IARSLCE Hears

Announcements

The latest issue of Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ), Vol. 37 No. 1 (2026): Evolving higher education: Organizational change and institutional transformation through leadership is now available online. This issue, guest edited by Susan Elrod, highlights how campus leaders are creating significant and durable institutional transformations. The articles and invited commentaries seek ‘to help readers advance their understanding of the nature of systemic change, what it takes to achieve it and how to lead it.’

The University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa, and Matej Bel University (MBU), Slovakia, are jointly advancing innovative, globally networked learning through their Connecting Minds, Enhancing Lives Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) partnership. This Global South–North partnership brings together postgraduate Psychology (Applied Master’s and Honours) and undergraduate Economics, Management and Marketing students and faculty across both institutions.  Building on insights from their 2025 pilot initiative, the 2026 iteration expanded and refined the curriculum, digital collaboration structures, and intercultural learning activities to better support sustainable internationalisation at home. The link shares student-developed interventions (2026 and 2026) that emerged from eight-week collaborative processes integrating disciplinary knowledge with digital and intercultural communication competencies. They reflect graduate attributes including critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and community engagement, demonstrating how COIL advances meaningful internationalisation at home through socially relevant practice. We invite IARSLCE colleagues to share these interventions within their own contexts.

The ESCULCA Research Group is pleased to invite you to the “5th International Symposium on Service-Learning and Higher Education,” which, in this edition, focuses on “Reciprocity as the Core of the University–Community Relationship.” The symposium will take place at the Faculty of Education Sciences (Campus Vida), at the University of Santiago de Compostela, on June 25, 2026. Visit the website to consult the provisional programme, as well as the guidelines for poster submissions.

The Community Research Data Toolkit introduces communities and the organizations and researchers who collaborate with them to concepts of research data management—such as data management plans and data deposit—to support their work. It is also a collection of guidance documents we made together with templates and examples for data management plans; roles and responsibilities for researchers, community members, and data professionals; and options for where data lives in the long term.

Job Opportunities

The University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) is hiring a Director, Center for Community-Engaged Learning. The Director of CCEL provides strategic, administrative, and programmatic leadership for curricular community-engaged learning (CEL). Reporting to the Vice Provost for Public Engagement, the Director is responsible for advancing high-quality, high-impact CEL across the curriculum; stewarding a network of community partnerships; leading staff and managing operations; and representing CCEL within University-wide and national engaged learning communities.

The Department of Public and Community Service Studies (PSP) at Providence College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position for the 2026-2027 academic year. The PSP Department offers an interdisciplinary major and minor that integrates community-engaged learning, research, and practice. We seek a dynamic instructor who can teach our introductory course, Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement (PSP 101); Leadership through Community Organizing (PSP 303); and an additional upper-level course. The ideal candidate will hold a Ph.D. (field open) from an accredited institution, demonstrate expertise in community organizing through research, teaching, or practice, and have experience teaching community-engaged courses. Applicants should submit a letter of interest, a current CV, a statement of teaching philosophy, transcripts, and references at the link below. Review of applications will begin on June 15, 2026, and continue on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Complete details and submission of materials are available on the College website at: https://careers.providence.edu.