February 2012 News
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| February 1, 2012 |
The Talloires Network E-Newsletter |
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In This Issue
New Members University of Limerick (Ireland) To see a full list of our 232 member institutions, Not a member of the Talloires Network? Learn how to JOIN NOW>>
Talloires Website Remember to visit our website! Google Map showing our member universities
About the Talloires Network Tufts University and Innovations in Civic Participation serve as the Secretariat of the Talloires Network.
Contact Us Rob Hollister Dr. Lorlene Hoyt Steering Committee members Mark Gearan (Chair) Janice Reid (Vice-Chair) Lisa Anderson Scott Cowen Sharifah Hapsah Shahabudin Shamsh Kassim-Lakha Olive Mugenda José María Sanz Martínez Jerome Slamat Rafael Velasco John Wood |
Update from the Chair: President Mark Gearan I would also like to remind everyone that nominations for the 2012 MacJannet Prize are due on 15 February. Please visit our website or contact the Talloires Network secretariat for more information.
2012 MacJannet Prize call for nominations
Talloires Network Panel at ACU Conference
Opportunities To Serve a Larger Purpose: Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future For a complete list of upcoming events, visit our website>> Service-Learning Director Leadership Institute, Roanoke, Virginia (USA), 28 February – 1 March 2012 Clinton Global Initiative-University 2012 Conference. Washington, DC, 30 March – 1 April 2012 Academy for Community and Civic Engagement. Auburn University, USA. 14-16 May 2012.
For more information, contact Dr. Giovanna Summerfield, Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at summegi@auburn.edu or go to http://www.cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/acce/ Architecture ‘Live Projects" Pedagogy International Symposium 2012. "Critical reflections on Live Projects with a view to co-creating a pedagogic best practice framework. Oxford Brookes University, UK. 24-26 May 2012. Lakeside Drive Community Garden (LDCG), Charles Darwin University (Australia), 2011 MacJannet Prize 3rd Place Winner |
The Talloires Network is accepting nominations for the 2012 MacJannet Prize. The MacJannet Prize recognizes exceptional student civic engagement initiatives based in Talloires Network member universities around the world. Three prizes will be awarded: First Prize ($7,500); Second Prize ($5,000); and Third Prize ($2,500). Winning programs will be profiled on the Talloires Network website and in communications that reach thousands of higher education contacts world-wide. Nominations are due by 15 February 2012. 
The purpose of the Service-Learning Asia Network (SLAN) is to promote the common interests and networks of student exchanges, faculty research, curriculum development and program evaluation among universities interested in service-learning in Asia. SLAN members share ideas about the development of service-learning in the region and have united together to encourage cross-national collaborations. Lingnan University, a Talloires Network member since 2009, serves as the secretariat of SLAN. With support from SLAN members, Lingnan University has developed a website for SLAN to help provide a platform to make exchanges and to support each others’ work. For more information, please visit 
The Association of Commonwealth Universities is holding a conference titled "Critical Women: Women as Agents of Change through Higher Education" in Sri Lanka from 6-8 March 2012. The Talloires Network has organized a panel titled "Universities engaging with gender issues in their societies" which will seek to explore ways in which universities, by identifying and grasping opportunities to address inequalities and injustices pertaining to women in their wider communities, can enhance their engagement with those communities while changing lives for the better. The panel will include speakers from across the Talloires Network: 
Sponsored by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, these awards seek to recognize the outreach and engagement partnership efforts of American public universities. Five regional winners are selected to receive the Outreach Scholarship Awards, and one program will receive the C. Peter Magrath University/Community Engagement Award, which includes a $20,000 prize. Applications are due April 2, 2012. 
To Serve a Larger Purpose calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals. Using multiple perspectives, To Serve a Larger Purpose explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call "democratic engagement." The norms of democratic engagement are determined by values such as inclusiveness, collaboration, participation, task sharing, and reciprocity in public problem solving and an equality of respect for the knowledge and experience that everyone contributes to education, knowledge generation, and community building. Contributors include Lorlene Hoyt, the Talloires Network’s new Director of Programs and Research. 
This report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement calls for a renewal of higher education’s civic mission. Commissioned by the US Department of Education and released at a White House convening in January 2012, the report pushes back against a prevailing national dialogue that limits the mission of higher education to workforce preparation and training while marginalizing disciplines basic to democracy. The Task Force calls on educators and public leaders to advance a 21st century vision of college learning for all students—a vision with civic learning and democratic engagement an expected part of every student’s college education. 
Hosted by Virginia Tech’s Engagement Academy, the Institute brings together service-learning leaders and engaged scholars, with a well-established foundation in service learning pedagogy, who seek to enhance their leadership capacities, deepen their institutional and community impact, and chart the next steps in their professional development as change agents on campus, in communities, and across the field. 
Each year, CGI U hosts a meeting where students, national youth organizations, topic experts, and public figures discuss solutions to pressing global issues. CGI U 2012 will be held at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Attendees will come together to make a difference in CGI U’s five Focus Areas: Education, Environment & Climate Change, Peace & Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Public Health. 
CCPH is convening its 15th Anniversary Conference to nurture a growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to solve our most pressing health, social and economic challenges. Held at a pivotal time in the history of CCPH and the community-campus partnerships "movement," the conference will convene hundreds of community members, faculty, staff, students, funders and policy makers from around the world for 4 days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting. 
The conference will set its focus on different themes to get more insight in processes, and develop specific policy recommendations that resonate with public concerns and articulated research needs and built on the experience and know-how of the previous Living Knowledge conferences. It will be an opportunity to bring together key thinkers and practitioners in the area of community based research, university/community partnerships and Science Shops and aims at providing options and opportunities for collaborations and ensuring that this area of work is prioritised on policy agendas both nationally and internationally. 
The Community and Civic Engagement Initiative at Auburn University has announced the first annual Academy for Community and Civic Engagement (ACCE) for faculty throughout the American southeast in the arts and humanities who are interested in incorporating civic engagement/service learning practices into their courses, outreach scholarship, and P & T documentation. ACCE will provide an intense 3-day workshop for successful applicants. The purpose of the Academy for Community and Civic Engagement is:
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