Regional Opportunities
Emergent Immersion: Moving Beyond Service - A Community Engagement Model
Webinar, December 13, 2016
As we diversify student populations, we need program offerings and reflective experiences that invite students to live with greater social consciousness (from host engagement, relationships with one another, and lives back home). International opportunities can widen our gaze, seeing new realities while illuminating our identities and place in the world. This session explores how to integrate this type of identity development into programs...and what often happens when you do. To register, click here.
Elevating Higher Education for the Public Good: Commitment|Action|Impact
2017 Continuums of Service Conference
April 6-8, 2017
Please join the Western Region of Campus Compact for the 19th Continuums of Service Conference in Denver, CO to elevate the commitment, action, and impact of higher education and the public good. The 2017 Continuums of Service Conference will empower students, faculty, administrators, and community partners to embrace a commitment to advance civic and community engagement for a just, equitable, and sustainable future. Click here for the full conference theme statement and goals. Registration is now open!
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National Opportunities
Newman Civic Fellows: Nominations Now Being Accepted!
Nominations for the 2017 Newman Civic Fellowship are now open. All nominations are due by 11:59 PM EST on March 3, 2017. All nominations must be submitted electronically using Campus Compact’s online nomination form. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a fellowship program for community-committed students at Campus Compact member institutions. The fellowship provides training and resources that nurture and develop students’ assets and passions to help them develop innovative and collaborative strategies to bring about social change. To nominate a fellow, click here.
College Positive Volunteerism Pilot Study: Increasing College Access with Mentoring Programs
Deadline to apply: Friday, December 9, 2016
Campus Compact invites member campuses with a focus on college access to participate in this pilot study. For eligibility requirements and the Memorandum of Agreement, please click here or email Kelsie George at kgeorge@compact.org.
Doing Democracy: Asset-Based Engagement & Culture Change (Midwest Campus Compact Conference)
Loyola University, June 6-7, 2017
Proposals Due February 17, 2017
As we advance higher education’s public purposes–and gather in Chicago, home of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute–a focus on our campuses’ and communities’ strengths is critical. To sustain ourselves and enhance our impact, we must also go beyond simply adding more community-engaged courses, research projects, programs, and partnerships. We must understand the identities that shape our work, foster inclusive and equitable spaces for collaboration, support multiple forms of change- making, and integrate a sense of civic agency and responsibility into the core of our institutional cultures. Join the conversation! Click here for more information or to submit a proposal.
Introducing Omprakash EdGE
Omprakash works at the intersection of technology, higher education, and international development to create mutually beneficial relationships between students and grassroots social impact projects. Studentsmay may use Omprakash to find international volunteer and internship opportunities and to receive accredited online training and mentorship via the EdGE online learning platform. Omprakash works with universities to help them create ethical, educational, and affordable global engagement opportunities. Omprakash Ethical Global Engagement Grants support travel, living, and tuition expenses for exceptional students. Recipients join the EdGE learning community and volunteer or intern abroad for 3+ months with Omprakash Partner organizations. Fore more information on the grant, click here.Contact willy@omprakash.org to learn more about options for building customized programs.
For more information on all national and regional Compact conferences, please visit the Upcoming Conferences page on national Campus Compact's website.
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Jobs
Director, Collaborative for Community Engagement
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Executive Director, James Madison Center for Civic Engagement (Listing # 0407737)
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
For additional postings, visit CCMW's Jobs Feed.
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Resources
Two New Releases from the Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities
1) Shared Spaces Journal Issue: This latest issue focuses on the impact of shared learning spaces on communities and what approaches higher education institutions have taken to promote “shared space for shared work.” The issue includes 10 best-practices articles that provide insights, road blocks to avoid, pathways to navigate, funding structures, and everything in between related to the emerging interest in universities creating physical spaces to center their community engagement and anchor work within. The issue in particular highlights the work of universities internationally to create strong partnerships that benefit both the universities and their surrounding communities. With academic institutions around the world providing educational resources to their neighbors, urban and metropolitan universities will be able to extend opportunities to their communities to help solve pressing issues. Article Announcement (with table of contents for the articles): http://www.cumuonline.org/news/318034/Metropolitan-Universities-Journal-Shared-Spaces-Issue-Released.htm
2) Faculty Reward Structures and Engaged Scholarship Issue: Entitled Recognizing Engaged Scholarship in Faculty Reward Structures: Challenges and Priorities, Vol. 27.2 focuses on practical and diverse approaches to the challenge of integrating engaged scholarship into academic culture and policies. The articles offer replicable examples of recognizing community-based work at the school, campus and system level and from a variety of urban and metropolitan institutions. As the academic workforce continues to evolve through the introduction of a growing new generation of scholars, every academic institution will need to consider how policies align with changing cultural values and scholarly methods of teaching, learning and research. In particular, these articles highlight the importance of an explicit alignment of policy, values and campus strategic directions. Journal Issue: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/issue/view/1235
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November Spotlight
SECond Mission VISTA Welcomes Two New Members!
The SECond Mission VISTA team would like to welcome its two newest members, Kalleen Steele and Dakota Brummel!! Kalleen will serve at CU Denver and Dakota will serve at CU Boulder to build each institution's capacity to support student veterans' persistence to graduation. Both members bring valuable experience and skills to the team. We look forward to working with them and can’t wait to see how they continue to support veterans at their sites.
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