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Resources Scroll down for a list of current resources related to civic engagement efforts in higher education. General Resources The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Seeks Graduate Students Members! NEW! IARSLCE, launched in 2005, has grown considerably in its first year and now has over 600 members.
Listserv for Community Partners! Are you a community member, community partner or community-academic liaison interested in connecting with your peers to build greater capacity, support each other in your work, and strengthen the collective network of community partners engaging in community-higher education partnerships? If so, consider joining the Community Partner Listserv and/or Community Partner Workgroups, established as a direct result of the Wingspread Community Partner Summit (CPS) convened in 2006. This electronic discussion group focuses on issues specific to the community partner perspective when engaged in community-higher education partnerships. The listserv aims to support conversations emerging among community partners engaged in community-higher education partnerships who are seeking to achieve sustainable and systemic change through their work. Visit the Community Partner Summit webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html#Join Join the One World Youth Project MDG Network One World Youth Project's MDG-er Network is a platform for citizens who desire to take action to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Individuals, groups, or other organizations can join the Network in order to learn of exciting MDG action opportunities and to share their accomplishments in achieving the MDGs. To learn more, visit http://www.oneworldyouthproject.org/satellite.php PlayPumps International Launches "KNOWH2O” Website PlayPumps International launched KnowH2O, a website designed for schools and community organizations to build student awareness of global water issues and how they can work to help address the world’s water crisis. The site offers a variety of ways for students and teachers to learn about and understand how people throughout the world are impacted by a lack of clean drinking water. The website contains teacher-tested tools and interactive resources such as online videos, water resource maps, web banners, and games that help students truly understand the impact of the water crisis. To learn more, visit http://www.KnowH2O.org Lend Your Voice to the Democracy 2.0 Declaration Lend your voice to the first draft of the Millennial Generation's Democracy 2.0 Declaration a statement created by hundreds of young people about what they want to see their democracy be and become. Sign the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/Mobilize/petition.html MTV Online Community to Make Youth Famous for Doing Good MTV along with founding partners the Case Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Goldhirsh Foundation and the MCJ Foundation, recently launched a new movement in youth activism: Think.MTV.com. Think.MTV aims to be the definitive online resource and rally point for young changemakers to “Get Educated, Get Connected, Get Heard, Get Active, and Get Rewarded.” To learn more, visit http://think.mtv.com New Magazine Launched by International Youth FoundationYOUth, the International Youth Foundation’s new flagship magazine, offers interviews, personal stories, and essays focused on youth development around the world. Published by IYF twice a year, the magazine seeks to celebrate the power and promise of young people to change the world, while incorporating the varied voices and perspectives from those in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. To read the premier issue, visit http://www.iyfnet.org/section.cfm/31/286 Training Staff to Work with Immigrant Youth This training module is a companion piece to the Preparing Staff to Work with Immigrant Youth publication and contains activities that will support staff on several levels. The first training activity, “Overview: Preparing Staff to Work with Immigrant Youth” is a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the content of the report. This presentation is an effective tool to use with your leaders, champions, and board members to encourage an understanding of the importance of serving immigrant youth and the organizational implications. All of the activities in the module address the knowledge skills and attitudes that frontline staff need to work effectively with immigrant youth. To learn more, visit http://www.nydic.org/nydic/staffing/workforce/documents/IYTrainin g.pdf Contribute to the World Volunteer Web Blog Got something to say or share? It may be your personal experience or your opinion that you want to talk about. You may have an announcement or a resource to share. Write to World Volunteer Web at info@worldvolunteerweb.org to have your message posted to the new Volunteer Blog. To learn more, visit http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/join-the-network/blogs/volunteer-blog.html Expedition Leaders Sought! The LiveLearning Program is seeking part-time Expedition Leaders to serve as facilitators for international service-learning programs designed around service-learning philosophy. Staff will facilitate 2-4 trips (approximately 2 weeks in length) over the course of the year. Candidates should have knowledge of international travel, community development, education, and/or civic leadership. Experience is desired in either trip facilitation or service-learning theory and implementation (facilitators will specialize in one of these categories). Spanish language proficiency is required for trip leaders and preferred for service-learning facilitators. Expedition leaders must complete two full-day trainings and accompany at least one international expedition with LiveLearning before leading trips independently. Leaders must be 18 years or older. For more information, and to apply, visit www.livelearning.org. 2007-2008 National Youth Presidential Forum On November 6, the first National High School/College Presidential forum will be webcast to approximately 20 million high school and college students, live and interactively. This event will allow students to pose questions of our candidates, discuss the answers during panel debates and vote in a validated on-line poll. Presidential candidates will participate in the forum from locations of their choice. The candidates will field questions from a moderator and students representing the National Honor Society from across the United States. Students will participate in an on-line, post-forum vote for the candidate they would choose in the Presidential election. Feedback about the candidate responses will be collected and provided to the candidates after the event. This Presidential Forum is presented by Advanced Innovative Resources, Inc. in collaboration with EWN Foundation, Presidential Classroom, Lou Frey Institute at The University of Central Florida and the United States Association of Former Members of Congress. For more information, visit the Rock the Web website http://www.rocktheweb.org/ Join the Graduation Pledge Alliance The Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility states, "I pledge to explore and take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve these aspects of any organizations for which I work." Students define for themselves what it means to be socially and environmentally responsible. Students at over a hundred colleges and universities are using the pledge at some level. The Pledge is also now found at graduate and professional schools, as well as high schools. Graduates who voluntarily signed the pledge have turned down jobs with which they did not feel comfortable and have worked to make changes once on the job. For example, they have promoted recycling at their organization, removed racist language from a training manual, worked for gender parity in high school athletics, and helped to convince an employer to refuse a chemical weapons-related contract. Visit the site at www.graduationpledge.org. Plus see the newest web site which is geared to graduates in or about to enter the workforce (www.e-xplore.org -- under construction). The Graduation Pledge is a project of the Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility, Bentley College.
Portland State University Launches Online Certificate in Service-Learning MTV’s Choose Or Lose Seeks Citizen Journalists MTV's Choose or Lose seeks aspiring journalists to cover the 2008 election via written stories, vlogs, and photos. As part of their collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight News Challenge, MTV is looking for one aspiring reporter from every state and Washington, D.C. Participants must be at least 18 years old by December 2007, must reside in the state they are covering from January to November, 2008 and must have the time and ability to travel within their state and file at least one video, written, or photographic story per week. To learn more click here. "Millenials Talk Politics: A Study of College Student Civic Engagement" NEW! Read CIRCLE's new special report "Millennials Talk Politics" at ww.civicyouth.org/?page_id=250 (Full Report & Executive Summary). Commissioned by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, this report is the most detailed current examination of college students’ political and civic attitudes and experiences. The study has compelling implications for higher education, national policymakers, and the news media, among others. “Millennials Talk Politics" is based on 47 focus groups conducted by CIRCLE on 12 college and university campuses in 2006 and 2007. CIRCLE is a national research center on the civic and political engagement of young people in the U.S. Young Voter Myths And Facts Released By Rock The Vote NEW! Rock the Vote recently put out a new media briefing paper, Young Voter Myths and Facts, which contains basic voter turnout statistics for 18-29 year olds, information on some common misconceptions about the youth vote, and the latest young voter polling in early primary and caucus states – Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina – and nationwide. To read the report, visit http://blog.rockthevote.com/2007/12/for-media-young-voter-myths-and-facts.html
"Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 2006-2009" The American Association of Community Colleges is pleased to announce the publication of this new eight-page project brief describes service learning initiatives and highlights at 12 community colleges participating in AACC's current Horizons grant program. The entire text of the brief may be found on AACC's Web site at www.aacc.nche.edu/servicelearning Doing the Public Good Latina/o Scholars Engage Civic Participation Edited by Kenneth P. Gonzalez , Raymond V. Padilla How can scholars reconnect themselves—and their students—to higher education’s historic but much diluted mission to work for the public good? Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography—and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the Hispanic notion of bien educado, and the activist principles of the Chicano movement–these writers explore the intersections of private and public good, and how the tension between them has played out in their own lives and the commitments they have made to their intellectual community, and to their cultural and family communities. Through often lyrical memoirs, reflections, and poetry, these authors recount their personal journeys and struggles—often informed by a spiritual connectedness and always driven by a concern for social justice—and show how they have found individual paths to promoting the public good in their classrooms, and in the world beyond. http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=165028 Overcoming the Barriers to Higher Education Stephen Gorard, with Nick Adnett , Helen May , Kim Slack , Emma Smith , Liz Thomas There are serious inequalities in participation in post-compulsory education and training related to socio-economic status, gender, ethnicity and other characteristics. Such inequalities are reproduced and exacerbated in higher education. This book is based on a review of research evidence that asks whether these social and familial patterns can be interrupted via educational and other interventions. The answer lies in taking a radically new lifelong approach, considering changes over time and examining earlier life factors that influence participation–such as family, peer group and initial education, all of which help to build the learning trajectory of individuals that leads them to consider higher education. The impressive results make this book essential reading for practitioners and policy-makers concerned with widening participation, and for academics. http://www.styluspub.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=163541
Creating, Running and Sustaining Campus-Community Service-Learning Partnerships: Created by the Campus Compacts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, this online handbook shares the voices and wisdom of individuals from colleges and universities and from community organizations in northern New England who have been involved in service-learning partnerships for several years or more. These partnership practitioners describe how they build, operate and sustain effective campus-community partnerships. Authored by Richard Schramm of the University of Vermont, this collection of campus-community partnership best practices is an outcome of important partnership work undertaken by campuses and community partners in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont as part of a Learn and Serve Higher Education grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service. Although the voices represented and the practices presented represent only a small percentage of the deep and meaningful relationships that we know exist, we hope that you will find these practices helpful. We invite you to read and use this collection. We hope it will generate further conversations and ideas related to creating, running and sustaining campus-community service-learning partnerships. This publication was supported by a Learn and Serve America Higher Education grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
To access this handbook, please visit: http://www.vtcampuscompact.org/downloadable_documents/VCC%20Partnership.pdf FWS Resource Available from Campus Compact With the U.S. Department of Education showing signs of tightening enforcement of Federal Work-Study (FWS) regulations, now is the time to learn as much as possible about how to meet or exceed the federally mandated requirement that 7% of all FWS funds go toward community service positions. What constitutes community service under the regulations? Why should campuses increase community service FWS, and how can they do so without incurring huge administrative and other costs? How can community service/service-learning staff overcome inter-departmental barriers to create effective programs? How have campuses with successful community service FWS programs put these programs in place? What tools are available to help make this process easier? Campus Compact's new online publication, Earn, Learn, and Serve: Getting the Most from Community Service Federal Work-Study, answers these questions and many more. Edited by FWS expert Erin Bowley, this resource offers a detailed discussion of the regulations guiding FWS, principles of good practice, a guide to partnering with Financial Aid, and numerous campus models that span institutional type, size, and geography. Also included are an essay from Robert Davidson of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a developmental matrix to help in planning programs, and a host of hands-on tools such as applications, evaluation forms, time sheets, and reflection tools. Funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service through a grant from Learn and Serve America, this new resource is available free online at http://www.compact.org/fws/. "Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges" Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges is packed with practical information such as sample course descriptions, detailed models, syllabi, and ready-to use tools. Inside you’ll also find frank discussions on the benefits of service-learning, the hurdles you may encounter, and step-by-step advice for introducing or expanding service-learning in any discipline. Books will ship in early November. 109 pages. http://www.compact.org/publications/detail/service-learning_course_design_for_community_colleges
Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development Electronic copies are available at http://www.community-wealth.org/articles/index.html Also the Democracy Collaborative's website includes a section on university-community partnerships (www.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/universities/index.html) and another that focuses more broadly on anchor institutions (www.community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/anchors/index.html). They update their website on a quarterly basis and their work on universities, community partnerships, and the economic role of anchor institutions is ongoing. If you have suggestions for additional links and information they might want to add to the site, please email them to the report's principal author Steve Dubb at sgdubb@yahoo.com.
Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research This book, by Andrew H. Van de Ven, Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, both provides a manifesto for engaged scholarship in the social sciences, and clear framework for research design and methodology. It will be an invaluable reference point and guide for academics, researchers and graduate students across the social sciences concerned with rigorous and relevant research in the contemporary world. Contents 1. Engaged Scholarship in a Professional School 2. Philosophy of Science Underlying Engaged Scholarship 3. Formulating the Research Problem 4. Building a Theory 5. Process and Variance Models 6. Designing Variance Studies 7. Designing Process Studies 8. Communicating and Using Research Knowledge 9. Practicing Engaged Scholarship Details at: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199226290
Other Recommended Books from Stylus Publishing
http://www.styluspub.com/books/Books.aspx?type=topic&ID=334 Gender Identity, Equity, and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning Edited by Geraldine B. Stahly May 2007 In Safe Hands: A Global Concept of Service Learning in Higher Education Edited by Jean Clarkson January 2008 A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation Lisa VeneKlasen, Valerie Miller April 2007 Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning Edited by José Z. Calderón June 2007 Promoting Health and Wellness in Underserved Communities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning Edited by Anabel Pelham, Elizabeth Sills June 2008 Research, Advocacy, and Political Engagement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning Edited by Sally Tannenbaum June 2007 |
