National Resources

National Updates

IARSLCE announces new Graduate Student Network

The Graduate Student Network (GSN) is for graduate students who are interested in advancing research on service-learning and community engagement. The GSN is an affiliate group of IARSLCE (International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement) and provides a graduate-student only listserv, mentoring opportunities, and research advancement and professional development workshops at the annual IARSLCE conference (Oct. 25-28, New Orleans, LA).

Currently, the GSN listserv is open to all graduate students, but will be restricted to IARSLCE members only after the October conference). Please e-mail the GSN chair if you would like to be added to the listserv (Emily Janke at emilymjanke@gmail.com). Please include your name, e-mail, graduate program, and institution.

Mentoring, research advancement, and professional development opportunities will be available at the IARSLCE conference in October. Registration and more information about the conference are available at www.researchslce.org.

If you wish to join or have any questions about GSN or IARSLCE, please contact Emily Janke at emilymjanke@gmail.com

Conferences and Other Learning Opportunities

Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop: October 7-9 2008

Are you involved in scholarship with community partners? Are you interested in doing more of this work? Would you benefit from mentoring and networking with other engaged scholars?

If you are an advanced graduate student or a junior faculty member in the early part of your career, we invite you to apply for the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop, which takes place in conjunction with the National Outreach Scholarship Conference at Pennsylvania State University (October 7-9, 2008). Sponsors of the workshop include Penn State University, the partner institutions of the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, and the National Center for the Study of University Engagement (NCSUE) at Michigan State University

The workshop experience includes presentations from national leaders and community partners, master class seminars focused on the literature and theory around engaged scholarship and small group working sessions led by senior scholars in community engagement. Participants are asked to submit a research prospectus in advance and receive specific feedback and mentoring designed to strengthen their research.

Participation is limited and will be determined by a competitive selection process. Interested applicants must be nominated to be part of this workshop. Go to http://ncsue.msu.edu/eesw.aspx to download the nomination packet. Applications are due July 18, 2008.

If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Tami Moore (tamimoore@wsu.edu, or 509-339-3816).

Career Opportunities

ACE Policy & Research Links

The American Council on Education (ACE) serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and seeks to influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives. The councils list of Policy and Research links is provided as a service for those seeking information on higher education and general education policy, research, and organizations.

http://www.acenet.edu/resources/policy-research/

The Teagle Foundation

The Teagle Foundation provides leadership for liberal education, marshaling the intellectual and financial resources necessary to ensure that today's students have access to challenging, wide- ranging, and enriching college educations. The Foundation believes that the benefits of such learning last for a lifetime and are best achieved when colleges develop broad and intellectually stimulating curricula, engage their students in active learning, explore questions of deep social and personal significance, set clear goals, and—crucially—systematically measure progress toward them. The Foundation is committed to disseminating widely the results of its work throughout the higher education community, understanding that the knowledge generated by grantees—rather than the funding that enabled their work—is at the heart of the Foundation’s philanthropy. To learn more about The Teagle Foundation, click here.