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UNESCO Chair-GACER News October 31, 2012

Posted October 31, 2012 - 21:15 by Budd Hall

Friends,

Our news today is coming from Brest, from the meeting of the PASCAL International Observatory where Rajesh and Budd have both been invited to offer keynote remarks.  This is the first time that we have appeared at the same event since the UNESCO Chair has been established.  We are very grateful to the University of Western Brittany and Dr. Jean-Marie Filloque for inviting us and to PASCAL for making us feel welcome amongst them.

Budd and Rajesh
Co-Chairs
UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

Special Edition of Gateways with CU Expo 2013

Posted October 8, 2012 - 20:38 by Budd Hall

Proposals are due Nov 15, 2012 to present at CU Expo, the Canadian-led  international conference on community-university partnerships, set to  take place June 12-15, 2013, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. The  conference theme "Engaging Shared Worlds" will explore such questions  as: How can engagement between communities and universities lead to  positive transformation and change?

UNESCO Chair-GACER News - October 3, 2012

Posted October 3, 2012 - 21:45 by Budd Hall

Dear Friends,

Rajesh reminds us that October 2 was Mahatma Gandhi's birthday.  By chance I was in Memphis, Tennessee that day visiting the US civil rights museum located at the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.  He was of course a strong advocate of non-violent civil disobedience.  Important to be reminded of the sheer hard work, risk and long term determination that democratic social justice struggles require.

New Blog on Community Engagement and University Rankings

Posted September 25, 2012 - 07:51 by Budd Hall

Dear Friends,

At the last meeting of GACER in Bonn in May of 2012, Prof Hans Schuetze, one of the best known Higher Education scholars working in the field of comparative studies agreed to lead a discussion about engagement and the rankings game. To this end he has launched a blog space to begin to develop some thoughts about community university engagement in the context of what are popularly known as the "league tables".  Many people working in engaged scholarship feel that the rankings tables are a distraction from more important ways of understanding universities and society.

September 18 News- Impact Investing Report

Posted September 18, 2012 - 20:42 by Budd Hall

Greetings Friends,

Professor Edward T. Jackson from Carleton University is one of the founders of both the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research and Community Based Research Canada.  He was a founder of the pioneering Participatory Research Group of Toronto, Canada in the 1970s.

Ted has had a remarkable research career in evaluation, international development, local and regional development and the social economy.

UNESCO - GACER News - September 4

Posted September 5, 2012 - 04:52 by Budd Hall

Friends,

Some lovely news.  We have just learned that Dr. Lean Heng Chan of Malaysia, one of the best-known champion of women worker's rights  and participatory research throughout Asia and a founding executive member of the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research has been recognised for membership in the International Adult Education Hall of Fame for 2012.  Hip Hip Hooray.

Budd L Hall and Rajesh TandonCo-Chairs

UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility of Higher Education

 

UNESCO Chair - GACER News - August 20,2012

Posted August 21, 2012 - 20:49 by Budd Hall

A few interesting developments bubbling up from our world of knowledge democracy...

TEMPUS Project on Lifelong Learning and Universities in Palestine

Posted July 22, 2012 - 09:36 by Budd Hall

Keith Hammond from the University of Glasgow is leading a European Commission funded TEMPUS project to strengthen lifelong learning in Palestinian universities.  Palestinian universities were pioneering community-based research 30-35 years ago and are arguably some of the most 'engaged' higher education institutions around.  

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People's Sustainability Treaty on Higher Education

Posted July 11, 2012 - 01:22 by Budd Hall

As you will remember, the "Big Tent" group of regional and international networks in community university engagement developed a communique during the Living Knowledge Conference in Bonn, Germany on May 14, 2012.  This document was sent to the Rio conference courtesy of Daniella Tilbury and the Copernicus Alliance.

Exciting Indigenous Community-University Developments

Posted July 7, 2012 - 17:12 by Budd Hall

Seven Master's students are about to head to New Delhi for a couple weeks as PRIA and Unesco chair Interns.  Several of them will be taking up research assignments within the UNESCO Chair for CBR framework.  We will have more to report later.  In the meantime, the usual batch of eclectic and useful links and stories for you:

 

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