IARSLCE Hears

Announcements

The University of Toronto's Centre for Community Partnerships is hosting a virtual plenary panel on April 23, 2025, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. EDT, celebrating 20 years of community-engaged learning. Panelists will reflect on the future of CEL, exploring its evolving pedagogy, the challenges ahead, and how CEL can respond to global crises. Click here to register.

Join the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop (EESW), a professional development program for advanced doctoral students and early-career faculty, offering mentoring, facilitated discussion, and presentations to enhance your practice of community-engaged scholarship. Apply by May 2, 2025—learn more and register here.

Applications are open for the Oregon '25 Institute on Teaching Social Action, taking place May 17-18, 2025, at Portland State University. Led by Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, Director of Teaching Social Action, and hosted by Sally Eck, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies professor at Portland State, this registration-free institute trains educators to develop social action syllabi that engage students in leading real-world policy change campaigns. Applications are due Friday, May 1, 2025. Click here for more information and apply today!

UNESCO's Multisectoral Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and CLAYSS, Latin American Center for Solidarity Service-Learning, have developed “Solidarity as the future of education. Perspectives from the Ibero-American experience of service-learning”. This publication sets a dialogue between the statements of this document with the theory and practice of solidarity service-learning in Ibero-America, to show that UNESCO's proposal of education for the future is already being implemented in many educational institutions in the region. The book is available for free download on the CLAYSS website and the presentation in English can be viewed here.

The most recent issue of Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE) has launched, featuring a piece by Bill Heinrich and Patrick Green on the Society for Experiential Education’s 20-month design thinking project on the definitions and principles of experiential learning: Defining Experiential Education for Applications in Higher Education: A Call to Action (Note the website will ask you to register, but it is free).

The latest issue of Metropolitan Universities journal, Vol. 36 No. 1 (2025): Exploring the Role of Higher Education in Prison and Returning Citizens on Campuses and Communities, is now available. Guest editors from Marquette University invite readers to reimagine the civic purposes of higher education through powerful explorations of prison education and reentry programs. Read the full issue here.

Job Opportunities

Minnesota State University, St. Paul is seeking a Director of Community Engagement to lead efforts in strengthening relationships with external partners and enhancing the university’s commitment to public service. This leadership role involves strategic planning, community engagement expertise, and a passion for advancing educational opportunities. The application deadline is April 28. Click here for more details and to apply.

The University of Maryland College Park is searching for a Director of Faculty Engagement to support and connect faculty, campus partners, and community partners around their community-engaged research interests. Essential to the role of the Director is an understanding of community engagement in higher education and innovative and strategic leadership to enhance and encourage faculty participation in community-engaged efforts. The application deadline is May 11. Click here for more details and to apply.