Inaugural Event of the Community Colleges Chapter of the Fulbright Association

From a Two-Year College to a Lifetime of Learning: What Fulbright Means to Me

Join the Community Colleges Chapter of the Fulbright Association for our inaugural event on

Monday, June 3, 2024 at 7 p.m. ET by Zoom. Go here to join the meeting.

Formed in January, our chapter aims to advance the visibility of the Fulbright Program in America’s nearly 1,200 2-year community and technical colleges.

In this first gathering, we will introduce you to our chapter, its board and officers, and goals. Following an introduction by president David J. Smith, George Mason University (Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Estonia 2003-2004), the program will continue with a discussion with a panel of board members who will discuss their experiences in the Fulbright Program.

The moderator will be Stephanie Hallock, Harford Community College (Fulbright Specialist 2023). The panel will include:

Selina LeMay-Klippel, North Country Community College (Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Russia 2028)
Tabitha Morgan, Community College of Philadelphia (Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Mexico, 2021-2022)
Vincent L. Briley, Montgomery College (Fulbright U.S. – Germany International Education Administrators Program, 2012)

Panelists will share their experiences in the Fulbright Program including their motivation for applying and how it made a difference in their personal and professional lives. This will be followed by questions from the audience.

We invite all those interested in supporting Fulbright Program awareness in community colleges to join us (even if you have not received a grant). Those who received grants as part of their post-undergraduate educational experiences (i.e., research based or ETA), as part of a Fulbright-Hays grant, and as a visiting Fulbright grantee are especially encouraged to join us.

We can be reached by email at: communitycolleges@fulbright.org

More info here.

An Excellent Seminar Opportunity from MLA (Quick Turnaround Deadline 5/7!)

Dear colleagues,

At the Modern Language Association convention in 2025, we’re running a seminar titled “Community-Engaged Pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching Learning.” For a quick description:

This seminar will give participants an opportunity to develop writing in the scholarship of teaching and learning, particularly grounded in community-engaged pedagogy in languages and literatures. Seminar participants should be working toward the production of a specific project in the scholarship of teaching and learning, with a focus on the practices and outcomes of community-engaged pedagogy.

Facilitator: Jennifer Maloy (Queensborough Comm. Coll., City Univ. of New York)

Seminars are a fairly new offering at the MLA convention, and still in a pilot phase. We ran a few last year to good success, and we’re hoping to expand this year. Participants share work in advance of the convention, and spend the session discussing and envisioning future projects.

We’re extending the proposal deadline for a few days until the end of day 7 May. I know this is a bit of a tight turnaround, but we’re hoping some targeted outreach will help bring in more proposals. This is a wonderful opportunity for sharing research and building intellectual community for anyone at any career stage or in any position.

Folks interested should submit at the Convention Seminar page, and the short application consists of:

· Abstract (up to 250 words) that outlines the main argument of the proposed submission

· A brief CV or bio (no more than two pages)

· A statement (up to 250 words) that details interest in the seminar and how it relates to professional development or future research work.

Thank you,

Your Colleagues at MLA

The Great Questions Foundation in red, stylized text on a white background.

Summer Workshop Opportunity with The Great Questions Foundation

TGQF develops and supports opportunities for students to think deeply and broadly about the human condition in required general education curricula at community colleges. Our summer course redesign workshops for faculty are a central part of this work. These online workshops have helped faculty members from twenty-eight different institutions incorporate the discussion-based study of transformative texts and ideas in general education courses they teach at community colleges. To date, about 1,600 students have completed courses supported by this effort.

Please consider applying or encouraging a colleague to apply to participate in one of our summer workshops!

Participants receive a $600 stipend upon successful completion of an online workshop.

ACLS Opportunity: Research Funding for Community College Humanities Faculty

Join the fine folks from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 3:30 PM EST for a webinar for community college faculty in the humanities. The webinar will feature staff from ACLS and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), who will review information about current funding opportunities at their organizations as well as application tips and strategies keyed to the specific research, teaching, and service conditions of community college faculty.

More info, including registration, can be found HERE.

Call for Submissions: MLA’s “Committee on Community Colleges” Blog Opportunity

Call for Submissions

The Modern Language Association’s Committee on Community Colleges invites submissions for its monthly blog. We seek brief articles or reflections on themes germane to community college humanities education. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

innovations in curriculum development and pedagogy
professional development and scholarship
cross-disciplinary collaboration within and beyond the humanities
community partnerships
public humanities programming
connections with community college reform initiatives
relevance of the humanities to underserved and underrepresented student populations
intersections of humanities education and career readiness

Please send submissions (400-1200 words) to Mike Jacobs at mjacobs20@monroecc.edu

CCHA’s Deans’ Committee hosts a Humanities Leadership Forum: August 3rd, 3:30-4:45

Please join CCHA’s Deans’ Committee on August 3^rd, 3:30-4:45, for its Humanities Leadership Forum. This virtual event provides a platform for community college Humanities leaders to discuss a range of timely and consequential issues germane to the success of our students, colleagues, and institutions. Our inaugural event will focus on two such topics:

The impact of artificial intelligence in the humanities classroom
Best practices in leadership development

While the forum will be moderated by members of the Deans’ Committee, it will not comprise structured presentations. Rather, it will center the ideas and questions brought forth by attendees, thus helping us cultivate strategies for tackling the myriad challenges we face at our respective institutions.

Participation in this meaningful event is free and open to any and all community college humanities deans, chairs, and faculty leaders. Please REGISTER HERE for this event.

We look forward to seeing you on August 3^rd!

NHA Summer Virtual Workshop: Documenting the Impact of the Humanities in Higher Ed

The National Humanities Alliance is offering a summer virtual workshop opportunity with a discount available to our members. Documenting the Impact of the Public Humanities in Higher Education: A Toolkit will be offered on two dates this June, on the 22nd and 25th. This workshop will offer attendees the opportunity to consider impact research as it relates to their own work and to the humanities more broadly. While the toolkit focuses on public humanities projects (including internship programs, publicly engaged courses, reading and discussion groups, and oral history projects), they anticipate that it will also be relevant to those carrying out a wide range of humanities work.

Visit the NHA workshop page HERE for more information.

Call for Proposals: The National Council on Public History Annual Meeting 2024

Download the PDF version of this flier HERE.

CAORC Community College Faculty Development Seminars: Applications Being Accepted

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) is proud to announce its Faculty Development Seminars for 2024. These fully-funded seminars are designed for faculty and administrators at US community colleges and minority-serving institutions. The aim is to help participants gain international experience and develop and improve curricula at their home institutions.

The awardees will participate in a short-term academic seminar that includes round-trip travel, accommodations, meals, and site visits. The 2024 series includes seminars presented by Overseas Research Centers in Cambodia, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Palestine, and Senegal. For more details and application links, please visit the Faculty Development Seminars page on the CAORC website.

Call for Proposals Submission Deadline Extended and Acceptance on a Rolling Basis

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals accepted on a rolling basis through June 15th.

Baltimore, MD. May 1, 2023 – According to conference organizers, this year’s Community College Humanities Association’s (CCHA) National Conference theme of “humanistic inquiries …[into] questions of value, power, community, identity, race, justice, healing, conflict, and transformation” is already providing a solid foundation to programming with many intriguing proposals that will surely inspire colleagues.

Now, in collaboration with organizers at the Austin Community College District which opened up more space, CCHA has a new opportunity to expand this year’s conference forum and celebrate a broad range of unique proposals that extend to every reach of the humanities in community colleges. So, please consider submitting a proposal and joining us for the conference.

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