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Announcements

Faculty: share your perspectives! Take 5 minutes to complete a survey on how students perceive the barriers and benefits of service- or community-engaged learning. Your insights advance the field—and you could win a $50 Amazon gift card. Please take the survey and share with colleagues! Take the Survey

Transformative Social Impact: A Journal of Community-Based Teaching and Research is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its next issue. Transformative Social Impact is a multidisciplinary, practitioner-oriented academic journal dedicated to advancing community-engaged scholarship, teaching, and collaborative research for social change. Transformative Social Impact accepts submissions on a rolling basis, but for best consideration for the next issue, please get submissions in by December 15. Detailed submission guidelines can be found on our website: transformativesocialimpact.org.

D-Lab ‘26 is a unique gathering, inviting you into the spirit of New Orleans, in a generative community space to connect, collaborate, and explore leadership in action through dialogue, experience, and deep inquiry. D-Lab is guided by the question: How might we exercise leadership in ways that respond meaningfully to the challenges of this moment? Hosted at Tulane University 30 January – 1 February 2026, click here for more information.

The latest issue of Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ), Vol. 36 No. 2 (2025): 2024 CUMU Conference Issue is now available online. Although the invited commentaries and articles are based in distinct institutional contexts and/or featured conference presentations, collectively they share a commitment to place, justice, and impact representative of urban colleges and universities and their relationships with local communities.

The CELTS team at Loyola University Chicago is proud to share our recently published CELTS 2024-25 Annual Impact Report, entitled Catalysts for Change: Transformative Impact through Research, Teaching, and Learning.

The NASPA Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Knowledge Community is rebuilding its volunteer leadership team and seeking new regional representatives. This KC supports student affairs professionals in advancing civic education, student development, and democratic engagement. All seven regional rep positions are open—view the regional map here—and interested individuals can contact Chair Justin Dandoy at justin.dandoy@pitt.edu for more info.

UNESCO's Multisectoral Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and CLAYSS, Latin American Center for Solidarity Service-Learning, have developed “Solidarity as the future of education. Perspectives from the Ibero-American experience of service-learning”. This publication sets a dialogue between the statements of this document with the theory and practice of solidarity service-learning in Ibero-America, to show that UNESCO's proposal of education for the future is already being implemented in many educational institutions in the region. The book is available for free download on the CLAYSS website and the presentation in English can be viewed here.

The most recent issue of Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ELTHE) has launched, featuring a piece by Bill Heinrich and Patrick Green on the Society for Experiential Education’s 20-month design thinking project on the definitions and principles of experiential learning: Defining Experiential Education for Applications in Higher Education: A Call to Action (Note the website will ask you to register, but it is free).

The American Sociological Association has launched a new online toolkit, How to Include Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Tenure and Promotion Process, aimed at ensuring that community-engaged sociologists are recognized and rewarded for their scholarship, and that all of those involved in the tenure and promotion review process have the guidance needed to evaluate their work.

Job Opportunities

Established in 2002, the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco educates leaders committed to lives of ethical public service by implementing academically rigorous programs, cultivating authentic community partnerships, and fostering transformational experiences. The Senior Director has primary responsibility for administering the McCarthy Center and its programs. The Senior Director is responsible for advancing strategy and overseeing all areas of work within the scope of the Center.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications and nominations for a highly motivated, visionary leader in outreach, community engagement, and engaged scholarship to fulfill the position of Director in the Office of Community Engagement and Outreach (OCEO).