November 2008 Updates

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Weekly Update - Happy Thanksgiving!
26 November 2008
[1] BWBRS 3.0
[2] Bonner AmeriCorps Reminders
[3] National Service-Learning Conference  
[4] World AIDS Day - December 1
[5] IMPACT Conference - Save the Date!
[6] Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships
[7] Call for Participants: The National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions
[8] Teleconference Calls: Supervising Members and Volunteers with Disabilities
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[1] BWBRS 3.0
If you didn't hear last week, the word is out - it's time to make the switch to BWBRS 3.0. We realize that the timing is strange with the end of the semester upon you all, but do what you can to move on over. 
Bobby put together some screen casts to help you through. You can find those here: http://bonnernetwork.pbwiki.com/BWBRS-Help-Guide
A few quick reminders as well:
  • your login name is your full email address (password is the same)
  • be sure all of your students have email addresses in the system so that they can also log in
  • drop down lists are your friends in this system, so be sure to check them
If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact Bobby Hackett or any member of our AmeriCorps team who will gladly help you!
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[2] Bonner AmeriCorps Reminders
In light of the switch to the new 3.0 system of BWBRS, our AmeriCorps team is going through a "national review" process. This means we're reading all the service descriptions from CLAs, service opportunities and training and enrichments. If there's no description we have trouble reviewing it. Brace yourselves for a potential flurry of BWBRS notifications regarding updating these descriptions.
The end of the semester is coming quickly. Be sure to get your students to submit outstanding paperwork before they disappear for the holidays!
We recently received a clarification on our exit process. Please note that we must receive all outstanding paperwork and exit forms within 20 days of the member's last day of service (this is the last day they log hours, not necessarily the date they must be done with their term). The new BWBRS system will be sending reminders to this effect but please note this important change.
Thank you, thank you, thank you - for all your help in the midst of the audit and your willingness to do careful work!
As always, please contact a member of our AmeriCorps team if you have any questions or concerns: Annie Pasqua, Gretchen Mielke, Becky Grinstead, Christen Foell, Janet Ashwood and Miriam Barnes
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[3] National Service-Learning Conference 

Join thousands of attendees from around the world at this year’s National Service-Learning Conference in Nashville, Tenn., March 18-21, 2009. Don’t miss this amazing event!

Walk to Benefit HIV/AIDS

Join the Nashville and conference communities as we walk to raise awareness and funds for the growing number of children affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic Saturday, March 21.

Don't miss your opportunity to be a part of the conference!

This is your chance to get exposure to an international audience of educators, youth leaders, policy-makers, and representatives from community-based organizations interested in the latest educations, communications, and consulting tools and techniques to enhance educational programming in their communities.

All application deadlines are December 1, 2008.

For more information about all of these conference events please visit our website atwww.nylc.org.  We look forward to seeing you inNashville!

If you have any questions, you can reach us by calling (800) 366-6952.

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[4] World AIDS Day - December 1
In 2007, the estimated number of persons living with HIV worldwide was 33.2 million and there were 2.7 million people newly infected, and 2 million HIV-related deaths.
-2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
In honor of World AIDS Day Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse has created a bibliography of resources to inspire you to use service-learning as a tool to prevent and to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDS and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
The 1st of December, World AIDS Day, is the day when individuals and organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. This year marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day.
To learn more about World AIDS Day, find a calendar of events, or discover resources to support World AIDS Day, visit:
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[5] IMPACT Conference - Save the Date!
Hello, colleagues...

On behalf of the IMPACT Conference Planning Committee, I wanted to let you know that registration for the 2009 IMPACT Conference will be opening soon.  We have settled on the date and location -- I wanted to let you know about that right away, since so many of you have been asking about the details:

2009 IMPACT Conference
Date: March 6-8
Location: University of Maryland, University College
Website: www.impactconference.org

We will be launching registration and the workshop proposal system early next week, but I wanted all of you to be the first to know the date and location.  Please feel free to be in touch if you have questions.  And sign up for our mailing list (see the link on the homepage) if you would like to get more updates about the conference!

Many thanks,

-Heather

Heather Cronk  |  Coordinator  |  IMPACT Conference
heather@impactconference.org  |  www.impactconference.org  |  202-491-7240
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[6] Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships

Written by Marie Sandy, Ph.D., with research support from Elaine K. 

Ikeda, Ph.D., Nadinne Cruz, M.A., Barbara Holland, Ph.D., Kathleen 

Rice, Ph.D., and Marie Sandy.

In Spring 2005, CACC hosted 15 community partner focus groups with 

the goal of listening to the partners to better understand and 

strengthen these partnerships.  This report is fully downloadable on 

our website (see link below).  You can also read the interview 

questions that were asked, and get tips on how to conduct your own assessment.

http://www.cacampuscompact.org/cacc_publications/index.html

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[7] Call for Participants: The National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions

President-elect Obama faces a critical window for action in the first 100 days of the new administration.

 

Acting boldly, like Roosevelt and Johnson, the new President can immediately set the planet on the path to a stable climate. But to overcome gridlock in Washington, he will need overwhelming grassroots support.

 

On February 5th, 2009, The National Teach-In on Global Warming will engage over a million Americans in solutions-driven dialogue, including young people, national political leaders, and other key decision-makers. As educators, students and citizens, we owe our nation a focused conversation about the critical decisions that we will make—or fail to make — very soon. The window for action on climate change is measured in months, not years . Now, together, we must decide if our children will inherit from us a prosperous or an impoverished planet.

 

Join us, and make the National Teach-In a day that can transform America, and place clean energy solutions to global warming at the top of the nation's agenda. We need your help enlisting thousands of colleges, universities, high-schools, middle schools, faith groups, civic organizations and businesses. Sign up today. Help ignite the grassroots movement that can change the country, and impact the future for every living being that will inhabit the face of this earth from now until the end of time.

 

The Teach-In goals for 2009:

 

·      Webcast – The First 100 Days: Schedule a showing of the Teach-In web-cast, featuring David Orr, Hunter Lovins, Ray Anderson, Betsy Taylor and Billy Parish. Follow up with discussion of the recommendations of The Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP)

 

·      Teach-In – Engage the Nation around 4 concrete policy recommendations from The PCAP: 

            1. Cut carbon 40% below today's levels by 2020.

            2. Create millions of green jobs: Weatherize, solarize and rewire the nation.

            3. Revitalize America's economy: Lead the world in renewable technology.

4. Promote carbon neutral power.

 

·      Climate Dialogue– Involve key decision-makers in round-table dialogue. Join young people and citizens in face-to face conversation with senators, representatives, governors, mayors, city councilors, CEOs, and media leaders.

 

·      100 Days of Action – Hold leaders accountable until the change happens. Learn what you can do today… and tomorrow… and tomorrow… and tomorrow.  Give the new President the support he needs to change the future.

 

To learn more, join us for our upcoming organizing calls in November: 11/5, with Betsy Taylor, and 11/19 with David Orr.

 

Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics, Lewis & Clark College &

Chungin Chung, Co-directors, National Teach-In

 

 

ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE NATIONAL TEACH-IN

 

Dr. David Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College.

Dr. Mohan Munasinghe, Vice Chair, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Dr. Stephen Schneider, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.

Dr. James "Gus" Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

Hunter Lovins, President, Natural Capitalism Solutions. 

Jessy Tolkan, Executive Director of Programs for the Energy Action Coalition.

Elysa Hammond, CLIF BAR Staff Ecologist.

Gillian Caldwell, 1Sky Campaign Director.

Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author. 

Dr. Debora Rowe, Professor of Renewable Energies and Energy Management at Oakland Community College.

Billy Parish, co-founder of the Energy Action Coalition.

Dr. Bunyan Bryant,  School  of  Natural Resources , University of Michigan.     

Dr. William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

Dr. Jon Isham, Luce Professor of International Environmental Economics at Middlebury College.

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[8] Teleconference Calls: Supervising Members and Volunteers with Disabilities
Experiences of Program Staff that Supervise Service Members and Volunteers with Disabilities. 

The National Service Inclusion Project (NSIP) is pleased to invite three national service supervisors and/or program directors to share their experiences supervising service members and volunteers with disabilities. Each presenter will share the benefits of having service members in their programs, challenges encountered, strategies for accommodations, and how the members have helped change their programs positively.  

Teleconference call will take place on Friday, December 5th at 2PM - 3PM EST (1-2 Central, 12-1 Mountain, 11AM -12PM Pacific). 

Please email nsip@umb.edu to RSVP by Wednesday, December 3rd with the following info:

- Name

- Organization

- Email

- Phone

- If you require CART* to participate, please also indicate that in your email

- Feel free to add a question you would like the supervisors touch on.

Elesheva Soloff will send out a confirmation email to those who RSVP by Thursday, December 4th with toll-free number.

*CART service provides instantaneous translation of the speech text using real-time software. Teleconference participants receive caption services over the web. This is an accommodation we provide to participants who are Deaf or hard of hearing.

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20 November 2008
[1] BWBRS 3.0
[2] Bonner AmeriCorps Reminders
[3] Nominate one of your AmeriCorps students for the Spiring of Service Award
[4] Transition Messages from CNCS
[5] Community College Survey of Student Engagement
[6] 2009 DC Conference on Service and Leadership
[7] Annual Global Health Conference
[8] Call for Papers
[9] 12th Annual Continuums of Service Conference
[10] Global Service-Learning Institute
[11] MLK Day of Service 2009
[12] Call for Proposals
[13] 2009 Ehrlich Engaged Faculty Award
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[1] BWBRS 3.0
The time has come. The time is now. BWBRS 3.0 is rolling out. This means that we need ALL of you to begin using it. We will put together some screen casts in the upcoming week to help you through, but don't wait for those. The web addresses for your school are in the attached Word document. Note that your login name is your full email address although your password is the same from the old system. Please be sure that all of your students have email addresses entered in the system so that they too can log in and begin using the new system. 
If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to contact Bobby Hackett or any member of our AmeriCorps team who will gladly help you!
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[2] Bonner AmeriCorps Reminders
  1. please, please, please do NOT use whiteout or pencil on any AmeriCorps paperwork
  2. we can no longer accept stamps as original signatures unless you also initial them
  3. If you scratch anything out or make any changes, you and/or the student must initial the changes.
  4. please make sure paperwork is dated properly: enrollment term dates run one or two years minus one day (i.e. 9/10/08 - 9/9/009; 10/10/08 - 10/9/10); time logs must have signatures on or after last day of logged service; exit forms cannot be signed before the last day of service
  5. all exit paperwork must be submitted within 20 days of the member's last day of service (this is the last day they log hours, not necessarily the date they must be done with their term)
  6. please remember that only Bonner Foundation office staff are certifying officials (this pertains to the enrollment booklets and exit forms)
Thank you, thank you, thank you - for all your help in the midst of the audit and your willingness to do careful work!
As always, please contact a member of our AmeriCorps team if you have any questions or concerns: Annie Pasqua, Gretchen Mielke, Becky Grinstead, Christen Foell, Janet Ashwood and Miriam Barnes
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[3] Nominate one of your AmeriCorps students for the Spiring of Service Award
 
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2009Learn and Serve America Spirit of Service Awardsis fast approaching.  Don’t miss this opportunity to recognize your outstanding AmeriCorps or Learn and Serve students (e.g., working on the Serve 2.0 initiative and service), educators, programs, and corporate partners by nominating them for this annual award.  Learn and Serve America will pay tribute to these individuals and programs during a special presentation at the National Service-Learning Conference, scheduled for March 18-21 in Nashville.
 
Learn and Serve has a lot to be proud of with over 15 years worth of accomplishments.  It is important for us to continue to highlight and recognize our best students, educators, programs, and private sector partners as best practices and outstanding models. The Spirit of Service Award Winners are shining examples for those who are just beginning programs or trying to expand, as well as for our friends and colleagues to reference when they speakabout examples of outstanding service-learning.
 
See the GUIDELINES below on this link!
 
Please take some time before to the 5:00 pm EST November 24th deadline to visit http://www.cns.gov/about/spiritofservice/learnandserve.asp and nominate to your best student, educator, and program….and your best corporate partner.  I look forward to receiving your nominations.
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[4] Transition Messages from CNCS
 
Dear National Service Colleagues,

 

It feels strange to be stepping down as CEO of the Corporation at this time in the national service movement – like jumping off a train just as it is picking up speed!  As I leave, I want to share just how much the work you all do has meant to me, how grateful I am to have had the privilege to represent you, and how confident I am about the future for the agency and for national service and volunteering in America. 

 

As a result of our work together, today national service has improved more lives, grown stronger and more secure, expanded its base of bipartisan support, and built a culture of impact and accountability in a way that offers a solid foundation for continued growth.  At the core of this movement are the citizens of America; individuals who are ready and willing to stand up and say “I care” when provided with the opportunity and the tools to do so.  You are the leaders of this “I care” movement.  As I mentioned in a speech to a group of idealistic Georgetown Universitystudents this morning, for five years I have traveled across the country with a mixture of awe and admiration at seeing how your work is saving lives, ensuring futures, defeating despair and restoring hope for Americans who have no other place to turn.  Thank you for what you do and for letting me share a role in this amazing work.

 

Before I close, I want to share a few things about the individuals I leave behind at the Corporation for National and Community Service.  The staff at the Corporation, both in headquarters in Washington, DC and across the country, are a top notch group of professionals who care more passionately about your success and the mission of national service than I could have ever believed possible before joining the Corporation myself.  I am also indebted to Steve Goldsmith who chairs what may be the strongest and most effectively bipartisan board in Washington, DC, for his leadership, wisdom and support.  Finally, I am grateful that Nicky Goren, my current Chief of Staff, will take over as Acting CEO with my departure.  In Nicky you have an effective and experienced leader and champion for volunteering and national service. 

 

If you would like to remain in touch with me, please feel free to contact my terrific assistant, Vickie Perry (vperry@cns.gov), for my personal email address.   I will remain a cheerleader and champion for your work, and look forward to our paths crossing again. 

 

Thank you,

 

David Eisner
 
 
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Dear Colleagues,

 

This is an exciting time for the national service and volunteer movement, and I am deeply honored for the opportunity to work with you as we prepare for a new Administration and a new chapter in the history of national service.

 

We are in a time of unprecedented need and opportunity for the country and the national service movement.  The economic downturn has put more Americans at risk and in need of the compassion and support that volunteers can provide. President-elect Obama has put forth a comprehensive service agenda that touches all of our programs and has said he will make service a central cause of his presidency.  This momentum is in large part the result of your hard work over many years, which has demonstrated time and again that service is a solution to some of our toughest challenges.
 
As we begin our work with the incoming Transition Team, all of us at the Corporation remain deeply committed to delivering the program assistance you need to continue the important work you are doing in your communities.  We are focused on doing our core work, ensuring a smooth transition, and continuing to strengthen our infrastructure. 

 

I look forward to working with you over the next several months and together growing the momentum of national service.

 

Nicola Goren
Acting Chief Executive Officer
Corporation for National and Community Service
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[5] Community College Survey of Student Engagement
The Community College Survey of Student Engagement report released this week may be of interest. It emphasizes much of what we already know from the service-learning research and practice: that having high expectations for students (when combined with provision of appropriate support) helps students achieve. The report also discusses the value of using intentional engagement strategies like service-learning and highlights service-learning projects at Florida Community College at Jacksonville and Kapi’olani Community College (HI).
 
High Expectations and High Support: Essential Elements of Engagement
This year’s report of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) focuses on two critical, interrelated elements of engagement—high expectations and high support, making the case that students do best when expectations are high and they receive support that helps them achieve at high levels. Colleges that demonstrate both high expectations and high support give their students essential tools to succeed.
 
To illustrate these points, the report describes key findings from the survey, offers many examples of how colleges are using their results to target improvements, including institutions with a commitment to service-learning. This report also provides results of the 2008 set of special focus questions on students’ experiences with financial aid, and provides selected findings from the Community College Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (CCFSSE).
 
High Expectations and High Support: Essential Elements of Engagement, Executive Summary
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[6] 2009 DC Conference on Service and Leadership
From Nice to Necessary
2009 DC Conference on Service and Leadership
May 13-15, 2009      Washington, DC
Deadline for Workshop Proposals:  Monday, February 16, 2009
 
Each year Serve DC-The Mayor’s Office on Volunteerism brings together community and faith-based organizations in a conference focused on enhancing their organizational capacity to meet growing community needs.  Next year, on May 13th-15th, the 2009 DC Conference on Service and Leadership will reach and engage hundreds of AmeriCorps program directors and members, Learn and Serve America and Senior Corps program directors, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members, youth, and representatives from community and faith-based organizations in skill-building workshops and learning tracks.  The vision for the event is to promote and foster cross collaboration while providing sustainable and tangible tools to solve serious community issues and addressing real community needs, showcased in this year’s theme: “From Nice to Necessary.”  In addition, the conference will feature the Serve DC Mayor’s Community Service Awards to celebrate the great works of leaders in local communities.
 
This year’s conference is based on three programmatic themes: Leadership, Collaboration, and Sustainability.  These themes represent the continuum of growth that leads to healthy and strong communities.  These themes will be woven throughout the conference in workshops, plenary speakers, events and materials.  Speakers should be prepared to submit workshop proposals that fit into at least one of these three themes.
 
Theme: Leadership
Harnessing leadership in community members is critical to building a strong foundation.  Leaders tackle issues and concerns facing their communities; facilitate leadership within fellow community members; and, collaborate among various groups. It is important that service professionals learn ways to cultivate leadership while enhancing their leadership skills to bring effective change in communities.
 
Theme: Collaboration
As we develop ourselves as leaders, we must consistently collaborate with organizations, businesses, and community members. With each new experience or challenge, we must continue to seek ways to identify resources and tools that are present to reduce a duplication of community efforts.  Workshops that will be offered around this theme include partnership development, cultural competency, and marketing.
 
Theme: Sustainability
As leaders develop projects that meet critical community needs, it is important that projects are sustained monetarily with the support of the community.  Leaders must identify and actively seek funding while making sure that the projects are getting the job done.
 
To obtain an application, email Natasha atnatasha.ballentine@dc.gov.
 
The completed application and narratives must be received at the Serve DC office on or before Monday, February 16, 2009, via email or disk by mail.  (We will not accept proposals via fax.) 
 
Please send proposals to:
Mail:
Natasha M. Ballentine, Director of Strategic Planning
Serve DC, Executive Office of the Mayor
Re: Presenter Application
441 4th Street, NW Suite 1140 North
Washington, DC20001
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[7] Annual Global Health Conference
 

Register Online For 6th Annual Global Health Conference. Registration rate increases monthly.

"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"

Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

The Unite For Sight Conference is what CNN calls "A Meeting of Minds"

200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Nicholas Kristof, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Al Sommer, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others.

CME, CNE, and CPE Credits will be available for select conference sessions.

Unite For Sight's conference convenes a committed vanguard of 2,500 people from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

"Global Health Challenges and Opportunities," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research; Chair, Global Health Program, Meridian International Center

"The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work," Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

"Millennium Villages: Update," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

"Preventing Blindness; Saving Lives," Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

"New Perspectives on Global Health and Science," Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

"Unite For Sight: Social Entrepreneurship As A Symbol of Hope for the (Poor) Blind Villagers and Refugees in Ghana," James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

"Strategic Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Advancing Global Health," Greg Dees, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

"Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Julia Devin, JD, MPH, Director of Programs, VillageReach

"Improving Public Health Delivery Through Social Entrepreneurship," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

"The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation

"The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

"Health Care From The Grassroots," Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Plus 200 more renowned featured speakers: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

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[8] Call for Papers
Student Learning for Social Change: Interdisciplinary Community-Based Research
 
How can higher education most effectively prepare future citizens for the enterprising work necessary for social sustainability and advancement? In this book, we advance interdisciplinary public or community-based research as a transformative higher education strategy to answer this call. Partnerships that involve citizens and public leaders, diverse faculty and students in collaborative community-based inquiry and action hold promise for a unique combination of pedagogical, scholarly, and public outcomes necessary for facing 21st century challenges.
 
Increasingly, community-based research (CBR) projects are growing beyond disciplinary boundaries, responding to the reality that the real issues being addressed in the community necessitate multiple perspectives, knowledge bases, and even methodologies. Disciplinary diversity can include multiple academic disciplines, and can also include different community sectors. Such public interdisciplinary projects raise new practical and pedagogical challenges. But the growing experience base suggests that they hold potential for creating path-breaking approaches to multifaceted societal issues while at the same time educating future leaders.
 
This book will explore and offer models and practical strategies for interdisciplinary CBR projects as undergraduate pedagogy. The ways in which interdisciplinary CBR projects can contribute at once to student learning, community, and scholarly outcomes will be discussed. Special attention will be given to innovative strategies for students’ learning in this unique public and interdisciplinary context - including learning contexts (e.g., learning communities, community-campus collaborative networks, novel learning structures, communities as learning contexts), student preparation strategies (e.g., course sequences, orientation approaches, gateway experiences), mentoring approaches to prompt deepening civic development, and techniques for advancing interdisciplinary deliberation and innovation. Illustrative case studies, including an array of academic disciplines, community sectors, and pressing issues will provide readers with diverse examples of the transformative potential of interdisciplinary CBR projects. Student learning outcomes assessment, as well as assessments of community impacts and social change outcomes will be included and reflected upon to inform best practice development. Strategies for planning and implementing interdisciplinary CBR projects will be provided, including perspectives from the different partners in such ventures.
 
Invitation for Proposals
 
Proposals (1000 – 1500 words in length) are invited that detail contribution(s) to advancing understanding of interdisciplinary CBR as undergraduate pedagogy and as a social change agent. Invitees are encouraged to share this call for proposals with community partners; collaborative proposals are encouraged.
 
Development of this book project will be an interactive and collaborative process. Initial proposals will be reviewed by the editors and will result in invitations to a working conference on interdisciplinary community-based research. The working conference will facilitate exchange and collaboration among participants and will result in plans for book chapters. This book project is an initiative of the National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative, supported by a three-year grant from the National Corporation for National Service Learn and Serve America Program.
 
Timetable
 
December 15, 2008 Proposals for working conference due.
 
January 15, 2009 Proposal review completed and invitations issued to working conference.
 
April 18-20, 2009 Working conference on interdisciplinary community-based research, culminating in chapter plan.
 
September 1, 2009 Chapter draft due.
 
October 15, 2009 Feedback on chapter drafts to authors.
 
December 15, 2009 Final chapter manuscripts due.
 
 
Please submit proposals electronically to Beth Paul (bethpaul@tcnj.edu) and Trisha Thorme (tthorme@princeton.edu). We look forward to working with you on this important project.
 
Beth Paul, Vice Provost, The College of New Jersey
Trisha Thorme, Assistant Director, Community-Based Learning Initiative, PrincetonUniversity
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[9] 12th Annual Continuums of Service Conference

Dear Colleagues,

The Western Region Campus Compact Consortium is now accepting proposals for the 12th Annual Continuums of Service Conference, April 16-18, 2009 in Seattle, Washington!
 
This year's theme is Building a Global Community through Collaborative Engaged Scholarship. It has never been more important to bring students, faculty, service-learning and civic engagement practitioners, and community members together to address the critical issues we are facing locally and globally. Given the current global economic climate, and the enormous changes in our world, it is imperative that we use engagement to support and enable our fellow citizens to live, work, access higher education, and improve the health of our society. The exceptional work being done in service-learning and civic engagement, and the partnerships that have been built between campuses and communities, must be nurtured and sustained in order to continue affecting society for the better.
 
The 12th Annual Continuums of Service Conference aims to highlight ways in which engagement can address critical community issues we are facing locally, nationally, and globally. By sharing insights and experiences, and by discussing key questions, participants will build knowledge and form new alliances in order to strengthen our campuses, our communities, and our shared world.

To submit your proposal visit: www.wacampuscompact.org/conference
 
Be sure to visit the website regularly for more information and updates.
 
Sincerely,
The Western Region Campus Compact Consortium
California Campus Compact
Hawaii Pacific Islands Campus Compact
Oregon Campus Compact
Washington Campus Compact
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[10] Global Service-Learning Institute
 
Amizade is pleased to announce – after several years of requests – that it is opening its annual Global Service-Learning Institute and Retreat to the broader community. The 5th Annual Amizade Global Service-Learning Institute will take place at Carlow University on February 14 and 15 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Registration and location information appears below.
 
Overview:
The Amizade Institute offers specific theoretical constructs and practical tools for implementing a systematic, academically-rigorous, reciprocal and reflective approach to global service-learning and the development of global citizenship. The Amizade Global Service-Learning model has been developed, honed, and evaluated through cooperation with faculty and staff members at several Research 1 Institutions and Liberal Arts Universities. The Institute and Retreat is unique for its clear and specific approach to global service-learning and global citizenship development in the context of liberal education, as well as its deliberate focus on discursive space, dialogue, and course and pedagogical development among Institute participants.
 
Outcomes:
 
Participants will:
  • Gain exposure to a curricular approach adaptable to any course or discipline;
  • Gain exposure to a deliberately reflective yet rooted and applicable construct of global citizenship;
  • Receive a specific related set of reflective readings one month in advance of the institute and retreat;
  • Have opportunity to dialogue with colleagues about successes, challenges, and best practices;
  • Gain information on opportunities to connect with Amizade's established set of community-driven service partnerships in 14 communities around the world;
  • Have clear and structured opportunity to integrate global citizenship, specific intercultural learning goals, and critical reflection on service into an existing course syllabus.
Expectations of Institute Participants:

Participants should:

  • Read materials provided (less than 50 total pages) prior to Institute;
  • Participate and engage actively throughout Institute weekend;
  • Arrive with a course initiative, campus initiative, or syllabus with the intent of integrating lessons learned and considering institute applications within that framework.
 
Presenters and Session Facilitators:

 

Presenters and Session Facilitators bring a combined 50+ years of deep involvement in global service-learning, intercultural exchange, university teaching, and community-driven development. Presenters include:

 

·Christopher Boettcher, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Castleton College, with expertise developing curriculum, leading courses, employing journaling and composition as deliberate reflective methodologies, and overseeing curricular objectives relating to cooperation with community partners in Brazil, Ghana, Jamaica, rural Montana, Northern Ireland, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

 

·Jen Saffron, MFA, Film Studies Faculty, University of Pittsburgh, with expertise leading courses on photography and film in social and political organizing, conducting ethnography, and producing award-winning films and arts-based learning in cooperation with community partners in Jamaica, the Navajo Nation, Northern Ireland, and the US South.

 

·Jessica Friedrichs, MPA/MSW, Faculty Member, School for Social Change, Director, Center for Service-Learning, Carlow College, with expertise producing transferable models for course development and curricular integration, training faculty members on global service-learning methodology, and facilitating courses in Bolivia, the Navajo Nation, Northern Ireland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Tanzania .

 

·Eric Hartman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning and Instructor, Public Administration and Political Science Programs, West Virginia University, with expertise cooperating with diverse institutions and programs to develop co-curricular and academic service-learning programs, as well as community-based research and teaching connected to global service-learning in Bolivia, Jamaica, Ghana, Peru, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Tanzania.

 

·Richard Kiely, Ph.D., Center for Teaching Excellence, Cornell University, with expertise developing theoretical models and producing and publishing research relating to program design and student outcomes in cooperation with programs in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Tanzania, as well as several years of experience co-leading global service-learning experiences in rural Nicaragua.

 

·Monica Frolander-Ulf, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh – Johnstown, with experiences conducting and developing research in cooperation with community members, developing community member course participation, ensuring full community voice and participation in course syllabi and instruction, and leading courses in Jamaica and the Navajo Nation.

 

Registration will open December 1. The registration fee is $180 for both days. Lunches are included. Dress is casual. Participants will receive an electronic reading set (of less than 50 pages) one month in advance of the Institute. Lodging is available nearby in Pittsburgh's neighborhood of universities – Oakland. Lodging details will follow.

Amizade would like to thank West Virginia University's Office of International Programs and Center for Civic Engagement for their cooperation in developing and advancing global service-learning and systematic and rigorous global citizenship education over the past four years.

Amizade would also like to thank Carlow University for its cooperation in providing a convenient and accessible meeting space, while also commending Carlow for its "Expanding Worldview" theme this year.

Of course and additionally, Amizade would very much like to thank its numerous community partners, along with the many universities, high schools, community groups and civic associations with which it works to connect people across cultures through service.

I very much look forward to the discussion and dialogue at the Institute.

Eric Hartman

Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning

Adjunct Faculty, WVU Master's Program in Public Administration 

Visit Amizade online at www.amizade.org or see the courses we offer through partnership with West Virginia University atwww.globalservicelearning.org.

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[11] MLK Day of Service 2009
 
With just eleven weeks to go until January 19th, there is a great deal of planning and organizing to do to create the largest MLK Day of Service for 2009.   The Corporation for National and Community Service (http://www.nationalservice.gov) has established a number of resources that can assist in your efforts.  We hope you will make sure that your community is aware of these resources and encourage teachers, students, community based organizations, colleges and universities, etc to take advantage of all tools and resources. 
 
  • Mobilization Memos
    • Each Monday morning thru January 19th, an e-communication is disseminated to a wide range of individuals and organizations interested in advancing the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service: “a day on, not a day off.”  These Mobilization Memos provide action focused tips, best practices, and resource links.  They connect readers to online forums, the MLK Day website, and the Project Registration Tool.  The memos also encourage readers to spread the word and forward the message to others in their networks, to expand participation. 
    • The Memos are archived on the MLK Day website.  If you want the weekly memo sent directly to you or others in your community, please sign up at www.mlkday.gov.  There is a link to the memos on the home page and once on the memo page you will see a button to sign up.

·My MLK Day

oMy MLK Day is a customizable electronic tool that allows you to manage both projects and volunteers for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

oThe tool is customizable - When you create an account at My MLK Day, you will get a unique URL that you can use when promoting your local projects or doing volunteer outreach.  You may customize this webpage with your own local message.  You may also share stories, photographs, and videos about the planning and implementation of the event.

oThe tool helps you recruit and manage volunteers - Community members go to your unique URL at My MLK Day to find opportunities to volunteer for the service projects in your community.  This feature allows you to track volunteers that have signed up for a particular project and the number of volunteers still needed.

oThe tool helps you generate visibility and media attention - When you list your projects at My MLK Day, it becomes part of a national database of MLK Day of Service projects.  This information is used by the Corporation for National and Community Service (http://www.nationalservice.gov) in promoting the Martin Luther King Day of Service to national, regional and local media outlets.  It is also used by national and local media to identify newsworthy projects. 

oTo access My MLK Day, visit http://www.MLKday.gov and click on “Register Your Service Project.”

 
Thank you for making the 2009 MLK Day of Service the largest in history!
 
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[12] Call for Proposals

 

 
Pathways of Engagement: Connecting Civic Purpose to Learning and Research – Locally and Globally
 
The University of Georgia – September 28-29, 2009
 
Deadline for Proposal Submission – February 25, 2009
 
To submit a proposal go to www.uwex.edu/ics/nosc2009
 
All proposals must be submitted online and are due by February 25, 2009. The submission system is user-friendly and allows for providing information for multiple co-presenters.
 
Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail by April 15, 2009.
 
Presentation Options
 
Oral presentations will be 45 minutes in length. Presenters should develop interactive sessions to share information; 30-minute presentations with 15-minute participant discussion moderated by the session facilitator.
 
Panel sessions: Some proposals may be grouped together with two other presentations around a central theme. In this case, each of the three presenters will have 10 minutes to present the central theme of their topic, and 15 minutes will be left at the end for participant discussion moderated by the session facilitator.
 
Posters will be continuously on display between 2 p.m., Monday, September 28, 2009 and noon, Wednesday, September 30, 2009. To encourage networking and discussion about the displayed work, multiple sessions will be scheduled at which the presenters will be expected to be at their posters. 
 
Conference Themes
 
Discuss the scholarship of outreach and engagement with colleagues from around the country. The focus in 2009 will be on:
 
The Institution: Providing Institutional Support and Incentives for Doing the Scholarship of Outreach and Engagement
 
The Community: Building Strong Relationships between Communities and Universities: Access, Reciprocity, and Sustainability
 
The Faculty: Doing the Scholarship of Outreach and Engagement: Evidence-Based Practices, and the Impact on Faculty Members from Interconnecting their Research, Teaching, and Outreach and Engagement Roles
 
The Student: Contributing to Outreach and Engagement: Evidence-Based Practices and the Impact on Students from Connecting Student Learning to Work in Communities
 
Sponsored by the Outreach Scholarship Conference Partnership
 
  • MichiganStateUniversity
  • North CarolinaStateUniversity
  • The OhioStateUniversity
  • The PennsylvaniaStateUniversity
  • PurdueUniversity
  • The University of Alabama
  • The University of Georgia
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Wisconsin-Extension
 
The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center & Hotel, 1197 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, Georgia 30602-3603
 
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[13] 2009 Ehrlich Engaged Faculty Award
 
Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that information about Campus Compact's 2009 Thomas Ehrlich Engaged Faculty Award (previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning) is now available at http://www.compact.org/awards/ehrlich/.  Please note that the application deadline is March 20, 2009, and materials may be submitted online starting in early January.  Meanwhile we encourage you to look at the eligibility guidelines, selection criteria, and application requirements and to consider applying or supporting others' applications for this award.

With the Ehrlich Award, Campus Compact recognizes faculty for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students' civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education's contributions to the public good.  The award is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University. One award of $2,000 will be granted to a faculty member from a Campus Compact member institution.  Up to ten finalists will also be selected and recognized. 

For more information, see http://www.compact.org/awards/ehrlich/.  With any questions, please feel free to contact me at the phone number or email address below.

Julie

-- 

Julie L. Plaut, Ph.D.

Director of Academic Initiatives, Campus Compact

Higher Education Program Advisor, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

612-710-6611

jplaut@compact.org

www.compact.org

www.servicelearning.org

 

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Weekly Update
7 November 2008
 
[1] Fall Directors / Coordinators Meeting
[2] Bonner AmeriCorps Reminders
[3] Introducing Bonner Interns
[4] President-elect on Higher Ed
[5] Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants
[6] Making Higher Ed Research Matter
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[1] Fall Directors / Coordinators Meeting
 
This is your last chance to make sure we have you on our registration list for the meeting. Please check the attached spreadsheet and notify Miriam Barnes immediately if your name is NOT on the list and should be (609-924-6663).
 
Reminder re: transportation - we do not provide shuttle service. There's a wiki page for finding someone to ride with. Thanks to all who are making great use of it! http://bonnernetwork.pbwiki.com/Travel-Message-Board
 
Registration begins at 4 PM on Sunday, November 9. Looking forward to seeing many of you!
 
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[2] Bonner AmeriCorps Reminders
  1. please, please, please do NOT use whiteout or pencil on any AmeriCorps paperwork
  2. If you scratch anything out or make any changes, you and/or the student must initial the changes.
  3. please make sure paperwork is dated properly: enrollment term dates run one or two years minus one day (i.e. 9/10/08 - 9/9/009; 10/10/08 - 10/9/10); time logs must have signatures on or after last day of logged service; exit forms cannot be signed before the last day of service
  4. all exit paperwork must be submitted within 20 days of the member's last day of service (this is the last day they log hours, not necessarily the date they must be done with their term)
  5. please remember that only Bonner Foundation office staff are certifying officials (this pertains to the enrollment
 
As always, please contact a member of our AmeriCorps team if you have any questions or concerns: Annie Pasqua, Gretchen Mielke, Becky Grinstead, Christen Foell, Janet Ashwood and Miriam Barnes
 
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[3] Introducing Bonner Interns
Every year we employ a number of Princeton Seminary students at the Foundation. This year we have 11 students working with us! Here's a little bit about each of them and why you might be hearing from them at some point during the year.
 
Megan Acedo is in her 2nd year of seminary and 2nd year of working with the NJ AmeriCorps program. She recently worked with 76 students on a Make a Difference Day event!
 
Lindsay Barrett is also a 2nd year student and 2nd year Bonner intern. Presently Lindsay assists the AmeriCorps team with organizing and scrubbing files, though eventually Lindsay hopes to work with our service and policy initiatives. She also led a workshop at this year's Bonner Congress.
 
Nikki Burks is in her first year at PTS and also on the AmeriCorps scrub team. We may eventually convince Nikki to work with the Bonner Partners program!
 
Emily Chudy is a former Bonner from Dickinson College in her first year at PTS. She just couldn't be away from Bonner so we hired her as the Bonner Congress intern. She's enjoying seeing things from the national side and is excited about connecting with and equipping the Congress reps this year.
 
Israel Durham is a first year student at PTS and serving as our official writing intern. He's currently working on our "This I Believe" project and we'll see what else we develop with him this year.
 
Whitney Fauntleroy is a recent AmeriCorps alum and in her first year at PTS. Whitney is working with the NJ AmeriCorps program, specifically partnering with Mercer Community College students.
 
Chris Holmes is a first year student at PTS and helping out with our AmeriCorps scrub team. 
 
Gospel Johnstone is also in his first year at PTS and is the newest addition to the intern team. He brings experience and energy to our Serve 2.0 initiatives - keep your eye out for blog posts and videos galore!
 
Jeannie Park is in her first year at PTS and serves on our AmeriCorps scrub team.
 
Andrew Wilkes is  a second year student and at the Foundation for his second year; this time around Andrew is working with the Policy Options initiative.
 
Jim Treffinger is in his final year of seminary and working with us this year to complete a field education requirement. The project he is most passionate about is connecting with Prisons and prisoners. He'll be presenting at the Fall Directors / Coordinators meeting and hopefully connecting with many of you who are doing service opportunities in the prison system. Here's a short section of an autobiographical essay he wrote at the beginning of the semester:
 
"As a preface, I wish to emphasize that I am now convicted, as I was not earlier, of a strong calling to a unique kind of ministry, and I have committed myself to learning all I can in order to best answer that calling.Furthermore, I want to learn more to prepare myself for meaningful, practical ministry.That is why I am doing my field education at Bonner.I am 58 years old and I believe that I should and shall devote the remainder of my life to Jesus Christ and to work in ministry within Christ’s church.This belief is not remotely like the beliefs that governed most of my life. Indeed, it has even evolved from the time when I first entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 2006. At that time I was hesitant and skeptical about any calling to ministry, unsure of myself as worthy to presume such a calling, and unsure whether such a course was what I wanted, what my family wanted, what God wanted of me.
In late 2004, I was released from a federal prison after serving nearly a year.My only personal goal then was to write; perhaps seek a job teaching somewhere that would hire a felon; reintegrate myself back into the life of my family and local community; connect again with my local church, a church whose members had sustained me in their prayers, love, letters, and visits; and quietly continue my own reading and study of the Bible and theology through the eyes of a fairly new believer, study that I had undertaken in earnest in the odd cloister of prison.While incarcerated, I completed the first draft of a book about my experience in going from frontrunner in a U.S. Senate campaign to scandal and imprisonment. Since then, I have been working on another book about the prison experience itself and the people I met there.Writing and teaching seemed like a natural progression for me."
 
 
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[4] President-elect on Higher Ed
 
 
Barack Obama, President-elect, has called for reform of loan programs, a tuition tax credit in exchange for service, new investments in research, and a broader concept of affirmative action.

 

 
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[5] Youth Leaders for Literacy Grants
 
The NEA/YSA Youth Leaders for Literacy Grantsdeadline has been extended to November 20, 2008 to give student organizers time to complete and turn in their project proposals.
The Youth Leaders for Literacy Grant is a $500 award for youth-led literacy projects. Youth Leaders for Literacy is an initiative of the National Education Association (NEA) and Youth Service America (YSA) to help youth direct their enthusiasm and creativity into reading-related service projects. Grant applications should propose youth leadership in developing and implementing a literacy project that begins on NEA's Read Across America Day, March 2, 2009, and culminates on YSA's Global Youth Service Day, April 24-26, 2009. During the six-week program period and beyond, we hope to create a groundswell of literacy service in communities across the country.

The NEA and Youth Service America developed the Youth Leaders for Literacy program in 2001 to encourage and celebrate literacy service of our nation's young people, and to provide them with resources to conduct reading-related activities that benefit others. Making a difference in the lives of America's children is what the relationship between the NEA and YSA is all about.

Learn more at: http://www.nea.org/readacross/volunteer/index.html

Download the application: http://www.nea.org/readacross/volunteer/images/2009yllgrantapp.pdf

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[6] Making Higher Ed Research Matter
Here's a link to an interesting article on the use of research in higher ed and the question of its relevance to those who shape policy. The article comes out of a recent meeting of scholars from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/07/ashe

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