Rising Stars of Research 2010 is coming! “RSR” is the only nationwide undergraduate research poster competition across multiple disciplines. The event is an outstanding opportunity for the next generation of Canadian researchers to showcase their achievements, to foster interdisciplinary research, to meet peers and to gain experience in a research conference setting.

Application opens May 10th, 2010. Click here for more information.

Once again in 2010 in Raleigh, the national Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop will be held in conjunction with the National Outreach Scholarship Conference. (October 4-6, 2010) This intensive professional development program provides advanced doctoral students and early career faculty with background literature, facilitated discussion, mentoring, and presentations designed to increase their knowledge and enhance their practice of community engaged scholarship. Participation is limited and interested applicants must be nominated to be part of this workshop.

If you have questions or would like more information, please visit the program’s web site at http://ncsue.msu.edu/eesw/default.aspx, or contact Lisa Marshall (2010 Workshop co-chair) at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or tel. 919-515-5876.

If you value your relationship with the TCCBE & U-Links and you think the programs and services we offer in partnership with Trent University are important to achieving quality education, research and healthy and sustainable community development, please tell the University now! Read on to find out how to participate and why it is important.

Integrated Planning: An Introduction: Integrated planning at Trent University will be designed to allow the institution to make sometimes difficult decisions with appropriate evidence and subsequent accountability. Integrated planning will raise decisions to the appropriate level in the organization but with clear attention to the long-term interests, most clearly expressed in the common vision, overall mission, and specific strategic directions, of the institution. Click here to access the integrated planning website.

Timeline: The Vision Renewal Review Committee, Strategic Directions Advisory Committee, and the Special Advisory Committee on Changing Academic Structures have focussed on engagement and analysis over the 2009 fall term and have now reached a critical moment in their mutually-supporting review activities. A brief synopsis of the outcomes and next steps for each of these important review activities is presented below, and will be discussed at planned Information Sessions on 20 and 26 January and in other settings, such as Faculty Council (in the first week of February) and a new series of the President’s Open Forum for Staff (in March 2010).

In March 2010, the launch of ‘unit-level’ integrated planning at Trent University. The unit-level planning activity is expected to occur over the March-May time period, culminating in June 2010 with a draft ‘institutional integrated plan’ or planning document to be widely shared and considered across campus in the fall of 2010. The June 2010 document will help establish overall university strategic priorities, for academic and administrative activities, within the context of Trent University’s vision, mission, structure, and strategic directions. The June 2010 planning document will also summarize a capital plan and a multiyear budget planning framework for the 2010-2014 planning cycle.

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Elements of Trent University Vision for Discussion

Please Give Us Your Feedback on our Online Survey www.trentu.ca/vision

Survey Available January 22 - February 8, 2010

The 2010 World Congress will be held in Melbourne Australia on 6-9th September 2010, with 2 pre-conference skill-sharing days beforehand. The Conference theme is 'Participatory Action Research and Action Learning: Appreciating our Pasts, Comprehending our Presents, Prefiguring our Futures'.

Melbourne, Australia 6th – 9th September, 2010. Plus two pre-congress skill-sharing days (4th - 5th )
Presented by ALARA and The Institute of Development Studies in partnership with Borderlands and oases Graduate School.