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February Community Engagement Resources and Opportunities
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February 2015 Newsletter
UNCG's monthly outlet for engagement and outreach spotlights, announcements, upcoming events, funding opportunities, publications, resources, and more! |
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ICEE is leading the effort to capture descriptions of activities that are provided to, for, or with individuals, groups, and organizations outside of UNCG through public service or community engagement efforts.
This year has been an especially important time for universities to tell the story of why UNCG's teaching, research, creative activity, and public service activities are critical to the current and future health and vibrancy of North Carolina. We know that our individual and collective impacts are positive and profound - and we need to paint the portrait for others to see as well.
This data is critical for many of UNCG's reports, accreditations, and awards. To increase efficiencies, this will be the only request you will receive for such data, which ICEE will share as needed with offices and departments across campus.
The survey link will be posted on our website as soon as it is available. Be sure to check back often, as we will post frequently asked questions and updates.
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| Hicks Receives Multiple Engagement Awards |
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Join us in congratulating Travis Hicks, Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Design, on his recent recognitions for his community-engaged work! |
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Sigmon Service-Learning Award
Travis was selected to receive the 2015 Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award. Hosted by North Carolina Campus Compact, the Robert L. Sigmon Service-Learning Award recognizes one faculty person on a member campus who has made significant contributions toward furthering the practice of service-learning. Hicks' nomination highlighted his community engagement pedagogy, and focus of his scholarship and teaching on projects that advance social justice.
CIDA Award for Excellence
Travis was awarded The Council for Interior Design Accreditation's 2014 Award for Excellence. This award recognizes and celebrates outstanding practices that advance the cause of excellence in interior design education. Hicks' entry documents how UNCG’s Center for Community-Engaged Design (CC-ED) conducts community outreach to extend the teaching environment and encourage students to be civic-minded and committed to creating socially relevant and engaged design for the public good. View the award submission video here.
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In Pursuit of Civic Learning
UNCG has committed to strategies to make civic learning and democratic engagement core values of the institution. This commitment is solidified through participation in two national initiatives: the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Initiative coordinated by NASPA, and the Campus and Community Civic Health Initiative, co-hosted by the American Democracy Project and the National Conference on Citizenship.
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North Carolina Network for Safe Communities
What defines a safe community? Over the last decade, UNCG’s Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships (CYFCP) and the Office of Research and Economic Development have worked with the High Point community and the state of North Carolina to reduce violent crime and recidivism through focused deterrence. The NC Network for Safe Communities now serves as an information and resource sharing network for law enforcement, resource providers and other community partners.
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$1.1 M Grant to Expand Social Work Placements
The UNCG and NC A&T Joint Master of Social Work Program will receive $1,094,852 over the next three years, significantly expanding the program's Triad field placement presence in settings utilizing integrated health care and interprofessional models. Students will be funded to work in settings that serve behavioral health needs of children, adolescents and transitional age adults (18-25).
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Each month ICEE highlights resources from across campus and the community to facilitate engagement and outreach activities! This month we focus on both university- and community-organized convenings that are meant to bring individuals and organizations together to foster collective action and collaboration. We encourage faculty, staff, and students to think about how their work aligns with these community-identified priorities, and consider getting involved!
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2015 Greensboro Housing Summit
Wednesday, February 28, 2015 :: 8:30am-3:00pm
Hosted by the Greensboro Housing Coalition, the Housing Summit will explore how our community can create housing choices for healthy aging (and everyone else!). Come to the Summit for inspiration, networking, and an opportunity to contribute
your ideas as we work toward the goal of good places for everyone to live.
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Innovations in Domestic and Sexual Violence Research and Practice Conference
March 5-6, 2015
Hosted by the UNCG Center for Women's Health and Wellness, the North Carolina Coalition against Sexual Assault, and the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, this conference focuses on reducing violence against women by strengthening research and evidence-based practice through academic-community partnerships. Advocates, practitioners, researchers, administrators, policy makers, legal counsel, and law enforcement are encouraged to attend.
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Symposium on Community-Engaged Design
March 5-7, 2015
UNCG's Center for Community-Engaged Design will host the 2nd annual Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design. This year, the focus of the symposium will be on homelessness and housing the homeless. The symposium will facilitate meaningful discussions between faculty, students, design professionals, government officials, nonprofits, ecumenical partners, and community members about creative solutions to house the homeless in the Triad.
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Hosted by the Guilford Education Alliance, this annual Education Summit will focus on grit, resilience, self-control, character, integrity, and how we react to failure and challenge. Research and common sense tell us grit matters as much, if not more, than test scores in terms of achievement and success. We'll explore the topic and how it relates to what's happening in our public schools and our community.
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Regional Equity Summit
Thursday, April 2, 2015 :: 10:30am-2:00pm
Piedmont Together is excited to announce "Building Bridges to a Stronger Economy: Part II," a follow-up event to December's equity summit. The April summit will focus on equitable development and will share the reports from the Equity Action Teams formed during December's summit, including strategies that can be employed in communities across the Piedmont Triad. Attendees will also discuss the creation of the Regional Equity Network.
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Behavioral Health - Faith Summit
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Co-hosted by the Sandhills Center, Cone Health Foundation, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Temple Emanuel, NAMI NC, NAMI Guilford, UNCG, Greensboro College, and others, the Behaviorial Health - Faith Summit will convene a conversation to explore the state of mental health in our community. More details will be available soon!
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015 :: NC A&T State University
UNC’s 2015 Social Entrepreneurship Conference challenges students on our 17 campuses to identify some of North Carolina’s most pressing social problems, then take a business-oriented approach to solving them. The conference will welcome guests to listen as some 40 teams pitch their ideas to a blue ribbon panel of experienced judges from the business and nonprofit community. Winners will receive cash prizes and technical support for implementation, and will be selected in both the graduate and undergraduate categories. Make plans to attend with your students today!
"By the People" Event
Monday, February 16, 2015 :: 11:00am-2:00pm :: Azalea Room, EUC
The Office of Leadership and Service-Learning will host "By the People," an event designed to help students learn how to contact their elected officials. Faculty are invited to attend as well, and are encouraged to share the event with their students to foster civic learning and democratic engagement.
Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement Conference
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 :: Elon University
North Carolina Campus Compact’s annual conference for community-engaged faculty, staff, researchers, community partners, and graduate students who want to gain skills, knowledge and best practice models for a spectrum of civic engagement pedagogies and activities. The 2015 keynote speaker is Dr. Rick Battistoni, Professor of Political Science and Public and Community Service Studies, and Director of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service, at Providence College. For over 25 years, Rick has been a leader in the field of community-based learning, especially as it relates to questions of democratic civic education and engagement. Registration deadline Monday Feb 9th.
Show me the Money! A Guide To and Through Grant Seeking Databases
Friday, February 20, 2015 :: 2:00pm-4:00pm :: 304 Curry Building
Faculty and graduate students often require external funding for research, scholarship, and creative activity. This workshop will explore how to get the most from grant seeking databases, including SPIN, GrantSelect, Grant Advisor Plus, and the Foundation Center. SPIN is a new addition, and we will offer two "SPIN only" workshops in September. The October workshops will provide training on all funding search tools at UNCG. Participants learn to search for possible funding opportunities, practice identifying eligibility, and realize the importance of key words. Attendees will have opportunities to access databases and engage in searches related to their topic of interest. Presented by: University Libraries and Office of Sponsored Programs, UNCG
Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference
Saturday, February 21, 2015 :: UNCG Elliott University Center
Hosted by UNCG, the Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference provides practical resources to help aspiring artists gain the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills needed to establish and maintain a career as an independent artist. Make plans to attend, and share this announcement with your students and community colleagues!
Save the Date! Harry Boyte to Address Civic Engagement at UNCG
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 :: 6:00pm :: SOEB 118
The Office of Leadership and Service-Learning will host Dr. Harry Boyte at UNCG on March 25th, 2015. Dr. Boyte will speak on the meaning of democracy for colleges and universities - building and rebuilding public citizenship. Mark your calendars for a public Keynote Address at 6pm in SOEB 118, with a reception beginning at 5pm (hors d'oeuvres will be served). Dr. Boyte will also host a professional development session from 8:30-11am in the Faculty Center for faculty and community partners involved/interested in educating students toward democratic citizenship. More details will be available soon!
Save the Date! The Changing Tides of Scholarship
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 :: 3:00pm :: Maple Room, EUC
The Institute for Community and Economic Engagement will host Dr. Barbara Holland on April 7, 2015. Dr. Holland will speak on how higher education is in the early stages of a time of extensive and fundamental change on a scale greater than has been experienced since the mid-20th Century. The search is on for a new business model, and all aspects of academic work and culture are shifting and adapting to the growing need to build more efficient and collaborative models of knowledge discovery and dissemination. Increasingly, it is unproductive to organize teaching, learning, research and engagement as separate activities. The long-standing focus on organizing academic work as an individual enterprise is being replaced by a growing emphasis on collective action. Through her extensive work with a wide variety of higher education institutions in the USA and other nations, Dr. Holland will articulate how these major trends play out in the more immediate reality of daily life on campus. Universities and colleges that develop greater capacity for adaptation, innovation and intentionality will be more successful going forward.
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We work hard each month to compile a list of resources and upcoming opportunities related to community engagement, from internal and externally offered grants, to calls for papers and other scholarly products, conferences, awards and recoginitions, and more!
- UNCG's Office of Leadership & Service-Learning has limited funding available for service-learning course-based project support. Contact Kristin Moretto, Assistant Director for Service-Learning, if you have a need for your service-learning course.
- American Democracy Project/The Democracy Commitment/NASPA Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Combined Meeting - Call for Conference Proposals due February 8th, 2015. [more]
- Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (PACE) Conference (Elon, NC) - Registration deadline February 9th, 2015. [more]
- William and Mary Active Citizens Conference (Williamsburg, VA) - Registration deadline February 10th, 2015. [more]
- Call for Abstracts: Community-Based Public Health Caucus. Submission Deadline February 11th, 2015. [more]
- Minority Health Conference: Economic Mobility and Minority Health (Chapel Hill, NC). Registration deadline February 13th, 2015. [more]
- COMMUNITY DEADLINE: Provide input for the Community Needs Assessment for Early Childhood, hosted by the Guilford County Partnership for Children. Survey closes in mid-February [more]
- Apply for the 2015 Annual Community-Campus Partnership for Health Award, highlighting the power and potential of community-campus partnerships. Submission deadline February 16th, 2015. [more]
- National Endowment for the Arts ArtWorks Grants - for public engagement with art - Application deadline February 19th, 2015 (another grant cycle application due July 23rd, 2015). [more]
- Call for Abstracts: UNCG Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo - encourage your students to submit their community-engaged work! Deadline February 20th, 2015. [more]
- Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education Conference (Little Rock, AK) - Registration Deadline February 20th, 2015. [more]
- UNCG North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center's "2 Minutes to Win It" business idea contest - student submissions due February 21st, 2015. [more]
- Apply for the UNCG Faculty First Summer Scholarship Support Awards - Applications due February 27th, 2015. [more]
- Call for Papers: Community Engagement Compendium - Local is Global - Deadline to submit papers is March 1st, 2015. [more]
- 2015 Edition of the Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education - Call for Manuscripts - Deadline extended to March 1st, 2015. [more]
- Duke Engage's 3rd Annual Global Community Partnerships Conference (Durham, NC) - Registration due March 1st, 2015. [more]
- National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Program - Deadline March 3rd, 2015 [more]
- Nominate a student for the National Campus Compact's Newman Civic Fellows Award (requires Chancellor support) - Nominations due March 4th, 2015. [more]
- Service Year + Higher Education: Innovation Challenge Dissemination. Applications due March 6th, 2015. [more]
- Service-Learning Global Course Development Grants, offered by UNCG's Office of Leadership & Service-Learning - Submission deadline March 16th, 2015 for a summer exploratory trip [more]
- Recent humanities PhDs - American Council of Learned Societies Public Humanities Fellowship. Application deadline March 17th, 2015. [more]
- Call for Proposals for the Engaged Scholarship Consortium Annual Conference (Philadelphia, PA). Proposals due March 20th, 2015. [more]
- UNCG School of Health and Human Sciences accepting faculty nominations for the 2014-2015 Community-Engaged Scholarship Award - Nomination deadline March 30th, 2015. [more]
- Ready by 21 National Meeting (children and youth-focused conference, New Orleans, LA) - Registration deadline March 30th, 2015. [more]
- Call for Papers: Citizen Science Theory and Practice - Deadline March 31st, 2015. [more]
- Graduate Student Applications to the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (part of the Engaged Scholarship Consortium) - Application deadline April 1st, 2015. [more]
- International Service-Learning Course Development Grants, offered by UNCG's Office of Leadership & Service-Learning - Submission deadline April 1st, 2015 for a summer 2015 course. [more]
- Save the date for the CUExpo (Canadian conference on community-campus partnerships) - May 26-29th, 2015 in Ottawa, ON. Registration available soon. [more]
- W.K. Kellog Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Awards and the C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award. Applications due April 10th, 2015. Contact ICEE if you're interested in applying. [more]
- Call for papers on health communications in urban/rural communities - Deadline April 15th, 2015. [more]
- National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grants - to extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations - Application deadline April 16th, 2015). [more]
- IUPUI's 7th Annual Connecting Campuses with communities Conference (Indianapolis, IN) - Register soon! Graduate student scholarships and group discounts available. [more]
- Continuums of Service Conference (Long Beach, CA) - Registration due soon! [more]
- 2015 edition of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement - Call for Submissions [more]
- 2015 Tisch College Summer Institute of Civic Studies (Medford, MA) - Registration ongoing through the spring. [more]
- 2015 Frontiers of Democracy Conference (Boston, MA) - Registration ongoing through the spring [more]
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