News and Announcements
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Submit Articles to BAMBED
"Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education is a peer-reviewed international journal sponsored by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology and promoting the scholarship of molecular bioscience education. The journal is committed to the publication of new ideas, literature reviews and original research on topics relative to these goals. BAMBED is a bimonthly publication and aims to be a central source of scholarly materials for researchers, teachers and students involved in biochemistry and molecular biology education.
In the special issue, articles will focus on Academic Service-Learning in all aspects of biochemistry and molecular biology. The articles should preferably not exceed 3000-5000 words with 3-5 diagrams or tables, and references listed should be representative rather than comprehensive. The articles providing details of simple, tried and tested, laboratory experiments are preferred. Lab exercise articles should give adequate experimental detail and provide evidence of their educational impact on students. All manuscripts are considered with the understanding that they have not been published previously in print or electronic format and that they are not under consideration by another publication or medium. Contributions should be written concisely in English and should be typed using double-spacing with 30–40 mm margins. All articles should include a brief, informative abstract or summary that will appear at the beginning of the paper. Details on the style of articles are available at www.bambed.org.
If you are interested in submitting an article, please contact Lynn Stravino at stravinl@stjohns.edu
"Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education is a peer-reviewed international journal sponsored by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of biochemistry and molecular biology and promoting the scholarship of molecular bioscience education. The journal is committed to the publication of new ideas, literature reviews and original research on topics relative to these goals. BAMBED is a bimonthly publication and aims to be a central source of scholarly materials for researchers, teachers and students involved in biochemistry and molecular biology education.
In the special issue, articles will focus on Academic Service-Learning in all aspects of biochemistry and molecular biology. The articles should preferably not exceed 3000-5000 words with 3-5 diagrams or tables, and references listed should be representative rather than comprehensive. The articles providing details of simple, tried and tested, laboratory experiments are preferred. Lab exercise articles should give adequate experimental detail and provide evidence of their educational impact on students. All manuscripts are considered with the understanding that they have not been published previously in print or electronic format and that they are not under consideration by another publication or medium. Contributions should be written concisely in English and should be typed using double-spacing with 30–40 mm margins. All articles should include a brief, informative abstract or summary that will appear at the beginning of the paper. Details on the style of articles are available at www.bambed.org.
If you are interested in submitting an article, please contact Lynn Stravino at stravinl@stjohns.edu
Summer Service Scholars Internship Program
June 4th – August 10th
Siena College in Albany NY
Priority deadline April 1st
Website: http://www.siena.edu/ace (click on Summer Service Scholars)
contact: Ruth Kassel (rscipione@siena.edu) 518-782-6951
*All internships are with local nonprofits in New York's state capital
*Most interns qualify to receive one of two AmeriCorps awards used towards current tuition or existing student loans
*Students participate in a seminar series that examines best practices in community development, the role of nonprofits in this process and focused reflection on the internship work that they are doing.
3-6 credits "ADTV480: Internship in Sustainable Community Change"
*Priority Deadline is April 1st at http://www.siena.edu/ace click on Summer Service Scholars
For internship placement descriptions, FAQ,s and to apply visit http://www.siena.edu/ACE (click on Summer Service Scholars) or contact Ruth Scipione-Kassel at rscipione@siena.edu.
June 4th – August 10th
Siena College in Albany NY
Priority deadline April 1st
Website: http://www.siena.edu/ace (click on Summer Service Scholars)
contact: Ruth Kassel (rscipione@siena.edu) 518-782-6951
*All internships are with local nonprofits in New York's state capital
*Most interns qualify to receive one of two AmeriCorps awards used towards current tuition or existing student loans
*Students participate in a seminar series that examines best practices in community development, the role of nonprofits in this process and focused reflection on the internship work that they are doing.
3-6 credits "ADTV480: Internship in Sustainable Community Change"
*Priority Deadline is April 1st at http://www.siena.edu/ace click on Summer Service Scholars
For internship placement descriptions, FAQ,s and to apply visit http://www.siena.edu/ACE (click on Summer Service Scholars) or contact Ruth Scipione-Kassel at rscipione@siena.edu.
New York Campus Compact Welcomes New Staff Member!
Last week, Kimberly Bunker joined the NYCC team as a Program Assistant. Kim’s mix of experience, from being a program facilitator to an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Rochester, will greatly help with our programming here at NYCC.
Last week, Kimberly Bunker joined the NYCC team as a Program Assistant. Kim’s mix of experience, from being a program facilitator to an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Rochester, will greatly help with our programming here at NYCC.
Campus Vote
Campus Vote Project is a campaign to empower students with the information and tools they need to participate in the voting process on their college campuses. The Campus Vote Project is working with national partners, student governments, college administrators, and other campus organizations to identify institutional best practices to encourage student voting and overcome student-identified barriers such as residency laws, registration deadlines and strict voter ID requirements. Visit the campaign website for the toolkit and additional information.
Campus Vote Project is a campaign to empower students with the information and tools they need to participate in the voting process on their college campuses. The Campus Vote Project is working with national partners, student governments, college administrators, and other campus organizations to identify institutional best practices to encourage student voting and overcome student-identified barriers such as residency laws, registration deadlines and strict voter ID requirements. Visit the campaign website for the toolkit and additional information.
IARSLCE Call for Proposals
CONNECTED KNOWING
International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
2012 Annual IARSLCE Conference
Dates: September 23-25, 2012
Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
Registration Opens May 1, 2012
CONNECTED KNOWING
International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement
2012 Annual IARSLCE Conference
Dates: September 23-25, 2012
Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
Registration Opens May 1, 2012
Submit a Proposal
Call for Proposals for the 12th Annual IARSLCE Conference
Online submission dates: March 2, 2012 - March 30, 2012
Notification of proposal acceptance will take place by May 2012
The theme for the 12th annual conference is the generative power of connections and relationships in research on service-learning and community engagement.
The IARSLCE annual research conference is targeted to scholars, practitioners, students, and community partners interested in research on service-learning, community-based research, campus-community partnerships, and civic learning outcomes in P-20 education. Attendees include faculty, administrators, and scholar-practitioners in higher education, community partners, educators in K-12, and professionals and leaders in educational policy and community development.
Call for Proposals for the 12th Annual IARSLCE Conference
Online submission dates: March 2, 2012 - March 30, 2012
Notification of proposal acceptance will take place by May 2012
The theme for the 12th annual conference is the generative power of connections and relationships in research on service-learning and community engagement.
The IARSLCE annual research conference is targeted to scholars, practitioners, students, and community partners interested in research on service-learning, community-based research, campus-community partnerships, and civic learning outcomes in P-20 education. Attendees include faculty, administrators, and scholar-practitioners in higher education, community partners, educators in K-12, and professionals and leaders in educational policy and community development.
Call for Exemplary Program Examples in New York State
NYCC is building a database of exemplary university/college community and civic engagement programs across the State. If your campus has what you consider to be an exemplary program, institutional initiative, or campus-community partnership, please let us know by completing the form below:
NYCC is building a database of exemplary university/college community and civic engagement programs across the State. If your campus has what you consider to be an exemplary program, institutional initiative, or campus-community partnership, please let us know by completing the form below:
Call for Campus-Based Resources in New York State
NYCC is developing a New York State Resource Corps. If you or someone on your campus has expertise that you would be willing to share, WE WANT TO KNOW YOU! We are looking for people with expertise in the following areas: campus-community partnerships (local, national, international); developing an academic service-learning program, community/civic engagement student leadership programs, a successful faculty development program for service-learning and community-based research, or other community-civic engagement related initiatives, programs, policies on your campus.
Please send a short description of the expertise you have to nycc@cornell.edu. Be sure to include your contact information (e-mail, name, title/institution, phone number). There is no limit to the number of experts per institution, so please forward this e-mail to everyone on your campus who has expertise in this area.
NYCC is developing a New York State Resource Corps. If you or someone on your campus has expertise that you would be willing to share, WE WANT TO KNOW YOU! We are looking for people with expertise in the following areas: campus-community partnerships (local, national, international); developing an academic service-learning program, community/civic engagement student leadership programs, a successful faculty development program for service-learning and community-based research, or other community-civic engagement related initiatives, programs, policies on your campus.
Please send a short description of the expertise you have to nycc@cornell.edu. Be sure to include your contact information (e-mail, name, title/institution, phone number). There is no limit to the number of experts per institution, so please forward this e-mail to everyone on your campus who has expertise in this area.
New York Campus Compact
AmeriCorps Education Award Program Deadline Extended
Through a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service and the New York State Commission on National and Community Service, NYCC has received additional AmeriCorps Education Award Program (EAP) funding for the 2011-2012 program year. EAP fosters civic engagement among higher education students, promotes the National Service movement, and encourages positive relationships between campuses and communities. The program meets critical community needs by engaging college students in service as part-time AmeriCorps members, and fostering within them an ethic of civic responsibility.
Upon successful completion of 300 hours of service in a calendar year, students are eligible to receive a $1,175 Education Award to be applied toward outstanding federal student loans or the cost of attendance at a college or university. With rising tuition costs the education award earned upon successful completion of the program helps make service a viable opportunity for students with financial need. Campuses who are interested in implementing the NYCC EAP on their campus should contact Brittany Campese asap at bcampese@cornell.edu or 607-254-6239.
AmeriCorps Education Award Program Deadline Extended
Through a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service and the New York State Commission on National and Community Service, NYCC has received additional AmeriCorps Education Award Program (EAP) funding for the 2011-2012 program year. EAP fosters civic engagement among higher education students, promotes the National Service movement, and encourages positive relationships between campuses and communities. The program meets critical community needs by engaging college students in service as part-time AmeriCorps members, and fostering within them an ethic of civic responsibility.
Upon successful completion of 300 hours of service in a calendar year, students are eligible to receive a $1,175 Education Award to be applied toward outstanding federal student loans or the cost of attendance at a college or university. With rising tuition costs the education award earned upon successful completion of the program helps make service a viable opportunity for students with financial need. Campuses who are interested in implementing the NYCC EAP on their campus should contact Brittany Campese asap at bcampese@cornell.edu or 607-254-6239.
2012 Presidential Election—Campus Election Engagement Project
NYCC is interested in supporting campus efforts to mobilize student interest and involvement in the upcoming presidential election. (Please note: these efforts must explicitly and legally exclude any students involved in our Education Award Program or personnel involved in our VISTA program.) We will be partnering with Paul Loeb again this year to encourage campus-based, bi-partisan efforts to highlight the critical issues we face in our decision to elect the next president, as well as future decisions in Congressional elections.
Please review Paul’s e-mail announcing the re-launching of the Campus Election Engagement Project and respond to him with any interest and examples from your campus. (see email below)
I'm re-launching our highly successful 2008 nonpartisan campus election engagement project for 2012 and would love your help in some key areas. As in our highly successful 2008 efforts, I'll be working primarily through the state offices of the major higher education service learning organization Campus Compact, and with other allied higher education organizations and networks. I'll raise money so that selected state Compacts can hire additional staffers and work with schools in their states to promote the most effective ways to engage their students in the election, from registration to volunteering, reflecting on the issues, and showing up at the polls. Last round, we pulled together a wealth of useful practical suggestions that seem to really increase the participation of students as both voters and volunteers, drawn from campuses throughout the country. You can get a sense of them on Compact's national site (some of the links need updating), and we're working on updated versions that we'll post and send out, including to you and everyone else on this listserv.
In the meantime, I'd love your help with a few key areas:
If you've done really effective student voter registration or engagement efforts at your campus taking approaches that aren't reflected on the national checklist, I'd love to get a brief one-paragraph description, ideally linked to a more detailed description on your college or university website. I'll be working on updating our checklists with lots of new ideas, and that way I consider weaving it in.
This is less cut and dried, but are there any approaches you've taken or witnessed that worked particularly well to overcome student demoralization with electoral politics in the wake of disappointment with Obama? I'm thinking particularly of the 2010 campaign, when roughly 4 million fewer students voted than two years before, but where there still may have been schools or classrooms where faculty, administrators or staff did effective things to overcome student political demoralization and get them to participate. I have some thoughts on ways to offer students the perspectives to get involved in elections even when they don't expect their candidates to usher in the millennium. I'll will be writing them up (or co-writing them) for a major article that our election project will then circulate to help college faculty and staff overcome student disillusionment. But I'd love to weave in more examples from the field, so if you've taken any approach that really seemed to work, whether one-on-one with individual students or institutionally, please email me and describe them, so I can possibly weave them in.
If by chance you'd have a significant amount of time to volunteer between the election on helping other schools engage their students (or serving as an additional contact at your own school or nearby schools), let me know and I'll plug you into your appropriate state network as a potential volunteer. We had quite a few current or retired faculty and administrators doing this last round, and it helped supplement our paid staffers, especially in states we weren't able to fund. I'd need your location, professional position, contact info and how much time you think you'll have available in terms of helping between now and the election (it basically requires taking the materials that we'll generate and passing them on to administrators, faculty, and staff who are in a position to draw on their lessons to engage their students). Depending on how many people respond, and much time you'd have to help, I might not get back to you till mid-spring, but I'd love to plug you in to what we're doing.
If you're at a school in a state that will have a close and competitive presidential or Senate race, I'll be offering "swing state" discounts on my fall lectures to help encourage students to get involved. I'd be happy to send you my standard lecture materials. A visit could also include a consult with key administrators and staff on ways to involve students in the election.
And finally, on a longshot, if by chance you have access to any funding sources that might support this project, please do let me know and I'd love to send you our standard fundraising materials. Hiring enough staff to do the outreach is the centerpiece of this project (I'm donating my time for free, although it will be my major work focus over the coming year), and I'm trying to cast the net as widely as possible since some of our key previous donors have exhausted their resources.. Early next year I'll send a more comprehensive description along with a link where individuals can donate smaller amounts, but if you know any potential major donors, please let me know.
Thanks for all you do. Whether or not you can respond in any of these areas, I'll keep you posted as the project develops
Paul Loeb
Paul@paulloeb.org
www.paulloeb.org
NYCC is interested in supporting campus efforts to mobilize student interest and involvement in the upcoming presidential election. (Please note: these efforts must explicitly and legally exclude any students involved in our Education Award Program or personnel involved in our VISTA program.) We will be partnering with Paul Loeb again this year to encourage campus-based, bi-partisan efforts to highlight the critical issues we face in our decision to elect the next president, as well as future decisions in Congressional elections.
Please review Paul’s e-mail announcing the re-launching of the Campus Election Engagement Project and respond to him with any interest and examples from your campus. (see email below)
I'm re-launching our highly successful 2008 nonpartisan campus election engagement project for 2012 and would love your help in some key areas. As in our highly successful 2008 efforts, I'll be working primarily through the state offices of the major higher education service learning organization Campus Compact, and with other allied higher education organizations and networks. I'll raise money so that selected state Compacts can hire additional staffers and work with schools in their states to promote the most effective ways to engage their students in the election, from registration to volunteering, reflecting on the issues, and showing up at the polls. Last round, we pulled together a wealth of useful practical suggestions that seem to really increase the participation of students as both voters and volunteers, drawn from campuses throughout the country. You can get a sense of them on Compact's national site (some of the links need updating), and we're working on updated versions that we'll post and send out, including to you and everyone else on this listserv.
In the meantime, I'd love your help with a few key areas:
If you've done really effective student voter registration or engagement efforts at your campus taking approaches that aren't reflected on the national checklist, I'd love to get a brief one-paragraph description, ideally linked to a more detailed description on your college or university website. I'll be working on updating our checklists with lots of new ideas, and that way I consider weaving it in.
This is less cut and dried, but are there any approaches you've taken or witnessed that worked particularly well to overcome student demoralization with electoral politics in the wake of disappointment with Obama? I'm thinking particularly of the 2010 campaign, when roughly 4 million fewer students voted than two years before, but where there still may have been schools or classrooms where faculty, administrators or staff did effective things to overcome student political demoralization and get them to participate. I have some thoughts on ways to offer students the perspectives to get involved in elections even when they don't expect their candidates to usher in the millennium. I'll will be writing them up (or co-writing them) for a major article that our election project will then circulate to help college faculty and staff overcome student disillusionment. But I'd love to weave in more examples from the field, so if you've taken any approach that really seemed to work, whether one-on-one with individual students or institutionally, please email me and describe them, so I can possibly weave them in.
If by chance you'd have a significant amount of time to volunteer between the election on helping other schools engage their students (or serving as an additional contact at your own school or nearby schools), let me know and I'll plug you into your appropriate state network as a potential volunteer. We had quite a few current or retired faculty and administrators doing this last round, and it helped supplement our paid staffers, especially in states we weren't able to fund. I'd need your location, professional position, contact info and how much time you think you'll have available in terms of helping between now and the election (it basically requires taking the materials that we'll generate and passing them on to administrators, faculty, and staff who are in a position to draw on their lessons to engage their students). Depending on how many people respond, and much time you'd have to help, I might not get back to you till mid-spring, but I'd love to plug you in to what we're doing.
If you're at a school in a state that will have a close and competitive presidential or Senate race, I'll be offering "swing state" discounts on my fall lectures to help encourage students to get involved. I'd be happy to send you my standard lecture materials. A visit could also include a consult with key administrators and staff on ways to involve students in the election.
And finally, on a longshot, if by chance you have access to any funding sources that might support this project, please do let me know and I'd love to send you our standard fundraising materials. Hiring enough staff to do the outreach is the centerpiece of this project (I'm donating my time for free, although it will be my major work focus over the coming year), and I'm trying to cast the net as widely as possible since some of our key previous donors have exhausted their resources.. Early next year I'll send a more comprehensive description along with a link where individuals can donate smaller amounts, but if you know any potential major donors, please let me know.
Thanks for all you do. Whether or not you can respond in any of these areas, I'll keep you posted as the project develops
Paul Loeb
Paul@paulloeb.org
www.paulloeb.org
