April 2014 Newsletter
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| April 3, 2014 | The Talloires Network Newsletter |
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In This Issue Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement Series Talloires Network Programs and Announcements Opportunities and Announcements
New Members Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow (India) To see a full list of our 316 member institutions, Not a member of the Talloires Network? Learn how to JOIN NOW>>
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About the Talloires Network The Talloires Network secretariat is located at Tufts University. Contact Us Rob Hollister Executive Director Dr. Lorlene Hoyt Director of Programs and Research Jennifer Catalano Director, Youth Economic Participation Initiative Amy Newcomb Rowe Program Manager, Youth Economic Participation Initiative Rantimi Oluwasegun Budget and Program Coordinator, Youth Economic Participation Initiative Maureen Keegan Senior Program Coordinator Matias Ramos Communications Coordinator Edwin Nelson Program Assistant, Youth Economic Participation Initiative Edwin.Nelson@tufts.edu Mark Gearan (Chair) President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Janice Reid (Vice-Chair) Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Sydney President, American University in Cairo President, Tulane University Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria Former Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Founding President, Aga Khan University President, Tufts University Vice-Chancellor, Kenyatta University Rector, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid María Nieves Tapia, Director, Latin American Center for Service-Learning Timothy Tong, President, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities |
Update from the Chair: President Mark Gearan
First, the TN Secretariat launched the conference website in mid-March. Accommodation options, the conference description, and preliminary program elements are among the items currently included on the site. The site will be updated over the coming weeks as planning continues and more information is available. Be sure to follow Talloires Network on Twitter and like Talloires Network on Facebook to be among the first to know when new information is added to the website. I am also pleased to share that a number of additional National, Regional and Global Partners have signed on to collaborate with the Talloires Network to plan and conduct TNLC 2014, bringing the total to 14. A full list of the partner organizations is available on the conference website. Several of these partners will be convening meetings of their networks at TNLC 2014. We look forward to working with them in the coming months to highlight and reinforce the compelling leadership of national, regional and global networks in advancing university-community partnerships throughout the world. Lastly, please mark your calendars for June 1, 2014 when conference registration will open! TNLC 2014 – It Can Be More Than a Conference by Rob Hollister TNLC 2014 promises to be a highly informative and energizing gathering. But I want to encourage you to think of it as more than an event where you’ll make presentations, listen to talks, and participate in discussions. Join me in approaching Cape Town as an opportunity to really advance our work. TNLC 2014 can be a focus for organizing, a lever for change. Let’s use the months leading up to Cape Town to intensify exchange of experience and joint planning and action. Learn More>> Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement Series April 2014 Leaders in the Civic Engagement: USA Co-edited by Lorlene Hoyt and Amy Newcomb Rowe April signals the seventh edition of the expanded series. This issue includes an introduction to the United States of America and Auburn University in the state of Alabama. Also, we feature interviews with Giovanna Summerfield, Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at Auburn University and Mark Wilson, Director of Civic Learning Initiatives. Learn More>> Making Engagement Relevant in Higher Education Dr. Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Co-Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility and facilitator of the Global Alliance for Community-Engaged Research, recently authored a blog post on social responsibility and community engagement in India. Learn More>>
Upcoming Meeting of the Iberian-American Service-Learning Network The next meeting of the Iberian-American Service-Learning Network (CLAYSS) will take place on April 11th from 8:00 – 10:00 AM EST in Washington, DC. The meeting will be part of the activities involved in MONUMENTAL, NYLC’s 25th Annual National Service-Learning Conference which happens to coincide with its 30th anniversary. An online connection will be available so that those who can’t travel to DC will still be able to participate. Contact paulabasilico@clayss.org.ar for more information. Talloires Network Programs and Announcements Upcoming Faculty and Staff Professional Development Program Webinar Join the Talloires Network and Innovations in Civic Participation on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 from 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM UTC/GMT for a webinar on Setting Goals and Capturing Impacts and Outcomes of Community Engagement. Webinar participants will learn about these trends and new approaches to the planning of a community engagement agenda and the creation of systematic approaches to monitoring activities and capturing evidence of impacts and outcomes for internal and external purposes. There is no fee for participation. Learn More>> Campus Engage Ireland Symposium
Scott Cowen Receives 2014 Hesburgh Award
Lisa Anderson Featured in the Financial Times TN Steering Committee member Lisa Anderson was featured in the Financial Times, sharing her vision and strategy for the American University in Cairo. Learn More>> Opportunities and Announcements Evaluating Community Impact: Capturing and Making Sense of Community Outcomes
As part of the New Civics Initiative, the Spencer Foundation has released a Request for Proposals on Measuring the Quality of Civic and Political Engagement. They will fund research teams interested in developing valid and reliable measures of quality within two priority areas: (1) Engagement with Evidence and Arguments and (2) Engagement Across Difference. Preliminary proposals will be accepted until July 1, 2014. Learn More>> European Journal of Higher Education: Special Issue Call for Papers
E-Service Learning: Creating Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement through Online and Hybrid Edited by Jean R. Strait and Katherine Nordyke, Foreword by Andrew Furco
Universities and Development – A Core Mission Dilemma “Reconciling the wish to prioritise societal and development goals with growing pressures to perform on other core missions has emerged as a major dilemma for universities in “The World Beyond 2015″, a campaign of the Association of Commonwealth Universities to raise awareness of why and how higher education should respond to global challenges,” writes Karen MacGregor for University World News. Learn More>> Higher Education Beyond Job Creation: Universities, Citizenship, and Community by Thomas A. Bryer Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security are sobering for many citizens, even the college educated. The response to these pressures is not to double down on one mission of higher education, namely job creation. Instead, higher education marching into the next decades requires an integrative approach that promotes job creation, skill development, citizen cultivation, and knowledge dissemination—all oriented towards strengthening communities and providing opportunity for all citizens to pursue the good life. Learn More>> Universities Challenge – Balancing Local and Global In an article for University World News, Najma Najam questions whether universities’ goals and priorities need to be mutually exclusive or whether a mutually beneficial balance can be achieved. Learn More>> Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research: Linking Pedagogy to Practice Edited by Catherine Etmanski, Budd L. Hall and Teresa Dawson
Theory and Empirical Research in Social Entrepreneurship Edited by Philip Phan, Jill Kickul, Sophie Bacq and Mattias Nordqvist
For a complete list of upcoming events, visit our website>> 2014 University-Industry Interaction Conference: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Entrepreneurial Universities and Collaborative Innovation. Barcelona. Spain. 23 – 25 April 2014.
With more than 300 participants, the conference will be the leading international discussion forum for academics, researchers, practitioners and business representatives on university-industry interaction, where theory and practice are equally emphasised in the programme, which consists out of keynote presentations, track sessions, workshops and sight visits. During this three day conference, high emphasis is placed on networking opportunities and creative space, as well as skill development workshops (executive education), delivered by EADA Business School, one of Europe’s leading Business Schools. Learn More>> 6th Annual Connecting Campuses with Communities: Service Learning Institute and Research Academy. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Indiana. USA. 12 – 16 May 2014.Connecting Campuses with Communities is a capacity building program for faculty and staff that is co-sponsored by Indiana Campus Compact and the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning. In the past, over 250 engaged scholars from more than 100 institutions and five countries have attended this annual event to enhance their service-learning teaching and community-based research. Learn More>> As universities seek to enhance their potential to contribute to the public good, there is growing effort globally to promote community-university engagement. At the same time communities, organizations and governments seek to leverage the knowledge and resource capacity of universities to address community needs. CUVIC 2014 is an opportunity to reflect on these efforts and enable community-university innovation and action within the institutional, Indigenous, national and global context. Learn More>> Takaful is an annual regional meeting of scholars, young researchers, policy-makers, activists and practitioners in the field of philanthropy and civic engagement, both from within and outside the Arab region. The conference is structured to encourage interaction between scholarly analysis and lived experience, with the hope of contributing to sound policy and practice in philanthropy and civic engagement. Papers of a comparative nature and those covering understudied geographical areas are particularly welcome. Takaful 2014 will be hosted jointly by the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo, the American University in Beirut, the University of Balamand, and Columbia Global Centers | Middle East (Amman). Learn More>> |
Campus Compact recently named the 2014 Newman Civic Fellows. The Newman Civic Fellows Award honors inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. 
The Talloires Network will be co-sponsoring the Campus Engage Ireland Symposium on June 17, 2014 in Dublin, Ireland, entitled Campus-Community Partnerships: Conversations for Change. Sir David Watson and Dr. Barbara Holland will be the keynote speakers. 
The Talloires Network Secretariat would like to congratulate Tulane University President, Scott Cowen, who recently received the 2014 TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education. Cowen was presented with the award at the ACE Annual Meeting in March 2014. 
The Tamarack Institute will be hosting two workshops on evaluating community impact in 2014. The first will take place from June 2-4 in Halifax and the second will take place from November 18-20 in Winnipeg. The workshops are 
The European Journal of Higher Education is now accepting papers for a special issue on the Institutionalization of Universities’ Third Mission in 2015. The aim of this Special Issue is to undertake a critical, comparative appraisal of the impacts of the institutionalization of the ‘third mission’ of societal engagement at a variety of levels. Submission deadline is September 1, 2014. 
This book serves as an introduction to using online teaching technologies and hybrid forms of teaching for experiential learning and civic engagement. Service-learning has kept pace neither with the rapid growth in e-learning in all its forms nor with the reality that an increasing number of students are learning online without exposure to the benefits of this powerful pedagogy. 
Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research shows that CBR can also operate as an innovative pedagogical practice, engaging community members, research experts, and students. 
Scholars and policy makers have long recognized entrepreneurship as a powerful engine of economic growth. There is clear evidence, however, that when it comes to social entrepreneurship, policy attention has not been matched by growth in scholarly research. This volume illustrates the type of empirical effort that must take place for the field to advance.