Conferences
When available the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) can provide registration funding for faculty, community partners and students to attend service learning /civic engagement related conferences. Please contact the CCE regarding available funds.
The following is a list of upcoming higher education conferences either with a focus on civic engagement or a broad theme that could include discussions of civic engagement. This list is by no means comprehensive, and we invite you to let us know about any other upcoming events that we could include on the list.
September 2011
Imagining America’s 2011 National Conference: What Sustains Us?
September 22-24, 2011 – Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
IA’s national conferences facilitate encounters with the political, social, cultural, and physical contexts, particular to the host city, that inform local engagement initiatives. The 2011 conference will include on-campus sessions and a day of visits to metropolitan and rural off-campus sites where transformative collaborations are forged between Minnesota’s diverse higher education institutions and communities. Interactive conference sessions are intended to facilitate group deliberation about publicly active art and scholarship, on levels of scale ranging from the course to campus-wide initiatives and beyond; from local organizing to national policy and international exchange. For more information, please visit: http://imaginingamerica.org/conferences.html.
October 2011
12th Annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference. Michigan State University (USA). 2-4 October 2011.
The National Outreach Scholarship Conference (NOSC) is composed of higher education member institutions, a mix of state-public and private institutions. NOSC works collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship, and designed to help build community capacity. The 12th Annual NOSC will have the following tracks:
- Methods and Practices of Community-Based Research and Creative Activities
- Translational Science and the Diffusion of Innovation
- Globalization and International Engagement
- Technologies as Tools for Engagement
- Leadership and Professional Development for Engaged Scholarship
http://www.outreachscholarship.org/Conference/NOSC2011Meeting/ConferenceHome.aspx
Pascal 2011: Regional Innovation, Regional Prosperity. Naperville, Illinois. 3-5 October 2011.
The 10th International Pascal Conference is hosted by the Pascal International Observatory and Northern Illinois University. Each of the following conference sub-themes will focus on regional or community practices that yield innovation, inclusive prosperity, and stronger forms of social cohesion.
- Innovation in regional development
- Collaborations among local units of government, NGOs, and other strategic partners
- Socially responsible entrepreneurship and innovation
- Other successful local initiatives that have generated regional prosperity
November 2011
Community Campus Partnerships for Health Institutes
October 29 - November 2, 2011 – Washington DC Registration is open for the American
Public Health Association (APHA) conference, Oct 29 – Nov 2 in Washington DC
CCPH is delighted to be involved in two learning institutes: (1) Service Learning Models: Increasing Our Capacity to Eliminate Health Disparities on Oct 29 and (2) Supporting Faculty, Graduate Students & Post-Docs to Succeed as Community-Engaged Scholars on Oct 30. You may register for one or both learning institutes, with or without registering for the full conference. For more information, please visit: http://bit.ly/lMDcvq
2011 IARSLCE Annual Conference. "Research for Impact: Scholarship Advancing Social Change." Chicago, Illinois (USA). 2-4 November 2011.
The conference will highlight research that critically evaluates and illuminates the long-term impact of service-learning and community engagement on students, faculty, and community partners and, most importantly, on the social, economic and political issues they seek to transform. The conference will provide dynamic venue for scholarship that articulates how, when, where and why service-learning and community engagement influence critical issues locally, nationally and globally. Veteran, new and emerging scholars from diverse backgrounds and settings will exhibit the highest quality research that advances both the understanding and practice of collaboratively engaging students, educators, and community partners in advancing social change.
http://www.researchslce.org/conferences-awards/
January 2012
Call for Proposals – AAC&U’s 2012 Annual Meeting
January 25-28, 2012 – Washington, DC
Proposal deadline: July 18, 2011
The Association of American Colleges and Universities invites you and your colleagues
to submit a proposal for our 2012 Annual Meeting—―Shared Futures / Difficult Choices:
Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning, Global Engagement, and Success.‖
Proposals can be submitted online through July 18, 2011.
For more information, please visit: http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM12/cfp.cfm?utm_source=meetings&utm_medium=blast&utm_campaign=am12cfp1 email hyers@aacu.org or call (202) 387-3760.
April 2012
15th Annual Continuums of Service Conference
APRIL 11 - 13, 2012
Seattle Marriott Waterfront
More information to come
http://www.wacampuscompact.org/cosconference/details/2012info.shtml
Call for Proposals – Community-Campus Partnerships for Health’s 15th Anniversary Conference
April 18-21, 2012 – Houston, TX
Proposal deadline: September 26, 2011
The conference theme is "Community-Campus Partnerships as a Strategy for Social Justice: Where We've Been & Where We Need to Go." Whether you are directly involved in community-based participatory research, service-learning or other community-academic partnerships - or are working to ensure the conditions are in place for such partnerships to thrive and have impact - the conference is designed to challenge and inspire you! Regardless of the social justice issue you are passionate about - health equity, education, environmental justice, food security, sustainability, indigenous rights and so forth - together we will explore how to leverage partnerships to create change. For more information, please visit: http://www.ccph.info