Campus Compact » Professional Development

Hesselbein Student Leadership Summit

tdomf_26a6d — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:18:49 +0000

Looking for an opportunity to connect with dynamic students from around the world? The Hesselbein Student Leadership Summit is a way to strengthen your leadership skills and apply those to real-world situations. Join us from July 10-13, 2010 and learn from distinguished mentors what it takes to excel as global leaders today. The academy covers the cost of registration, room, board, and provides $200 in travel assistance! Applications are available online at www.hesselbein.pitt.edu. Deadline is April 18, 2010. Don’t let this amazing opportunity pass you by.

Education for Decolonization: Professional Development in Guatemala, Summer 2010

tdomf_26a6d — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:54:22 +0000

Designed for faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines, this professional development travel seminar will probe the enduring legacy of colonialism. You will examine your responsibility as educators to understand the colonial dynamics and the strategies being employed in indigenous communities to decolonize and to reconstruct more just communities. Special emphasis will be placed on learning about Maya history, culture, human rights and resistance to assimilation. In addition, you will focus on the challenges to building peace, democracy and autonomy for the Maya majority in Guatemala. This seminar will also explore the role that international organizations and committed individuals have played in addressing systems of domination and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples in Guatemala.

American Political Science Association 2009 Annual Meeting Working Group

tdomf_26a6d — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:58:25 +0000

Organize a 2009 Annual Meeting Working Group

Annual Meeting Working Groups consist of small groups of scholars who convene
throughout the APSA Annual Meeting to discuss a common sub-field or topic. Working
Groups draw on the rich content of the Annual Meeting by encouraging their
members to attend a common set of Annual Meeting panels and roundtables and
then meet to discuss the emerging themes. Annual Meeting working groups can
enrich your conference experience by helping to create a community and
networking experience at the Annual Meeting.

2009 Emerging Scholars in Service-Learning Works in Progress Seminar

tdomf_26a6d — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:55:10 +0000

Established in 2007, the Works in Progress Seminar provides support and encouragement for a new generation of diverse service-learning researchers. The Seminar teams emerging scholars with experienced researchers and practitioners to develop and advance the development of new scholarly work in field of K-12 service-learning. The Works in Progress program is a national program co-facilitated by the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, and Tufts University and is funded by a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to the National Service-Learning Partnership.

Individuals who are either masters degree students, doctoral students, or post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty within 7 years of receiving their doctoral degrees may apply.

Applicants must currently have in progress a formal research paper or project that advances the study of service-learning in K-12 education. The research may be at any stage (e.g., building of the conceptual framework, creating or testing measures, data collection, etc.), but the work must already be underway.

For more information on the program, eligibility, and application requirements, see http://engagement.umn.edu.

Peace Corps Master’s International Program

compact339-admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:38:13 +0000

Grad school and Peace Corps — why not do both?

The Peace Corps Master’s International program combines graduate study with Peace Corps service overseas. Prospective students apply simultaneously both to the Peace Corps and the graduate program(s) of their choice, and they typically complete one year of graduate school, then serve 27 months in the Peace Corps, and return to the university to complete any remaining degree requirements.

More than 50 universities — most of which are Campus Compact members — currently partner with the program. Since 1987, the Master’s International program has offered participants a unique opportunity to combine graduate study with significant international service, connecting theory and practice and contributing to the Peace Corps’ first goal: to help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.

IUPUI Research Academy

compact339-admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:34:27 +0000

The IUPUI Research Academy is an interactive summer workshop to develop skills, learn about methods and literature, develop a research project and advance research related to service learning in higher education

Sponsored by: IUPUI Center for Service and Learning and National Service Learning Clearinghouse

Targeted Audience: Service learning researchers; well-suited for faculty developing research projects, as well as graduate students

Summer Institute of Civic Studies

compact339-admin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:16:24 +0000

Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service
Tufts University, Medford, MA
(near Cambridge and Boston)

July 13-24, 2009

Open to participants from all Institutions and all Disciplines.

Organized by Stephen Elkin, University of Maryland, Peter Levine, Tisch College, Tufts University, and Karol SoÅ‚tan, University of Maryland, with guest seminars by distinguished colleagues from various institutions and organizations.

Main topics: What kinds of citizens (if any) do good regimes need? What should such citizens know, believe, and do? What institutional structures promote the right kinds of citizenship? How do individuals learn civic skills, habits, values, dispositions, and knowledge? The Institute will conclude with a public conference on the Obama Administration’s civic agenda (July 24).

Education for Global Citizenship: International Professional Development Seminar

tdomf_26a6d — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:14:46 +0000

Education for Global Citizenship (June 20-28, 2009), sponsored by the Center for Global Education at Augsburg College, is a professional development seminar to Nicaragua designed for faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines and offices to explore theories and best practices of experiential education in an intercultural context. The seminar will allow you to hear from a broad cross-section of Nicaraguan society and to discuss global citizenship within the context of your courses. You will have the opportunity to network with faculty across disciplines and explore ways to promote global citizenship with colleagues. Finally, you will have the opportunity to examine ways to internatioanalize curriculum and rethink course design in light of global citizenship.