December 2013 Newsletter
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| December 5, 2013 | The Talloires Network Newsletter |
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In This Issue Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement Series
New Members To see a full list of our 308 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 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 Program 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) Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Sydney President, American University in Cairo President, Tulane University Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Founding President, Aga Khan University President, Tufts University Vice-Chancellor, Kenyatta University Rector, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Chairperson, South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum Rector, Universidad Católica de Córdoba Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities |
Update from the Chair: President Mark Gearan
The partnership with these two organizations in planning and executing the conference also highlights a broader goal of the conference – emphasizing the leadership of the numerous TN partner organizations and regional networks. Other goals for the conference include advancing and elevating awareness of the global movement of civic engagement and social responsibility, strengthening TN members’ civic engagement programs and contributing to TN programs. An exciting addition to the 2014 Leaders Conference will be the participation of a sizable group of student leaders. Much like the presence of student leaders during the Steering Committee’s July meeting, we hope that their participation will enliven and enrich the conference. I would like to invite all Talloires Network members to attend what I am sure will be an engaging and rewarding event. I also encourage all heads of universities planning to attend the conference to bring with them a senior faculty or staff member and a student leader. Please see the article below for more information and watch for additional communications from the Secretariat as more details become available. Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement Series December 2013 Leaders in the Civic Engagement: Malaysia Co-edited by Lorlene Hoyt and Amy Newcomb Rowe December signals the second edition of the expanded series. This issue begins with a brief introduction to Malaysia and two of its engaged universities: International Medical University (IMU) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Next, we feature interviews with Provost, Mei Ling Young and Director of External Affairs, Dean Kok-Hai Ong of the International Medical University, as well as Vice-Chancellor Datuk Noor Azlan Ghazali and Professor Mohd Fauzi of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Learn More>> For additional reading, please see the interview with TN Steering Committee Member and Vice Chancellor of UKM, Sharifah Shahabudin from the June 2012 Newsletter available here. 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference to be Held in Cape Town, South Africa
University Volunteer Program Update The Talloires Network and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) launched the pilot year of the University Volunteer Program this summer. The idea for the program, funded by the Santander Group, evolved from high-level discussions at the Talloires Network Leadrs Conference in Madrid, Spain in 2011. Learn More>> Faculty and Staff Professional Development Webinars We invite and encourage to participate in the Faculty and Professional Development webinar series, which is designed to engage university and college administrators, faculty and staff from different regions of the world in collaborative exchange of ideas. Webinars will be held in February, March and April, 2014. Learn More>> 8 YEPI Partner Institutions Meet in Cape Town
2014 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship
EUA Conference Call for Proposals Proposals are being accepted through January 6, 2014 for the 2014 EUA Annual Conference: Changing Landscapes in Learning and Teaching. The conference will be held from April 3 – 4, 2014 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium. Academy for Civic Professionalism
Engagement Australia Conference Call for Papers
Call for Abstracts – CUVIC 2014
CUPP Achieves Two Milestones in 2013 Congratulations to the Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) at the University of Brighton – in 2013 CUPP celebrated its 10th year and welcomed its 1000th member! Learn more>> International Academy of Business Hosted International Conference
NERCHE Virtual Think Thank: Assessing Personnel Review and Engagement On December 18, 2013, NERCHE will host this webinar considering how colleges and universities can integrate faculty engagement in academic-review processes and emphasizing the importance of expanding institutions’ understanding of the traditional review categories of research, teaching, and service to reflect achievements and successes in the area of public engagement. Michael Bernstein, Provost at Tulane University will be the presenter. Learn More>> Engagement Australia Visiting Scholar: Angie Hart Engagement Australia is pleased to announce their first Visiting Scholar for 2014 is Professor Angie Hart from the University of Brighton from 3 February – 15 February 2014. Learn More>> International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement The first issue of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE), published by IARSLCE is now available. Learn More>> Public: A Journal of Imagining America The first issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America, foregrounding the arts, humanities, and design in public life, an e-journal from Syracuse University, is now available. Public breaks new ground as a hybrid online multimedia journal and archive, with innovative web interfaces to peer-reviewed multi-modal scholarship and creative work. It furthers Imagining America’s mission to make visible the value of cultural disciplines and promotes Syracuse University as a national leader in publicly engaged scholarship and practice. Learn More>> Innovation in the Schoolhouse: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Education by Jack Leonard
An Engaged Learner: A Pocket Resource for Building Community Skills by Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko
Edited by Darlene E. Clover and Kathy Sandford
Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty First Century by Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
For a complete list of upcoming events, visit our website>> Ashoka U Exchange. The New Scholar. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. USA. 20 – 22 February 2014.
The 2014 Exchange seeks to build a model of The New Scholar as a collective identity emerging from both the curriculum and co-curriculum: students from different formal and informal educational settings; faculty, staff, and administrators from various higher education institutions; as well as practitioners whose work takes place in the community. Learn More>> EUA Annual Conference 2014. Changing Landscapes in Learning and Teaching. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels. Belgium. 3 – 4 April 2014.Which trends are transforming learning and teaching, and how should European universities respond? EUA’s 2014 Annual Conference will explore innovative teaching approaches that are being developed, discussed or introduced, and consider their implications for the organisation of learning and teaching processes in the years to come. The conference will thus provide a forum for discussing how universities in different parts of Europe and the world respond to current pressures for change and try to anticipate tomorrow’s educational needs. Learn More>> 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>>
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We are pleased to announce that the 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference will take place from December 2 through December 4, 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, we are delighted that the conference will be co-sponsored by the South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum (SAHECEF) and will by hosted in partnership with the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC). 
In November 2013, the Talloires Network Secretariat convened an opening workshop for the eight universities participating in the Youth Economic Participation Initiative. This initiative, launched in 2012 with support from The MasterCard Foundation, supports the work of eight Talloires Network institutions that are implementing innovative strategies to facilitate their students’ transition from university to employment and entrepreneurship. 
On Wednesday, November 19, in advance of the 5th International Symposium on Service-Learning held at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, the Talloires Network and Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) hosted the first workshop as a part of the Faculty and Staff Professional Development Program. This workshop, organized in collaboration with Stellenbosch University, focused on Leadership, Planning and Change Management for Community Engagement. 
Less than two months remain to nominate programs for the 2014 MacJannt Prize for Global Citizenship! Nominations will be accepted until Friday, January 24, 2014. Visit the _Page_1.jpg "ACCE Banner Graphic (1)_Page_1")
The Community and Civic Engagement Initiative within Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts announces the annual Academy for Civic Professionalism for faculty in the arts and humanities, which will take place May 11 – 14, 2014. The Academy will include a rigorous and invigorating schedule of speakers, workshops, working sessions led by Engaged Scholars from Auburn University, and CCE project site visits. 
The Organising Committee of the Engagement Australia National Conference, to be held at Wagga Wagga between 21st – 23rd July, 2014, are calling on interested researchers, academics, practitioners and industry partners to submit papers for inclusion in the conference proceedings. The Committee invites submissions across four categories relating to the conference theme “Engage and Innovate for Sustainability.” Proposals are due February 28, 2014. 
Submissions are now being accepted for workshops, teaching circles and poster presentations for the Community University Victoria (CUVIC) Conference 2014 to be held May 20 – 22, 2014 in Victoria, BC, Canada. The conference theme is Beyond Engagement: Creating Integration, Innovation and Impact. Submissions will be accepted through January 31, 2014. 
E’World International Conference “Entrepreneurship and Business Education in Emerging World” was successfully held on October 31 – November 1, 2013 in Almaty, Kazakhstan by the International Academy of Business. The Conference was attended by 266 people from 21 countries, prominent foreign speakers, and representatives from local and foreign businesses, government, leading scientists and experts from various fields of entrepreneurship, economics and business education. 105 presentations and speeches were made during conference, including video greetings from international partners from USA, Canada, France and Bangladesh. 
The call for entrepreneurial leadership in education has never been stronger, but there is little descriptive information about this kind of leadership and even less advice on how a leader might grow in this dimension. Beginning with the constant need for innovation in every learning organization, the author makes a case for an entrepreneurial style of leadership in education. The author paints a multi-faceted picture of entrepreneurial leadership using stories of real leaders in combination with writings from the social sciences, education, natural sciences, business and the arts. 
The development of community skills starts with an understanding that communities and schools interlink. That is, learners who go to school expect to use the knowledge they gain to serve their communities. This calls for a broader vision of learning that goes beyond the four walls of classrooms. 
Lifelong learning, the arts, and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university maps the work of adult educators, teachers, researchers and graduate students from North America, Europe and Africa who use the arts in their university classroom teaching, their research and in service. It is written specifically for graduate students, and educators working in higher education, communities, schools, and practitioners who want to learn how to better integrate the arts in their practice to critically and creativity communicate, teach, make meaning, uncover, and involve. 
In this book, Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein make the case for the pivotal role of research universities as agents of societal change. They argue that universities must use their vast intellectual and financial resources to confront global challenges such as climate change, extreme poverty, childhood diseases, and an impending worldwide shortage of clean water.