[OSU-SLSR] SLSR for 01/10/2014

[Cox, Harmony]

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Ohio State Service-Learning News

Nominees Sought for Emerging and Distinguished Service-Learning Awards  The offices of Outreach and Engagement, International Affairs, Student Life and Undergraduate Education, and the Service Learning Initiative, have joined together to recognize faculty, staff and students with the University Outreach and Engagement Recognition Awards program. We are seeking excellent examples of service-learning partnerships and we encourage you to nominate yourself or a colleague for this honor. Nominations are due on Friday, February 14th. To submit a nomination, please visit http://go.osu.edu/oeawards.

Service-Learning Course Grants Roundtable Session  If you have questions about applying for a Service-Learning grant, this is your chance to get them answered! The Service-Learning Initiative will join the Office of Outreach and Engagement and Ohio State Extension to host a roundtable information session for this year's Outreach and Engagement Grants program. The session will take place from 2pm-3pm on Monday, January 13th in 110B Hale Hall. RSVP to outreach at osu.edu<mailto:outreach at osu.edu>. For more information on this year's grants, please visit http://outreachgrants.osu.edu<http://outreachgrants.osu.edu/>.

Course Spotlight

In order to help service-learning scholars make connections and learn about new projects, we will seek to highlight a new service-learning course in every newsletter. Courses will be shared both here and in the "Spotlight" section on the front page of our website. If you are interested in having your course highlighted, please let Harmony know at cox.529 at osu.edu<mailto:cox.529 at osu.edu>.

Spanish in Ohio: An Experiential Course This course is based around interaction with Hispanic communities in Ohio and intensive and extensive practice with Spanish as spoken by native speakers from the U.S. and abroad. Students provide service by tutoring and mentoring children in afterschool programs. For more information, please contact Elena Foulis at foulis.5 at osu.edu<mailto:foulis.5 at osu.edu>.

Resources and Opportunities
Job Announcement: Director for Stanford Overseas Studies Program in Cape Town  The Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Director for its program in Cape Town, South Africa. The Director is responsible for the academic and administrative management and day to day operation of the center and for making decisions on local resource allocations and priorities, recognizing both local practice and University operating principles. Applicants are encouraged to respond promptly. This is an immediate opening with a target start date of April 1, 2014, or sooner. For more information, please visit https://hiring.accolo.com/job.htm?id=316706035.

Job Announcement: Community-Campus Partnership for Health Seeks Executive Director Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) seeks an accomplished leader in community-academic partnerships and health/public health to serve as their full-time Executive Director. The Executive Director provides visible leadership for the organization,translates goals into a strategic plan of action, raises funds, implements policy and organizational change strategies, supervises the staff team, and develops new partnerships and programs. For more information, please visit https://ccph.memberclicks.net/.

OSU Humanitarian Engineering Seminar Series: Ohio State-Ethiopia One Health Partnership The Ohio State seven Health Science colleges, in partnership with other collaborating units and external partners, launched a mutually beneficial One Health partnership with Ethiopian academic institutes and other governmental research and outreach institutes. The consortium identified key priority areas for engagement including 1) One Health Summer institute - focused on training and workshops; 2) Pilot research activities - including on Rabies, environmental health and cervical
cancer and 3) Resource stewardship - strengthening communications capacity etc. The College
of Engineering, through its various key units such as Environmental engineering, Software
engineering and Humanitarian engineering could play a key role in sustaining this partnership. This discussion will take place on Wednesday, January 15th from 10am-11am in 260 Dreese Laboratory. For more information, please contact Kevin Passino at passino.1 at osu.edu<mailto:passino.1 at osu.edu>.

Sincerely,

Ola Ahlqvist and Harmony Cox
The Service-Learning Initiative at Ohio State



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