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<b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Ohio State Service-Learning News</span></u></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Funding for faculty, staff, and student engagement<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span class="story-text1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Connect and Collaborate Grants Program incentivizes faculty, staff, students, and their community partners to submit letters of intent for programs
that have the potential to catalyze engaged, collaborative teaching and research activities benefitting the community and university. Grants up to $70,000 are available. Letters of intent are due Friday, Sept. 29.
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">For more information: </span><a href="https://oaa.osu.edu/ccgrants"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">https://oaa.osu.edu/ccgrants</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">
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<b>2018 Community Engagement Conference Call for Proposals<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">Proposals are currently being accepted for Ohio State’s inaugural Community Engagement Conference, taking place Jan. 24-25, 2018, in the Ohio Union. Building on the success of the Extension Annual Conference
and the university’s Engagement Forum, the conference will bring together faculty, staff, students, and community partners to focus on professional development and networking, while exploring potential new engagement partnerships. The theme of this year’s
conference is Partnering to Advance Health and Wellness. Proposals are due Oct. 30, 2017.
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">For more information and to submit a proposal:
</span><a href="http://engage.osu.edu/conference"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">engage.osu.edu/conference</span></a> or contact<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">
</span><a href="mailto:lewis.485@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">lewis.485@osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%"> or
</span><a href="mailto:morrison.332@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">morrison.332@osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">
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<b><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Resources and Opportunities</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Undergraduate students invited to apply for Propel Ohio collegiate leadership summit<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;color:black">Propel Ohio is a leadership program that promotes civic engagement and inspires undergraduate students to grow into civic leaders in Ohio. Undergraduate students are invited to apply to participate
in Propel Ohio: Collegiate Leadership Summit 2017, which will be held on Friday, Nov. 17 at the University of Akron. The program
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">will actively engage with college students on issues that affect childhood poverty, including food security, inequities in education, and homelessness. The application deadline is
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Tuesday, Oct.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> 10.</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">:
</span><a href="https://www.brown.senate.gov/propel-ohio"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://www.brown.senate.gov/propel-ohio</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">or contact </span><a href="mailto:adams.615@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">adams.615@osu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">
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<b>Pen to Paper 2017 Writing Retreat registration now open<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">The Pen to Paper writing retreat focused on writing with, for, and about service and engagement will take place Nov. 9-11, at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Registration for this unique opportunity to focus
on your engagement scholarship with a cohort of peers, while fostering personal connections with journal editors and senior faculty coaches, is open now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">For more information: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%"> </span><a href="http://www.indianacampuscompact.org/pen-to-paper"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">http://www.indianacampuscompact.org/pen-to-paper</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">
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<b>Webinar on service-learning for critical consciousness <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">Using a social justice paradigm based on Critical Consciousness develops the capacity for service-learning projects to integrate how systems of power are created, maintained, and changed. This can play an important
role in developing students’ skills, knowledge, and agency to create just social systems. This webinar at 1pm on Oct. 24, from Minnesota Campus Compact explores the elements of Critical Consciousness, and how those elements can be used to deepen students’
capacity for social change through intentional service-learning experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%">For more information: <a href="http://mncampuscompact.org/event/service-learning-critical-consciousness-development/">
http://mncampuscompact.org/event/service-learning-critical-consciousness-development/</a>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sincerely,</span>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ola Ahlqvist and Claire Sweigart<br>
Office of Service-Learning at Ohio State<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.giveto.osu.edu/makeagift/?fund=312453"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:JA">https://www.giveto.osu.edu/makeagift/?fund=312453</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:JA">
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