Center for Community-Based Partnerships, The University of Alabama

Cannon House, near
Hotel Capstone,
is CCBP’s home.

NEWS

Call for Nominations for 2010 Engagement Awards and Posters

The 2010 CCBP Annual Awards Program committee seeks nominations for this year’s awards program, scheduled for Friday, April 23, at the Hotel Capstone. The keynote speaker for the event will be announced later. To download nomination forms, click here. The event will include a table-top/poster presentation of dynamic partnership efforts involving faculty, staff, students and community partners working with UA academic disciplines campus-wide. The presentation area will open at 10 a.m. with the awards luncheon to follow.
Poster proposals of 250 words or less should describe a poster that illustrates and provides text explaining a community-based engagement project or program. As many posters as space permits will be accepted for display. Posters that have been displayed previously are eligible. The annual awards event, now in its fourth year, recognizes best practice of UA-affiliated community-based partnerships. There are five categories: student-initiated, faculty/staff-initiated, community-partner-initiated, distinguished achievement-campus, and distinguished achievement-community. Winners receive funds to be applied toward their research.
The deadline for submitting poster display topics and for nominating a project for an award is 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 31. Award winners and poster displayers will be notified by Friday, April 2. Awards nominations should be delivered to Janet Griffith, assistant provost, 254 Rose Administration Building. Submit poster proposals in 250 words or less to janet.griffith@ua.edu.

Engagement/Public Scholarship Announcements

Imagining America has established a news section on its website to feature the latest information on engagement and public scholarship. For more details, please go to http://www.imaginingamerica.org/news.1.2010.html.

Students' Literacy Program Gains Momemtum in Second Year

By Daniel Hollander
CCBP Intern
Now in its second year, Literacy is the Edge (LITE) was started in 2008 by 22 graduate students in the graduate program in advertising and public relations. In the first year, 200 volunteers composed of UA students, staff and community members were recruited by LITE to tutor both children and adults who struggle with functional literacy. Over 700 volunteers have now been recruited. The Community Affairs awards committee was so impressed with the project, it gave LITE a Distinguished Student-Initiated Engagement Effort in 2009.
For more details, click here.
JCES Helping to Boost UA's Engagement Scholarship Reputation

By Daniel Hollander
CCBP Intern
With 45 delegates attending and playing key roles in four important community-based conferences this fall. The University of Alabama is rapidly becoming one of the leading engagement scholarship institutions, according to Dr. Samory T. Pruitt, vice president for Community Affairs at the University.
For more details, click here.

CONFERENCES

Call for Proposals - Imagining America Artists and Scholars in Public Life Eleventh Annual National Conference

Imagining America invites university affiliates (faculty, students, staff, and administrators) and community partners (individuals and organizations) to participate in our eleventh annual national conference, 23-25 September 2010, hosted by the University of Washington. The theme of this year's conference, Convergence Zones: Public Cultures and Translocal Practices, signals an exploration of how public scholarship creates new connections among disciplines, communities, and sectors. As our work shuttles across institutional, geographical, and professional boundaries, our projects become zones of convergence where social interests, cultural practices, and new and old media intersect. Animated by hybrid modes of participation and circulation, these convergence zones reshape our research, teaching, and engagement activities as they foster new projects, knowledge, and publics.

Click here for details.

A National Student Conference on Public Dialogue

Priority Registration Deadline – February 19th
$175 Priority Student Registration
$350 Priority Registration Deadline
Any practitioner or faculty member who brings 4 students will have their registration fee waved!

Click here for details.

Call for Proposals - 2010 International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement Annual Conference

The featured theme for this 10th annual conference is "International Perspectives: Crossing Boundaries through Research." Service-learning is valued as an active learning strategy across the globe; however, little is known about the ways that service-learning is similar or different in varied contexts. Understanding service-learning and community engagement from diverse cultural perspectives will add insight necessary for comparative research and to improve practice. Proposals will be accepted beginning Monday, January 15, 2010. To be considered, all proposals must be received via electronic submission by 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) Monday, March 22, 2010.

Please see attached or go to www.researchslce.org for the full Call for Proposals. To submit your proposal, please go to http://www.csl.iupui.edu/2010Submitinfo.html.

OLLI at UA Presents Leadership Alabama Educational Series

Leadership Alabama will be eight different presentations on topics of interest regarding The State and The University of Alabama by notable speakers. Click here for presentation schedule and registration.

—- Ed Mullins

Connect the Dots

All students, faculty members, and practitioners are encouraged to submit proposals to guide learning exchanges and/or to present a poster at the Connect the Dots national student conference, March 3-6, 2010, Point Clear, Alabama. For more details, please go to http://mathewscenter.org/2010_student_conference/.

—- Ed Mullins

Time to Consider NOSC 2010

Early registration deadline for NOSC in Raleigh is August 1, 2010. The conference is a little later next year, October 4-6, and the deadline for proposals is February 1. I spent 8 years in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area as grad student, journalist and faculty member. This region is the intellectual and creative oasis of the state, and this will be a conference you will want to consider attending and submitting a proposal.

The NOSC-Raleigh web site, with all the information you need to register and propose, is at www.outreachscholarship.org.

—- Ed Mullins, NOSC Implementation Team Representative

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