Call for Proposals: Race, Ethnicity and Community Engagement in Higher Education
The Race, Ethnicity, and Community Engagement in Higher Education conference at Texas Tech University welcomes submissions from academic professionals engaged in service-centered praxis, researchers. Proposals are welcome in fields of applied or experiential education, regional, local, and international practitioners in service-learning and other forms of community engagement, undergraduate or graduate students with service-learning and other community engagement experience. Students, faculty, administrators, and agency personnel that support community-based research initiatives are encouraged to submit proposals.
Participants in this conference will address a wide range of issues related to research, curriculum design, assessment, institutional support, diversity, community connection, partnerships, and student development. The goal of the conference is to provide participants with multiple perspectives on critical issues, paradigms, and challenges related to race, ethnicity and community engagement in higher education.
Conference Themes: Race, Praxis, and Curriculum
The conference will be grounded with three tracks; panel proposals should address one or more of these issues:
1. Critical Race Studies: Ethnic Communities and Service-Learning or other community in Higher Education
2. Praxis in Experiential Education: Best Practices for Integrating University, Community, and Students as Mutual Beneficiaries in Social Justice Efforts
3. Curriculum and Paradigms: Developing Cultural Competencies in Service-Learning, other community engagement, and Community-Based Research Curriculum
Conference Submission Procedures
Indicate which of the three conference themes your proposal mainly addresses. Session proposals should address one or more of the central conference questions. In a single electronic document (use Word or PDF format) include:
- Title
- Conference theme (Race Theory, Praxis, or Curriculum)
- Abstract (300-500 words including all individual paper titles)
- Session chair’s identification and contact information (institutional or agency affiliation, email, address, and phone number)
- Participant identification and email addresses
Sessions will be scheduled in 1 ½ hour blocks. Please do not submit individual papers; only whole sessions (two or more presenters and one chair) will be accepted. Indicate whether your session is a traditional panel or will be presented in workshop form.
Session proposals are due by May 31, 2010. Email proposals to: colette.taylor@ttu.edu. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 15, 2010 to accommodate travel arrangements.
Conference website:
http://www.educ.ttu.edu/edhe/conferences/recengagement