September 2008

Hello Everyone,

Here are two questions we’d like your response to, and some GOOD NEWS about FUNDING (along with some general announcements):

QUESTIONS:

1) Community/Planning Councils

Paul Apostolidis at Whitman College would like to hear from you if you have worked with a Community/Planning Council. The model comes from the National Association of Planning Councils (http://www.communityplanning.org/). Please contact Paul at: apostopc@whitman.edu

2) Spring 2009 CBR Networking Initiative Meeting

We haven’t had much response for a planning committee, but I know you have opinions about what we should (or shouldn’t) do—please let me know if you’d like to help design this year’s meeting. To begin, we’d like to set a date and place so we can all put it on the calendar. Shall we say Princeton in late March?

ADDITIONAL FUNDS AVAILABLE from the CBR Networking Initiative

PRESENTATION & TRAVEL

If you would like to present CBR work at the CCPH conference (or others), we have some funding available to support travel costs. We may also have limited funding available for visits between campuses for the purpose of sharing knowledge about the practice of CBR—let me know if you’re interested by emailing a short synopsis.

DATA COLLECTION

(Note this applies only to the first 20 “Institutionalization” grantees that had a “data collection” line item on their approved budget)

Many of you have found that you do not need all of the data collection funds to track progress on CBR activities. You MAY reallocate those funds to other line items supporting the goals outlined in your Scope of Work. Let me know if you have any questions on this or other budget issues.

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

CALL FOR PAPERS & CCPH CONFERENCE

The call for proposals for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health’s 11th Conference “Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships,” April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: www.ccph.info.

GRANTS AVAILABLE

State Farm® Good Neighbor Service-Learning grants Deadline: October 15, 2008

Grants of up to $1,000 are available for youth-led community improvement.  Grantees are encouraged to design semester-long projects launched on Martin Luther King Day (January 19, 2009) extending through Global Youth Service Day, April 24-26, 2009. Electronic application, grant guidelines, and budget spreadsheet are available at www.YSA.org/awards. 

Free Course Management Website

http://ninehub.com/ (recommended by John Sarvey at Northeastern University)

Urban Institute Research Reports

(This site includes current reports on housing, homelessness, health, juvenile justice, domestic violence, crime, courts and policing, corrections and prisoners, etc.):

http://www.urban.org/toolkit/newreports.cfm

CBR and Tenure—article

Moving Beyond the Big Three http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/09/03/read Additional material on the subject: John Braxton’s reworking of Boyer is helpful, see: Institutionalizing a Broader View of Scholarship through Boyer’s Four Domains and Weimer’s Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching & Learning. (recommended by Jerry Pattengale, Assistant Provost at Indiana Wesleyan University)