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Upcoming Events

This year’s conference theme offers the appropriate stimulus to engage in conversations about metropolitan universities and sustainability. And Philadelphia serves as the perfect background for these conversations, providing a unique venue of national and metropolitan history, woven with richly textured cultures, highlighted by social challenges and successes, all culminating in robust evidence of urban resiliency.

The institute is taught by national experts in service-learning, including health professional faculty and community leaders who have developed successful service-learning partnerships.
The institute features content and sessions for both novice and experienced service-learning practitioners (faculty, staff and community partners).

Past Events

This conference, at The University of New Hampshire, focused on citizen participation and deliberative practices for educators and practitioners and in communities, government, and on campuses.

The National Outreach Scholarhship Conference provided an opportunity for critical reflection on the public mission and work of an academic institution—along with the scholarship that underpins this work—and to strengthen institutional support for engagement and public scholarship.

At the Beyond the Academy Conference, public scholars from across the country discussed the ways in which their work is more than “academic,” how it helps strengthen democratic institutions and public life and can bring about civic change. The conference included both formal panels as well as open-format sessions on themes, problems, and issues that emerged at the conference itself, thus affording greater opportunity for networking and collaboration.

In 2008, in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,, Phoenix Urban Research Lab sponsored this conference intended for a diverse audience—including university members, city officials and planners, professional designers, municipal and institutional leaders, civic activists, design faculty and students, and real estate developers. It explored how university expansion can be conceived more broadly as an opportunity to participate in city making, to nurture civic culture.

Regional Equity ‘08 was a dynamic two-day conference that addressed our nation’s most pressing issues through evolving discussions and a strategic action-oriented agenda. Free pre- and post-event activities provided opportunities to engage participants in training institutes and local community outings.

The University of Victoria joined with the United Way of Greater Victoria and many other groups in the area for a series of events and activities designed to strengthen campus-community partnerships for action towards the kinds of communities we want and need.