February 2013 Newsletter
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| February 5, 2013 | The Talloires Network Newsletter |
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In This Issue Featured Profile Talloires Network News Announcements Papers and Publications Upcoming Events
New Members We have welcomed 12 new member universities this month, click here to see all of them! To see a full list of our 279 member institutions, click here. 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 The Talloires Network secretriat 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 Maureen.Keegan@tufts.edu Mark Gearan (Chair) President, Hobard 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
A main point of discussion was initial planning for the next Talloires Network global conference, which we recommend be held in late 2014 in the Global South. Over the next few months, a subcommittee of the Steering Committee will guide planning of this event. We also discussed the importance of rectifying significant gaps in the Talloires Network membership including among universities in continental Europe, Russia, China and Brazil as well as high profile institutions in North America and the United Kingdom. One potential approach proposed is to promote the Talloires Network at different international conferences and events, including holding satellite Talloires Network meetings at events already taking place in order to facilitate dialogue among existing members as well as the recruitment of new members. We have formed a second subcommittee on Membership and Nominations, and asked the TN secretariat to emphasize broadening the Network’s geographic diversity. In addition to the Network’s ongoing programs, priorities for the upcoming months include membership expansion, organizing an in-person meeting of the Steering Committee in New York in June/July 2013, and coordinating Steering Committee participation at international conferences. I would welcome comments and suggestions from TN members. Are there issues or opportunities you would like the Steering Committee to consider at its next meeting, or before? Thank you for your continued engagement with the Talloires Network. We are pleased and encouraged with our progress to date and excited to advance our collective effort in the months ahead. Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement: Budd Hall by Lorlene Hoyt
2013 Talloires Network University Volunteer Program The Talloires Network and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid are still accepting applications from Asian and African universities for the 2013 Talloires Network University Volunteer Pilot Program. For the pilot year, volunteers will be selected to work on six-month long assignments that will begin as early as March 2013. Learn More>> or Download the Application Form>>, in English and Spanish. The Talloires Network welcomed 12 new members in January 2013. The Talloires Network now has 279 member universities in 70 countries throughout the world. Click here to see a list of our newest members! Reimagining Tulane as an Engaged Community Partner
GUNi Call for Good Practices Extended to February 10
Call for Proposals: Engagement Australia Next Steps Conference 2013
Carnegie Classification or Re-Classification The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching invites higher education institutions in the United States to apply for the 2015 Community Engagement Classification or Re-Classification for universities classified in 2006 or 2008. Learn More>> Call for Proposals: Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium
Call for Papers: Action Research Journal Special Issue on Knowledge Democracy and Action Research
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award
Last month, we featured the establishment of the Network for a Future that Works. For those who are interested in more information or providing feedback to the network’s organizers, please read the concept note and the cover letter drafted by COEP, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. A Focus on Skills Increasingly Links Higher Education with Employment In an article for University World News, Yojana Sharma writes, “The attention of education policy-makers and the international education community is moving away from raising literacy levels and increasing access to secondary and higher education, towards skills required by the workforce to promote economic growth.” Learn More>> BTtoP Civic Monograph Series, 2012 – 2014
University-Industry Partnerships Initiative Launched At a meeting held at the American University of Beirut December 6 and 7, 2012, the European Union and Lebanon launched a new, three-year partnership called IDEAL – Innovation and Development of Academic-Industry Partnerships through Efficient Research Administration in Lebanon. Wagdy Sawahel shares more information about the partnership in an article for University World News. Learn More>> Higher Education Stakeholders to Forge a ‘Social Contract’ Karen MacGregor, for University World News, writes that in an effort to combat the higher education crisis in Nigeria, partly stemming from “the lack of a ‘social contract'” there will now be a biannual Nigerian Higher Education Summit, bringing together “federal and state governments, parliamentarians, regulatory bodies, institutions, higher education unions, student leaders, the business sector and civil society organisations.” Learn More>> Missed Opportunities for University-business Partnerships Education experts in Mexico believe that despite the existence of internship programs at most Mexican universities, more can be done to strengthen relations between universities and the private sector. In an article for University World News, Chrissie Long expands on this topic. Learn More>> University Engagement with Socially Excluded Communities
The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads
For a complete list of upcoming events, visit our website>>
EUA Annual Conference. European Universities – Global Engagement. Ghent (Belgium). 11-12 April 2013.
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On January 8, the Talloires Network Steering Committee convened a very productive call to discuss the achievements of the Talloires Network over the past six months as well as goals and initiatives of the next year. I would like to take this opportunity to share some highlights of our latest biannual meeting.
Steering Committee member Scott Cowen, President of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, published an article in the Winter 2013 edition of Diversity and Democracy on how disasters such as Hurricane Katrina have helped shape Tulane’s relationship with and responsibility to the New Orleans community. 
The call for good practices for the 6th Annual Global University Network for Innovation conference, “Let’s Build Transformative Knowledge to Drive Social Change,” has been extended through February 10, 2013. The conference will be held May 13-15, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. There will be significant representation from the Talloires Network Secretariat at the Conference. 
Engagement Australia is now accepting proposals for the 2013 Next Steps Conference: Co-Producing Knowledge for Social Impact to be held at the Australian Catholic University Fitzroy Campus, Melbourne from July 15-17, 2013. Proposals will be accepted until the close of business on February 11. 
The Call for Proposals is now open for the 14th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC). This year’s event is hosted by ESC’s Western Region and will be held at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, October 8 and 9, 2013. Proposals will be accepted until March 15, 2013. 
The Action Research Journal is now accepting papers in English or Spanish for a special issue on Knowledge Democracy and Action Research to be edited by Drs. Namrata Jaitli and George Openjuru with Dr. Rajesh Tandon and Prof. Budd Hall. The deadline for submission of papers is May 1, 2013. 
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is now accepting applications for the 2013 CCPH Annual Award. The award is designed to r
In Bringing Theory to Practice’s (BTtoP) Winter 2013 newsletter, Barry Checkoway writes about BTtoP’s new Civic Monographs series which “will raise questions and provide perspectives on fundamental issues related to the civic mission of higher education.” The first volume in the series, Civic Provocations, was distributed in May 2012. Subsequent volumes will be Civic Values and Civic Practices (summer 2013), Civic Studies (fall 2013), Civic Learning and Teaching (winter 2014) and Civic Engagement, Civic Development and Higher Education (spring 2014). 
Edited by Paul Benneworth, “this volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility, opening access to the knowledge economy for formerly excluded groups.” 
Written by Rita Axelroth Hodges and Steve Dubb, this book “features ten in-depth cases–including the University of Pennsylvania–and examines how universities, by pursuing a conscious, place-based anchor institution strategy, can work with community partners to improve low-income neighborhoods.” 
