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The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award recognizes exemplary
partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that are striving to
achieve the syste...
[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
***REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DUE OCTOBER 19, 2009***
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
March 3-5, 2010
Hosted by The University of Georgia
Proposals are now being acce...
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Nominations Due Feb 1 for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award
[Announcement from comm-engagedscholarship listserv]
The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award recognizes exemplary
partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that are striving to
achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health,
social and economic inequalities. The award highlights the power and potential of
community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice. The 2010 award will be
announced and re… Continue
The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award recognizes exemplary
partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that are striving to
achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health,
social and economic inequalities. The award highlights the power and potential of
community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice. The 2010 award will be
announced and re… Continue
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 1:50pm —
Call for papers for THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGIST: Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty Reduction
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Reminder: Call for Papers
THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGIST, Vol. 22, Issue 1. Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty Reduction
Editors: David Fryer (Charles Sturt University) & Cathy McCormack
The first issue of 2010 will be a special issue devoted to community critical psychology approaches to poverty reduction.
Contributions by: people with first hand experience of poverty; poverty activists; members of organisations committed to poverty reduct… Continue
Reminder: Call for Papers
THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGIST, Vol. 22, Issue 1. Special Issue on Psychology & Poverty Reduction
Editors: David Fryer (Charles Sturt University) & Cathy McCormack
The first issue of 2010 will be a special issue devoted to community critical psychology approaches to poverty reduction.
Contributions by: people with first hand experience of poverty; poverty activists; members of organisations committed to poverty reduct… Continue
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 5:00pm —
LINC: New service-learning opportunities for students, faculty, and staff!
SUBJECT: New service-learning opportunities for Spring 2010
To all students, all majors, all levels:
Consider registering for a new course entitled LINC-Learning in
Community. As a result of this course, you can expect to improve your
project skills and to contribute to an important problem that benefits
a nonprofit organization.
LINC is a service-learning course in which teams of students work on
real projects proposed by community partners. There are 16 sections of
the… Continue
To all students, all majors, all levels:
Consider registering for a new course entitled LINC-Learning in
Community. As a result of this course, you can expect to improve your
project skills and to contribute to an important problem that benefits
a nonprofit organization.
LINC is a service-learning course in which teams of students work on
real projects proposed by community partners. There are 16 sections of
the… Continue
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 4:07pm —
REMINDER: 2010 GULF-SOUTH SUMMIT PROPOSALS DUE OCTOBER 19, 2009
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***REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DUE OCTOBER 19, 2009***
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
March 3-5, 2010
Hosted by The University of Georgia
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education March 3-5, 2010. Please see the website http://www.georgiacenter… Continue
***REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS DUE OCTOBER 19, 2009***
PEOPLE, PLACE, & PARTNERS: Building and Sustaining Engagement in Critical Times
March 3-5, 2010
Hosted by The University of Georgia
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2010 Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Through Higher Education March 3-5, 2010. Please see the website http://www.georgiacenter… Continue
Posted on October 8, 2009 at 4:53pm —
Proposals Due Oct 16 for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference, May 12-15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon
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We are writing to remind you of the Fri Oct 16 deadline for proposals for
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) conference, May 12-15, 2010 in
Portland, Oregon! The conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships" promises to be CCPH's best yet as hundreds
of community and campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building,
networking and agenda-setting!
We invite you to share your knowledge, wisdom and e… Continue
We are writing to remind you of the Fri Oct 16 deadline for proposals for
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) conference, May 12-15, 2010 in
Portland, Oregon! The conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships" promises to be CCPH's best yet as hundreds
of community and campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building,
networking and agenda-setting!
We invite you to share your knowledge, wisdom and e… Continue
Posted on October 6, 2009 at 1:11pm —
My Engagement Activity at Illinois
Illini Mentor Program: Connecting to Community through Co-curricular Service-Learning
I'm the co-founder and staff advisor for Illini Mentor Program, a registered student organization of the University of Illinois that is dedicated to fostering meaningful and consistent mentoring relationships between University students and children in the local community with the goal of supporting learning, growth, skill-building, and interracial and cultural understanding. See our poster from the Public Engagement Symposium: IMP Poster.pdf
2009 Social Entrepreneurship Summer Institute: June 12-13, 19-20, 26-27
SESI consists of a three-weekend program of workshops and presentations delivered by faculty and invited speakers, which emphasizes a curriculum related to business skills and social entrepreneurship. The institute provides business education outreach to professional staff working in the non-profit sector along with University of Illinois students with diverse majors. In addition to learning with community partners during the institute, student fellows spend the summer working in teams with the participating non-profit organizations to address community needs in innovative and sustainable ways through the application of social entrepreneurship concepts.
Fellows are required to enroll in the affiliated course, BUS 199: Social Entrepreneurship & the Citizen Leader, which is intended to provide structure and support to maximize learning and accountability during the academic service-learning internships. In addition to teaching the service-learning course, as the Director of Curriculum and Service-Learning for SESI, I consult with Collette Niland (Executive Director) and Stacy Bennett (Director of External Relations) to develop and coordinate curriculum for the institute.
Call for Presenters SESI2009_CallforPresenters.pdf
Call for Student Applications: Social Entrepreneurship Fellows SESI2009_StudentApplication.pdf
See the poster from the 2008 Social Entrepreneurship Showcase SESI2008_ShowcasePoster.pdf
Community Stewardship through Environmental Education
In collaboration with staff from the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program (Robin Goettel and Terri Hallesy) and faculty from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (Cory Suski and Joanne Vining), I developed and provide instructional support for the service-learning course, NRES 285: Community Stewardship through Environmental Education. In this course, U of I students learn about topics related to biodiversity, ecosystem health, and the effects of aquatic invasive species. They work in small groups with school teachers to teach children about these topics, using the "Nab the Aquatic Invader" website http://www.sgnis.org/kids/ and interactive, science-based activities. And, they develop community stewardship projects with the children to increase the public's awareness about aquatic invasive species and their negative impacts and to inspire community action to control and prevent their spread.
Rob Kanter highlighted two of the projects from the Spring 2009 course on the Environmental Almanac on April 16th. Listen to audio links of songs that were written and recorded by Zanne Newman’s 4th grade students at Stratton Elementary with the help of WILL audio production manager Mike Pritchard. And, watch a public service announcement video created by Whitney Stewart's 8th grade students at Franklin Middle School. http://environmentalalmanac.blogspot.com/2009/04/champaign-4th-graders-collaborate-with.html
This multi-level service-learning program was supported by the COSEE Great Lakes Project and the Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement and involved collaboration with the following school and community partners: Edison Middle School, Franklin Middle School, Stratton Elementary School, Thomas Paine Elementary School, Anita Purves Nature Center, Champaign County Forest Preserve District, Champaign Public Library, Environmental Almanac, Orpheum Children's Science Museum, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Prairie Rivers Network, and Urbana Free Library.
I'm the co-founder and staff advisor for Illini Mentor Program, a registered student organization of the University of Illinois that is dedicated to fostering meaningful and consistent mentoring relationships between University students and children in the local community with the goal of supporting learning, growth, skill-building, and interracial and cultural understanding. See our poster from the Public Engagement Symposium: IMP Poster.pdf
2009 Social Entrepreneurship Summer Institute: June 12-13, 19-20, 26-27
SESI consists of a three-weekend program of workshops and presentations delivered by faculty and invited speakers, which emphasizes a curriculum related to business skills and social entrepreneurship. The institute provides business education outreach to professional staff working in the non-profit sector along with University of Illinois students with diverse majors. In addition to learning with community partners during the institute, student fellows spend the summer working in teams with the participating non-profit organizations to address community needs in innovative and sustainable ways through the application of social entrepreneurship concepts.
Fellows are required to enroll in the affiliated course, BUS 199: Social Entrepreneurship & the Citizen Leader, which is intended to provide structure and support to maximize learning and accountability during the academic service-learning internships. In addition to teaching the service-learning course, as the Director of Curriculum and Service-Learning for SESI, I consult with Collette Niland (Executive Director) and Stacy Bennett (Director of External Relations) to develop and coordinate curriculum for the institute.
Call for Presenters SESI2009_CallforPresenters.pdf
Call for Student Applications: Social Entrepreneurship Fellows SESI2009_StudentApplication.pdf
See the poster from the 2008 Social Entrepreneurship Showcase SESI2008_ShowcasePoster.pdf
Community Stewardship through Environmental Education
In collaboration with staff from the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program (Robin Goettel and Terri Hallesy) and faculty from the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (Cory Suski and Joanne Vining), I developed and provide instructional support for the service-learning course, NRES 285: Community Stewardship through Environmental Education. In this course, U of I students learn about topics related to biodiversity, ecosystem health, and the effects of aquatic invasive species. They work in small groups with school teachers to teach children about these topics, using the "Nab the Aquatic Invader" website http://www.sgnis.org/kids/ and interactive, science-based activities. And, they develop community stewardship projects with the children to increase the public's awareness about aquatic invasive species and their negative impacts and to inspire community action to control and prevent their spread.
Rob Kanter highlighted two of the projects from the Spring 2009 course on the Environmental Almanac on April 16th. Listen to audio links of songs that were written and recorded by Zanne Newman’s 4th grade students at Stratton Elementary with the help of WILL audio production manager Mike Pritchard. And, watch a public service announcement video created by Whitney Stewart's 8th grade students at Franklin Middle School. http://environmentalalmanac.blogspot.com/2009/04/champaign-4th-graders-collaborate-with.html
This multi-level service-learning program was supported by the COSEE Great Lakes Project and the Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement and involved collaboration with the following school and community partners: Edison Middle School, Franklin Middle School, Stratton Elementary School, Thomas Paine Elementary School, Anita Purves Nature Center, Champaign County Forest Preserve District, Champaign Public Library, Environmental Almanac, Orpheum Children's Science Museum, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Prairie Rivers Network, and Urbana Free Library.
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Just read through your latest blog posts. I continue to be amazed by the wonderful resources you put up here for us. Thank you!
I didn't see a way to write anything on the main page of this site, so I thought I'd just write it here. I really enjoyed Scott's presentation on Monday. I got a lot out of it. I also wanted to let you know that I enjoyed this format, too. I look forward to the other presentations as well.
It looks like Scott isn't on here, otherwise I'd write something on his wall to let him know I enjoyed his presentation.
Thanks, Val, for all you do!
How did the reading group go on Friday? I was at a conference near Chicago, so I couldn't make it. I'll be interested to know what the topics of discussion were.
What should I read for this week? What topic will we cover?