April2011 Newsletter

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For webinar details and to REGISTER, visit http://healthwebinar.eventbrite.com/ 2011 ernest a. lynton award for the sCholarship of engagement for early Career faCulty Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)

Article source: htt p://www.nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content &view=article&id=375&catid=25&Itemid=68

stuDeNt opportuNItY Call for undergraduate researCh papers Columbia College is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of its online International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning , Leadership, and Social Change.

The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pretenure at tenure-granting campuses and early career (within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.

This is an opportunity for undergraduate students to publish in a refereed journal.

Nominators will submit nominations via an online application. To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions at www.nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view =article&id=584%3A2011-lynton-award-applicationinstructions&catid=25&Itemid=120

Please encourage your students to submit. For detailed information, see the PDF link: htt p://osuserves.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/ undergraduate-journal-for-service-learningleardership-and-social-change.pdf

The Journal accepts articles that discuss the development of service-learning projects, case studies of a service-learning project, and reflection on servicelearning and the development of personal leadership.

For more information contact

Application Deadline is Friday, April 29, 2011. If you have any questions regarding the Ernest A. Lynton Award, please contact NERCHE via email at nerche@umb.edu or by phone at (617) 287-7740. To learn more about the Ernest A. Lynton Award, visit www.nerche.org/index.php?option=com_content&view =article&id=375&catid=25&Itemid=68

Ned Scott Laff - nslaff @columbiasc.edu or Joyce Fields - jfi elds@columbiasc.edu

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