This email is from the Rochester Center for Community Leadership and highlights events, opportunities, and news in the world of community-engaged learning.
Hello,
The Community-Engaged Learning team of RCCL hopes that this email finds you all healthy and adapting well to these remote work circumstances. As always we remain committed to helping you keep your courses engaged in community work.
Below are a few updates and opportunities that may be of interest.
The U of R Student Research Expo on April 17th. The C-EL Capstone Students' projects will be featured at this event. If you can, please attend and show them some love! Below is the link to the expo where you can browse the student research projects. The link is not "live" yet but will be live on the 17th: https://ugresearchuofr.padlet.org/ugresearchuofr/researchexpo2020
Urban Fellows Program Seeking Remote Community-based Summer Projects
Since 2002, the Rochester Urban Fellows program has immersed undergraduate students in the Rochester community in ways that have moved organization missions forward and contributed in transformational ways to the education of our students.
Due to COVID-19, the University’s Rochester Center for Community Leadership will not be able to conduct the Urban Fellows program in-person. However, we are still passionate about supporting our community through this challenge with the resources we have. Some of the projects that we are partnering with this summer will be able to adapt to a remote format; however, others will not, and so we are seeking additional projects that meet the following guidelines:
Organization Requirements:
· 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization or public agency (e.g. municipal office or school district).
· Capacity to supervise a student using remote technology (students can use UR’s Zoom license) -- consider time (1 hr/week+) and equipment
Project Requirements
· Anti-poverty focus
Priority areas include education (combating summer learning loss) and healthy futures (providing summer food, combating opioid epidemic, combating COVID-19 pandemic
Can also focus on economic opportunity (employment, housing)
· Full-time remote work
· Substantial enough for 30 hours/week for 10 weeks (~300 hours of service)
We will review projects on a rolling basis, with priority given to projects received by Monday, April 20.
The Campus Compact community had expected to gather in Seattle this spring to exchange ideas and build networks to advance the realization of a shared vision of full-participation communities and a full-participation country. While the spread of the coronavirus in the United States has forced us to remain physically separated from each other, it has also reminded us of our profound and inevitable interdependence—and thus the necessity of our work. In the face of crisis, our best hope is coming together with others based on shared values and commitments.
The Compact20 Virtual Gathering will offer a compact, online-only conference over three days—providing free, accessible opportunities for learning, networking, and pursuing our ongoing commitments. Throughout, we will emphasize key questions facing us now, exploring topics such as online community-engaged learning, civic digital literacy, place-based justice, civic learning ecosystems, student voting participation, and more.
