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Resources Scroll down for a list of current resources related to civic engagement efforts in higher education. General Resources New Institute on Sustainable Development, Social Justice and Transformative Learning Launched in NC NEW! The Center For Community Action, in Robeson County, has launched its Institute on Sustainable Development, Social Justice, and Transformative Learning. Programs include Distance Service Learning experiences for individual undergraduate and graduate students and classes as well as a semester-long, residential program that will focus on practice, research, and policy work in sustainable development and social justice. Mac Legerton, Program Director, is speaking on college and university campuses across NC regarding these issues and partnerships with the Institute. He is speaking on February 12 at UNCG (click here for flyer) and is presenting a workshop at the upcoming Service Learning Conference on documenting local social justice histories through service learning. For more information about the Institute, contact Mac at mac_cca@bellsouth.net (note: underscore between "mac" and "cca") or 910-736-5573. YSA Launches ServiceVote 2008 NEW! Youth Service America has launched this website for young people to find out what the 2008 Presidential Candidates are saying about service-learning and to have their voice heard at http://www.servicevote.org "Keys to Recruit and Retain Hispanic Students at Your College" Audioconference Wednesday, February 6th 2008 1:00 - 2:00 PM (ET) NEW! Hosted by Higher Ed Hero, this audio conference will feature Hector A. Bauzá, President / Owner of Bauzá & Associates, a Hispanic full-service integrated marketing agency based in Massachusetts that aims to provide marketing services to targeted business environments seeking to sell their products and services to the Hispanic community. Topics:
Live Question and Answer Session: - Have your specific questions answered by our expert speaker! The cost is $199. Register now for this exciting event by clicking the following link http://www.higheredhero.com/hispanic2d?ID=-832322452 or calling 800-964-6033. When registering by phone please refer to Priority Code: 22452 Global Youth Connect Summer International Human Rights Training Program NEW!Youth ages 18-30 are invited to participate in upcoming human rights delegations to Bosnia, Guatemala, Rwanda, or Venezuela. Delegations allow youth to cross cultural boundaries and learn about the daily reality of human rights as experienced in a complex and globalized world. To learn more, visit http://globalyouthconnect.org/participate.html The International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Seeks Graduate Students Members! 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 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
"Millenials Talk Politics: A Study of College Student Civic Engagement" 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 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 Publication: Educating for Democracy In this book, coauthors show that education for political development can increase students' political understanding, skill, motivation, and involvement whilecontributing to many aspects of general academic learning.Go to http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787985546.html for excerpts and the Table of Contents.Get a 15% discount on the book when ordered through the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/books.html.
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 |
