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**Outreach and Engagement Program Focus.
Over the past 18 months, University Outreach and Engagement
underwent an internal and external review (much like academic units regularly
go through). The six review themes listed below will be major emphasis of
our office over the next year. You will hear more details about these
themes over the coming year.
- Professional
Development - Build capacity within departments
to do engagement
- Structure - Expand
formal and informal relationship with other departments/units/centers
- Programming - Catalyze,
support, catalogue and publicize both cross cutting and department/unit
outreach/engagement programs and their impacts.
- Administrative - Support
policies and provide incentives for faculty, staff and student involvement in
engagement
- Committees - Provide
leadership, coordination, and support through University Outreach office and
committee structure for engagement
- Funding - Diversify
funding for engagement
**Pedagogies of Engagement: Deepening
Learning In and Across the Disciplines. Network for
Academic Renewal Conference. Visit http://www.aacu.org/meetings/pedagogies/index.cfm
for more information on this conference sponsored by the Association of
American Colleges and Universities.
- April 14-16, 2005,
**The University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee is pleased to announce that it will host the Midwest
Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community
Education. Proposal abstracts are due
March 1, 2005 and the call for proposals can be found at the following website:
http://www.soe.uwm.edu/pages/welcome/Departments/Education_Outreach/Proposals/Midwest_Conference.
- October 12-14, 2005
**NEW JOURNAL ISSUE – “Children
of Immigrant Families”. A new issue of The Future of Children journal,
“Children of Immigrant Families” (Volume 14, No. 2 – Summer,
2004), is now available for viewing. It is the last journal issue to be
published by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Future issues will
be produced by
**Global School Bus is Ready to Visit your School! Do you need
a presenter on a country or culture of the world? Send requests to Jenny
Spolnik-Greathouse, spolnik.1@osu.edu, 614-292-6053. Our
volunteers are eager to share their knowledge to students of all ages!
**ADEC (American Distance Education
Consortium) Excellence in Distance Education National Cash Award ($5,000)
– Call for Nominations. The deadline for submitting
pre-proposals for the ADEC Excellence in Distance Education National Cash Award
is November 30th. To submit a pre-proposal, go to http://www.adec.edu/whats-new.html
and click on “Excellence in College and University Distance Education
National Awards Program Team Award Nomination Form” for the web-based
template to enter the pre-proposal for your team nomination. Pre-proposal deadline is November 30, 2005.
The Humana
Foundation provides support for projects and organizations in the fields of
health, education, and civic and cultural development. Funding is limited to
nonprofit organizations located in communities where Humana has a presence.
These communities include
http://www.humanafoundation.org/
(The
following is a Community of Science Funding Opportunity.)
**The
J. Jill Compassion Fund at the
(The
following grants are a Copyright from the
**The Guardian Life Insurance Company of
**The Health Resources and Services Administration invites
applications for funding under the Minority
Fellowship Program. This program seeks to increase the number of
underrepresented minority faculty who are members of the faculty in a health
profession school by providing a stipend and a training allowance to the
faculty fellow. Approximately $200,000 is expected to be available for four
awards having a three-year project period; cost-sharing of 100 percent is
required. Eligible are schools of allopathic and osteopathic medicine;
dentistry; veterinary medicine; optometry; allied health; public health;
podiatry; pharmacy; nursing; and graduate programs in behavioral and mental
health. Application Deadline: Applications are due December 6,
2004. More information is available at: http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/HHS/HRSA/GAC/HRSA-05-073/listing.html
**HP
is soliciting proposals for funding under the Technology
for Teaching Grant Initiative, which supports the innovative use of
mobile technology in K-16 education. Proposals must focus on redesigning a core
course in the math, science, engineering or business. Eligible are full-time
faculty who are able to demonstrate academic and instructional leadership in
their discipline or their campus. Approximately 25 universities will receive an
HP tablet PC product package, a $15,000 cash stipend, and $500 to attend a
Worldwide HP Mobile Technology Conference. Each of five teachers on a K-12
school's project team will receive a similar award valued at approximately
$30,000. Application Deadline: Proposals are due February 15,
2005. More information is available at: http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/index.html
**NSF
is soliciting proposals for funding under the Science
of Learning Centers Program,
which supports large-scale, long-term centers focused on learning of all types.
In addition to centers, catalyst awards that incorporate partnerships with academia,
industry, education and other public and private entities will be made.
Approximately $3 million in FY 2005 funding is expected to be available for 20
catalyst awards, and approximately $20 million in FY 2006 funding is expected
to be available for 3-5 center awards. The categories of proposers identified
in the Grant Proposal Guide
are eligible to submit proposals. Application Deadline: Preliminary
proposals for centers are due February 12, 2005; full proposals, which are by
invitation only, will be due June 29, 2005. Catalyst proposals are due January
14, 2005. More information is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf05509
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