AUCEA

2012 AUCEA Conference program

admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:29:05 +0000

The first draft of the 2012 AUCEA Next Steps Conference program is now available.

Autumn 2012 – Call for Papers

donna — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:29:53 +0000

The Co-Editors of the Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement invite and encourage academic and professional staff involved in engagement activities to submit a paper for consideration in the 2012 Autumn edition of the e-journal. All papers are double-blind peer-reviewed and guidelines regarding the submission of papers can be found here

KEG e-book launched

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:09:18 +0000

Over the past 18 months, the Flinders University Knowledge Exchange Grants scheme has funded 34 projects from a total grant pool of just under $350,000 through Flinders’ Southern Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.

The stories of these projects and their outcomes are inspiring and some of them are showcased in our e-book, launched in February 2012 with an address by Vice Chancellor, Professor Michael Barber.

Access “Partnering with our Southern Adelaide Community” at www.flinders.edu.au/sktp under Knowledge Exchange Grants.

By: Kathryn Anderson

March 2012 Newsletter

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:42:36 +0000

AUCEA e-news – March 2012

AUCEA Conference 2012

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:40:40 +0000

The organisation of the AUCEA Next Steps: Community Engaged Learning conference being held in Brisbane 9-11 July 2012 is well underway.

Being hosted by QUT at their Garden Point campus, this year’s conference will again include a number of interactive presentation formats including storytelling and roundtables. After the success of our inaugural Student Showcase at last years’ conference examples of student community engaged learning will feature at a dedicated poster session.

Over 100 conference proposals were received and they are currently being double-blind peer-reviewed by a team of AUCEA reviewers. In line with our commitment to build the capacity of the sector, three online reviewer training sessions were conducted in late February-early March and 22 people from as far away as New Zealand and the USA participated in this program. Our thanks go to AUCEA Director A/Prof Diana Whitton for conducting these sessions.

Lorraine McIlrath has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for the conference. Lorraine directs the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) at the National University of Ireland Galway and she is responsible for developing and supporting civic engagement activities across the university through a range of programs. She has also worked on many international projects including the development of Local and Global Citizenship in Northern Ireland and the College of Multicultural Education in Sochi, Russia.

Carolyn Thompson is the Director – Education, Research and Training at the Australian Emergency Management Institute (AEMI), a branch of the Australian Government Attorney General’s Department, and she will be our second keynote speaker. With broad experience in public and private sector education institutions, within Australia and internationally, Carolyn has built strong relationships in regional tourism and event management in Australia. Her current research interests include the relationship between professionalism and personality, and the impact on organisational resilience.

In addition to Lorraine and Carolyn we are delighted to announce that ABC Radio Conversation Hour presenter Richard Fidler will be speaking at our conference dinner that is being held on Tuesday 10 July 2012 at The Block at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus.

Early-bird conference registrations are now open and information can be found http://auceaconference.org.au/2012-conference/

2012 Student showcase

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:39:52 +0000

Once again AUCEA will be sponsoring two students from each University Member to attend our annual conference on Tuesday 10 July 2012. All Student Showcase proposals will be reviewed and students need to demonstrate their experience of community-engaged learning while reflecting the conference themes. University Members are invited to nominate up to 2 students to submit a Proposal for a Poster (electronic or hard-copy) and cover the student/s travel and accommodation costs. Information about the student showcase can be found at http://auceaconference.org.au/2012-conference/student-showcase/

Autumn 2012 e-journal – Call for Papers

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:39:24 +0000

University of Wollongong “engagement star” in QS Audit

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:38:43 +0000

Congratulations to the University of Wollongong (UOW) for achieving the maximum five stars in its first ever international benchmarking by the same organisation which determines the annual World University Rankings.

The QS Intelligence Unit’s audit said UOW’s impressive performance across its six criteria of employability, teaching, infrastructure, internationalisation, innovation and engagement helped it achieve the top Five Star status. “This is an outstanding achievement and firmly establishes UOW as one of the leading universities on the global university scene,” Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings said.

Professor Wellings said this first international benchmarking confirmed the consistent five star findings of UOW’s standing on the domestic front by the annual Good Universities Guide which comes out in August each year. “One of the standout results was that of ‘engagement’ which achieved a perfect score of 50 out of 50 points”.

The QS star rating system is a new way of looking at the strengths of universities, which are rated one to five stars depending on their performance within the evaluation. According to QS a typical five star university is “generally world class in a broad range of areas, enjoys a high reputation and has cutting edge facilities and internationally renowned research and teaching faculty”.

2012 Service Learning Summit

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:38:08 +0000

Following the very successful first Service Learning Summit in 2011, Griffith University, together with AUCEA, ACEN and Volunteering QLD are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the Second Service Learning Summit to be held just a 10 minute taxi ride from Brisbane Airport at Moda Events, Portside Wharf, on Friday May 18, 2012.

The focus of this summit will be on the true nature of reciprocal relationships between higher education and the community, and a key feature of the day will be an overview of what is happening in service learning and community engagement across the Australian higher education sector. If sufficient participants from the school sector attend, specific roundtable discussions will be held regarding the growth of service learning in the school sector.

The main program runs from 10.00am through 4.00pm to facilitate participants flying in and out easily on the same day. However, for those who wish to fly in the evening before a special breakfast workshop is also offered.

Griffith University will launch its Service Learning project on Thursday evening, May 17 and participants of the Summit will receive a complementary invitation to this event. For information and registration: http://www.griffith.edu.au/gihe/resources-support/service-learning/events/service-learning-summit

Service Learning Chapter

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:37:23 +0000

To facilitate the support and growth of Service Learning (SL) curriculum in Australian higher education, AUCEA and the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) are co-hosting a Service Learning chapter.

This chapter will be coordinated through a SL Working Party made up of members of both AUCEA and ACEN. Positions are available on the working party for ACEN members and those employed by an AUCEA University Member. If you would like participate in this working party to advance Service Learning in Australia, please contact the chapter chairperson, Carol-joy Patrick cj.patrick@griffith.edu.au.