Service-Learning Showcase Call for Presenters

Showcase Your Service-Learning Project

If your school or organization practices service-learning, you're encouraged to apply to participate in the Service-Learning Showcase at The 20th Annual National Service-Learning Conference. You'll be given table space for a display that illustrates your work and the opportunity to inspire others to begin similar projects. Youth participation is strongly encouraged.

To apply, carefully read the information below and fill out the application form. Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. Central Time, November 24, 2008. Selected applicants will be notified by November 17, 2008. The Service-Learning Showcase will be held at the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, TN on March 19, 2009 from 12:15 - 2:15 pm.

See https://programs.regweb.com/metro/NYLC2009/
assets/2009_SL_Showcase_Application.pdf for more information.

Call for Presenters! 2009 DC Conference on Service and Leadership

Deadline: February 16, 2009

Each year Serve DC-The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism brings together community and faith-based organizations in a conference focused on enhancing their organizational capacity to meet growing community needs. Next year, on May 13^th-15^th, the 2009 DC Conference on Service and Leadership will reach and engage hundreds of AmeriCorps program directors and members, Learn and Serve America and Senior Corps program directors, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members, youth, and representatives from community and faith-based organizations in skill-building workshops and learning tracks. The vision for the event is to promote and foster cross collaboration while providing sustainable and tangible tools to solve serious community issues and addressing real community needs, showcased in this year’s theme: "From Nice to Necessary." In addition, the conference will feature the Serve DC Mayor’s Community Service Awards to celebrate the great works of leaders in local communities.

This year's conference is based on three programmatic themes: Leadership, Collaboration, and Sustainability. These themes represent the continuum of growth that leads to healthy and strong communities. These themes will be woven throughout the conference in workshops, plenary speakers, events and materials. Speakers should be prepared to submit workshop proposals that fit into at least one of these three themes.

To obtain an application, email Natasha at natasha.ballentine@dc.gov

Call for Proposals: Pathways of Engagement: Connecting Civic Purpose

Deadline: February 25, 2009

Conference Themes

Discuss the scholarship of outreach and engagement with colleagues from around the country. The focus in 2009 will be on:

The Institution: Providing Institutional Support and Incentives for Doing the Scholarship of Outreach and Engagement

The Community: Building Strong Relationships between Communities and Universities: Access, Reciprocity, and Sustainability

The Faculty: Doing the Scholarship of Outreach and Engagement: Evidence-Based Practices, and the Impact on Faculty Members from Interconnecting their Research, Teaching, and Outreach and Engagement Roles

The Student: Contributing to Outreach and Engagement: Evidence-Based Practices and the Impact on Students from Connecting Student Learning to Work in Communities

Presentation Options:

Oral presentations will be 45 minutes in length. Presenters should develop interactive sessions to share information; 30-minute presentations with 15-minute participant discussion moderated by the session facilitator.

Panel sessions: Some proposals may be grouped together with two other presentations around a central theme. In this case, each of the three presenters will have 10 minutes to present the central theme of their topic, and 15 minutes will be left at the end for participant discussion moderated by the session facilitator.

Posters will be continuously on display between 2 p.m., Monday, September 28, 2009 and noon, Wednesday, September 30, 2009. To encourage networking and discussion about the displayed work, multiple sessions will be scheduled at which the presenters will be expected to be at their posters.

To submit a proposal, go to www.uwex.edu/ics/nosc2009

Call for Papers: Student Learning for Social Change: Interdisciplinary Community-Based Research

Deadline: December 15, 2008

How can higher education most effectively prepare future citizens for the enterprising work necessary for social sustainability and advancement? In this book, we advance interdisciplinary public or community-based research as a transformative higher education strategy to answer this call. Partnerships that involve citizens and public leaders, diverse faculty and students in collaborative community-based inquiry and action hold promise for a unique combination of pedagogical, scholarly, and public outcomes necessary for facing 21st century challenges.

This book will explore and offer models and practical strategies for interdisciplinary CBR projects as undergraduate pedagogy. The ways in which interdisciplinary CBR projects can contribute at once to student learning, community, and scholarly outcomes will be discussed. Special attention will be given to innovative strategies for students' learning in this unique public and interdisciplinary context - including learning contexts (e.g., learning communities, community-campus collaborative networks, novel learning structures, communities as learning contexts), student preparation strategies (e.g., course sequences, orientation approaches, gateway experiences), mentoring approaches to prompt deepening civic development, and techniques for advancing interdisciplinary deliberation and innovation. Illustrative case studies, including an array of academic disciplines, community sectors, and pressing issues will provide readers with diverse examples of the transformative potential of interdisciplinary CBR projects. Student learning outcomes assessment, as well as assessments of community impacts and social change outcomes will be included and reflected upon to inform best practice development. Strategies for planning and implementing interdisciplinary CBR projects will be provided, including perspectives from the different partners in such ventures.

Invitation for Proposals

Proposals (1000 - 1500 words in length) are invited that detail contribution(s) to advancing understanding of interdisciplinary CBR as undergraduate pedagogy and as a social change agent. Invitees are encouraged to share this call for proposals with community partners; collaborative proposals are encouraged.

Contact Tricia Thorme, tthorme@princeton.edu, with any questions.

12th Annual Continuums of Service Conference Call for Proposals

Deadline: December 9, 2008

It has never been more important to bring students, faculty, service-learning and civic engagement practitioners, and community members together to address the critical issues we are facing locally and globally. Given the current global economic climate, and the enormous changes in our world, it is imperative that we use engagement to support and enable our fellow citizens to live, work, access higher education, and improve the health of our society. The exceptional work being done in service-learning and civic engagement, and the partnerships that have been built between campuses and communities, must be nurtured and sustained in order to continue affecting society for the better.

The 12th Annual Continuums of Service Conference aims to highlight ways in which engagement can address critical community issues we are facing locally, nationally, and globally. By sharing insights and experiences, and by discussing key questions, participants will build knowledge and form new alliances in order to strengthen our campuses, our communities, and our shared world.

For more information and to submit a proposal, go to http://www.wacampuscompact.org/conference/index.shtml

2009 Annual EPICS Conference Call for Proposals

The 2009 EPICS Conference on Service-Learning in Engineering and Computing will take place August 3-4 in Austin, TX.

Deadline: January 30, 2009

The purpose of the Annual EPICS Conference is to bring together the community involved in integrating the educational needs for realistic design experiences with the technological needs of the local communities through service-learning.

Conference attendees include faculty, staff and corporate partners of current and prospective EPICS programs. However, the conference is designed for a broader audience that includes all educators, community members and industrial partners who work with and/or are interested in design education, multidisciplinary teams, community-based design and service-learning.

For more information, see https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICSNational
/Conferences/Conferences/2009
/call%20for%20presentations.pdf

Break Away: The Alternative Break Connection Proposals

Break Away is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity open to schools across the country. Break Away: The Alternative Break Connection will be taking proposals (through January 12^th, 2009) for locations to host our 2009 summer Alternative Break Citizenship Schools (ABCs).

The ABCs combine the synergy and networking opportunities of a national conference with the personal and team growth aspects of intimate leadership training. All activities are presented within the dynamic atmosphere of a quality alternative break experience.

It is an experience like no other; it combines workshops, service projects, community interaction, speaker panels, team-building, and reflection. Participants synthesize knowledge and skills gained during workshops with educational contact from the local community; as well as student and staff leaders from campuses nationwide.

If your school or entity is interested in hosting this event you will have the opportunity to send up to four participants at no cost to your program.

For more information, go to http://www.alternativebreaks.org or email breakaway@alternativebreaks.org