International Partnership Institute at Portland State - Call and Open Registration

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE
"Reciprocal Partnerships: Transforming Higher Education and Community for the Future"
May 18 & 19, 2009; Portland, Oregon
Registration: $200

The First Annual International Partnership Institute will convene an international group of faculty, students, community partners and administrators who are similarly interested in advancing the understandings and practices of community-higher education partnerships. The Institute is organized around two goals: building a strong knowledge-base of partnership understandings and practices; and creating an international network to improve partnership development in higher education. The motivation for establishing the Institute is to address a critical gap in the broader field of community engagement in higher education by better understanding community-campus partnership development.

Partnerships must be at the center of all proposals submitted. To be sufficiently competitive, proposals that focus on program descriptions, program evaluations, or "how-to" strategies must describe how the topics discussed will advance the nature, quality, and/or quantity of partnerships. Pure descriptions of community-higher education partnership programs are unlikely to be accepted unless they are accompanied by analysis that advances understanding and knowledge in the field.

Topics for presentations should address one or more of the following:
- Community partnerships and community impact;
- Implications of partnerships on pedagogy and instruction;
- Impact of partnerships on student learning;
- Implications of partnerships on faculty roles and rewards, and faculty development models;
- Disciplinary and interdisciplinary models for working in partnerships;
- Sustainability and partnerships; and
- Results of longitudinal studies.

Each proposal will be sent to at least two individuals for peer review. The following criteria will be used to evaluate proposals:
- Topic (originality, statement of problem/issue, importance);
- Relevance and clarity (application to the study of partnerships);
- Contributions to advancing community-university partnership research (methodological
contributions, theoretical significance, etc.);
- Implications for further research, practice, policy; development of ideas;
- Written proposal (quality of writing, clarity, logic, organization);
- Audience appeal; and
- Opportunities for discussion and interaction.

To be considered, all proposals must be received via electronic submission by 5:00 p.m. (Pacific), March 9th, 2009. All proposals will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers, and notification of the results of review will be sent by the end of March.

There is no limit to the number of proposals that may be submitted by an individual or group of individuals. However, a proposal submission form must be completed for each proposal submitted.

Proposals must include:
1) Proposal Submission Form
2) A description of the presentation, including topic, format, and interactive elements (not to exceed 500 words)
3) Abstract of presentation that will be included in the conference program (not to exceed 75 words)

The proposal submission form http://www.pdx.edu/media/r/f/RFP_writable_form.pdf
is a writable PDF. Completed proposals should be saved as a PDF using the author’s name (eg., Smith_Proposal.doc), and submitted as an attachment to an email sent to Anya Hankin at ahankin@pdx.edu