In Spring 2009 UWM officially joined Imagining America: Scholars and Artists in Public Life, “a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design” (http://www.imaginingamerica.org/). And we now have a Steering Committee! |
Read the information letter from IA Director Jan Cohen-Cruz |
IA Quicklinks Engaged Scholarship and Faculty Rewards (read the article)The Curriculum Project (visit the site)The National Conference in 2009 (find out more)UWM faculty presenting at the 2009 conference include Provost Rita Cheng, Ferne Bronson (Dance), Cheryl Ajirotutu (Anthropology), and Gregory Jay (English) |
Our benefits as a member include its national conferences, grants programs, and support for graduate students pursuing public scholarship and community engagement.
Among the activities Imagining America promotes are:
• Scholarly and creative work jointly planned and carried out by university and community partners;
• Intellectual work that produces a public good;
• Artistic, critical, and historical work that contributes to public debates;
• Efforts to expand the place of public scholarship in higher education itself, including the development of new programs and research on the successes of such efforts.
UWM’s membership has been made possible by the generous support of Chancellor Santiago and Provost Cheng; the Cultures and Communities Program and the Center on Age and Community will initially handle campus coordination, with Gregory Jay and Anne Basting serving as the two designated campus representatives for reporting purposes. They hope to gather together a network of people interested in the agenda of Imagining America and willing to brainstorm and/or lead campus and community initiatives. Download the preliminary Action Plan for Imagining America at UWM for further information.
Please visit the Imagining America web site given above to familiarize yourself with its mission. If you are interested in participating or coming to a brainstorming session, please let us know (gjay@uwm.edu or basting@uwm.edu). Better yet, download and fill out our brief IA@UWM Interest Survey and return it by campus mail or email.
TimeSlips: TimeSlips is a group process that opens storytelling to people with cognitive challenges by replacing the pressure to remember with the encouragement to imagine.
UWM in New Olreans: An initiative connecting UWM teaching and research with the redevelopment of New Olreans' 9th Ward.
