Videos of ACES Programs Now Available Online

July 16, 2025

This week ACES launched a channel on the video streaming platform YouTube to make video recordings of its programs more widely available. Recordings of the July 16th ACES Coffee Hour entitled "Espresso Europe" and an April talk about arts and community engagement have already been posted and several other recordings from the past year will gradually be made available on the channel over the coming weeks. 

The ACES YouTube channel in online at https://www.youtube.com/@AcademyofCES. Members are encouraged to visit and subscribe to the channel, and share the link with others who have an interest in university/community collaboration.

Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship to Induct 24 New Members

July 7, 2025

The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES) is pleased to announce the names of twenty-four exceptional scholars and community leaders who have been elected to membership in the Academy in 2025. Each of the new members has a track record of accomplishments related to the advancement of scholarship that serves the public good. Such scholarship is characterized by mutually beneficial collaboration between institutions of higher education and communities of place, practice, interest, action, or circumstance that results in the co-creation of new knowledge. The Academy will induct the new members in an online ceremony held on July 30, 2025.

Download a press release including the list of 2025 inductees.

ACES 2025 Annual Meeting

July 1, 2025 (Updated July 16, 2025)

The annual meeting of the members of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship will be convened on August 19, 2025. To encourage broad participation by the Academy's worldwide membership, the meeting will be offered in two online sessions at:

• 9:00 – 10:30 am EDT (N. America) / 1:00 – 2:30 pm GMT 0*
• 7:30 – 9:00 pm EDT (N. America) / 11:30 pm –1:00 am GMT 0*

Members are asked to see recent email from the Academy for the url and passcode for the sessions.

This year's meeting will be dynamic and build off past years, but feature new aspects, including two short plenaries, a business meeting, and breakouts for discussion among participants on key topics. Working within the theme "Addressing Worldwide Challenges through Community Engagement" ACES members will be asked to participate in breakout sessions focused on either Convening and Planning a World Congress on Community Engagement or Strengthening Partnerships between Communities and Higher Education Institutions through Community Engagement.

Please contact meeting co-chairs Katy Campbell (kc4@ualberta.ca) and Lynette Overby (overbyl@udel.edu) with any questions.

* Because various countries begin and end observing Daylight Savings Time on different dates, members are encouraged to convert these times to their local time, at: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html. To request a calendar invitation with link, please contact ACES Vice President Mary Leuci (leucim@missouri.edu).

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