[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
re: Service-Learning in Accounting and Finance Courses
We have a couple of examples in SLICE (
http://www.servicelearning.org/slice) of syllabi involving Accounting and Finance that might be interesting as models:
Business 212
http://servicelearning.org/slice/index.php?ep_action=view&ep…
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[Announcement excerpt from comm-engagedscholarship listserv]
Dear community-engaged scholarship colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of the new International
Journal of Prevention Practice and Research (IJPPR)! Below is the list of
articles and abstracts appearing in the issue about CES4Health.info
IJPPR is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes high quality articles
reporting the development and results of community-driven prevention
programs, innovative community/campu…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 16, 2009 at 5:37pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
National Service Agency Looking for Peer Reviewers
The Corporation for National and Community Service is seeking Peer
Reviewers and Facilitators to assist in the review of its competitive
grant applications.
The Corporation engages experts from the field to read applications and
provide an analysis and rating of the quality of each application based
upon published criteria. The Corporation considers peer reviewer
comments and ratings in funding decisi…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 16, 2009 at 3:43pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
re: Mandatory service learning in your curriculum?
Campus Compact's Program Model Database, has a category on required service, where you can see a list of Campus Compact member institutions that have a service or civic engagement requirement.
www.compact.org/category/program-models/program-models-required-service/
Service Learning at CSUMB…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 11, 2009 at 8:17pm —
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[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…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on November 9, 2009 at 1:50pm —
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[Announcement from SCRA listserv]
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…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 20, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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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…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 20, 2009 at 4:07pm —
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[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 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…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 8, 2009 at 4:53pm —
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[Announcement from ResearchSLCE listserv]
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…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 6, 2009 at 1:11pm —
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[Announcement from NSLP]
Let the 2009-2010 National Learn & Serve Challenge begin!
This week, more than 71,000 young people, educators, community
partners, civic leaders, and business partners will participate in
activities to build awareness and public support for service-learning
through the National Learn & Serve Challenge.
http://www.learnandservechallenge.org
For two years, the National Learn & Serve C…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 6, 2009 at 1:06pm —
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Last chance to nominate for the CAEPE awards!
Nominations are invited for the Campus Awards for Excellence in
Public Engagement that recognize faculty members, academic
professionals and students who contribute to the university's
commitment to public engagement in exemplary ways. Individual and
Project Award nominations are
due Oct. 5.
Guidelines at:
http://engagement.illinois.edu/engagement_a…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 5, 2009 at 2:13am —
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[Announcement from SCRA listserv]
Foundations for Community Health Workers, by Tim Berthold, Alma Avila-Esparza, and Jeni Miller, editors (ISBN: 978-0-470-17997-0; Paperback; 592 pages; August 2009) is a training resource for client- and community-centered public health practitioners, with an emphasis on promoting health equality. Based on City College of San Francisco's CHW Certificate Program, it begins with an overview of the historic and political context informing the practice of community…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 5, 2009 at 2:09am —
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[Announcement from SCRA listserv]
Dear SCRA colleagues
Action Reasearch (ARJ) is calling for papers for a special issue about "Participation and engagement in health and healhcare"
AR Special Issue Health Healthcare.pdf
We encourage submissions if you work is related to this topic
Best,
Manuel García Ramírez
Profesor Titular de Universidad
CESPYD. Coalición para el Est…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 5, 2009 at 2:05am —
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[Announcement from SCRA listserv]
The University of Rochester’s Center for the Study and Prevention of
Suicide, in partnership with San José State University, is pleased to
announce the Third Annual Training Institute on community-partnered
research. This year’s Institute, *Community-Based Participatory Research
Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities*,
will be held on February 6-10, 2010 in San José, California.
Attached is a press release announcing this excit…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 4, 2009 at 11:51pm —
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[Announcement from eweek]
RFP: Faculty Fellows in Entrepreneurship
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The Faculty Fellows Program is designed to increase the number and
scope of courses in entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity
across the campus. Grants as much as $15,000 will be awarded to
support course development or revision. Deadline Dec 4.
URL:
http://www.ael.illino…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 4, 2009 at 11:48pm —
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[Announcement from SCRA listserv]
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
One great idea is all it takes to improve the health of millions around the
world. What is yours?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for the
Grand Challenges Explorations, a $100 million initiative to encourage bold
and unconventional global health solutions.
Anyone can apply, regardless of your prior experience or institutional
affiliation. Previous winne…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 4, 2009 at 11:44pm —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
Global Health Certificate Program
This program may be of interest to many on this list. Please feel free to forward to faculty and students. Global Health University provides online courses that are freely available to the public. We also offer high school students, college students, medical and graduate students, educators, and others, an opportunity to enroll as a Scholar and receive a Global Health Certificate from Global Health University.
Global…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 1, 2009 at 10:44am —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Community Works' nationally acclaimed Institute on Service-Learning which will be held at Shelburne Farms in Vermont, July 19-23, 2010. We strongly advise registering soon since space fills early each year. For more information call 909-480-3966 or visit our web site:
http://www.communityworksonline.org.
Registration…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on October 1, 2009 at 2:39am —
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[Announcement from HE-SL listserv]
Call for Proposals - Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (P.A.C.E.) Conference
February 10, 2010, Elon University, Elon, NC
NC Campus Compact is now accepting workshop proposals for the 2010 P.A.C.E. Conference. This annual conference provides participants with valuable information and skills they can utilize in their civic engagement work. Workshops, presented by faculty, staff, students and community partners provide "how to", "best practice" and…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on September 30, 2009 at 10:43pm —
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[Announcement from ResearchSLCE listserv]
Special Issue call for papers for the journal Education and Training
Student Learning from Community Engagement
Guest editors:
Tom Bourner and Juliet Millican, University of Brighton
There is growing recognition in recent years of the value of university-community engagement. This has brought increasing interest in areas such as service learning and student-community engagement and its significance for students' learning and development…
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Added by Valeri Werpetinski on September 29, 2009 at 7:38pm —
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