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.

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.

Issue 13 of Freirean Rhizome on-line Journal  is now available at http://www.rizoma-freireano.org/

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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.