SERVICE LEARNING FACULTY SYMPOSIUM AND SHOWCASE
Location:  Marquette University, Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI
Date: May 21, 2008

Contact:  Bobbi Timberlake at bobbi.timberlake@marquette.edu
Webpage:  http://www.marquette.edu/servicelearning/upcomingevents/symposiumover

Requests for Proposals: Due April 14 

The Service Learning Faculty Symposium and Showcase is a Midwest regional conference for service learning faculty to share and showcase their service learning practice and projects. It is being co-sponsored by Marquette University’s Service Learning Program, Wisconsin Campus Compact, Marquette’s Institute for Urban Life, and the Manresa Project.

Keynote Speaker: Ken Reardon
Ken Reardon joined the Cornell University faculty after leaving the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  For his role there in establishing and directing the University of Illinois’ highly regarded East St. Louis Action Research Project, he was awarded the 2000 American Institute of Certified Planners President’s Award. His research interests focus on community-based planning in severely distressed urban neighborhoods, alternative approaches to community development, urban social movements, and municipal government reform. At Cornell Dr. Reardon is working with the Colleges of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Human Ecology; and Agriculture and Life Sciences to strengthen urban outreach activities in Ithaca, Rochester, and New York City.

Conference Features:
♦ Morning Keynote and Faculty-led Workshops
♦ Afternoon Showcase of service learning practice and projects, with cash prizes
♦ Faculty Roundtable with sharing of best practices in service learning

Engaging Science, Advancing Learning:
General Education, Majors, and the New Global Century
November 6 - 8, 2008
Providence, Rhode Island

This conference will examine the place and practice of science in college learning for a new global century. There is strong agreement that the United States must make science achievement a top priority. We need more successful science graduates, and we need many more graduates -- whatever their major -- who can evaluate scientific information in making decisions. With decades of innovation in science teaching behind us, what are the most promising avenues for raising the quality of students' engagement and achievement in science? This conference will focus on how colleges and universities -- working together -- can create a climate for engaging science for far-reaching educational change.

The conference is organized around four elements needed to forge new understandings of the way science contributes to, and is shaped by, an overall framework for liberal education in the college years -- vision, structures, designs, and assessment. For more information and  for examples of how your proposal might explore one of these four elements, go to http://www.aacu.org/meetings/engaging_science/index.cfm

We look forward to reading your proposals.

The 14th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: “The Power of Online Learning: Improving Learning in a Networked World.”
November 5 - 7, 2008   
Caribe Royale    
Orlando, Florida

The conference strongly encourages proposals that reflect the implications for the field of specific e-learning experience and practices. Proposals that address blended learning, issues of diversity, international applications of online learning, open educational resources and/or social networking are especially encouraged. Last year’s conference attracted over 1200 participants to more than 180 presentations, as well as exhibits, pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary addresses, and a variety of other special events.

Program Tracks:

•              Learning Effectiveness

•              Technology and Emerging Learning Environments

•              Student Services and Learner Support

•              Faculty Development and Support

•              Professional Development and Workforce Training

•              Leadership and Societal Change 

For complete details on online submission of proposals, visit  www.aln.ucf.edu

Service Learning Faculty Symposium and Showcase
May 21, 2008
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

The Service Learning Program at Marquette University in Milwaukee is hosting a regional Service Learning Faculty Symposium and Showcase on May 21, 2008. This event has been in the planning for some time and will be jointly sponsored by Wisconsin Campus Compact, MU's Institute for Urban Life, and the Manresa Project. We are hoping to bring together faculty from Wisconsin and the states surrounding us to talk about community issues, innovative service learning practices, community-based research, and promotion and tenure as it relates to service learning. Our keynote speaker will be Ken Reardon, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Among his research interests are community-based planning in severely distressed urban neighborhoods, alternative approaches to community development, urban social movements, and municipal government reform. Ken is a strong proponent of service learning and has experience assisting junior faculty through the promotion and tenure process.

A highlight of the day will be the afternoon Showcase, in which faculty and students will present their innovative service learning/community-based projects. A panel of judges will award $500 prizes to four of the Showcase presenters (a generous donation from the Institute for Urban Life), and the Manresa Project will provide up to two $100 stipends for each of the six morning workshops (three in each of two time slots).

Conference Invitation and RFP

Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress
October 16-18, 2008
Long Beach, California

Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress will highlight curricular, co-curricular, and institutional models that enable higher education leaders to develop, implement, assess, and continually learn from the experience of fostering diverse learning environments—environments in which all students develop, in increasingly sophisticated ways, critical knowledge, skills, and capacities for work and citizenship.

The conference aims to help campuses take diversity efforts to the next level of comprehensive, coordinated action, where educational benefits for all students and for the institution more broadly, can be demonstrated in meaningful ways. In this new conceptualization, progress is marked by the integration of diversity and educational quality efforts as well as a move from isolated programs and course offerings to a network of policies and actions, including policies and actions around assessment.

AAC&U’s Network for Academic Renewal invites proposals for sessions that will help colleges and universities fully integrate their diversity and educational quality efforts and embed them into the core of academic mission and institutional functioning.

Information http://www.aacu.org/meetings/diversityandlearning/DL2008/call.cfm

Educating the 21st Century Citizen
The State Superintendent and Wisconsin Campus Compact’s
PreK-16 Institute for Service-Learning and Citizenship
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Brookfield Sheraton Inn
375 S. Moorland Road
Brookfield, WI  53005
Registration fee: $70

Registration is now open for the Wisconsin Campus Compact/Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Joint Institute on Service-Learning and Citizenship. The Institute will include workshops for Higher Ed faculty, staff, administrators and students, K-12 faculty, administrators and students, and workshops that address issues that span the K-16 range.  For more information and to register follow the links from the WiCC homepage www.wicampuscompact.org   

The 5th International Conference on Supplemental Instruction:
 Individual Realities, Universal Pathways
May 28-30, 2008
Portofino Bay Hotel / Universal Studios
Orlando, Florida, USA

This conference will provide an opportunity for U.S. and international faculty, staff, and students to meet and present on SI and related topics. The Program Committee for the 2008 International Conference on SI invites presentations that share expertise and insights into the important and complex undertaking of providing student academic support through Supplemental Instruction. We welcome proposals from faculty, SI supervisors, SI leaders, researchers, administrators, and other professional educators. The concurrent sessions will be approximately fifty minutes in length.
For more information: CFP
To register for the conference: Registration

2008 CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research) National Conference: Frontiers and Challenges in Undergraduate Research
June 21-24, 2008
College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN

CUR is now accepting proposals for workshops, interactive sessions and poster presentations to be presented at the 2008 National Conference. This conference will bring together faculty, administrators, policy makers, representatives of funding agencies and other stakeholders with an interest in doing and promoting undergraduate research. With over 100 workshops, presentations by representatives of funding agencies and social interactions, this promises to be an outstanding conference.

Please visit the conference webpage for details regarding conference themes and deadlines, as well as the workshop submission page.   http://www.cur.org/conferences/csb/cur08natconf.asp .

A Comprehensive Approach to Designing Online Courses Conference
December 3 - 4, 2007
Austin, TX
This conference will examine steps for designing online courses. Sessions will focus on all five steps of the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model with particular attention given to the unique challenges of developing online learning. Instructional designers, course developers, instructional technologists, and anyone involved in the design and development of online courses will develop an operational understanding of the ADDIE model and how to apply it to the unique challenges of online course design. For a full program and to register, please download the brochure or visit the website :
https://www.academicimpressions.com/conferences/1207-online-course-design.php?q=pploetz@uwsp.edu&c=C187.1032307.300.1.102

SITE 2008 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education     International Conference                
March 3-7, 2008 
Las Vegas, Nevada     (Riviera Hotel & Casino Convention Center)
SITE 2008 is the 19th annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty/staff development.  SITE is a society of AACE. You are invited to participate in this international forum which offers numerous opportunities to explore the research, development, and applications in this important field. All proposals are peer reviewed. SITE is the premiere international conference in this field and annually attracts more than 1,200 leaders in the field from over 50 countries.
To submit a proposal, complete the online form at: http://site.aace.org/conf/submitguide.htm
For Presentation and AV guidelines, see: http://site.aace.org/conf/PresenterLounge

9^th annual Institute & Conference for Faculty Learning Community Directors, Facilitators, and Participants
June 18-21, 2008
Claremont, California
Details will be available soon.
Check http://www.iats.com in September to find out more.

20^th Annual Lilly Conference on College & University Teaching – West
Learning by Design
March 21 & 22, 2008
Cal Poly, Pomona, CA
http://www.iats.com/conferences/west2008_info.html
For almost 30 years the international and national Lilly Conferences have provided a forum for learning about, reporting, and discussing the results of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning.  Lilly Conferences are retreats that combine Scholarship of Teaching and Learning sessions and major addresses with lots of opportunities for informal discussion about excellence in college and university teaching and learning. Internationally-known scholars join new and experienced faculty members and administrators from all over the world to discuss topics such as gender differences in learning, incorporating technology into teaching, encouraging critical thinking, using teaching and student portfolios, implementing group learning, and evaluating teaching.

Discovering, Integrating and Applying Knowledge: Effective Educational Practices for Today's Students and Tomorrow's Innovation
April 10-12, 2008 in Austin, Texas
Deadline for proposal submission: September 7, 2007
We invite proposals for sessions that explore educational practices that raise levels of persistence and achievement for today's college students; examine institutional barriers to establishing and sustaining these practices; or explore how to increase institutional commitment to underserved students and their access to high impact practices.
Read more about the conference online at http://www.aacu.org/meetings/effective_educational_practices/index.cfm and submit a proposal.

The Wisconsin Alliance for Minority Participation offers an opportunity for faculty or other staff in institutions that are part of our alliance to apply for small grants. The information regarding these grants is available on our website at: http://wiscamp.engr.wisc.edu/

The deadline is August 25th. Please consider applying for one of our grants. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call Manuela Romero, the Executive Director of WiscAMP at 608-263-1138.

On Thursday, August 23 in the Tamarack Room of the Davies Center, Ms. Linda Suskie, Vice President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and author of Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide, will present two workshops on classroom assessment.

• The Assessment Toolbox, Part 1: Creating Meaningful Assignments for Your Students (9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon)
  
  
• The Assessment Toolbox, Part 2: Using Multiple Choice Tests and Reflective Writing to Assess Complex Learning Outcomes (1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

For more information about Suskie’s workshops and to register for either or both of her sessions, visit http://www.uwec.edu/net/programs/suskie.htm.

Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment February 21-23, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts
Deadline for submission of proposals: August 15, 2007
Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment will focus on ways that faculty, academic administrators, and student affairs educators can shape higher education's response to calls for increased accountability while, at the same time, reinvigorating general education.
Read more about the conference online at http://www.aacu.org/meetings/generaleducation/index.cfm and submit a proposal.

International Academic Conference
The inaugural SoTL Commons: "An International Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, theme: "A Rite of Inquiry and a Passage for Learning," will be held
November 1 - 2, 2007 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. Presentations are listed at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/presenters.htm and early registration is underway at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/registration.htm. The conference is an initiative of the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University. The purpose of the conference is to be a real and virtual “commons” for college and university teachers, scholars, administrators, faculty developers, and others interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning as a focused, but expansive, evidence-based path for the improvement of teaching effectiveness and student learning outcomes. The theme emphasizes that SoTL is perhaps the most ready, steady way to improve teaching and learning in higher education today, making this conference an intellectual “commons” for all wanting to learn more about the research of teachers into teaching and about the integration and application of SoTL in academic careers and communities.

Science educators are invited to join a team of faculty and staff from throughout the UW System that is engaging undergraduate students in a research project. As part of this project, campus-based teams of faculty, staff and students collaborate with others from across the UW System to create, evaluate and publish Learning Objects (LOs). These LOs are Web-based, interactive objects that are patterned after released problems of the Praxis II examination and are intended for immediate use in student preparation for the exam. For more information email Robert Hoar, UW LaCrosse at hoar.robe@uwlax.edu or Sherrie Serros UW- Eau Claire serrossj@uwec.edu

Civic Learning at the Intersections: U.S. Diversity, Global Education, and Democracy's Unfinished Work
Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 18-20, 2007
Denver, Colorado

Seventh International Transformative Learning Conference
"Transformative Learning: Issues of Difference and Diversity"
October 23-26, 2007
Albuquerque, New Mexico

13th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning
"The Power of Online Learning: Making a Difference"
November 7-9, 2007
Orlando, Florida

Teaching Colloquium: Service Learning
February 16, 2007 - Sentry World Conference Facilities
This teaching colloquium aims to provide background information about what service-learning is, the benefits of service-learning (in terms of learning outcomes), as well as information about how to formulate suitable learning objectives, how to design and plan service projects, and how to integrate meaningful assignments for students.

11th Annual UWSP Teaching Conference
January 17, 2007
Literacies: Connecting across the Liberal Arts
Curricular Sudoku: Connecting across the Liberal Arts with Quantitative Reasoning, Neil Lutsky, Carelton College

Jazzing IT up with MERLOT
Seventh Annual MERLOT International Conference
August 7-10, 2007
2007 MERLOT International Conference (MIC07)
Sheraton New Orleans Hotel

OPID Spring Conference, March 22-24, 2007
"Partnering for Student Success in the First Year:
Learning About Learning"
Madison, WI
RFP

UW Institute on Race and Ethnicity
"Immigration: Many Faces; Many Facets"
April 26-27, 2007
UW-Milwaukee’s School of Continuing Education

Enriching the Academic Exerience of College Science Students
May 22-24, 2007
Ann, Arbor MI

American Democracy Project North Central Regional Conference
"Spaces of Civic Engagement"
April 12-14, 2007
University of Wisconsin-River Falls