NOSC 2012 Call for Proposals Deadline: March 15
- November 18th, 2011
- in Call for Proposals (RFP), Conferences, NOSC
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The IARSLCE is soliciting applications for the positions of Conference Proceedings Editor and Editorial Fellows. The Conference Proceedings Editor and Editorial Fellows will oversee the publication of a new online IARSLCE Annual Conference Proceedings, comprised of all accepted 1000-word conference submissions from each year’s conference. The published Proceedings will include abstracts only, rather than full papers, and will serve as an added resource, especially for international audiences. The new Proceedings will increase the public visibility of the conference scholarship and the potential of communication with other researchers.
To Apply
Please submit, by May 2, 2011,a letter of interest highlighting research background and interests, editorial review experience, and CV, to the Publications Committee Co-Chairs, KerryAnn O’Meara and Barbara Moely, at the IARSLCE Office: sobrien1@tulane.edu.
Editorial work will occur over the summer prior to the Fall IARSLCE conference.
The Editor and Editorial Fellows will be appointed by June 15, 2011 and begin their work in July, 2011.
Proceedings will be published on line prior to the annual conference, no later than October 1, 2011.
Please see the attached document for full instructions, or click here to view on our website.
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We are excited to announce the launch of our online Proposal Submission System for the 2011 IARSLCE Annual Conferece. Please follow the submission instructions on the website. For technical assistance, you may use the support link at the top of each page. Proposals may be submitted here: http://precis2.preciscentral.com/Link.aspx?ID=AFD429CB5112B1B2
To be considered, all proposals must be received via online submission by April 15, 2011, 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time). Incomplete proposal submissions will not be reviewed. Proposals will be peer reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent in June 2011.
Visit our website for further information.
ABSTRACTS should be limited to 100 words.
PROPOSAL NARRATIVES should be limited to 1000 words.
For questions about proposal content, please contact Patrick Green at pgreen@luc.edu
For general questions regarding the IARSLCE, please contact Stephanie O’Brien at sobrien1@tulane.edu
Para preguntas generales sobre la Asociación IARSLCE, favor de contactar a Ma. Isabel Cabrera at marisa.cabrera@itesm.mx
For the past decade, the Advances in Service-Learning Research volume series has served the service- learning/community engagement community as a primary publishing venue and a major source of current information on theory, issues, and findings in this rapidly-expanding research field.
The International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) is pleased to announce that as of 2012, the Advances in Service-Learning series, sponsored by the IARSLCE, will become a journal, published by Information Age Publishing, Inc. The new International Journal of Research on Community Engagement will be edited by an active member of the IARSLCE. In the first three years of its publication, the journal will be published once a year. The Journal Editor will solicit manuscripts at large annually in January and will send them out for peer review, with the aim of making final decisions by April of each year.
The IARSLCE Publications Committee is seeking applications for the position of Editor of this new IARSLCE journal. This position is an exciting opportunity to shape and contribute to emerging scholarship in the field of service-learning and community engagement. The Editor will be involved with appointment of the editorial review board (see below), supervise the review and publication process, and supervise all marketing for the journal.
Please see the attached document for full instructions, or click here to view on our website.
For the past decade, the Advances in Service-Learning volume series has served the service learning/community engagement community as a primary publishing venue and a major source of current information on theory, issues, and findings in this rapidly-expanding research field.
The International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) is pleased to announce that as of 2012, the Advances in Service-learning series, sponsored by the IARSLCE, will become a journal, published by Information Age Publishing, Inc. The new Advances in Service-Learning and Community Engagement Journal will be edited by an active member of the IARSLCE. In the first three years of its publication, the journal will be published once a year. The Journal Editor will solicit manuscripts at large annually in January and will send them out for peer review, with the aim of making final decisions by April of each year.
The IARSLCE Publications Committee is seeking applications for the position of Editor of this new IARSLCE journal. This position is an exciting opportunity to shape and contribute to emerging scholarship in the field of service-learning and community engagement. The Editor will be involved with appointment of the editorial review board (see below), supervise the review and publication process, and supervise all marketing for the journal.
To Apply:
Each applicant should submit a CV and a letter of interest that details areas of expertise, scholarship, and previous editorial experience. Given that serving as Editor of the journal will require significant professional, unpaid service, it will be also important to indicate the kinds of support that will be provided by the applicant's institution. Such support might include a course release, graduate student or administrative support, office space, etc. (though this is not required to apply).
Applications are due to Stephanie O'Brien at sobrien1@tulane.edu by May 2, 2011. Questions about this opportunity may be directed to KerryAnn O'Meara komeara@umd.edu or Barbara Moely moely@tulane.edu, IARSLCE Publications Committee Co-Chairs.
The IARSLCE Board will review applications and appoint an Editor by May 30. The Editor will work with the IARSLCE's Publications Committee Co-Chairs to appoint an editorial review board that represents the diversity of areas of research on service-learning and community engagement, research designs, forms of scholarship and range of educational settings representative of our membership and conference scholarship. The initial Call for Submissions will be issued in the fall of 2011.
The IARSLCE is soliciting applications for the positions of Conference Proceedings Editor and Editorial Fellows. The Conference Proceedings Editor and Editorial Fellows will oversee the publication of a new online IARSLCE Annual Conference Proceedings. The published Proceedings will include accepted paper abstracts from each year's conference and serve as an added resource, especially for international audiences. The new Proceedings will increase the public visibility of the conference scholarship and the potential of communication with other researchers.
Proceedings Timeframe and Editorial Work:
Editorial work will occur over the summer prior to the Fall IARSLCE conference.
The Editor and Editorial Fellows will be appointed by June 15, 2011 and begin their work in July, 2011.
Proceedings will be published on line prior to the annual conference, no later than October 1, 2011.
Qualifications for and Responsibilities of the Conference Proceedings Editor:
Qualifications for and Responsibilities of the Editorial Fellows:
To apply to be the Editor of the Proceedings or to be an Editorial Fellow: Please submit, by May 2, 2011,a letter of interest highlighting research background and interests, editorial review experience, and CV, to the Publications Committee Co-Chairs, KerryAnn O'Meara and Barbara Moely, at the IARSLCE Office: sobrien1@tulane.edu.
Left: Dr. Samory Pruitt holds a replica of the Olympic Torch as a reminder that The University of Alabama will be the host of the National Outreach Scholarship Conference in 2012. Dean Carolyn Dahl, a member of the NOSC 2012 planning committee, presented the torch to Dr. Pruitt at the 2010 CCBP Awards Program.
In 2007, The University of Alabama became the first non-land-grant institution voted into the National Outreach Scholarship Conference. And in 2012 we are scheduled to host this largest conference in the engaged scholarship field. In just four years we have developed our engagement agenda so that today we are recognized as one of the leading engaged institutions in the nation. We have obtained that recognition by remaining true to our motto, “Engaging Communities and Changing Lives.”
The NOSC 2012 planning committee has selected “Partner. Inspire. Change.” as its theme. The committee chose this theme after considering many proposals from on and off campus. We believe it will provide an exciting framework for universities and their community partners from all over the country to demonstrate how colleges can work with communities to improve both. The dates of the conference are September 30 through October 3.
In the process of becoming a national leader in engaged scholarship, we have brought together community partners and university faculty, staff, and students in hundreds of ongoing projects. We have also launched what many consider the leading research journal in the field, the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, a feature magazine, PARTNERS, that tells the local engaged scholarship story, and several websites that help to keep all parties informed about our progress.
Areas in which we have applied the engaged scholarship concept include education, engineering, medicine, nursing, health/nutrition, communication, journalism, local produce, veterans services, business, youth leadership, community festivals, entrepreneurship, ethics, social work, literacy, creative writing, and others.
The old model of teaching, research, and service as separate entities has given way to one in which community leaders and rank and file citizens, plus faculty, staff, and students "” undergraduate as well as graduate "” come together in a process in which all groups collaborate, contribute, achieve, and learn from each other.
CCBP’s purpose is multifold:
In 2008, the University applied for and was approved for the Carnegie Foundation’s classification in Curricular Engagement and Outreach & Partnerships, the most comprehensive of several Carnegie elective classifications. That successful application guarantees recognition of our University as a leader in this new area of comprehensive scholarship that combines teaching, research, and service.
But all the news about engaged scholarship is not good; we still have much work to do. A 2007 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education said despite strong interest among colleges and universities in the new classification, few institutions have aligned promotion, tenure, and hiring polices that reward scholars’ work in community-engaged scholarship.
A copy of our final report can be found at ccbp.ua.edu. See our full Carnegie Engagement Application at http://ccbp.ua.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Final_proposal.pdf.
In connection with NOSC 2012, Dr. Cassandra Simon, editor of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES), has called for a special edition of JCES based on the conference theme “Partner. Inspire. Change.” For more about this special edition, see JCES Call for Manuscripts.
We are advised and led in this work by an active Council composed of faculty, staff, students, and community partners from many disciplines, occupations, and backgrounds (see http://ccbp.ua.edu/about/council/). As you click through our website, we hope you will see an area of interest to you. Get in touch with us to consider joining the thriving engaged scholarship movement here at UA If you see an area that is missing, let us know.
Just e-mail any one of the directors "” Dr. Heather Pleasants (hpleasan@bamaed.ua.edu), Dr. Ed Mullins (emullins@bama.ua.edu) or Mr. Christopher Spencer (christopher.spencer@ua.edu), or call us at 205-348-7392.
Members of the NOSC 2012 planning committee are Gary Creek, Dean Carolyn Dahl, Janet Griffith, Dr. Ed Mullins, Dr. Samory Pruitt, Leonard Smith, Cresandra Smothers, Sea Talantis, and Joanne Terrell.
Dr. Samory Pruitt
Vice President of Community Affairs
President of the CCBP Council
The University of Alabama
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Twelfth Annual National Conference
What Sustains Us?
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
22-24 September 2011
Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday April 4th
Imagining America (IA) invites higher education affiliates (faculty, students, staff, and administrators) and community partners (individuals and organizations) to participate in our twelfth annual national conference, September 22-24, 2011, in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, co-hosted by Macalester College and the University of Minnesota.
To view suggested session formats, click here.
To submit a proposal, click here.
Conference Theme and Structure
Through the theme of this year’s conference, "What Sustains Us?" we will convene conversations, collaborations, and actions about a central issue of our time "“ sustainability. Participants will engage a broad range of questions about sustainability: environmental concerns (in both campus and community contexts), our existential and vocational condition, our social and institutional relations regarding humanities and arts practices, as well as concerns of globalization and the often-invisible labor that supports us.
Conference sessions might engage such questions as:
Responders to the CFP may address this year's conference theme explicitly, or may propose sessions that more broadly explore topics of ongoing relevance to public scholarship and practice. These may include but are not limited to: foregrounding specific genealogies and histories of engaged art and scholarship; presenting and discussing unique concerns around engagement with respect to various kinds of institutions (i.e., research universities, 4-year colleges, community colleges, land grants, etc.) and/or communities (urban, rural, etc.); discussing and critiquing theoretical, practical, or ethical perspectives that inform engagement; or building on conversations and themes from past Imagining America conferences and regional meetings.
IA's national conferences facilitate encounters with the political, social, cultural, and physical contexts, particular to the host city, that inform local engagement initiatives. The 2011 conference will include on-campus sessions and a day of visits to metropolitan and rural off-campus sites where transformative collaborations are forged between Minnesota's diverse higher education institutions and communities. Interactive conference sessions are intended to facilitate group deliberation about publicly active art and scholarship, on levels of scale ranging from the course to campus-wide initiatives and beyond; from local organizing to national policy and international exchange.
Conference Submissions and Criteria
Conference formats reflect Imagining America's commitment to convening sessions that allow for groups to work through, rather than simply present, issues central to engaged art and scholarship. IA prioritizes sessions that foreground active dialogue and creative collaboration between session presenters and attendees alike.
We encourage all prospective conference presenters to familiarize themselves with Imagining America's one page Vision, Mission, Values, and Goals (VMVG) statement, and we ask that the dialogue that sessions initiate project the conversation toward the future, engaging questions of "What next?," "Where do we go from here?," or "How do we maintain the current momentum?"
Priority will be given to sessions that are cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional, include the direct participation of community partners, and/or explicitly engage a partnership between community and higher education. By request, Imagining America is happy to assist would-be proposers to identify individuals from other member campuses who share similar interests and who may want to collaborate. Contact Associate Director Kevin Bott at kbott@syr.edu. IA also invites prospective session proposers to participate in a conference call with Dr. Bott at 3pm EST on Wednesday, March 9. This call is intended to familiarize new proposers with Imagining America and will include a brief overview of IA, discussion of conference goals and proposal formats, and Q&A. To participate, contact Vicky Del Prato at vadelpra@syr.edu.
October 20th, 2008
To: University of Alabama Engagement Scholars and Aspiring Engagement Scholars:
One of the participants at the National Outreach Scholarship conference at Penn State October 6-8 2008, was Professor Angie Hart from the University of Brighton in England. Angie and her community partner, Kim Aumann, were involved in the entire conference, presenting papers at a couple of sessions and offering poster sessions as well. Professor Hart provides academic and community leadership for the University of Brighton’s Community-University Partnership Program (Cupp). The second Cupp conference will be held at the University of Brighton April 2-3, 2009. The links for the conference homepage and calendar of events are provided below. The work of Hart and her colleagues is described in their recent book Community-University Partnerships in Practice. A review of this book by Jim Frabutt, University of Notre Dame, was published recently in Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, and reprinted here. "” Ted Alter, Penn State.
