Sponsored by the Nonprofit Management Center

Location: 1110 Weill, Ford School of Public Policy.

Guest speaker: Neel Hajra, Chief Executive Officer, Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Title: John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society

Location: Biomedical Science Research Building Auditorium, 109 Zina Pitcher Place

Description: Speaker Brewster Kahle will headline the John Seely Brown Symposium with his talk on "The Closing of Library Services... The Opening of Library Services."

Brewster Kahle is a co-founder of the Internet Archive and has over twenty years experience in the area of technology, business, and law. For more information on Brewster Kahle, see http://www.archive.org/about/bios.php and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle.

Location:
Lansing Center, Lansing MI

See http://www.mnaonline.org/nonprofit08.asp for more details.

Location: W2740 Wyly, Ross School of Business.

Description: Interested in learning more about the Nonprofit and Public Management Center? Attend this event and find out about NPM’s programs and how you can be involved. Pizza and beverages provided!

More info at http://nonprofit.umich.edu/news_events/upcoming_events.php#event2

Location: 1230 Weill, Ford School of Public Policy.

Join us on Sunday, September 7th from 7:30 - 9:30 pm for a potluck with the Community Information Corps. The goal of CIC is "to understand the community and empower it through the training in and use of information and communication technologies." All specializations and all years (including alumni) are welcome.

Come meet other CIC-ers, enjoy some good food, and discuss ideas for CIC for the coming year (speakers, events, projects, readings, etc). Please RSVP at http://cic.si.umich.edu/node/822.

Professor Dan Atkins, Kellogg Professor of Community Information, will be speaking about his work at the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation.

Location: 311 West Hall

Heard of the opportunity to be a dScribe? Interested in Open CourseWare and Open Educational Resources (OER)?  Perhaps it's all new to you and it just sounds interesting.  Whatever the case may be, come learn more about the University of Michigan's Open Educational Resource initiative, Open.Michigan, and the unique opportunity available to work with SI faculty, classmates, and members of the U-M OER team to create OER materials as a dScribe.  

Presenters: Garin Fons and Pieter Kleymeer (SI/CIC alumni)

Location: Erlicher Room, 4th floor West Hall

Food: Pizza will be served
 

http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/

Berkeley, CA. Research Paper submissions due by February 15!

About the Questioning Authority Conference

General Conference Information

The Questioning Authority Conference will provide an opportunity for
scholars and professionals from a variety of fields to generate a rich
dialogue and intellectual arena on the topic of authority of digital
resources. The combination of a keynote speaker, professional panels,
student paper panels, student poster sessions, workshops, and library
tours will provide an opportunity for graduate students across the
country to consider the issues raised by digital information.

REGISTRATION WILL BE HELD AT THE LOCATION OF THE FIRST EVENT YOU ATTEND

Bridging Pipeline, Dialogue, and Urban Revitalization:
Toward a Comprehensive Community Development Agenda

An NCID (National Center for Institutional Diversity) Critical Issues Forum

What are some specific strategies for combining the
strengths of existing U-M diversity pipeline, dialogue, and
community development efforts? How might the bridging of
these three areas strengthen the University of
Michigan's fulfillment of its core mission as a research
university?

Proposal 2 challenges the University of Michigan to devise
specific strategies for strengthening the pipeline that
brings diverse students into the classroom as a basis for
enhancing educational excellence, in ways that also
contribute to community development and involve faculty
members in advancing the core mission of the research
university. Outreach is one approach, but only if outreach
is conceived as a form of sustainable community development
and high-quality scholarship.

This forum will bring together key campus and community
stakeholders who have commitment to this purpose and who
want to advance it for its educational benefits and as a
model for higher education worldwide.

The forum will occur on Friday, January 25th, from 4-5:30p.m., in the Tribute Room of the School of Education (room #1322). We'll begin with remarks from three panelists and then move into full-group discussion:

Professor Barry Checkoway, School of Social Work (dialogue)

Professor June Thomas, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (urban revitalization)

Professor Percy Bates, Director of Programs for Educational Opportunity, School of Education
(pipeline)

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) invites you to attend the STPP GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM INFORMATION SESSION scheduled for:

TUESDAY  JANUARY 22
ROOM 1110 WEILL HALL (located at the Ford School of Public Policy)
7:00PM -8:30PM 
There will be a PIZZA RECEPTION immediately following the information session.

THE PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION SESSION is to introduce the STPP Program to prospective students and to answer questions about the admissions process.  The pizza gathering will provide an opportunity for prospective students to meet STPP grads and faculty, and for our new STPP grads to meet each other.

For additional information about the STPP Graduate Certificate Program you can visit the Ford School website:   www.stpp.fordschool.umich.edu
or  send email to: stpp@umich.edu

The first planning meeting for CIC member Rachel Pultusker's Community Media Center on Wheels project will be held tomorrow in 405 W. Hall at 10:15 am. 

Board Fellows Orientation and Welcome Reception

Thursday, December 13, 6 p.m., Rm. W2759 Wyly Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Nonprofitand Public Management Center welcomes students interested
and enrolled in the Nonprofit and Public Management Center's Board
Fellows program.

Cocktails,
Conversation, & a Theory of Change - a free event hosted by Teach For
America and Google.  Please join
us next week Monday, December 10th at Goodnight
Gracie's at 8pm.  We want this event to be huge and really need
your support.  We are hoping you can attend this event and bring two
friends (or more!) with you.  We realize this is a very busy week as
the semester comes to a close, but truly need your presence to achieve
success.  There will be free drinks as well as
appetizers (what a great study
break!).  Please let us know if you can make it (via
evite - this will arrive in your inbox soon!).

Next Generation of Philanthropy

Thursday, December 6, 4:30 p.m., Rm. 1230 Weill Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The panel discussion will include Robert Collier, President and CEO,
Council of Michigan Foundations, and John Chamberlin, professor of
Public Policy and Political Science, University of Michigan.

From:
michael reisch <mreisch@umich.edu>

The SAA Student Organization would like to invite everyone to an
> informal engagement with Verne Harris. He is the Project Manager for
> the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
> in South Africa and will be leading an informal discussion on Archives
> and Justice at SI on December 14 from 4 to 5pm in the Ehrlicher Room.
> Many of us know Mr. Harris from his writings on Archives, Politics,
> and Justice from the former SI 504 and other ARM classes. Please join
> us for this special opportunity. Refreshments will be provided.
>
> "Verne Harris is Project Manager for the Nelson Mandela Centre of
> Memory at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and an honorary research
> associate at the University of the Witwatersrand. He participated in
> a range of structures which transformed South Africa's apartheid
> public records system – amongst others, the African National
> Congress's Archives Committee, the Arts and Culture Task Group, the
> Consultative Forum which drafted the National Archives of South Africa
> Act, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the South African
> History Archive. Widely published, he is best known for the books
> Exploring Archives: An Introduction to Archival Ideas and Practice in
> South Africa (1997, 2000 and 2004), Refiguring the Archive (2002), A
> Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela's Prison Archive
> (2005), and Archives and Justice (2007). He is also the author of two
> novels, both of which were short-listed for South Africa's M-Net Book
> Prize."
> [from http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/archives_conf.html]

Global Impact Speaker Series

Thursday, November 29, 4:30 p.m., Rm. W2759 Wyly Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Guest speaker: Brian Trelstad of Acumen Fund. Brian Trelstad is the
Chief Investment Officer for Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture
fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of
global poverty. Co-sponsored by the William Davidson Institute.