Call for Papers, Showcases and Posters/Exhibits – University-Community engagement for Sustainability, 23-26 Nov, 2009

The conference is co-hosted by Division of Industry & Community Network (BJIM) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in collaboration with Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research (GACER) and UNESCO-APEID. It aims to revisit the missions of universities and to explore ways of making the university-community engagement more meaningful, inclusive and sustainable. It also explores ways to create an environment within universities that is conducive for serious engagement to take place and to flourish.

For detailed information about the conference, please check here or contact the conference secretariat by phone (604) 6534814 / (604) 6532916 or by email < ucec@notes.usm.my > for any enquiries.

Registration now open for
General Education and Assessment:
Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities

Seattle, Washington
Register now online
Early registration available now through January 25, 2010

AAC&U has opened registration for General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities. We encourage you to register now to take advantage of the best rates.

General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities invites fresh thinking and new approaches to help faculty, staff, and administrators maintain momentum in general education and assessment during tough times, and reaffirms a commitment to engaged liberal education as the guiding principle for campus action. Attend this meeting to learn new approaches to aligning scarce resources with an ambitious plan for general education, and ways to integrate diversity, global, civic learning, and models for advancing scientific and quantitative literacy through real-world curricula and problem-based pedagogies.

Website:
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/generaleducation/index.cfm

Call for Proposals - AAC&U Conference
Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities, 22-24 Oct, 2009

AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal invites proposals that analyze the purposes, designs, and institutional supports for integrative learning; the assessment of integrative learning; and approaches to helping students connect their learning across discrete domains of knowledge.

Developing students' ability to integrate and apply learning is an important piece of what makes college education relevant for today's world. On any given day, newspaper headlines point to the need for graduates who are sophisticated in their thinking, able to discern complexity in situations, and motivated to continuously seek better, more responsible solutions to problems encountered in work, in life, and in society. Yet most students enter college unaccustomed to addressing the complexities inherent in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary learning, in applying their knowledge to novel circumstances, or in engaging diverse perspectives, either in day-to-day campus life, or in broader social, political, and economic contexts.

This conference seeks to highlight the new importance of integrative learning ten years into the new century. It will examine the kinds of learning that help students develop a sense of efficacy to tackle the deep and often entrenched problems facing us, and it will show how campuses are documenting and deepening students' integrative learning through assessment.

Submit your proposal online by filling in each field of the submission form as directed. For more information, please call 202.387.3760 or write to network@aacu.org.

Deadline for submission of proposals: March 11, 2009

Registration now open for Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility - October 1-3, 2009

AAC&U has opened registration for its first meeting of the next academic year - Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: Deepening Student and Campus Commitments. The conference will bring together faculty, student affairs personnel, academic administrators, students, and others to explore how to move education for personal and social responsibility to the center of institutional culture and academic practice. The program will feature promising practices that develop students' civic engagement and social responsibility in both a local and global context; personal and academic integrity; ability to examine and understand differing (and often competing) perspectives; and ethical and moral reasoning.

You can go to the conference highlights and workshops to get more information. Enquiries can be directed to (202) 387-3760 or write to network@aacu.org.

Register online
Early registration reduced rates available now through September 3, 2009. Enquiries can be directed to Cindy Koebke, (202) 387-3760, ext. 428, koebke@aacu.org.