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2007 NC Campus Compact Student Conference

Highlights

November 9 – 10, 2007 at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC
“The Student Citizen: Rock the Boat!”

The 2007 Student Conference at East Carolina University was a rousing success with 330 in attendance representing 30 campuses! This makes it the largest Student Conference in NC Campus Compact's history. This number includes 50 high school students from the Project Heart AmeriCorps Program at East Carolina University. See conference highlights below.

Special thanks to the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center at East Carolina University for hosting the conference and the NC Campus Compact Student Advisory Board for all their hard work.

Friday Night Service Project

The conference began on Friday night for 10 campuses who came down early to participate in the service project benefitting Give2theTroops. Students created cards and sorted and packaged items to include in care packages to troops in combat around the world. The Student Advisory Board facilitated an ice-breaker to start the evening and a team from Appalachian State University facilitated a reflection session at the conclusion of the project.

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Opening Session

Included a welcome from Dr. Lisa Keyne, Executive Director of NC Campus Compact, and a pirate skit (playing on the theme "The Student Citizen: Rock the Boat" and the ECU mascot) performed by the Student Advisory Board where they motivated the crowd to "rock the boat!"

Be sure to check out the crowd doing the wave!

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Workshops

Students, VISTA's, staff and community partners presented 32 workshops on campus-based civic engagement topics. Click here for a copy of the 2007 Conference program which contains the workshop descriptions.

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Keynote Address

David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, gave an insightful keynote reminding students that volunteerism and civic engagement is not just "nice but necessary" as it contributes to solving the problems facing our world today.

Awards
NC Campus Compact presented 26 students with the Community Impact Student Award for outstanding leadership and innovative approaches in their community service or service-learning endeavors both on their campus and within their community.

Two students received a Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grant for Campus-Community Collaboration for proposing the most innovative and promising use of the $1000 grant to establish or significantly further a partnership between the student (and his or her school) and a community non-profit organization.

Click here to read the awards program which contains bios of the Community Impact Studet Award winners as well as descriptions of the winning grant proposals.

Closing Session

The Student Advisory Board presented general door prizes and special prizes to the campus that drove the farthest (Western Carolina University), the campus that brought the most students (UNC-Pembroke) and the students that have attended the conference the most times.

2007-2008 NC Campus Compact Student Advisory Board
Allie Davis -Appalachian State University
Grant Smith - Duke University
Erica Miller - East Carolina University
Shannon Waite - Elon University
Joseph Hamby - Gardner-Webb University
Katie Beth Morris - Greensboro College
Irving Zavaleta-Jimenez - Guilford College
Michelle White - High Point University
Brittany Bristol - Meredith College
Sara Clarke - Pfeiffer University
Jordan Scarboro - UNC-Chapel Hill
Pooja Patel - UNC-Greensboro
Shahnee Haire - UNC-Pembroke
Jennifer Carroll - UNC-Wilmington
Garrett Richardson - Western Carolina University