The Talloires Network E-Newsletter - February 2014
The Talloires Network is one of the partners with whom PASCAL collaborates. The Network enjoys a high profile and is among the several national and international bodies encouraging universities worldwide to adopt a more centrally-focussed universities' 'third mission' commitment to community service in its different senses and settings.
Here is a copy of Talloires Network E-Newletter for February 2014:
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| February 4, 2014 | The Talloires Network Newsletter |
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In This Issue
New Members Not a member of the Talloires Network? Learn how to JOIN NOW>>
Talloires Website Remember to visit our website! Google Map showing our member universities
About the Talloires Network The Talloires Network secretariat is located at Tufts University. Contact Us Rob Hollister |
Update from the Chair: President Mark Gearan
Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement Series February 2014 Leaders in the Civic Engagement: Pakistan Regional Networks News AsiaEngage Capacity Building for Innovative Teaching and Learning: Community Integrated Teaching & Learning Workshop  In an effort to develop capacity building in the area of Community Integrated Teaching & Learning (CITL), AUN USR&S@AsiaEngage will be organising a Community Integrated Teaching & Learning Workshop on the 26-28 February 2014. This workshop would be led by Madam Maria Lourdes F. Melegrito, a member of the AUN USR&S Steering Committee and Director of the Centre for Social Concern and Action (COSCA) from De La Salle University, Philippines. At this workshop, participants would be equipped with relevant theories, concepts, tools and exemplary models of CITL. Similar to a discipline-based CITL class, this workshop integrates various teaching methodologies like lectures, structured learning activities, simulations, discussions and actual community service experience. Reflection tools used in CITL courses will also be used to process the experience of participants in this workshop. This workshop is open to all academics and university-community-industry engagement practitioners across ASEAN and Asia. Contact the AsiaEngage Secretariat to learn more.ICP and Silatech Launch University Civic Engagement Initiative  Innovations in Civic Participation (ICP) has launched a new University Civic Engagement Initiative in partnership with Silatech. The initiative is designed to provide the support and resources necessary to build and expand university civic engagement among students in the Arab world. Learn More>>Campus Compact Toolkit  Campus Compact has compiled a Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit that is a great resource for TN members. Learn More>>Talloires Network Programs Opportunities and Announcements International Academy of Business Principal Vacancy Papers and Publications Upcoming Events 9th International Congress of Higher Education. University 2014. Havana. Cuba. 10 - 14 February 2014.
 Convened with the declaration “For a Socially Responsible University”, University 2014 renews the commitment of people attending these events with University and with its time, propitiating current reflections and debates on the field of Higher Education. Congress University is well known as an academic field that points to reflective, deep and open dialogues among main parts of Higher Education and the society they belong to, in order to evaluate best solutions to pressing problems in the realities of our countries. Plus, it promotes new ideas about different issues related to international agenda of Higher Education and contributes to new networks knowledge and emotions among principals, teachers and students. Learn More>>IMPACT National Conference. Valparaiso University. Valparaiso, Indiana. USA. 27 February – 2 March 2014.  The IMPACT Conference is historically the largest annual conference focused on the civic engagement of college students in community service, service-learning, community-based research, advocacy and other forms of social action. Building on the rich 28-year tradition of the COOL Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, IMPACT is the one time during the year when students, administrators, faculty, AmeriCorps members and VISTAs, and nonprofit professionals gather together to learn and share effective practices, improve personal skills and organizational strategies, discover opportunities and resources, exchange stories, be inspired and challenged to sustain our efforts. Learn More>>DML 2014. Connecting Practices. Boston, MA. USA. 6 - 8 March 2014. DML2014 Connecting Practices calls on all of us to build shared agendas and goals, to reach across the boundaries that separate our disciplines, fields, institutions, and sectors to re-imagine the where, when, and how of educational practice. Learn More>> EUA Annual Conference 2014. Changing Landscapes in Learning and Teaching. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Brussels. Belgium. 3 – 4 April 2014.  Which trends are transforming learning and teaching, and how should European universities respond? EUA’s 2014 Annual Conference will explore innovative teaching approaches that are being developed, discussed or introduced, and consider their implications for the organisation of learning and teaching processes in the years to come. The conference will thus provide a forum for discussing how universities in different parts of Europe and the world respond to current pressures for change and try to anticipate tomorrow’s educational needs. Learn More>>International African Forum II. Pretoria. South Africa. 8 - 9 April 2014. The Australia Africa University Network and the ACU will host the second International Africa Forum, themed 'The Power of Partnerships', on 8-9 April 2014 in Pretoria, South Africa. The Forum, following on from the first International Africa Forum, will bring Australian and African researchers, policy-makers, officials and other interested parties back together again to discuss areas of mutual interest. Learn More>> |
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) spring 2014 Virtual Think Tanks are now underway. The spring Think Tanks focus on community engagement in teaching and learning, research, and institutional structures within higher education. 
The newest edition of the Bringing Theory to Practice Civic Series monographs is now available. Civic Studies is an emerging field that considers public problems and issues from the perspective of citizens, understood as co-creators of their worlds. Civic Studies builds on, and incorporates, abstract theoretical work, various forms of empirical research, and reflections about civic practices. 
The editors of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (IJSLE) are pleased to publish this, our first special edition of the Journal, entitled “Opportunities and Barriers to Integrating Service Learning into Engineering Education”. The editors solicited scholarly manuscripts that would explore three areas related to service learning in engineering, humanitarian engineering, and/or social entrepreneurship - both domestically and internationally. These three areas included: Assessment of Service Learning in Engineering, Scholarship of Service Learning in Engineering and Interdisciplinary Engagement.
The Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) will be releasing it's newest report, Higher Education in the World 5, exploring the critical dimensions in our understanding of the roles and potential roles of knowledge, civil society and higher education institutions (HEIs) as active players in contributing to the creation of more just and sustainable world. TN Executive Director, Rob Hollister and Director of Programs and Research, Lorlene Hoyt, along with many TN partners contributed papers to the publication. 
The 2013 Edition of the Kettering Foundation's Higher Education Exchange is now available. The issue features interviews with Thomas Bender on America’s public life and Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu on their recent book, Civic Work, Civic Lessons. Essays by Harry Boyte, Martin Carcasson, Nicholas Longo, Edith Manosevitch, Sean Creighton, and David Mathews round out the volume. A book review of Bent Flyvbjerg’s Real Social Science by Alex Lovit concludes the issue.
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