Imagining America invites university affiliates (faculty, students, staff, and administrators) and community partners (individuals and organizations) to participate in our eleventh annual national conference, September 23-25, 2010, hosted by the University of Washington. The theme of this year's conference, Convergence Zones: Public Cultures and Translocal Practices, signals an exploration of how public scholarship creates new connections among disciplines, communities, and sectors. As our work shuttles across institutional, geographical, and professional boundaries, our projects become zones of convergence where social interests, cultural practices, and new and old media intersect. Animated by hybrid modes of participation and circulation, these convergence zones reshape our research, teaching, and engagement activities as they foster new projects, knowledge, and publics.
Imagining America welcomes proposals that engage the broad conference theme. We are particularly interested in innovations that span the virtual and embodied networks, built and natural environments, and local and global processes that shape existing and emerging forms of public scholarship.
Participant-led sessions will advance the conference theme by investigating the purposes, methods, and theories of public scholarship and practice; building capacity among individual and institutional conference participants; linking practice to reflection; and developing participants’ individual and collective ability to work across diverse geographical scales and social locations of institutional practice, ranging from course syllabi and college-wide curricula to sustained social, economic, and cultural development initiatives.
For more information, please visit: http://www.imaginingamerica.org/conferences.html
In these challenging times, campus leaders must recommit themselves to fostering diversity and inclusion in and across our colleges and universities, not only for the benefit of the many who aspire to attend college, but also for the benefit of the larger society. Facing the Divides: Diversity, Learning, and Pathways to Inclusive Excellence will focus on the pragmatic ways in which college and university leaders are fostering inclusive learning environments. The conference will focus on five primary themes:
• Framing Goals for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence
• Ensuring Access and Essential Learning
• Developing and Assessing Curricular and Co-Curricular Efforts
• Fostering Identity, Civility, and Democratic Classrooms
• Building Institutional Capacity to Make Excellence Inclusive
For more information, please visit: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning/DL2010/cfp.cfm
This conference will feature research on service-learning, campus-community partnerships, and civic outcomes of education. Presenters will include faculty and administrators in higher education, educators in K-12, and scholars and practitioners in educational policy and community development. Scholars and attendees from outside of the United States are encouraged to attend and present, to advance understanding of this work from multiple perspectives. Proposals for presentations are now being accepted. To be considered, proposals must be received via electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Monday, March 22, 2010.
For more information about proposals, please visit: http://www.researchslce.org/_Documents/Conferences/2010_Conference/Call_for_Proposals.pdf
The conference is co-sponsored by the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement, the Center for Service and Learning at IUPUI, and Indiana Campus Compact. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.researchslce.org/_Documents/Conferences/2010_Conference/SaveTheDate2010.pdf.
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT FOR OUR CHANGING COMMUNITIES - Is the world turning faster these days or does it just seem like it? Alvin Toffler's predictions for "future shock" or too much change in too short a time now seem very close to reality. Although we experience stress in our social spaces as this change momentum increases, many of us will continue to find solutions to some of the seemingly intractable problems facing our communities. A focus on civic engagement, community partnerships, service learning are all vital ingredients to meeting changes successfully. Service to others has never been more necessary that in 2011.
Join us for a dialogue this spring to find and develop possible actions to engage your communities in the solutions to these issues and others:
Engaged citizens can change the world one community at a time. A broader dialogue between citizens, educational institutions and communities can be the start of global solutions to many of the issues of our times.
The Western Region Campus Compact Consortium is pleased to announce that the 2011 Continuums of Service Conference will be held April 27-29 in San Diego. The 14th Annual Continuums of Service Conference will invite leaders from higher education, K-12 education, community-based organizations, government agencies, philanthropic organizations, businesses, and grassroots efforts to convene and discuss strategies to implement our shared leadership and responsibility to rebuild and strengthen communities across the region.
When and Where is the Conference?
April 27-29, 2011 in San Diego, CA.
Why Attend?
Participants will gain a renewed passion, and build skills and confidence to lead campus and community partnerships into the future. For more information please click here: http://www.wacampuscompact.org/cos/2011/cos.shtml
