URBAN’s Sociology node has planned a series of activities to advance collaborative, community-based research at the upcoming American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Please join us! Information about the scheduled sessions is listed below. Click here to access the downloadable flier. (more…)
URBAN.Boston will host a Community Networking Event on Tuesday May 20 from 5:30-7:30 PM at the Dimock Center (55 Dimock Street, Roxbury, MA 02119) Attendees will meet the academic/community partners who won URBAN.Boston’s 2013-14 seed grant competition and join members of the URBAN.Boston network in a discussion about: 1) How to Read more…
On April 19 URBAN LA will convene an interactive forum of leaders and activists who have been engaged in work on immigrant rights, mass incarceration, or both. The increase in mass deportation and mass incarceration reflects a systematic criminalization of communities of color, especially youth of color. Dialogue between scholars and community leaders will promote the exploration of potential alliances, joint research, and strategies to advance organizing and policy change. (more…)
The Office of Community Partnerships at the University of Massachusetts Boston is pleased to announce the upcoming Community-Engaged Partnerships Symposium to be held on April 2, 2014 from 9am-4pm at the UMass Boston Campus Center. Community-Engaged Partnerships Symposium is a university-wide event designed to advance and showcase community-engaged activities at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Read more…
Members of the Twin Cities metropolitan area (Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN) in conjunction with the University of Minnesota are convening the first ever “What Went Wrong?” conference from July 11-12, 2014, dedicated to understanding and enhancing community-engaged research practices. The “What Went Wrong?” conference will provide a space for Read 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 March 27, 2014, ONE DC and The George Washington University will co-sponsor an equitable development symposium entitled “Is Equitable Development Possible in the 21st Century? Prospects and Possibilities for Washington DC.” The keynote speaker for this inaugural symposium will be Dr. Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and executive director of PolicyLink. In addition, the symposium will include two panel discussions; one on equitable development at the national level and the other focused on equitable development in the DC region. Panelists will include scholar activists, academics, students, policy advocates and community organizers. (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