| NERCHE is committed to collaborative change processes in higher education to address social justice in a diverse democracy. The Center focuses its resources on a variety of projects addressing three core areas: |
|
 Reflective inquiry into practice |
The scholarship of engagement |
| Transitions to and through higher education |
|
 |
    |
In honor of our 50th Anniversary and our commitment to civic education, Mount Wachusett Community College, in partnership with The Democracy Commitment, will host a two-day conference focusing on the integration of Democratic Practice and Civic Learning into curricula and programming. The...
On May 1, 2013, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching opened the request-for-applications period for the 2015 Elective Community Engagement Classification. The Carnegie Foundation invites colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement to apply for...
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Kennesaw State University and thePOD Network are pleased to present the 8th Institute for New Faculty Developers Registrations are now being accepted for the Institute, to be held June 24-28, 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia. Faculty development is...
The 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education will be held from January 5-8, 2014, at two venues: the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and the Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. Oahu is often nicknamed "the gathering...
The New England Faculty Development Spring Conference "Engaged Learning: Impacts and Implications" will be held at the Westford Conference Center, Westford, MA on Friday, June 14, 2013. The keynote speaker Dr. John Saltmarsh (Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and...
On May 24, 2013, from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, NERCHE will host a conversation with Kristin Esterberg (Salem State University), John Wooding (UMass, Lowell), and John Saltmarsh (NERCHE, UMass, Boston) on “Finding a Common Purpose for Change: Collaboration for...
In honor of its 50th Anniversary Mount Wachusett Community College, in partnership with The Democracy Commitment, will host a two-day conference focusing on the integration of Democratic Practice and Civic Learning into curricula and programming. The first day of the conference will focus on the...
The Leduc Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth will hold its Fifth Annual Civic Engagement Summit on April 25, 2013, at Woodland Commons. The event features keynote speaker, Dr. Ira Harkavy, founding director of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. ...
Position Announcement The New England Resource Center for Higher Education at UMass Boston is seeking a full-time Resource Assistant/Project Coordinator. An hourly, non-benefitted, full-time position (40 hours/week), the Assistant/Coordinator will develop, coordinate, and implement NERCHE's...
NERCHE staff are deeply saddened by the recent bombings following the Boston Marathon. We extend our heartfelt support to the victims of the bombings and to the communities of support surrounding them. We extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who died.
Deans Think Tank member Paula Krebs, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bridgewater State University, published an essay, “Thinking About the Public,” in the Friday, April 5, 2013 issue of Inside Higher Ed. “With so much focus on higher education's obligations to job...
NERCHE's Second Annual Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of Engagement will be held on Monday, September 30, 2013, from 9 AM to 3:30 PM at UMass Boston. Please save the date! The event will feature presentations, panel discussions, and facilitated dialogue inspired by Ernest Lynton's framing...
John is the Co-Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as well as a faculty member in the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development. He leads the project in which NERCHE serves as the administrative partner with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for Carnegie’s elective Community Engagement Classification.
He is the author, most recently, of an edited volume “To Serve a Larger Purpose:” Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education (2011) and a book with Edward Zlotkowski, Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (2011). He is also the author of numerous book chapters and articles on civic engagement, service-learning, and experiential education, and the co-author of the Democratic Engagement White Paper (NERCHE, 2009). He is an associate editor for the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. He serves on the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a member of Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) Coordinating Committee Members of the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Action Network and has served as past chair and member of the board of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), as an ex-officio member of the Board of The Democracy Imperative, and on AACU’s board of the Core Commitments Project. He is a member of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement, has served as a National Scholar with Imagining America’s Tenure Team Initiative, and as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Classification. From 1998 through 2005, he directed the national Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Boston University and taught for over a decade at Northeastern University and as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Feinstein Institute for Public Service at Providence College.
Grassroots Coalitions and State Policy Change: Organizing for Immigrant Health CareMargaret A. Post College of the Holy Cross
and Visiting Scholar with NERCHE working on the Next Generation Engagement Project
Post examines how coalitions build power in the policymaking arena. She focuses on interorganizational partnerships, internal capacity building, and claims-making, and shows that multi-organizational alliances can be intermediary mechanisms for promoting interests and realizing political gains. With case studies from Massachusetts and California between 2004 and 2007, Post investigates how statewide, health policy coalitions incorporate immigrant interests in organizing strategies for policy change.
Read more...Click here for a list of employment opportunities at Think Tank members' institutions, as well as other regional and national opportunities that reflect NERCHE's mission.
NERCHE
Fulbright Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowships | Fulbright http://t.co/xxqsQxrFUW
NERCHE
RFP. “Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) Partnerships with Community-Based Organizations” http://t.co/ileoFIfDfu
NERCHE
Early Care and Education Research Scholars: Head Start Graduate Student Research Grants Grantshttp://1.usa.gov/16MnSfN
NERCHE
Impact of High School Counseling Services on College Access and Success http://t.co/WCPx5bHRJB
NERCHE
Blue Engine: A Team Approach to Get Students College Ready http://t.co/r2A2DndV6l
|
New England Resource Center for Higher Education - College of Education and Human Development University of Massachusetts Boston - 100 Morrissey Blvd - Boston, MA 02125 - (617) 287-7740 |
|