To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Richard Herman" <chancellor@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Request for Proposals/Civic Commitment Task Force

Date:    September 6, 2006

To:      All Faculty and Academic Professionals

From:    Richard Herman, Chancellor

RE:      Request for Proposals from Civic Commitment Task Force


Early in 2006, I appointed the Chancellor's Task Force on Civic Commitment 
in the 21st Century to help create a sharpened and sustained campus 
emphasis on advancing the public good.  I asked the group to begin 
developing a campus-wide scholarly agenda that would explore how we as a 
university will help students and society meet the challenges of modern 
citizenship.  To share more about this evolving initiative, Professor Jim 
Wescoat, Task Force chair, will be the featured speaker at the Know Your 
University program presented by the University YMCA on October 3, 2006.

As part of its broader set of initiatives, the Task Force has established 
an opportunity for faculty and staff to participate in the strengthening 
of civic commitment on our campus.  I have committed the resources to fund 
a number of grants of up to $20,000 each to help the Task Force explore 
the many dimensions of civic engagement on our campus and to create new 
and meaningful educational opportunities for our students.

Details of the Request for Proposals can be found at the link below.  
Please consider submitting a proposal for new or restructured courses, 
programs or other civic-related intellectual exploration.  It is my 
expectation that the best of your ideas eventually will be woven into the 
fabric of the campus and become synonymous with the excellence of a 
University of Illinois education.  

www.oc.uiuc.edu/engagement
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