The International Assocation for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) is excited to offer the Practitioner Scholar Forum again this year! This full day of programming will be held on the preconference day in New Orleans - Monday, September 26, 2016. Registration is $70. Held annually, the Practitioner-Scholars Forum (PSF) offers a dialogue and development space for community engagement professionals who see IARSLCE as a critical venue through which practitioners activate their scholarship and scholarly identities. This year, the PSF will be held as a full-day pre-conference, generously supported by PSF sponsors. The 2016 PSF session's theme is Building a Scholarly Practice. After the morning's introduction to the practitioner scholarship framework and literature aimed at cultivating a practitioner-scholar identity, participants will choose between three topics for afternoon collaborative spaces: 1) partnership development, 2) faculty development, and 3) student learning outcomes. The collaborative space sessions will provide participants with an opportunity to explore scholarly approaches to these practitioner areas....

INSTITUTE FULL We are ready to get to work with the 400+ colleges and universities that have signed Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Action Statement and made commitments to develop campus civic action plans in the year ahead. Please join us for one of three fall Civic Action Planning Institutes throughout the country to provide planning teams with inspiration, information, and time to share resources and ideas for leveraging existing campus infrastructure for engagement and for boldly exploring new areas and opportunities for impact. The agenda will include: overview of principles and goals of the 30th Anniversary Action Statement introduction to campus civic action planning processes exploration of key planning concepts - asset orientation - meaning of community engagement - capacity building systems and policy change - culture change - integration of teaching, research and institutional action - maximizing student and community impact Sessions will include large group discussion as well as team planning time. Campus Compact member institutions whose president...

We are ready to get to work with the 400+ colleges and universities that have signed Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Action Statement and made commitments to develop campus civic action plans in the year ahead. Please join us for one of three fall Civic Action Planning Institutes throughout the country to provide planning teams with inspiration, information, and time to share resources and ideas for leveraging existing campus infrastructure for engagement and for boldly exploring new areas and opportunities for impact. The agenda will include: overview of principles and goals of the 30th Anniversary Action Statement introduction to campus civic action planning processes exploration of key planning concepts - asset orientation - meaning of community engagement - capacity building systems and policy change - culture change - integration of teaching, research and institutional action - maximizing student and community impact Sessions will include large group discussion as well as team planning time. Campus Compact member institutions whose president or chancellor...

Connect with practitioners, scholars, and administrators dedicated to best practice, ethical global community-campus partnerships in this participatory gathering.