A view from Ellen Hazelkorn, head of the Higher Education Policy Research Unit at the Dublin Institute of Technology and policy adviser to Ireland's Higher Education Authority: 

This note introduces you to a Northern Illinois University (NIU) colleague, Presidential Teaching Scholar Joseph Scudder (PhD, Indiana University) of our Department of Communications.  Dr. Scudder will be visiting South Africa beginning 13 May 2014: primarily Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. 

PASCAL Associate Norman Walzer will lead a discussion on common elements of successful community change activities in Midwestern communities, based on his research of best practices.

Haiti’s earthquake was one of the world’s deadliest disasters, claiming as many as 316,000 lives. Media images highlighted the exceptional, macabre, and gruesome. These accounts dehumanized Haiti and Haitian people and focused disproportionate attention on the good intentions and generosity of foreigners. International media attention helped raise $5.6 billion in official funds and $2 billion in private donations for the first two years following the earthquake.

Scholars from around the globe can now look to the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) as the source for the world’s largest collection of research literature on how to connect teaching and scholarship to community needs. Starting this month, UNO becomes the custodian of more than 10,000 volumes of scholarly work on service-learning and community engagement.