Month: August 2013


Planners Release Key Dates for 14th Annual Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference (ESC) at Texas Tech University

Faculty, student and community scholars whose proposals have been accepted for presentation at ESC 2013 will be notified regarding their time, place and category of presentation on July 15. Those presenters will then have a deadline of July 30 to register for the conference, which is scheduled for October 8-9. The last day to qualify…


Looking Back and to the Future of the Parent Leadership Academy in West Alabama

By Dr. Heather Pleasants Director, CCBP Office of Community Education (The following profile looks at the Parent Leadership Academy (PLA), one of this campus’ leading engaged scholarship projects.) It has been my privilege to direct the PLA almost since its founding in 2007, but I will be the first to say that the program’s continual…