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The 14th Annual Continuums of Service Conference will showcase higher education’s best and most promising practices for:

• Developing creative solutions to environmental challenges
• Teaching for global competency
• Building sustainable service-learning programs in partnership with communities
• Securing resources to meet basic human needs, including food, housing, and health and safety services
• Improving college access and success while closing the achievement gap
• Convening problem-solving summits focused on the most crucial and complex issues of the day, including immigration, race, and social justice

Through innovative curriculum, programs, and experiential learning opportunities, higher education must equip students with the knowledge, leadership abilities, and life skills necessary to address the most pressing issues confronting our world.

Innovative higher education and community leaders are invited to participate in the 14th Annual Continuums of Service Conference and share their successes (and challenges), strategies, research, and emerging methods for maximizing higher education’s collective impact on the well-being of our communities, our nation, and our world.

http://www.wacampuscompact.org/cosconference

CU Expo 2011 is a Canadian-led conference designed to showcase the exemplars in Community-University partnerships worldwide, and together to introduce creative ways of strengthening our local communities.

Learn more about CU Expo 2011: www.cuexpo2011.ca.

The 17th Annual CUMU Conference, hosted by Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) from October 9 to 11, 2011, will focus on “Creating Tomorrow’s Future Today.”

Metropolitan and urban universities are uniquely situated, not only to create their own futures, but to assist their respective communities to realize their vision for the future. Such partnerships with an eye to creating new realities support and enhance mutual gain and shared futures.

This conference will explore university/community partnerships that are preparing both to embrace the future. Partnerships in the areas of enhancing student experiential learning, expanding the roles of faculty that embrace both university and community settings, extending the university’s reach through community partnerships, creating dual urban planning projects, and creating academic offerings that uniquely engage the local community are just a few examples of proposals fitting the theme. The conference will provide a forum for students, faculty and administrators to share ideas, experiences, and make recommendations concerning the leadership role that metropolitan universities must assume in creating the future.

For more information, visit www.cumuonline.org/conference

Service-learning and community engagement have evolved locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally as effective methods for teaching and learning. In what ways has the scholarship on these methods contributed to positive social change? The conference will highlight research that critically evaluates and illuminates the long-term impact of service-learning and community engagement on students, faculty, and community partners and, most importantly, on the social, economic and political issues they seek to transform. Through a variety of presentation styles, Chicago will provide a dynamic venue for scholarship that articulates how, when, where and why service-learning and community engagement influence critical issues locally, nationally and globally. Veteran, new and emerging scholars from diverse backgrounds and settings will exhibit the highest quality research that advances both the understanding and practice of collaboratively engaging students, educators, and community partners in advancing social change.

http://www.researchslce.org/

The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) each year 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 — previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning — is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University.

For questions regarding the award please click here.

Research and scholarly activity are on the rise at Sacramento State! The second annual Year in Review, featuring Sacramento State faculty and staff engaged in research, creative activity and program building, is now available at http://www.csus.edu/research/yearinreview.htm.

If you would like a hard copy of this publication, please e-mail research@csus.edu or call the Research Administration and Contract Administration office at 278-7565 and one will be sent to you via campus mail.

Please note: Research Administration and Contract Administration is now located on the third floor of the new Hornet Bookstore.