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Connect The Dots, March 3-6, 2010
By Brett Bralley and Andrea Mabry
Center for Community-Based Partnerships
In March at the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Ala., students came together from all over the country in an attempt to “connect the dots” for a more active and better informed civic culture. The conference, designed to encourage public dialogue, deliberation and problem solving, was sponsored by the David Mathews Center for Civic Life’s Community-Based Internship Program in New College at the University. Many of the organizers of the conference came from the Kettering Foundation in Ohio, the Democracy Imperative in New Hampshire, and Everyday Democracy in Connecticut.
JCES Helping to Boost UA’s Engagement Scholarship Reputation, Dec. 1, 2009
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.
And the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES), published at the University, is a playing a big role in that progress, he said.
“Not only did we have University of Alabama faculty, staff, students and community partners playing major roles at these conferences,” Pruitt said, “we were also able to distribute the latest issue of JCES, which is drawing high praise for its role in advancing engagement research.”
Imagining America Conference October 2, 2009 in New Orleans
New Orleans, Oct. 2, 2009
Imagining America Speakers Examine Engaged Scholarship Role for Public Scholars and Artists