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UNESCO Chair-GACER News October 31, 2012

Friends,

Our news today is coming from Brest, from the meeting of the PASCAL International Observatory where Rajesh and Budd have both been invited to offer keynote remarks.  This is the first time that we have appeared at the same event since the UNESCO Chair has been established.  We are very grateful to the University of Western Brittany and Dr. Jean-Marie Filloque for inviting us and to PASCAL for making us feel welcome amongst them.

Budd and Rajesh
Co-Chairs
UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education

New Blog on Community Engagement and University Rankings

Dear Friends,

At the last meeting of GACER in Bonn in May of 2012, Prof Hans Schuetze, one of the best known Higher Education scholars working in the field of comparative studies agreed to lead a discussion about engagement and the rankings game. To this end he has launched a blog space to begin to develop some thoughts about community university engagement in the context of what are popularly known as the "league tables".  Many people working in engaged scholarship feel that the rankings tables are a distraction from more important ways of understanding universities and society.

People's Sustainability Treaty on Higher Education

As you will remember, the "Big Tent" group of regional and international networks in community university engagement developed a communique during the Living Knowledge Conference in Bonn, Germany on May 14, 2012.  This document was sent to the Rio conference courtesy of Daniella Tilbury and the Copernicus Alliance.

Community-University Research and Engagement: What would you like to see in place by 2030?

Friends,

The various global community engagement networks will be holding a global video dialogue mid October on “the Future of CU Research and Engagement”.  This will also be a topic of future work with the Global University Network for Innovation team as well.

In support of this work, we would appreciate five minutes of your time.  Please use the comment facility below or contact one of the undesigned to give us a heading and 2-3 sentences (and a link if helpful) about:  

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14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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