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Registration is now open for our 2012 OUP National Conference!
This conference will be held April 23–26, 2012, at the Roosevelt Hotel in historic New Orleans, Louisiana. We are currently working on finalizing the details for what we believe will be an inspiring and informative event! To see some of what we're working on:
Be sure to register and secure your hotel space today!
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Langston University, rooted in the red clay of Langston City, Oklahoma, and winner of four HBCU grants from OUP, has recently transformed its on-campus HUD/HBCU program office into the Langston University Center for Community Engagement. More than just a name change, the center has broadened the scope of its mission to assist with the economic development of its tri-campus areas.
Center staff recently announced the completion in 2011 of a major renovation/rejuvenation of the city's Main Street, which included widening the highway, constructing a 1-mile stretch of sidewalk, and installing 1 mile of street lighting. "This was just one example of the positives that can arise through the partnership between Langston University and the town of Langston City," said Linda Tillman, director for Langston’s Center for Community Engagement. "By working together, we are able to leverage so much more for the community, which is beneficial to the university in building a college town for our students."
Currently, the Center for Community Engagement is using its 2010 HBCU funding toward a renovation project for the town’s dilapidated softball field, which would convert it into an NCAA regulation size field. A memorandum of agreement between the town of Langston and Langston University will allow the NCAA-regulated field to become the home of Langston University’s softball team. The Langston Economic Development Authority also provided a sub-grant to help supplement the OUP funding for the softball field.
A previous HBCU grant funded the construction of a Fresh Food Farmer’s Market, which is scheduled for completion this June.
Since broadening its mission, Langston’s Center for Community Engagement has assisted the town of Langston with numerous revitalization and restoration projects, funded through a variety of sources beyond the original OUP funding that initiated their focus on community improvement. The center's ongoing efforts highlight how OUP funding continues to serve as a catalyst for commitment from anchor institutions to the empowerment and improvement of their surrounding communities.
To learn more about Langston's Center for Community Engagement, please visit them online at www.langston.edu/lu-oklahoma_city/hudhbcu_programs.aspx. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University School of Nursing, and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have joined together to announce the Summer Public Health Scholars Program (SPHSP). Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of the Director, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, SPHSP hopes to help undergraduate students to increase interest and knowledge of public health and biomedical science careers.
SPHSP is designed for students who will have completed at least 2 years of college at the beginning of the program, or recent college graduates (after April 2011) who have not been accepted into a graduate program and who have a minimal GPA of 2.5. African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, people with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged individuals are encouraged to apply.
This 10-week summer program that begins May 28, 2012, and ends August 3, 2012, includes: public health coursework at Columbia University; hands-on field experience and immersion in a diverse, economically disadvantaged urban environment; seminars and lectures with public health leaders; and mentoring by faculty members, ensuring student exposure to the breadth and importance of public health as a career option.
To apply for admission into SPHSP, please complete the application and mail it for receipt by no later than Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
Send complete application package to:
For more information and program application, please visit the SPHSP website or email sphsp-ps@columbia.edu. To encourage a new generation of urban policymakers and to promote early career research, USAID’s Urban Programs Team, International Housing Coalition (IHC), World Bank, Woodrow Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Project (CUSP), and Cities Alliance are co-sponsoring a third annual paper competition. The competition seeks paper submissions for an upcoming policy workshop and paper competition on urban poverty in the developing world. Winning papers will be published and selected authors will present their papers in a policy workshop to be held in Washington, D.C., in October 2012. The grand prize winner will also present at the World Urban Forum in September, 2012 in Naples, Italy.
Papers must be linked to one of the following sub-topics:
Papers should be policy-based and solutions-oriented and should critically examine existing projects and/or propose new strategies for tackling issues related to urban poverty. Papers from a variety of disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary perspectives are appropriate, including (but not limited to): urban planning, economics, political science, geography, public policy, sociology, environment, and anthropology.
This call for papers is directed at Ph.D. students and advanced masters degree students. To be eligible, applicants should be currently enrolled in a degree or post-doctoral program. Interested applicants must submit an abstract (500-word maximum limit) and a brief CV to the selection committee by February 20, 2012. Submissions should be sent to Nancy Leahy at nleahy@usaid.gov.
A panel composed of members of the sponsor organizations will review submitted abstracts and request full papers from approximately 15 authors. Applicants will be notified in early March whether they will be asked to write a full paper, which will be due by April 30, 2012.
To learn more about this call for papers and its requirements, please download the "Reducing Urban Poverty" Call for Papers flyer (PDF; 153KB).
For more information, please contact Nancy Leahy at nleahy@usaid.gov.
To learn more about last year’s competition, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/event/reducing-urban-poverty-policy-workshop.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has recently posted to Grants.gov a call for applicants for their Alaska Native-Serving and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Education Competitive Grants Program.
The purpose of this program is to promote and strengthen the ability of Alaska Native-Serving Institutions and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions to carry out education, applied research, and related community development programs. NIFA intends this program to address educational needs, as determined by each institution, within a broadly defined arena of food and agricultural sciences-related disciplines.
Priority will be given to those projects that enhance educational equity for underrepresented students; strengthen institutional educational capacities; prepare students for careers related to the food, agricultural, and natural resource systems of the United States; and maximize the development and use of resources to improve food and agricultural sciences teaching programs. Grant amounts will range from $150,000 to $450,000.
Individual public or private, nonprofit Alaska Native-serving and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions of higher education that meet the definitions of Alaska Native-Serving Institution or Native Hawaiian-Serving Institution established in Title III, Part A of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1059d.) are eligible institutions under this program. The deadline for applying is March 1, 2012.
To learn more about this grant opportunity and to download the electronic application kit, please visit Grants.gov.
On December 6, 2011, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a partnership with GreatSchools, a national nonprofit educational resource for parents. The intent of this new partnership is to give parents living in public housing or who receive HUD Housing Choice Voucher rental assistance greater access to local school information that will help them make more informed decisions about where to send their children to school.
Based in San Francisco, GreatSchools is a national nonprofit organization that supports parents through a wide variety of web-based resources. The organization’s flagship offering is a database of school performance information for more than 200,000 public, private, and charter schools across the United States. The user-friendly website also has information about how parents can help their children achieve success in PreK-12, including subject-area worksheets, homework help, and college preparation.
GreatSchools and HUD are joining to give parents living in public housing or who receive rental assistance through HUD’s Housing Choice Voucher program the tools to make informed educational choices for their children and become even more involved in their children’s education.
To learn more about this partnership, please read HUD's press release or read the HUDdle blog post written by HUD Assistant Secretary Sandra B. Henriquez.
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