Transgender Inclusion in the Classroom

The LGBT Center will be hosting a faculty and student panel titled:
Transgender Inclusion: Policies and Practice in the Classroom

The panel will include faculty, student, and staff perspectives on practices in the classroom that lead to transgender inclusion. The panel will discuss new guidelines on preferred name use.
See the event description provided by the LGBT Center below.


Transgender Inclusion: Policies and Practice in the Classroom
Faculty, staff and students are invited to a panel discussion about policies and practices that create an inclusive campus for transgender students. Topics will include best practices in the classroom, the experiences of current transgender students, and an introduction to the new UNF Preferred Name Policy. Panelists include Dr. Nick de Villiers (College of Arts & Sciences), Andrea Adams-Manning (Student Ombuds and Assistant Dean of Students), and student Bane Campos. Kaitlin Legg (LGBT Resource Center) will facilitate the discussion.
More information: see the event facebook page.

Frankly Friday: The Soul of Higher Education

The Soul of Higher Education
Friday, April 10th, 2015, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Faculty Lounge, Building 16, Room 4201
RSVP to ofe@unf.edu

In 2011, the Governor Rick Scott called on institutions of Higher Education in Florida to focus on producing more graduates in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and said that the State probably did not need more Anthropology majors. The stated goal of this reform was to produce students who have degrees where jobs are available. The increased emphasis on the college degree serving to provide job opportunities for graduates is a national trend. A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dan Berret reviews evidence that college students increasingly view the college degree as an avenue to financial success and consider less and less that a college degree serves to develop a meaningful philosophy of life. As the Florida Board of Governors focuses more on performance metrics to determine State funding, the university system has increased its focus on producing graduates with jobs. These trends challenge traditional notions of universities providing a broad liberal education for students. Come and discuss the implications of these trends and how they might affect UNF. The Office of Faculty Enhancement will provide coffee and breakfast items.
Friday, April 10th, 2015, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
Faculty Lounge, Building 16, Room 4201
RSVP to ofe@unf.edu

Funding Available through the William T. Grant Foundation

Please see the message below from John Kantner, Assistant Vice President for Research, about funding
opportunities for early career faculty (within 7 years of their terminal degree).

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) would like to present the following limited submission program:

William T. Grant Foundation
William T. Grant Scholars Program
Limited Submission Program (an internal selection process is required)
 
The William T. Grant Foundation has an open solicitation for the William T. Grant Scholars Program, which awards early-career researchers up to $350,000 over five years to enable them to expand their expertise and to do work that benefits youth. The 2014 focus is on reducing inequality, and projects must address issues that have compelling relevance for theory, programs, polices, or practices affecting youth ages 5 to 25 in the U.S. Projects also must be consistent with the Foundation’s Current Research Interests:

http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/funding_opportunities/fellowships/william_t__grant_scholars

UNF will be able to submit proposals from only one applicant from each college. Therefore, to begin the internal selection process, ORSP is inviting interested applicants to reference the attached procedure to review eligibility criteria and to submit a pre-proposal. 

The deadline to submit a pre-proposal to ORSP is Monday, April 28, 2014 by 6:00 p.m. The submission deadline to the Foundation is July 9, 2014.

Scholarly Ventures: Applying for a Fulbright Scholar Award

The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2015-2016 academic year. UNF faculty who are past recipients of Fulbright Awards will share their experiences in applying for the award and how they benefited from the program. UNF faculty and professionals interested in the program are encouraged to attend the presentation and learn more about core Fulbright Scholar opportunities. 

Scholarly Ventures:
Applying for a Fulbright Scholar Award

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.

Student Union, Building 58W, Room 3804

RSVP at ofe@unf.edu

The event is sponsored by the International Center and the Office of Faculty Enhancement. 

Bring your lunch. Beverages and deserts will be served.

Community and Civic Engagement Academy for Faculty

Please see the notice below for a faculty training opportunity on Community and Civic Engagement.
The event will be on May 14-16, 2013.
The deadline for applications is March 8, 2013.
Space is limited. For more information visit the academy webpage:
http://www.cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/acp

The Community and Civic Engagement Initiative within Auburn University’s College of Liberal Arts announces the first Academy for Civic Professionalism (ACP) for faculty in the arts, social sciences and humanities who are interested in incorporating the tenents of civic professionalism into their courses, outreach scholarship and P & T documentation.

ACP will provide an intense three-day workshop for successful participants. The purpose of the Academy for Civic Professionalism is:
To promote and develop civic professionalism knowledge and initiatives among faculty and colleges in the nation
To encourage faculty to rethink their teaching strategies and goals as they develop courses with civic professionalism as a focus for students
To develop an emphasis on ethics and responsibility as it pertains to knowledge and application To foster collaborative teaching, research, and outreach efforts among faculty and across universities
To provide resources and support for engaged faculty

ACP will take place in Auburn, Alabama from May 14-16, 2013. The schedule for the Academy will include a rigorous and invigorating schedule of speakers, workshops, working sessions led by Engaged Scholars from Auburn University, and project site visits. Speakers include Rick Battistoni, Director of the Feinsten Institute for Public Service at Providence College, KerryAnn O’Meara, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Timothy Eatman, Co-director of Imagining America, and Julie Ellison, Professor at the University of Michigan and lead organizer of Citizen Alum.

Cost is $1,950 per person. This includes instructional materials, on-site faculty coaching, access to planning tools and resources, a half-day site visit, a pre-Academy reception on Monday, and breakfast and lunch each day.

The application deadline is March 8, 2013. ACP is limited to 25 participants so get your application for admission in early. Visit the website for the Academy for Civic Professionalism at http://www.cla.auburn.edu/cla/cce/acp/ to download your application and find out more information.

Feel free to contact Dr. Giovanna Summerfield, Associate Dean for Educational Affairs College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, summegi@auburn.edu, 334-844-2890 with any questions or comments.

Digital Archives Reveal Social Networks

Researchers are finding new ways to connect archival documents in a project organized by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. Archived documents are being digitized and then connected to similar documents (from the same person, from the same groups of people, or on the same topics). In a recent Chronicle article, Jennifer Howard provides some interesting details of how this project likely will change how researchers are able to search digitally archived documents.
Read more by visiting the article online.
http://chronicle.com/article/Building-a-Digital-Map-of/131846

General Education Leadership Conference

The American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) has hosted conferences promoting a deeper understanding of general education and its role in higher education for many years. The upcoming 2013 conference in Boston, MA, will focus on frameworks for general education that result in student learning. Many UNF faculty have been involved in various aspects of the UNF General Education Program and Venture Studies Initiatives. 
The Call for Proposals deadline is June 27, 2012




General Education and Assessment:
A Sea Change in Student Learning

Date of Conference: February 28-March 2, 2013
Location of Conference: Boston, Massachusetts
Proposals Due June 27, 2012


The demands of the 21st century present urgent challenges, as we think through designs for and outcomes of general education. Students must be better prepared for life and work in a technologically advanced, globally interdependent, and politically fractured society. Employers are questioning college graduates’ capacities in the very knowledge and skills at the heart of general education. Daily news reveals a public uneducated about the issues central to their well-being and unable to engage in civil discourse and political will to improve the common good. The context for general education has changed enough to require us to think in new ways about all our assumptions.

Many are responding to these challenges with more integrative, developmentally nuanced general education programs that move from a checklist approach toward a more intentional and coherent scaffolding of student learning goals and outcomes.

We invite you to participate by proposing sessions that will discuss and demonstrate frameworks and strategies that address the Principles of Excellence, a set of standards and guidelines for liberal education reform developed as part of AAC&U's LEAP initiative, and put cumulative learning at the center of new designs for general education and assessment.


Visit the Call for Proposals to find out how to submit a proposal to share your work at this conference.
For more information, please call 202.387.3760, or write to Siah Annand at network@aacu.org. 

China's First and Only Female Emperor

On Thursday, June 7th Professor Wang Shuanghuai of Shaanxi Normal University, now a Visiting Professor at CSU-Los Angeles,  will be visiting UNF and presenting a lecture at 3 PM titled:

“How Wu Zetian Became China’s First and Only Female Emperor”

The lecture will be held in Building 9, Room 2401 at 3PM.
Light refreshments will be provided.

Webinar on the Arts and Human Development

Please see the announcement below regarding a free webinar discussing the connection between community engagement, the arts, health, and human development.

For details, visit http://bit.ly/wd8rhM

On February 29, The National Endowment for the Arts hosts a public webinar to extend the conversation of the Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development, a new alliance of 14 federal agencies and departments to encourage more and better research on how the arts help people reach their full potential at all stages of life.  Task force members include representatives from agencies and offices within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and others.  This series of quarterly webinars will share compelling research and practices along with information about funding opportunities for research in the arts and human development across federal agencies. Future webinars will take place May 30, Aug. 1, and Oct. 3, 2012.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, EST Webinar will feature presentation on The Gamelan Project and collaboration between an ethnomusicologist/composer and neuroscientists that explores cognitive development

Guests and speakers

·         Sunil Iyengar, NEA Director of Research & Analysis, will moderate the webinar 

·         Dr. Soo-Siang Lim, Director, Science of Learning Centers Program, National Science Foundation

·         Presenting The Gamelan Project: ethnomusicologist, performer, and composer Alexander Khalil and neuroscientists Andrea Chiba and Victor Minces from the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, University of California San Diego.

The webinar is free and open to the public.  No registration is required. 

Media may RSVP to Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs Specialist at 202-682-5606 or giffords@arts.gov.

For details, visit http://bit.ly/wd8rhM

International Humanities Conference

Please see the announcement below regarding an interdisciplinary and international conference on "New Directions in the Humanities." The conference will focus on several themes, including "Meaning and Communication," "Frames of Reference," and "Humanities in Practice." Conference organizers are accepting applications from a variety of disciplines. The deadline  

Announcing the Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, to be held at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal, Canada from June 14th to 17th, 2012.

The Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers.

Participants are invited to submit a presentation proposal for a paper presentation, workshop/interactive session, roundtable discussion, or jointly presented colloquium. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues.

Presenters may choose to submit written papers to The International Journal of the Humanities, a fully refereed academic Journal.Virtual participation also have the option to submit papers for consideration by the Journal. All registered Conference participants receive a complimentary online subscription to the Journal when registration is finalized. This subscription is valid until one year after the Conference end date.

If you would like to know more about this Conference, visit the website ( http://thehumanities.com/Conference-2012/) or subscribe to the Conference and Journal Newsletter.

Spaces & Flows Conference

The Spaces & Flows Conference is an interdisciplinary conference that may be of interest to those in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering, Construction, Computing, Political Science, and Urban Studies. The conference also will be of interest to those who use and study Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The deadline for submissions is September 22nd.


Please see the information from the conference website below:

"The 2011 Spaces and Flows: Second International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. The conference will be held at the Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Tuscany, Italy from 17-18 November 2011.

This conference aims to critically engage the contemporary and ongoing spatial, social, ideological, and political transformations in a transnational, global, and neoliberal world. In a process-oriented world of flows and movement, we posit, the global north and global south now simultaneously converge and diverse in a dialectic that shapes and transforms cities, suburbs, and rural areas. This conference addresses the mapping of, the nature of, and the forces that propel these processural changes.

SPACES AND FLOWS: SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AND EXTRAURBAN STUDIES  

Monash University Prato Centre    

Prato, Tuscany, Italy      

17-18 November 2011    

http://spacesandflows.com/conference-2011/

Arts & Humanities Conference

The conference below will be especially interesting to faculty in the Arts, Humanities, Political Science, Education, and those involved in community-based research.

Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State?

November 3-5, 2011
Providence, Rhode Island
Register by September 9 for best conference rates

Arts & Humanities: Toward a Flourishing State? will explore current realities and possible futures of the arts and humanities. The conference will situate the arts and humanities both in relation to each other and within the broader context of other disciplines and fields, within liberal education as a whole. Addressing big questions about the future of the United States as a democracy, the conference will emphasize the vitality and importance of the arts and humanities and ask how that vitality might be sustained and how the arts and humanities might evolve in the future.
Campus educators, administrators, students, and community partners are invited to join with colleagues to consider anew the many ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to and reflect the history and culture of our nation and our connections to a vibrant global society.
At a moment fraught with division along political, cultural, and economic lines, the conference intends both to explore difficult questions and to entertain hope.
We invite you to join us in Rhode Island and to share this information with your colleagues.