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Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
with
Tulane University’s Center for Public Service
and
Xavier University of Louisiana
Announce the Tenth Annual Imagining America Conference in
New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday, October 1 – Saturday October 3, 2009
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Conference Today!
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Syracuse University announces first cohort of Engagement Fellows
New initiative aims to immerse and keep young talent in Central New York. Read the story here.
Imagining America announces the recipients of Critical Exchange Grants to support visits between member institutions: click here.
IA Research Director Timothy K. Eatman's article, "Engaged Scholarship and Faculty Rewards: A National Conversation," appeared in the AACU's Diversity & Democracy Winter 2009 issue. Read the article here. Download the entire issue here.
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence. It includes:
- Scholarly and creative work jointly planned and carried out by university and community partners;
- Intellectual work that produces a public good;
- Artistic, critical, and historical work that contributes to public debates;
- Efforts to expand the place of public scholarship in higher education itself, including the development of new programs and research on the successes of such efforts.
Public scholarship in the arts and humanities integrates all the missions of higher education: research, teaching, service, and public engagement. Current projects include the Tenure Team Initiative on Public Scholarship, the Curriculum Project, and Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE).
"Read Between the Signs" Photo by Amara Geffen
Imagining America in Syracuse
Visit the Syracuse Initiatives page (under Projects) for more information about Imagining America's work at its host campus and city.
Featured Program
Every two weeks, in this space, we feature a program at a member campus that exemplifies public scholarship in the arts, humanities and design.
Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
The Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine is a collaboration between Miami University and community groups within the Cincinnati inner-city neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine. Through its relationship with the Over-the-Rhine People’s Movement and other organizations that address issues of racial rights and social justice, the Center serves as a unique site for learning and for producing knowledge that intersects with the needs and demands of a social movement.
Two significant programs are the product of the Center. First is the Over-the-Rhine Residency Program, begun Fall 2006. In that semester, students chose to integrate academics, offered at the Center, with a full immersion experience to live and work together in inner-city Cincinnati. Architecture majors spent most of their time... Click here to continue reading