Archive Aug 17, 2011

Blogging the PHI: Beauties of Ruins

By Abigail Celis
Aug 17, 2011
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Take a chair at any boutique-y restaurant and you’re as likely to see its patrons snapping photos of their plates as eating it. Uploading these photos to social networking sites and blogs, indulging in “food porn,” is a socially accepted pastime. In Detroit, you might be more likely to find “ruin porn,” or the photography ...

2012 grantees report on their project “Democracy Here and There: The Arab Spring and Arab American Youth”
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Video documenting “Corsets, Grains, & Greenways: Dancing Downtown Ann Arbor.”
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The 2013 Arts of Citizenship Institute for Social Change
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Resources

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life

Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design.

Imagining America Tenure Team Initiative Final Report

As the first project of the Tenure Team Initiative, a comprehensive and freely accessible resource for faculty and administrators interested in supporting public scholarship at the university has been developed.

Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit

This excellent resource is the work of TRUCEN. TRUCEN is a network of research universities working to implement a vision of civic and community engagement. Campus Compact serves as secretariat of this network.

Campus Compact

Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents - representing some 6 million students - dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education.