IARSLCE Hears

Announcements

The 2025 Civic Learning and Social Change Conference, hosted by NASPA, is now accepting proposals! This gathering will explore how civic engagement, dialogue, and social change intersect in higher education. Submit your proposal by June 17, 2025 and learn more here.

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 latest issue of Metropolitan Universities journal, Vol. 36 No. 1 (2025): Exploring the Role of Higher Education in Prison and Returning Citizens on Campuses and Communities, is now available. Guest editors from Marquette University invite readers to reimagine the civic purposes of higher education through powerful explorations of prison education and reentry programs. Read the full issue here.

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.

Join NC Campus Engagement for the 20th Anniversary Community Engagement Administrators Conference (CEAC) on June 10 at Elon University! This year’s theme, Resilience and Reimagining, invites campus engagement professionals into a space of connection, reflection, and civic joy. Registration closes May 30—learn more and register here.

Save the date for the 2024 EASLHE Conference, taking place October 16–17 at Utrecht University in the Netherlands! This annual gathering brings together service-learning researchers and practitioners from across Europe—learn more here.

Job Opportunities

UC San Diego is hiring a Community Partnership Coordinator to develop, maintain, and strengthen relationships with community organizations and stakeholders to support the final course in the Critical Community Engagement (CCE) sequence, a project-based community engagement capstone called CCE 120.