The Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College invites applications for a senior scholar at the associate or full professor level. The position includes an appointment with tenure. The position will begin in the fall of 2015. The Department invites candidates from a range of disciplines, including urban planning, Read more…
The Urban Affairs Association will host a pre-conference workshop on urban education policy advocacy on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Entitled Connecting Research to Urban Education Activism, this workshop will bring together scholar activists who are conducting or want to conduct research in one of the areas listed below and related areas. Participants will briefly discuss their research, identify others who are conducting similar research, explore ways to support and collaborate with activists, and identify venues for disseminating the work in ways that reach audiences beyond the academy. In addition, the workshop discussants will describe strategies for navigating the academic tenure/promotion system while engaging in policy advocacy and direct engagement outside of the academy. (more…)
The Spring/Summer 2014 Newsletter of the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC) is now available! See below for a quick overview of its contents. Click here to access the newsletter. All CCREC newsletters can be found here.
Spring/Summer 2014 Newsletter Contents:
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On Monday, September 15, 2014, the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) will host its 3rd Annual Lynton Colloquium on the Scholarship of Engagement at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The event will build upon the success of the 2013 Colloquium, where nearly 150 faculty and higher education administrators from New Read more…
The URBAN Philadelphia Node will officially launch at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia! Descriptions of the sessions that the Philadelphia Node will host are offered below. Check the conference website for complete and up-to-date information on these and all other conference sessions and events. Click here for a list of other URBAN hosted events at this year’s AERA meeting. (more…)
URBAN will host a general meeting as well as several events at the upcoming AERA conference in Philadelphia from April 3-7. Click here to view the full URBAN program! Read more below!
Thanks to the 2013-2014 URBAN planning team for putting this meeting together. Click here to view the meeting agenda. (more…)
The American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program at the University of California, Berkeley and the DataCenter invite proposals for Research Justice: A Symposium Exploring Community Engaged Scholarship, taking place April 24, 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley. The Symposium will hold a critical conversation about university-community partnerships that take the form of Read more…
The Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Scholar for a Spencer Foundation funded project on ethical issues in community-based research, under the direction of Ronald D. Glass, CCREC PI/Director and Professor of Read more…
On December 9, parents, students and educators in cities and towns across the country will mobilize in public action as part of the National Day of Action to Reclaim the Promise of Public Education: Our Schools, Our Solutions. Read more here Image by National Opportunity to Learn Campaign
Philadelphia’s students have long been a major force in the battle for public education, and for the past decade and a half they have fought valiantly against the encroachment of neoliberalism, the idea that market-based logic can solve non-market problems more efficiently and effectively than governmental or public sector agencies. Leading this charge have been two prominent youth organizing groups, the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) and Youth United for Change (YUC). Both PSU and YUC have been at the forefront of recent organizing efforts to protest and propose alternatives to the shuttering of 23 schools, the firing of 3,859 educators and support staff, and the elimination of extracurricular programs and arts education from the public schools for the 2012-2013 school year. (more…)