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The Scholarship of
Engagement: International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 -Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 Marriott Convention Center 859 Convention Center Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70130 Registration is now available on-line for the Eighth International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement October 25-28, 2008 in New Orleans. Please visit the Conference Registration Page <http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=607016> and sign-up today! Don't forget to make your hotel reservations for the Marriott at the Convention Center <http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/msymc-new-orleans-marriott-at-the-convention-center/> . If making reservations online, use discount code RLSRLSA. If making reservations by phone (1-800-305-6342), reference the International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement for the reservation discount. Coming Soon!! The proposal review process is now complete, and the schedule is being constructed. The conference schedule will be available online soon.
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The Institute for Teaching and Learning’s
Discipline Research Project—Round #2 -- RFP
Addressing Critical Classroom Issues Related to the Quality of Student Learning
Project dates: January 2009 to January 2011
Online applications due Monday, November 3, 2008
Date posted: July 21, 2008
Questions?
Contact Cynthia Desrochers: cdesrochers@calstate.edu Director, Institute for Teaching and Learning
CSU Office of the Chancellor
I. Program Description
The Discipline Research Project is a 2-year multi-campus discipline-based community, whereby faculty teams focus on critical teaching and learning issues as an applied-research project. Teams receive funds in order to support their collaboration and experimentation on individual and team research questions. All project faculty are required to attend a 2-day workshop to be held March 27-28, 2009, at LAX, in order to (a) revise a course and (b) design a research project to assess the impact of this course revision. Teams will communicate throughout the duration of this 2-year project, refine their classroom teaching-learning strategies, and disseminate results through manuscript-writing and presentations, followed by grant-writing as appropriate.
for more information: http://transform.csuprojects.org/itlconnect
Call for Papers
Campo Libre: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Deadline: March 31, 2008
The editors of Campo Libre invite papers on the 1968 Chicano Student Walkouts, therefore on topics related to the educational concerns and demands of Mexican American students four decades ago, such as:
1. An education that would prepare them to succeed in mainstream United States;
2. An education that would include curricula that represented in a positive light the history and culture of people of Mexican ancestry;
3. The founding of an academic discipline known as Mexican American and Chicano Studies at the College and University levels. The editors invite studies on the history, achievements, and current challenges to this academic field.
4. The effects of post 9/11 deportations on students who are children of undocumented Mexican workers, including the separation of families and a growing anti-Mexican attitude in the United States.
5. Studies on educational policies that are now determining the degree of success or of failure of Mexican American/Chicano/Latino students, from elementary schools to University campuses.
6. Representations of U.S. public education and literacy in Chicano novels published during the past forty years, from Pocho (1959), by José Antonio Villarreal, and Gods Go Begging (1999), by Alfredo Véa, to the present.
7. Film criticism related to the Walkouts, but inclusive of films on U.S. public schools and their history of service in Chicano/Latino communities.
8. Book reviews on publications related to pedagogy and educational methods that have shaped the education of Chicano, Latino, and immigrant Mexican students.
Campo Libre and its Editorial Policy
Campo Libre is a rigorously refereed journal that welcomes manuscripts of 15-20 double-spaced pages, including endnotes and references. Manuscripts should be written according to the MLA Style Manual, and must be submitted in triplicate. Upon acceptance, authors will be required to submit an electronic version of the manuscript. All submissions will be reviewed by members of Campo Libre’s editorial board or, when necessary, by outside reviewers who are specialists in the field. Campo Libre is a journal that was edited by CSU Chicano Studies faculty between 1979 and 1984. Recognizing the growing need for journals that publish thoroughly researched manuscripts on Mexican American, Chicano/a, and Latino/a areas of study, the editors of Campo Libre have chosen to launch the journal once again with plans to publish a series of special issues devoted to various topics and emerging scholarly directions with an interdisciplinary focus. The editors of Campo Libre are dedicating the Spring 2008 issue to the 1968 Chicano Student Walkouts, thus commemorating the 40th anniversary of this important historical event. The editors of Campo Libre accept manuscripts in English or in Spanish. The deadline for the special issue on the 1968 Chicano Student Walkouts is March 31, 2008. Send manuscript submissions to:
Dr. Carlos Pérez and Dr. María-Aparecida S. Lopes
Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies, 5340 North Campus Dr.
California State University, Fresno
M/S SS97 Fresno, CA 93740-8019
Send book reviews (maximum four pages) to: Dr. Roberto Cantú, Book Review Editor, Dept. of Chicano Studies, CSU Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032.
