Re: Lunch meeting today

[Carrie Freshour]

Sorry John, MIA until next Monday.  Good work and sending encouragement. 

carrie

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:12 AM, John Armstrong <jaa...@cornell.edu> wrote:

Hello cPARNers,

We'll be meeting today for lunch, I apologize for the late notice.  We'll be discussing the upcoming visit from the AR journal editorial board as well as a special funds request we are submitting to assist bringing in a speaker in February.  

I've attached a description of this special funds request for you to review if possible before our meeting today.  

Hope to see you all there for some delicious lunch!

Best,

John

PS.  Here is the prompt for our consultation next Wednesday.  Thank you Todd, Ros, and Eva for working on this.  It looks great!

AR Consultation with cPARN (December 5, 2012 3-5 pm)

Arguably, “public engagement” is Cornell’s phrase of the moment.  From
its inclusion as one of the University’s seven main strategic plan
objectives, to the establishment of a new Center for Engaged Learning
and Research, cPARN is excited public engagement is now front and
center at Cornell.  At the same time we are wary of the University’s
recent tendency to use “Orwellian doublespeak,” to “reimagine” Cornell
in ways that conflict with many of our values regarding public
engagement.  What does the University’s new focus on public engagement

mean for action research here?  How can cPARN leverage this period of

institutional interest in public engagement to advance its agenda to

promote and support action research and public engagement more
generally?  cPARN could as an organization that can keep the
University ‘honest’ and call out “doublespeak” when we hear it.  How
can we most effectively do this?  With breadth and depth of the AR

board’s collective experience in the room, we are particularly
interested in how experiences of board members at their home
institutions can help us deal with the new institutional environment

we are facing at Cornell.

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John Adam Armstrong
Cornell University
Adult and Extension Education

Graduate Resident Fellow, William Keeton House

Imagining America, PAGE Fellow
tel: 501.520.7953
skype: john.adam.armstrong
www.fooddignity.org

http://academic-ally.org/

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Carrie Freshour

Graduate Student
Development Sociology

Cornell University
Email: cr...@cornell.edu

[courtney knapp]

i second Carrie's thanks!  I was trying to get in on this conversation via Skype but it sounds like that won't be an option, for some unknown reason.  bummer.  good luck!

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Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
PhD Candidate
Department of City and Regional Planning
Cornell University
email: ce...@cornell.edu
617-755-8412

Research, Teaching & Professional Portfolio

New City Solutions

Cornell Participatory Action Research Network (CPARN)

"Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things.  And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" - W.E.B. DuBois