Notes on Community Engagement

Fragments of NOTES/THOUGHTS from the Imagining America conference, Convergence Zones: Public Cultures and Translocal Practices, Seattle, WA, 9.23-9.25.10

You can be global while being local.

Nancy Cantor, Chancellor - Scholarship in Action @ Syracuse U
institutional responsibility and engagement
promoting scholarship and community simultaneously
Say YES to education program providing tuition to Syracuse city high school students

Caryn McTighe Musil - American Association of Colleges and Universities
Our {universities and colleges) welfare tied to community's welfare
Civic learning spiral - braided elements with public action
 only 1% of community-based work is political according to the AAC studies.

Visual Citizenship

Community Collaborations' books and website will be included in an exhibition on Visual Citizenship that is part of the 2 day conference Visual Citizenship: Belonging through the Lens of Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at Institute of Public Knowledge, April 23-24. Other Photography and Imaging Alumni and Faculty will part of the exhibition and conference.