This month we flashback to Fall 2005 and a story about six Steans Center students, along with seven other DePaul students and two staff members, attending the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)/Actions Without Borders conference at the University of California at Berkeley. Conferences continue to feature strongly in the Steans Center community engagement toolbox. The Steans Center students, staff and faculty promote community service and social justice with conference work throughout the year, partnering with universities and organizations from around the world. Upcoming events featured in this newsletter include the ABCD Institute UnConference September 21-22, and the ACU/DePaul Online Conference on Community Engagement & Service Learning October 4-6, which partner with organizations in New Zealand and Australia, respectively. Read more about these conferences and more in the articles below. And save the date - May 20 - for our annual Service Speaks conference!
Upcoming Events
The ABCD UnConference - Active Hope: Connecting Wisdom and Strengths Across Our Land
Tuesday, Sept. 21 to Wednesday, Sept. 22 (USA, Canada, South America)
Wednesday, Sept. 22 to Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 (New Zealand Time)
Click here for more information and to register.
ACU/DePaul Online Conference on Community Engagement & Service-Learning: Pandemic, Pivots and Potentials Call for Abstracts deadline
September 10 (USA) / 11 (AUS) Online Conference
October 5-7, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. (USA) / October 6-8, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. (AEDT)
ABCD Institute Online Training
This will be a virtual training via Zoom. Click here for more information and to register
North America –
Monday, October 4,11,18, 25 and
Monday November 8 and Friday November 12.
5 p.m. - 8 p.m. CST
Australia –
Tuesday, October 5, 12, 19, 26 and
Tuesday November 9 and Saturday November 13.
9 a.m. – Noon AEDT
ACU & DePaul Online Conference on Community Engagement and Service-Learning: Pandemic, Pivots and Potentials
Australian Catholic University with DePaul University will host an online Conference on Community Engagement and Service Learning: Pandemic, Pivots and Potentials. October 4-6 (USA) / 5-7 (AUS) 2021
Our 2021 conference aims to explore the current ‘state of play’ for universities in responding to the challenges and opportunities for service-learning and university-community engagement in a ‘post-COVID’ world while taking the time to reflect on the responses and learnings from the efforts of the field during the pandemic. Registration for the conference is FREE.
For more information and to register, please visit: acu.edu.au/ccesl
Final call for abstracts
We are pleased to announce a second and final call for the submission of abstracts for presentations related to the praxis, research, and scholarship of community engagement and service-learning. Abstracts are to be limited to 250 words and presentations will be 20 minutes in duration.
Submissions close:
USA - 9 am (CDT) Friday 10 September 2021
AUS - Midnight (AEST) Saturday 11 September 2021
We encourage presentations that relate to one or more of the following themes (although this is not exhaustive):
Service-Learning and community engagement in a Post-COVID world.
Pivoting community engagement and service-learning: Success stories, challenges, and learnings.
Online service-learning and community engagement.
Innovation in service-learning and community engagement.
Research and scholarship in service-learning and community engagement.
Advancing service-learning and community engagement: Challenges and opportunities.
Given the online format we favour presentations that:
Involve academic/partner/student triads or dyads (i.e., presenting together).
Utilise technology to engage participants.
Aim for a 50/50 present/discussion-questions format to allow interaction.
Collaboratory
Congratulations to Geoff Smith and the Institute for Housing Studies at Depaul on receiving a $300,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation. You may have read the article in Newsline. Now you can learn more in Collaboratory about the various ways IHS is doing community engagement that advocates for change through this project shared in Collaboratory, the university’s portal for collecting community engagement, public service and research data for reporting on and sharing across the university.
Login to Collaboratory to read more about the community engagement and research that DePaul faculty and staff have been working on.
If you'd like to learn how you can join fellow Collaboratory faculty and staff, please contact Steans Center Associate Director Barbara Smith at bsmith@depaul.edu.
ABCD Institute Upcoming Events:
The UnConference and Online Training
The ABCD Institute has a number of upcoming events. Click here to see them all.
The ABCD UnConference - Active Hope: Connecting Wisdom and Strengths Across Our Land
Hosted by global asset and strengths-based practitioners from around the world, with over 24 hours of rolling time events, this virtual (un)Conference will engage global groups with all levels of formal and informal experience to hold space and facilitate conversations about the questions that have been keeping you up at night about assets and strengths-based action.
Don't miss this amazing FREE event!
Tuesday, Sept. 21 to Wednesday, Sept. 22 (USA, Canada, South America)
Wednesday, Sept. 22 to Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 (New Zealand Time)
Click here for more information and to register.
ABCD Institute Online Training
You are invited to a series of conversations over 6 sessions exploring principles and applications of AssetBased Community Development in the community. We will engage in conversations around the many challenges we are facing today and the power of connection. This is an 18-hour series focused on building community resilience and a belief that what we need, is here. This will be a virtual training via Zoom. Click here for more information and to register. North America –
Monday, October 4,11,18, 25 and
Monday November 8 and Friday November 12.
5 p.m. - 8 p.m. CST Australia –
Tuesday, October 5, 12, 19, 26 and
Tuesday November 9 and Saturday November 13.
9 a.m. – Noon AEDT
Contact Us
Have comments or questions? Please email Executive Director Howard Rosing.
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