitioners and public officials to more successfully involve at-risk youth in service. Now, author Sejal Hathi and YSA are seeking to expand the publication to include stories of at-risk youth who have surmounted challenges to contribute back to their communities, as well as tools and resources for youth themselves to become inspired and become engaged. YSA seeks stories of youth who have overcome at-risk behavior or, have begun to heal from it, by engaging in service and finding fulfillment in giving back. These youth may then be featured in the book to be developed celebrating their example and their service. If you would like to become a part of this endeavor, please send all submissions, questions, and comments to amutima@ysa.org. Submissions will be accepted until July 1, 2008. Youth Service Institute 2008: Across the Street, Around the World, October 26-28 in Orlando, FL Call for Proposals NEW! Across the Street, Around the World youth are improving their communities through service and service-learning. Whether teaching a child to read or raising money to send bed nets to Africa to eradicate malaria, there's no issue - large or small - not being addressed. Mark your calendars to join Youth Service America in Orlando, FL for the 2008 Youth Service Institute October 26-28. The Institute will present opportunities for participants to strategize critical ways to think AND act both locally and globally. It is the ideal environment for individuals and organizations to further develop their programs while learning inventive ways to engage young people as assets and resources on Global Youth Service Day and throughout the year.
The Youth Service Institute will focus on four target areas of service and service-learning success: * Taking programs to Scale by engaging more youth for greater impact * Fostering and strengthening Diversity outreach and inclusive initiatives * Collaborating to positively Improve Communities at home and abroad * Examining our perspectives around the meaning of Substantive service YSA is looking for presenters to share innovative and successful approaches that address one or more of these components. The Call for Presenters deadline is July 11, 2008. To download the Call for Presenters or to learn more about the Youth Service Institute, please visit www.ysa.org/institute or contact Andraéa LaVant at alavant@ysa.org or 202-296-2992 x 112.
AACU Annual Meeting 2009 "Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America's Promise" January 21-24, 2009, Seattle, WA NEW! Call for Proposals The Association of American Colleges and Universities invites you and your colleagues to submit a proposal for our 2009 Annual Meeting -- "Ready or Not: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America's Promise." Proposals can be submitted online through July 21, 2008 at this link: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM09/CallforProposals.cfm AAC&U's Annual Meetings provide opportunities for participants to examine the relationship between college learning and society. In recent years, we have collectively insisted that attention to the tradition, language, and practice of liberal education is critical if we hope to meet the many challenges of the world today. Our failure to fully engage our publics with the kinds of learning best suited to our current needs persists, even as the creative energies, widespread innovations, and intentional efforts of campuses across the nation are signaling resurgence in the vitality and relevance of liberal education. Are we ready to exercise the leadership higher education and American society needs? Are our students ready to learn? How can we boost their readiness? Is society ready to make difficult choices about educational priorities? Are our institutions ready to face the societal and economic changes at hand? Are we ready to fulfill America's promise -- or not?
If you would like additional information about the Call for Proposals or the Annual Meeting, please e-mail hyers@aacu.org or call 202-387-3760.
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) AASHE 2008: Working Together for Sustainability – On Campus and Beyond Nov 9-11, 2008, Raleigh, NC Call for Posters AASHE 2008 offers an exciting and unique opportunity for every sector of higher education in the U.S. and Canada to demonstrate how colleges and universities and their partners can lead the way to a sustainable future. Poster submissions are due by September 1, 2008. The Call for Proposals is posted at http://www.aashe.org/conf2008/call.php International Journal of Organizational Analysis Special Issue: Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning: When Technology, Globalism, and Community Engagement Collide Call for Papers
The goal of this special issue is to provide IJOA readers, as well as service-learning authors and practitioners, with an overview of the application and outcomes of service-learning as a teaching tool in today’s rapidly changing environment. This special issue will explore the strengths and challenges of service-learning practice in the context of our unscripted future – with a specific focus on the interrelationships between technological advances, global access and interest, and community engagement. Topics will include not only how service-learning is being applied as a tool to explore and understand complex environments but also why service-learning is being used in terms of leveraging educational opportunities into desired outcomes for students, universities, and community members. Our goal is to expand the current literature in directions that reflect today’s global, diverse, interconnected, and uncertain organizational environments.
We encourage submissions from: · Organizational researchers and practitioners from across the disciplines who are actively engaged in cutting edge service-learning applications with a focus on new technological and/or international applications – encompassing both stand-alone programs and those involving partners from different global locations. · Practitioners who work in non-traditional organizational disciplines and from those who are using advanced technological applications to heighten the quality of service-learning programs. Articles should be 4,000 - 6,000 words in length with an appropriate title. Manuscripts should be set out using 12-point Times New Roman font, double-line spacing throughout, with single-spaces between sentences, and 1 inch (25mm) margins. A brief autobiographical note should be supplied including full name, affiliation, e-mail address and full international contact details. For manuscript submission guidelines, see: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijoa/notes.jsp The submission deadline is September 26, 2008. Authors are strongly encouraged to contact either of the two guest editors, Amy Kenworthy-U’Ren (akenwort@bond.edu.au) or Laurie DiPadova-Stocks (ldipadovastocks@park.edu), to discuss possible submissions. Early submissions are encouraged.
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:
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. Syllabi Sought for Online Database Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is now developing a national, searchable, online database of higher education service-learning syllabi, K-12 lesson plans, and community-based project ideas. I am writing to invite you and your colleagues to submit service-learning syllabi for possible inclusion in this new resource. Service-learning syllabi are welcome from any accredited U.S. college or university, for courses in any academic department or program and at any level of higher education (undergraduate or graduate). Courses need not have been supported by a Learn and Serve America grant in order to be eligible for inclusion, although we expect many syllabi will come from past and current Learn and Serve America grantees. Staff from Campus Compact, the Clearinghouse’s Higher Education Program Advisor, will review all submissions according to four criteria of quality in service-learning: engagement, reflection, reciprocity, and public dissemination (see www.compact.org/syllabi for details). All syllabi determined to meet these criteria will be publicly available on both the Clearinghouse’s and Campus Compact’s websites. In addition to syllabi from individual courses, we welcome information about more extensive civic and community engagement opportunities that involve multiple service-learning courses or other intentional connections between students’ academic experiences and engagement (e.g., minors, certificates, honors/scholars programs, core curricula requirements).
Please submit syllabi and other materials as Word documents attached to emails to jplaut@compact.org; please also download, print, and sign the Permissions Form available at www.compact.org/syllabi and mail it to Julie Plaut at Campus Compact, Brown University Box 1975, Providence, RI 02912. We look forward to showcasing your good work and demonstrating the rich variety of high-quality service-learning taking place at colleges and universities across the country. |
