February 10, 2026 | Blog

MAGICAL QUESTIONS: RESPONSES FROM THE 2025 IA NATIONAL GATHERING, Part 2

Weaving together lessons from Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Sekou Sundiata’s The America Project, The IA Clearing was a special track at the 2025 IA National Gathering, activated through a series of spaces, activities, and listening resources. In this post, we invite you to listen to responses from participants and add your own.

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February 3, 2026 | News & Press

2026 IA Regional Collaboratories: Call for Proposals

The 2026 invitation for IA Collaboratories welcomes proposals from IA member campuses to form communities around practices of imagination. This year we are prioritizing proposals from regional clusters of campuses and partners with an intentional effort to support and activate regional engagement in the IA network. Proposals are due March 13.

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January 14, 2026 | Member Stories Current

Futures of Civic Engagement at Arizona State University

Public scholarship is central across Arizona State University’s (ASU) design aspirations of principled innovation, intellectual fusion, social transformation, and leveraging place. This month’s member spotlight showcase just a few of the projects engaging communities to shape the possible futures of science, technology, and sustainability through arts and civic engagement. 

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January 5, 2026 | IA StoryShare 2025

IA Storyshare, Episode 13: Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth

For this season of IA Storyshare, we brought together participants from the most recent 2025 IA National Gathering at Las Cruces, NM. In this first episode of the season, longtime IA participants Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lynne Elizabeth take us down memory lane, and share their insights about the transforming ecology of publicly engaged scholarship.

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