The Talloires Network(link is external) 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 April 2014:
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| April 3, 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>>(link is external)
Talloires Website Remember to visit our website(link is external)! Google Map(link is external) showing our member universities
About the Talloires Network The Talloires Network secretariat is located at Tufts University(link is external). Contact Us Rob Hollister |
Update from the Chair: President Mark Gearan
TNLC 2014 TNLC 2014 - It Can Be More Than a Conference(link is external) by Rob Hollister TNLC 2014 promises to be a highly informative and energizing gathering. But I want to encourage you to think of it as more than an event where you’ll make presentations, listen to talks, and participate in discussions. Join me in approaching Cape Town as an opportunity to really advance our work. TNLC 2014 can be a focus for organizing, a lever for change. Let’s use the months leading up to Cape Town to intensify exchange of experience and joint planning and action. Learn More>>(link is external) Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement Series April 2014 Leaders in the Civic Engagement: USA(link is external)Co-edited by Lorlene Hoyt and Amy Newcomb Rowe April signals the seventh edition of the expanded series. This issue includes an introduction to the United States of America and Auburn University in the state of Alabama. Also, we feature interviews with Giovanna Summerfield, Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at Auburn University and Mark Wilson, Director of Civic Learning Initiatives. Learn More>>(link is external) Partner Network News Making Engagement Relevant in Higher Education(link is external)  Campus Compact recently named the 2014 Newman Civic Fellows. The Newman Civic Fellows Award honors inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. Learn More>>(link is external)Upcoming Meeting of the Iberian-American Service-Learning Network The next meeting of the Iberian-American Service-Learning Network (CLAYSS) will take place on April 11th from 8:00 - 10:00 AM EST in Washington, DC. The meeting will be part of the activities involved in MONUMENTAL, NYLC's 25th Annual National Service-Learning Conference which happens to coincide with its 30th anniversary. An online connection will be available so that those who can't travel to DC will still be able to participate. Contact paulabasilico@clayss.org.ar(link sends e-mail) for more information. Talloires Network Programs and Announcements Opportunities and Announcements Papers and Publications Upcoming Events 2014 University-Industry Interaction Conference: Challenges and Solutions for Fostering Entrepreneurial Universities and Collaborative Innovation. Barcelona. Spain. 23 – 25 April 2014.(link is external)
With more than 300 participants, the conference will be the leading international discussion forum for academics, researchers, practitioners and business representatives on university-industry interaction, where theory and practice are equally emphasised in the programme, which consists out of keynote presentations, track sessions, workshops and sight visits. During this three day conference, high emphasis is placed on networking opportunities and creative space, as well as skill development workshops (executive education), delivered by EADA Business School, one of Europe’s leading Business Schools. Learn More>>(link is external) 6th Annual Connecting Campuses with Communities: Service Learning Institute and Research Academy. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Indiana. USA. 12 – 16 May 2014.(link is external) Connecting Campuses with Communities is a capacity building program for faculty and staff that is co-sponsored by Indiana Campus Compact and the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning. In the past, over 250 engaged scholars from more than 100 institutions and five countries have attended this annual event to enhance their service-learning teaching and community-based research. Learn More>>(link is external) CUVIC 2014. Beyond Engagement: Creating Integration, Innovation and Impact. University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia. Canada. 20 – 22 May 2014.(link is external) As universities seek to enhance their potential to contribute to the public good, there is growing effort globally to promote community-university engagement. At the same time communities, organizations and governments seek to leverage the knowledge and resource capacity of universities to address community needs. CUVIC 2014 is an opportunity to reflect on these efforts and enable community-university innovation and action within the institutional, Indigenous, national and global context. Learn More>>(link is external) Takaful 2014. Fourth Annual Conference on Arab Philanthropy and Civic Engagement. Beirut. Lebanon. 4 June - 6 June 2014.(link is external) Takaful is an annual regional meeting of scholars, young researchers, policy-makers, activists and practitioners in the field of philanthropy and civic engagement, both from within and outside the Arab region. The conference is structured to encourage interaction between scholarly analysis and lived experience, with the hope of contributing to sound policy and practice in philanthropy and civic engagement. Papers of a comparative nature and those covering understudied geographical areas are particularly welcome. Takaful 2014 will be hosted jointly by the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement at the American University in Cairo, the American University in Beirut, the University of Balamand, and Columbia Global Centers | Middle East (Amman). Learn More>>(link is external) |
The Talloires Network will be co-sponsoring the Campus Engage Ireland Symposium on June 17, 2014 in Dublin, Ireland, entitled Campus-Community Partnerships: Conversations for Change. Sir David Watson and Dr. Barbara Holland will be the keynote speakers. 
The Talloires Network Secretariat would like to congratulate Tulane University President, Scott Cowen, who recently received the 2014 TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education. Cowen was presented with the award at the ACE Annual Meeting in March 2014. 
The Tamarack Institute will be hosting two workshops on evaluating community impact in 2014. The first will take place from June 2-4 in Halifax and the second will take place from November 18-20 in Winnipeg. The workshops are 
The European Journal of Higher Education is now accepting papers for a special issue on the Institutionalization of Universities' Third Mission in 2015. The aim of this Special Issue is to undertake a critical, comparative appraisal of the impacts of the institutionalization of the ‘third mission’ of societal engagement at a variety of levels. Submission deadline is September 1, 2014. 
This book serves as an introduction to using online teaching technologies and hybrid forms of teaching for experiential learning and civic engagement. Service-learning has kept pace neither with the rapid growth in e-learning in all its forms nor with the reality that an increasing number of students are learning online without exposure to the benefits of this powerful pedagogy. 
Community-Based Research, or CBR, is a mix of innovative, participatory approaches that put the community at the heart of the research process. Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research shows that CBR can also operate as an innovative pedagogical practice, engaging community members, research experts, and students. 
Scholars and policy makers have long recognized entrepreneurship as a powerful engine of economic growth. There is clear evidence, however, that when it comes to social entrepreneurship, policy attention has not been matched by growth in scholarly research. This volume illustrates the type of empirical effort that must take place for the field to advance.
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