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Current Issue - August 2008 Welcome to the Current issue of the monthly NC Campus Compact Digest E-Newsletter. Announcements are posted on this page. Please click on the headings below to link to another section. Calls for Papers and Requests for Info Grants and Funding Opportunities Internship and Fellowship Opportunities Calendar: Conferences and Events
We celebrate the addition of two new members which brings our number to 39 members; 36 individual campuses and all 3 system offices. We welcome Dr. Stanley F. Battle, Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and our primary contact Lee Morgan, Director of the Civic and Service Education (C.A.S.E.) program and Associate Director of Student Development. They will join the Triad region. We also welcome Dr. A. Hope Williams, President of the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.
Meet the 2008-09 Executive Board Chancellor Kenneth Peacock at Appalachian State University has assumed the role of chair for NC Campus Compact’s Executive Board. Many thanks to President Leo Lambert of Elon University who served in that role for the first six years of the Compact. President Lambert continues on the Board with returning board members President Charles Ambrose, Pfeiffer University; President Maureen Hartford, Meredith College; and President Sandy Pfeiffer, Warren Wilson College. Also joining the board are Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo of UNC-Wilmington, President Scott Ralls of the NC Community College System, Chancellor Charles Nelms of NC Central University, and President Tom Ross of Davidson College. We have appreciated board service by Chancellor Patricia Sullivan of UNC-Greensboro and President Martin Lancaster of the NC Community College System, both whom retired this summer.
NC Campus Compact Welcomes New Program Assistant NC Campus Compact is pleased to announce the addition of Jenny Scott Conklin to our team. As the new NC-ACTS! Program Assistant she will provide administrative and program support for the program as well as program coordination for special projects including the 2008 Voter Initiative. A recent NC State graduate, Jenny has a B.A. in Business Management. While in school she volunteered in Ecuador through Habitat for Humanity and participated in various service efforts as a participant in the the University Scholars Program. She will begin on Monday, August 18. Seeking 1st Generation and/or Minority Students for Facilitated Discussion In 2007, NC Campus Compact launched the Next Generation North Carolina Initiative to explore ways that the Compact can assist member campuses in the success and retention of first generation and/or minority students. During the 2008 Student Conference on Saturday, November 8, 2008, in order to understand some best practices that can be generalized for NC Campus Compact member institutions, the Next Generation NC Task Force will conduct a facilitated discussion to learn about the experiences of these students who are currently civically engaged at their institution. The primary contact from each member campus is asked to identify a student, who is coming to the student conference, that fits the criteria below. The primary contact should invite that individual to participate in the facilitated discussion during the conference. The discussion will be just one session (50 minute), so participants will still be able to attend at least three additional conference sessions. Criteria for Dialogue participation:
E-mail the student’s name and email address by Friday, October 10, 2008 to Jamarl Clark,Project Coordinator AmeriCorps* VISTA. Let Jamarl know of the student’s willingness to be contacted regarding the facilitated discussion and her/his desire to participate. UNCG Welcomes New Assistant Director The Office of Leadership and Service-Learning at UNCG recently welcomed Dr. Emily M. Janke, Assistant Director for Service-Learning. As the Assistant Director for Service-Learning, Dr. Emily M. Janke provides curricular, administrative, and grant support to faculty members who seek to enhance their teaching and research through academic service-learning and community-based research. Emily’s expertise is public scholarship. Emily received her Ph.D. in Higher Education from The Pennsylvania State University and her B.A. from Colgate University in Environmental Geography. Emily continues to incorporate service-learning into her curricula and has experience helping faculty members develop, implement and assess community-based learning experiences. Prior to joining the OLSL, Emily worked in the Center for the Study of Higher Education as a research assistant on two National Science Foundation-funded initiatives, including the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning and Teaching Sustainability in Engineering through Public Scholarship. Emily’s research focuses on faculty-community partnerships, as well as on faculty motivation and student development through public scholarship. Emily is a board member for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and was a co-winner of the 2008 IARSLCE Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled, Shared Partnership Identity between Faculty and Community Partners. In her free time, Emily enjoys traveling, hiking, cycling and gardening with her husband and playing with her dog.
Mississippi Joins the Compact! We are pleased to announce that Mississippi Campus Compact is an official state Campus Compact office. We are now in 34 states! The Mississippi Campus Compact office will be hosted at the University of Southern Mississippi, with its president, Dr. Martha Saunders, serving as the founding chair. Stephanie Meincke, Director of the MS Center for Community and Civic Engagement will serve as the first Executive Director.
On September 27 you can take part in the Service Nation Day of Action where thousands of communities around the nation will mobilize, to demonstrate the impact that service has – and will have - upon our country. Learn more about the Service Nation Summit. Learn more about ServiceNation. Gear Up for the Learn & Serve Challenge, October 6-12, 2008! The Challenge is a week-long series of events, October 6-12, designed to build awareness and generate support for service-learning. Following are two ways you can gear up now for October's National Learn & Serve Challenge. 1. This is a great time to start putting together the pieces for securing a proclamation from your mayor, city council members, governor, state superintendent, or board of education.Allow four to six weeks to complete this process.Click here for step-by-step instructions and tips: http://www.learnandservechallenge.org/proclamation.php.For an example, see the resolution passed by the Michigan State Board of Education during the 2007 Challenge at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mcsc/Learn_and_Serve_Resolution_209604_7.pdf. 2. Sign up as a National Learn & Serve Challenge partner.Email nslp@aed.org with Proud Partner in the subject line of your message to add your campuss name to the list.Visit www.learnandservechallenge.org/participating.php for the full list of partners. Visit the National Learn & Serve Challenge www.learnandservechallenge.org to learn more about what you can do during the National Learn & Serve Challenge The Learn & Serve Challenge is a signature event of the National Service-Learning Partnership, made possible with support from State Farm® Companies Foundation. Lead Organizing Partners include: SEANet - the State Education Agency K-12 Service-Learning Network, Camp Fire USA, Campus Compact, the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, Youth Service America, and America’s Promise in collaboration with Learn and Serve America and the Corporation for National and Community Service. IPSL to Form New Partnership with Portland State University
In July the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership (IPSL) announced that they are pursuing a new partnership with Portland State University (PSU) in which PSU will become the new academic home for the IPSL Master of Arts program in International Service.
The International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership, founded in 1982, is a not-for-profit educational organization serving students, colleges, universities, service agencies, and related organizations around the world by fostering programs that link volunteer service to the community and academic study.
Portland State University (PSU) has distinguished itself as a leader in the field of service-learning and has been recognized nationally for implementing a campus-wide engagement strategy that involves students and faculty in service-learning activities.
In addition, with this new partnership, IPSL announced it will relocate from New York City to Portland, Oregon. IPSL will continue to offer its core undergraduate service-learning programs in Ecuador, Mexico, Jamaica, Italy, India, Thailand, and with the Lakota Nation (USA), as well as offer a new option for customized programs in five different nations for college, university and other groups.
The current M.A. in International Service (MAIS) program, with a degree awarded by Roehampton University, London, will have its final cohort in 2008-09. Beginning in 2009-10, the program will be offered with a revised curriculum through Portland State University. The MAIS program prepares skilled professionals to take on leadership roles in agencies serving the needs of diverse populations on the local and international levels. Students will engage in service-learning in Portland, Oregon, and in Kingston, Jamaica, or Guadalajara, Mexico.
IPSL has also appointed Peter Criswell as Interim President for IPSL, effective July 7, 2008. riswell will replace Nevin Brown, IPSL President, who stepped out of his role as President on July 15, 2008, and will begin a new position on September 2, 2008 as the Director of the Postsecondary Initiative with ACHIEVE, a Washington, DC-based education policy.
Stay posted to www.ipsl.org for more information.
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