In This Issue:

• Upcoming events and other opportunities
• Calls for journal and conference proposals
• Resource spotlight: Civic Agency Curriculum
• News and research

Upcoming Events and Opportunities

Join a community of practice: This year we are partnering with Minnesota and Wisconsin on regional Communities of Practice. These will be virtual learning communities on specific topics related to community engagement and service-learning. Sign-up ends September 14th!

Showcase your students: The second annual Civic Action Academy is coming up November 9-10 at Drake University. We are seeking proposals from interested students in all disciplines. Presentations can either be individually or a group. This is an opportunity for students at any stage of their academic career to share their work with their peers and academics. Submit a presentation by September 28th!

Share Your Work: Calls for Proposals

Conferences:

• Iowa Civic Action Academy – Student Presenters, Deadline: September 28
• Continuums of Service Conference, Deadline: September 14

Publications:

• Journal of Youth Development: Call for Papers and Youth Submissions for Special Issue: Immigrant, Refugee and Border Youth, Deadline for standard papers: August 31, deadline for youth submissions: October 15
• Call for Written Pieces on Community-Based Learning and Service Learning: Impact the Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, Deadline: September 15
• The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education and Indiana Campus Compact are partnering for a special edition dedicated to Critical Service-Learning, Deadline: November 30
• Special Section: Community Impacts of Engaged Research, Teaching and Practice, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Deadline: December 20
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Deadline: ongoing
• International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership and Social Change, Deadline: Ongoing

New Resource Spotlight: Civic Agency Curriculum

Minnesota Campus Compact recently curated series of experiential workshops designed to help develop civic agency. The workshops are organized into the three themes—Self, Us, and Now—following Marshall Ganz’s public narrative framework (see Figure 18.5).

The experiential workshops in the curriculum are designed to help participants develop their civic agency – whether those participants are college/university students, staff, faculty, or administrators, other adults, or adolescents. You can use them in classes, clubs, organizations or informal groups, singly or multiple workshops together, whatever makes sense in your context.

News and Research

Listen to the Compact Nation podcast. The second seasoned featured episodes on topics including student pathways, faculty-community partnerships, deliberative dialogue, and nontraditional students.

Social Impact Educator Toolkit designed to support educators who are preparing their students to enter Map the System and focuses on the Impact Gaps Canvas and other tools and training ideas an educator might use to prepare their students. It is part of a wider forthcoming report on systems-led leadership education.

Journals:

• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Vol 22, No 2 (2018)
• “A Systematic Review of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in the United State: Methodologies, Youth Outcomes, and Future Directions,” by Anyon et al. in the most recent issue of Health Education & Behavior
• Civic Identity and Agency after College: Alumni Voices from Three Academic Civic Engagement Programs, by Richard M. Battistoni and Tania D. Mitchell, AAC&U

Articles:

• Engaging Students in Democracy by Andrew Seligsohn and Thomas Erhlich, Inside Higher Ed
• Here’s How Colleges Can Get More Involved in Elections — and Not Just in the Midterms, Chronicle of Higher Education
• Language Education and Community-Based Global Learning, GlobalSL Blog
• Service-Learning Could Strengthen Long-Term Student Outcomes by Lillian Williams in Diverse Education
• 10 Calls to Action to Cultivate Education for Democracy by Karen Murphy on the Facing History blog
• Dialogue in the Classroom: An Interview with Jennifer West, Essential Parners
• Quiz: How Well Can You Tell Factual from Opinion Statements? by Pew Research Center

Books:

• Awakening Democracy Through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment by Harry Boyte
• Course-Based Undergraduate Research: Educational Equity and High Impact Practice  edited by Nancy Hensel
• Community-based global learning: The theory and practice of ethical engagement at home and abroad, Hartman, et al.
• Changing the Narrative: Socially Just Leadership Education, Edited by: Kathy L. Guthrie and Vivechkanand S. Chunoo

Past Issues:

Spring 2018