January 2012 News
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| January 5, 2012 |
The Talloires Network E-Newsletter |
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In This Issue
New Members Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Ireland) To see a full list of our 231 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 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 For the first time since our founding conference in 2005, the Talloires Network convened university leaders from across our entire membership to discuss the future of the global movement for civic engagement in higher education. The Talloires Network Leaders Conference, hosted by the Autonomous University of Madrid in June 2011, brought together university civic engagement stakeholders from around the world, including university presidents, leaders of higher education networks, staff, students, and philanthropic leaders. The conference also marked a transition in the leadership of the Talloires Network. After leading the Network since its founding in 2005, President Larry Bacow stepped down at the Madrid Conference. I had the honor of taking his place as Chair of the Talloires Network Steering Committee. Most of our original Steering Committee members also stepped down last year, and our membership ratified a diverse slate of new Steering Committee members. I look forward to working with these new members, and I am committed to continuing the progress made under the leadership of President Bacow and the previous Steering Committee. With the continued commitment of our members, I believe that 2012 will be another year of tremendous growth and progress for the Talloires Network. 2012 MacJannet Prize call for nominations National University of Malaysia Organizes AsiaEngage Opportunities 2012 Outreach Scholarship/W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Awards and the C. Peter Magrath University/Community Engagement Award Service-Learning and the Liberal Arts: How and Why It Works 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. Community Links, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland), MacJannet Prize 2011 3rd Prize winner |
The Talloires Network is pleased to call for nominations for the fourth annual 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 in 2012: 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. 
AsiaEngage has been established as an umbrella for the Asia-Talloires Network of Industry and Community Engaged Universities (ATNEU) and the ASEAN University Network Thematic Network on University Social Responsibility and Sustainability (AUN-USR&S). Initiated and driven by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM or The National University of Malaysia), it aims to create opportunities for the sharing of innovative industry and community engagement practices, developing regional capacity for effective engagement, forging collaborative industry and community-based research and driving learning prospects as well as inspiring youth volunteerism across ASEAN and Asia. AsiaEngage is holding its inaugural conference on 7-9 May 2012 in Kuala Lumpur. “Higher-Education-Industry-Community Engagement: Forging Meaningful Partnerships across Asia" will bring together stakeholders from across the region to to develop a critical agenda that fits in with regional realities, interests and priorities towards achieving better university-industry-community engagement in Asia. 
Are you involved in research or practice in community service-learning or other engaged pedagogies? The Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning (CACSL) and the University of Saskatchewan invite proposals for research paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels or talking circles for Impacts of Community Engagement to be held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan May 10-12. Proposals are due January 31, 2012. For more information: 
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. 
What are the connections between service-learning and a liberal arts education? That is the central question of this volume and scholars from a variety of disciplines – chemistry, economics, education, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy, religious studies, and sociology – seek to answer it here. The scholars collected by Craig A. Rimmerman ground their essays in a positive assumption about the importance of service-learning in contributing to students’ moral, ethical, and social development within the broader context of a liberal arts education. Includes a forward by President Mark Gearan, Chair of the Talloires Steering Committee. 
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 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:
Community Links is an institute-wide program whose goals are to aid in the alleviation of educational disadvantage, widen participation and enhance civic engagement, particularly in inner city Dublin. The underpinning philosophy of Community Links is that education for citizenship begins at a very early age and continues throughout life. The community-based programs – Ballymun Music Program and Computer Learning In Communities – created and maintain partnerships with disadvantaged schools and communities, teachers, and parents, to identify and meet their educational needs through the vehicles of learning / performing music, and computer technology. The DIT-based programs – Access Service, Mature Student Access Program, and Students Learning with Communities – focus on providing pathways to higher education access for disadvantaged young people and adults, and supporting students and faculty to design service-learning projects in collaboration with community partners.