A global coalition of universities committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education. • Founded in 2005 in Talloires, France, by 29 presidents from 23 countries • More than 300 members in more than 70 countries • Elected international steering committee

1. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities:
Engaging South and North
Dr. Lorlene Hoyt, Director of Programs and Research
Publishers for Development
Forward Thinking: Developing a Global Research Cycle
October 15, 2013

2. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
What is the Talloires Network?
A global coalition of universities committed to strengthening the civic roles
and social responsibilities of higher education.
• Founded in 2005 in Talloires, France, by 29 presidents from 23 countries
• More than 300 members in more than 70 countries
• Elected international steering committee

3. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
The Talloires Declaration
“We believe that higher education institutions exist to serve and strengthen
the society of which they are part. Through the learning, values and
commitment of faculty, staff and students, our institutions create social
capital, preparing students to contribute positively to local, national and
global community. Universities has the responsibility to foster in faculty, staff
and students a sense of social responsibility and commitment to the social
good.”
--Talloires Declaration, 2005

4. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Elected Steering Committee
• Mark Gearan: Chair; President,
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
(USA)
• Janice Reid: Vice-Chair; Vice-
Chancellor, University of Western
Sydney (Australia)
• Lisa Anderson: President, American
University in Cairo (Egypt)
• Scott Cowen: President, Tulane
University (USA)
• Sharifah Hapsah Shahabudin: Vice-
Chancellor, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia (Malaysia)
• Shamsh Kassim Lakha: Founding
President, Aga Khan University
(Pakistan)
• Anthony Monaco: President, Tufts
University (USA)
• Olive Mugenda: Vice-Chancellor,
Kenyatta University (Kenya)
• José María Sanz Martinez: Rector,
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
(Spain)
• Jerome Slamat: Chairperson, South
African Higher Education Community
Engagement Forum (South Africa)
• John Wood: Secretary
General, Association of
Commonwealth University
(UK)

5. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Where is the Talloires Network?

6. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Power of Regional Networks

7. • The MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship
• Youth Economic Participation Initiative (YEPI)
• University Volunteer Program
• Faculty and Staff Professional Development
• Action Research Program
The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Talloires Network Programs

8. • Recognizing and providing financial support to member
universities
• Emphasizing student and community leadership,
demonstrated impact on university and societal problems
• Awarding 3 prizes each year (2009-2013)
• Receiving 68 applications each year (on average)
The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship

9. • $5.9 million global initiative in partnership with the MasterCard
Foundation
• Addressing global crisis in youth unemployment by supporting
universities to transition students into the work force
• Supporting 8 demonstration sites ($350,000 each)
• Exchanging knowledge through a global community of practice
• Launched in 2012, will run through 2016
The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Youth Economic Development Program

10. • Pilot program, hosted by TN and Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid launched in 2013 with funding by Banco Santander
• Goal is to promote global civic engagement and community
building through the international exchange of student
volunteers within Talloires Network member institutions
The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University Volunteer Program

11. • New TN initiative funded by the Pearson Foundation and
supported administratively by Innovations in Civic Participation
(ICP)
• Goal is to impart to participants the technical skills and
knowledge that will enable them to expand and strengthen civic
engagement efforts at their universities, as well as develop
strategies and methods to promote institutional policy change
and quality improvement
• There are specific areas of focus for Executives (Leadership and
Management Skills and Strategy) and Faculty and Staff (Best
Practices, Effective Techniques, Interventions and Models)
The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Faculty and Staff Professional Development Program

12. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Action Research Program
• Taking advantage of opportunities for research embedded in and
cutting across programs and activities
• Focusing on 16 university civic engagement programs in 12
countries: Malaysia, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan, Australia, Scotland,
Chile, U.S.A, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe
• 1 program from each region of the globe, 3/4 representing the
global south, more than 1/3 in sub-Saharan Africa
• Encouraging South-North and South-South learning
• Key areas of research: 1) university civic engagement exemplars, 2)
economic development and participation and 3) incentives and
rewards for engaged faculty

13. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Guiding Questions
•University Civic Engagement Exemplars
•How do universities in different regions of the world understand their civic mission?
•To what problems of civic life are they attempting to address through efforts to better
engage students in communities?
• What practices are universities around the world using to better engage students in
communities beyond service learning?
•How do such practices evolve over time?
• What difference have these made in the civic capacities of students and communities?
What are the challenges?
• How do universities and communities define civic learning outcomes? How do they assess
them?
• Economic Development and Participation
•How can civic engagement contribute to the economic participation of university
graduates in various contexts?
•In what ways do universities link their civic engagement programs with efforts to improve
graduate economic participation?
• What are the specific characteristics of the entrepreneurial mindset?
• How can universities prepare entrepreneurial students to launch or join small businesses
that have a positive social and economic impact in their communities?
•How do service learning and other engaged pedagogies contribute to entrepreneurship
education and graduate employability?
•In transitioning from education to employment, how are the challenges that women face
different from those faced by men?

14. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Action Research Program: Research Foci
Region Country University Program
Asia Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Service-Learning to Support Graduate
Transformation and SME Development
Asia Malaysia International Medical University Kampung Angkat
Asia Pakistan
Lahore University of Management
Sciences
Literaty Pakistan
Australia Australia University of Western Sydney Refugee Action Support
Europe Scotland University of Glasgow Activate
Latin America Chile Universidad Austral de Chile Nucleus for Entrepre-Learning: Prendete UACh!
Latin America Mexico Universidad Veracruzana Engagement Program with the Productive Sector
Latin America Mexico
Tecnológico de Monterrey
University
at Querétaro
Brigadas Comunitarias
North Africa Egypt American University in Cairo Lazord Academy
North America U.S.A Auburn University Living Democracy
Sub-Saharan Africa Burkina Faso
International Institute for Water
and Environmental Engineering
2iE
Promoting Science-based Social
Entrepreneurship in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa Rwanda Umutara Polytechnic Solve the Equation East-Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa S. Africa University of Venda Amplifying Grassroots Community Voices
Sub-Saharan Africa S. Africa University of the Witwatersrand TBD
Sub-Saharan Africa S. Africa University of Cape Town Graduate Entrepreneur Support Service
Sub-Saharan Africa Zimbabwe University of Zimbabwe PaNhari

15. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
UKM – Service-Learning to Support Graduate Transformation and
SME Development
• UKM is one of the leading research universities in Malaysia
•Program run by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small and
Medium Enterprises Development
• Goal: Use experience-based, transformational and skill enhancement
learning environment to consolidate students’ knowledge in their areas
of expertise with entrepreneurial and consultancy skills for the
development of SMEs
• Two program components
• Basic training in entrepreneurship during undergraduate studies
• “Finishing school” training to enhance technical and business skills, followed by an
internship program
• Program will be extended to students outside UKM including those at
National Cheng Kung University, Informatics Business Institute-
Dharmajaya and Universiti Malaysia Kelantan

16. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
International Medical University (Malaysia) – Kampung Angkat
• IMU is Malaysia’s first private medical university
•“Village adoption” project was launched in 2007 as part of IMU’s
CSR and in conjunction with IMU’s 15th anniversary
• Each of the three campuses adopted a village, with the Clinical
School adopting Kampung Tekir
• Goal: Enable mecical and nursing undergraduate students to
practice their knowledge and clinical skills in a rural setting while
villages receive health education and services
• Programs are held every 3-4 months, with one major program
every year and several smaller programs

17. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Lahore University of Management Sciences – Literaty Pakistan
• LUMS is a leading Pakistani business, social science, law and
engineering institution
•Goal: Provide an “accelerator” platform to university students to
conceive, design and implement projects/enterprises of their own and
see them through from conception to realization
• Aim to expand the “Social Innovation Desk” to serve as a hub for all
LUMS students to share ideas
•Conduct summer immersion program on social entrepreneurship as
part of the National Outreach Program
•Current/past projects
• Publishing of social entrepreneurship book co-authored by students
• Creation of incubation space for student-led start ups

18. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University of Western Sydney – Refugee Action Support
• UWS has six campuses across Greater Western Sydney with a
mission linked to the development of the region, home to 100
nationalities
• Collaborative effort of UWS, Charles Stuart University, Sydney
University, the Australian Numeracy and Literacy Foundation and
the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities
• Goal: Increase literacy and social development of refugee students
in primary and secondary schools in Western and South Western
suburbs of Sydney
•Pre-service education, social work and speech pathology students
are trained by ANLF to support learning of humanitarian refugee
students as part of this compulsory service-learning course

19. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University of Glasgow - Activate
•Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English speaking world
and offers a BA in community development
• Goal: Give local people who are active in their communities an
opportunity to reflect on what they do and why they do it in order to be
more effective in getting their voices heard for the groups and
communities they live and work in
• Partner with local organizations and agencies to run courses in
response to community capacity building agenda
• Contributes to sustainability of organizations, networks and initiatives
and increased community participation
•Explores topics such as community, discrimination, local and global
issues, working with groups and undertaking a small community
research project

20. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Universidad Austral de Chile – Nucleus for Entrepre-Learning:
Emprendete UACh!
• UACh has a long history of preparing students for business careers
and training entrepreneurs
•Goal: Generate interactive entrepreneurship and learning
experiences with students, professors and community partners in an
effort to strengthen the development of the capacities, networks,
and strategies that will position youth to be protagonists in the
generation of employment in the region
• Uses emprendizaje (entrepre-learning) methodology
• Three phases process: education, implementation and follow-up
• 150 students and 48 professors will participate in the program

21. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Universidad Veracruzana – Engagement Program with the
Productive Sector
• UV is main public university in Veracruz, Mexico, with 5 regional
campuses
•Engagement is at the core of UV’s academic functions
•UV Engagement Programs have existed for 20 years
• Have created alliances and spaces to facilitate links between
academic activities and local communities
• Goal: Increase employment opportunities for young UV graduates
based on regional vocations, fostering entrepreneurship,
professional training, knowledge transfer, community development
and coordination with public, private and social sectors with special
focus on indigenous population and gender equality

22. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Tecnológico de Monterrey University – Brigadas Comunitarias
• Tec is a private Mexican university with campuses throughout the
country and international offices in North America, Europe and Asia
• Goal: For students to work with communities to generate change and
find solutions to problems
•Builds bridges between government, civil society and philanthropic
organizations
• Three stage approach where interdisciplinary teams of students visit
the community and design a project, spend 2-4 weeks living and
working in the community over summer or winter break and then
prepare a final presentation after they return
•Examples of student/community projects include: launching a company
that transforms wine and beer bottles into eyeglasses and providing
mentoring to girls at an orphanage

23. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
American University in Cairo – Lazord Academy
• AUC is an independent, non-profit, non-sectarian and mulitcultural
university which balances academics with a concern for the MENA
region’s needs
• Vision of a dynamic, modern Middle East led by innovative
technologies, practices and models for development and the reviving of
history in arts, literature, science and architecture with connected
individuals
• Goal: Enable students to develop professionally while also teaching
them how to be responsible, civic oriented professionals, all them to
seize opportunities in their field for civic development
• Program combines workshops inside the classroom and guided
reflection exercises
• Five categories of civic education: values, attitude and behavior,
knowledge, skills and practice

24. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Auburn University – Living Democracy
• Auburn is a land-grant, public university with traditions of service and
access
• Goal: Launch community-student relationships through which
students learn about the hopes and dreams of the Alabama community
and the unrealized potential of the town’s assets
•Provides undergraduate students a living-learning summer experience
in community development in Alabama communities
• Program is coupled with courses in civic engagement and community
journalism
• Some projects undertaken by students in collaboration with the
communities include: development of canoe trail/rental service, and
creation of economic development DVD script

25. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
2iE – Promoting Science-based Social Entrepreneurship in Africa
• 2iE is a bilingual, higher education institute and research center
• All 2iE students are trained to be “entrepreneurial-engineers”
• Goal: Boost the African economy with the creation of high valued
start-ups involved in green business, poverty reduction and job
creation
•Ecosystem combines training, research and businesses onsite
• Develop managerial training curricula and extend services to
entrepreneurs outside of 2iE

26. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Umutara Polytechnic – Solve the Equation East-Africa
• UP began as a community initiative and was taken over by the
government in 2009
• Collaborative network between UP, Makerere University, University
of Nairobi and Muhimbiri University
•Goal: Increase graduate employment in East Africa through
innovative educational solutions
• Incubation center will be created at all SEE partner universities
• Program will support piloting and mentoring of successful business
ideas up to their commercialization

27. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University of Venda – Amplifying Grassroots Community Voices
• Originally founded to serve the Venda Bantustan, with the end of
apartheid, Univen now focuses on science and technology
•Goal: Address the disconnect between the local government and
the communities that it is supposed to represent through
community platforms
•Reflection circles are facilitated by students and mediated by
community peers to address local development issues in a
democratic manner and enable the grassroots community to make
decisions
• Brings together children, teenagers, men, women and the elderly
to empower the community use its resources to achieve
development aims

28. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University of the Witwatersrand - TBD
• Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Country: South Africa
• Enrollment: 28, 453

29. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University of Cape Town – Graduate Entrepreneur Support Service
•UCT is the oldest university in Cape Town with the expansion of
enhancement of its contribution to South Africa’s development
challenges as one of its strategic goals
• Goal: Offer disadvantaged youth excluded from the tertiary
education a chance to develop themselves and make a difference in
their future and the future of their communities
•Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development
(RAA) offers a 6 month program in entrepreneurial development
• GESS is for RAA graduates and alumni who would like to start a
new business or build an existing business

30. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
University of Zimbabwe - PaNhari
• Goal: Tackle the problem of youth unemployment and
underemployment through tertiary institutions-based programmatic
models that economically empower them for wealth create and
fosters their transition into the 21st century workforce
• Three interacting initiatives
•Passport to Success – entrepreneurship training
•Incubator – non-cognitive life and workforce skills
•Social Action – engaging youth in civic engagement
• Hosted by UZ but also works with 6 other universities
•Will benefit 750 youth over the three years of the YEPI program

31. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Recent Publications
• The Engaged University by D. Watson, R. Hollister, S. Stroud, and E. Babcock
published by Routledge
• “The Talloires Network: A Global Coalition of Engaged Universities” published in
The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement by R. Hollister, J.
Pollock, M. Gearan, J. Reid, S. Stroud, and E. Babcock
• Transforming Cities and Minds Through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy,
Equity and Environment by L. Hoyt, published by Vanderbilt University Press,
March 2013
• “Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Growing Global Movement” an article for
Forum (European Association for International Education) by R. Hollister and M.
Gearan.
• “Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement.” Published and distributed by the
Talloires Network. Written by L. Hoyt and J. Pollock.
• Annotated bibliography on anchor institutions and community revitalization by L.
Hoyt, R. Hollister, and E. Holden.

32. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Future Research Production
• Forthcoming Publications
• “Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Expanding Global Movement of Engaged
Universities.” By L. Hoyt and R. Hollister in B. Hall and R. Tandon (eds.) Knowledge,
Engagement and Higher Education: Rethinking Social Responsibility to be published by
Palgrave Macmillan in January 2014.
• An essay for “Institutionalizing the Civic” by R. Hollister for Bringing Theory To Practice’s
Civic Provocations series, edited by Jill Reich
• Papers-in-progress
• “Universities Without Walls: Engaging Our World” by J. Reid. Keynote address at
Association of Commonwealth Universities 100th Anniversary Conference.
• An article entitled “Chasing the Tail: Community-based Learning, Civic Engagement and
Student Protest in Revolutionary Egypt” by Amy Newcomb Rowe and Martin Timothy
Rowe for a special issue of Critical Sociology (A Critical Assessment of Community-
Based Research)
• Research-in-progress
• Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement expanded series
• Regional Perspectives on University Civic Engagement

33. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Research Support and Sharing
• TN encourages and supports research on incentives and rewards for
engaged faculty among our members and partners
• By leading the develop of curriculum for training faculty and staff to
conduct engaged scholarship
• Creating a repository of research publications on engaged scholarship
• Gathering and sharing faculty promotion and tenure policies and
guidelines
• TN functions as a global resource by maintaining virtual and physical
libraries on the broader topic of civic engagement and social
responsibility in higher education as well as research in these two areas.
• Presenting research and promoting new publications at conferences,
workshops, etc.
• Accumulating and posting relevant research products to the TN web site
• Showcasing our own as well as member and partner research publications in
the monthly TN newsletter and blasting updates via Facebook and Twitter.

34. The Global Movement of Engaged Universities
Our Vision
• Majority of universities worldwide collaborate actively with
nearby communities
• Universities become more effective engines of social and
economic development
• Partnerships achieve positive community impacts and academic
excellence
• Society moves from a mono-culture of scientific knowledge to an
ecology of knowledge
• Ivory tower is a relic and the gold standard in higher education is
the engaged university

35. Thank You
Lorlene.Hoyt@tufts.edu
talloiresnetwork@tufts.edu
http://talloiresnetwork.tufts.edu/
facebook.com/talloiresnetwork
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