Talloires Network 2017 Accomplishments and Major Events

January

• Engaged Membership drive is officially launched.
• Official announcement of the 2017 Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico is sent to members.
• New members are elected to the Steering Committee: Santa Ono (University of British Columbia, Canada), Rajesh Tandon (PRIA, India), Haifa Jamal Al-Lail (Effat University, Saudi Arabia) and Adam Weinberg (Denison University, USA).
• Youth Economic Participation Initiative Year 2 report is published.
• International Webinar on “Youth Employability and Community-Engaged Healthcare Projects” facilitated by recipients of the Mastercard Foundation Engaged Faculty in Africa program.

February

• First nine institutions commit to becoming Engaged Members of the Talloires Network: Charles Sturt University (Australia), Denison University (USA), International Medical University (Malaysia), National University of Ireland – Galway (Ireland), Simon Fraser University (Canada), University of British Columbia (Canada), University of Pretoria (South Africa), Tufts University (USA) and Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico).

March

• Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director of the Talloires Network and Amy Newcomb Rowe, Program Manager, public a book chapter on Global and Regional Civic Engagement Networks in the The Cambridge Handbook of service-learning and Community Engagement.

April

• Engaged Membership grows to 12 universities.
• The Talloires Network publishes a report on “University Education for Transformative Leadership”
• The Talloires Network launches the “Elephant Initiative” fellowship program, a collaborative effort with the Mastercard Foundation that engaged global youth in a participatory strategic planning process.

June

• Nearly 300 people from around the globe attend the Talloires Network Leaders Conference takes place June 20-24 in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Relive the best moments or check out the TNLC17 album.
• Six MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship prize winners published about their initiatives and pedagogical approaches in the Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement” and presented at the Talloires Network Leaders Conference in Xalapa, Mexico.
• Rector of Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico) and member of the TN steering committee, Sara Ladrón de Guevara with Anthony Monaco, President of Tufts University (USA) publish opinion piece in Times Higher Education, “Study at home, not abroad: the universities building local relationships.”
• Andrew Petter, President and Vice Chancellor of Simon Fraser University (Canada) and member of the TN steering committee published opinion piece in Times Higher Education, “Engage for success, perhaps even for survival.”
• Lorlene Hoyt, Executive Director of the Talloires Network, publishes a book, Regional Perspectives on Learning by Doing: Stories from Engaged Universities around the World.
• Youth Economic Participation Initiative (YEPI), a multi-year, multi-site collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation to advance entrepreneurship education at civically engaged universities in the global south comes to a successful close.
• Youth Economic Participation Initiative films are debuted.

September

• Six universities become Engaged Members of the Talloires Network: Universidad de las Ámericas (Chile), Brown University (USA), Nottingham Trent University (UK), Stellenbosch University (South Africa), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), and University of Winchester (UK).

December

• Engaged membership of the Talloires Network is now at 31 Engaged Members.
• Steering Committee election opens to elect two new members.
• “University Entrepreneurship Education for Individual and Community Transformation: Impacts of the Youth Economic Participation Initiative” report is published.
• Global Youth Strategic Planning: A Catalyst for Transformation (The Elephant Initiative) report is published.
• Elli Yiannakaris, director of the University of Cape Town’s Raymond Ackerman Academy in South Africa and one of the eight recipients of the Youth Economic Participation Initiative grants published an opinion piece in Times Higher Education, “Universities must move from teaching to transforming”
• Phil Mlanda and Donald Bodzo, co-founder of the PaNhari program visit and present their work at Tufts University