Faculty Initiative

Launched in fall 2007, the Faculty Initaitive seeks to:

• Connect like-minded faculty across member institutions to encourage individual and collaborative efforts that promote civic engagement
• Increase the visibility and influence of NC Campus Compact and its members in North Carolina by
• Engaging faculty in promoting civic engagement
• Fostering faculty research interests and skills to
• assist in providing information or finding solutions to NC issues
• Strengthen the Compact by expanding leadership opportunities for faculty
• Provide civic engagement growth opportunities for faculty
• Develop the initiative sufficiently to seek major funding for proposed/anticipated research
• Expand faculty involvement beyond the leadership corps that comprises the Faculty Engagement Initiative
• Encourage conference proposals
• Identify current research to be integrated into the online journal
• Consider new and innovative connections

The current initiatives are:

• Online Journal Initiative
• Service-Learning Research Initiative
• Learning Communities Initiative
• Civic Engagement Administration Initiative
• Future teachers of NC Initiative

Visit this link to view the current FEI membership.

Visit this link for the minutes from the September 28, 2007 plenary meeting.

Responsibilities of Faculty Involved in the Initiative

• Attend plenary meetings (September 28, 2007; February 12, 2008)
• Contribute to developing and implementing the initiative in which they are participating
• Involve in the initiative’s activities other faculty throughout the network as they identify those with similar interests
• Participate in bi-monthly conference calls with their team
• Serve for two years, renewable two times
• Characteristics: collaborative, committed to civic engagement and service-learning, ready to take on a challenge that can make a difference in NC, able to contribute skills and time to the initiative, preferably an expertise in the area for which they are selected.
• Seek opportunities to be advocates for NC Campus Compact and the Faculty Engagement Initiative

Top photo: Leslie Boney III, Associate Vice President for Economic Development Research, Policy and Planning for the UNC system speaking at the Plenary meeting on September 28, 2007. His topic "Omphaloskepsis and Action" highlighted some of the challenges that North Carolina will be facing over the next 10 years and provided some practical ideas about how the Faculty Engagement INitiative could assist and how the UNC system is thinking about the challenge.

Bottom photo: Members of the Future Teachers of NC Initiative.