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Current Issue - December 2007 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 Lees-McRae College which brings our number to 35 members; 33 individual campuses and 2 system offices. We welcome into our network Dr. David W. Bushman, President, and our primary contact, Selena Hilemon, Director of Community Outreach. They wil join the Charlotte/Western region. Outstanding Statewide Participation in Campus Compact Survey! North Carolina had the second highest completion rate (88%) out of the 32 state Compacts for the Campus Compact survey. Great job! This annual survey represents the most widely distributed and comprehensive survey of community service, service-learning, and civic engagement in higher education. The complete results of the survey will be available in spring 2008 and will be posted on the Campus Compact website. As a result of our better than 50% response rate, national Campus Compact will also generate a report that details how our state data compared to national data. We will share this with our members once it becomes available. Thanks to the following institutions and individuals for completing the survey: Appalachian State University (Shari Galiardi) Brevard College (Michelle Harvey) Catawba Valley Community College (Linda Lutz) Catawba College (Amy Keller) Central Piedmont Community College (Dena Shonts) Duke University (Elaine Madison) East Carolina University (Rita Gonsalves) Elon University (Mary Morrison) Gardner-Webb University (Sandy Hammett) Greensboro College (Robert Brewer) Guilford College (James Shields) High Point University (Kelly Norton) Johnson C. Smith University (Angela Jeter) Lenoir-Rhyne College (Candace Semmel) Mars Hill College (Kate Prichard) Meredith College (Shannon Kelly) North Carolina State University (Tierza Watts) Peace College (Emily Tokarski) Pfeiffer University (Benjamin Haywood) Stanly Communitiy College (Julie Carpenter) University of North Carolina at Asheville (Merritt Moseley) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Leslie Parkins) University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Leslie Veach) University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Aubrey Swett) University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Donna Chapa Crowe) Wake Forest University (Brighid Jensen) Warren Wilson College (Franklin Tate) Western Carolina University (Glenn Bowen) Western Piedmont Community College (Tonya Waters) Student Conference Highlights Now Available On November 11, 2007, we hosted our largest student conference at East Carolina University! Visit the link below for highlights including multiple photo galleries. Registration Deadline January 11, 2008 for Civic Engagement Institute and Service-Learning Conference
Please note that we have reserved a block of rooms at the Best Western in Burlington for individuals who are planning to attend the Service-Learning Conferene the next day and would like to stay in the area overnight. The link above contains the relevant details. Register today for the the 10th Annual Service-Learning Conference on February 13, 2008 at Elon University. This is the largest conference in the region providing participants with knowledge and skills they can utilize in their service-learning work. Click here to download a registration form. The registration deadline for both events is January 11, 2008. New Online Journal Seeking an Editor Partnerships: A Journal of Service Learning and Civic Engagement, a new, peer-reviewed on-line journal published by the North Carolina Campus Compact, seeks an editor beginning April 1, 2008. Partnerships: A Journal of Service Learning and Civic Engagement will publish a dynamic collection of research, pragmatic studies, interviews and reviews in an on-line forum that brings together scholars, students and community leaders in the fields of service-learning and civic engagement. Please visit the Job Opportunities page here for additional information. 2008-2009 VISTA Host Site Applications Available in January! Would you like a VISTA to work on program development and sustainability efforts for service at your campus for the 2008-2009 academic year? Now is the time to start planning to apply! The 2008-2009 VISTA Host Site applications will be distributed at the NC Campus Compact regional meetings in January. Applications will be due on February 15, 2008. If a representative from your campus is unable to attend your region’s meeting, please contact VISTA Leader Kristen Carter after January 22nd to obtain an application (kcarter12@elon.edu). Please note: While the application process will be very similar to last year, there will be some additional expectations for 2008-09 host sites, as well as some slight changes to the application form. Most notably, there will be two different cost share levels, depending on the number of years your campus has hosted a VISTA: For campuses who will only be in their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year hosting a VISTA in ’08-‘09, there will be an administrative fee of $1,500. For campuses going into their fourth year and beyond, the VISTA administrative fee is now $2,000. Take the CASE Foundation Giving Challenges This holiday season (from December 13-January 31), the Case Foundation hopes to inspire individuals everywhere to become champions for their favorite charity by raising funds and awareness for it. To add to the excitement, they will be giving a total of $750,000 to the charities of the individuals who inspire the most donations! America's Giving Challenge In partnership with Parade Magazine the CASE Foundation is giving away 108 awards totaling $500,000! Anyone who wants to advocate on behalf of a cause they care about can participate in one of two ways: 1) Champion a cause by customizing a charity badge, or widget, to send to their networks and post on their social networks and websites. The eight individuals who attract the most donors to give to their cause will be awarded $50,000 for the charity for which they're raising money. 2) To give to a cause, individuals can simply make a donation to their favorite charity, and the top 100 nonprofits with the most unique donations made through the Challenge will receive $1,000.
Causes Giving Challenge Individuals who visit Causes on Facebook are encouraged to move past cause awareness to promote deeper engagement and donations from their members. Participants are invited to create and champion a cause by donating to it and inviting their friends to do so. To add to the excitement, the CASE Foundation is donating a total of $250,000 to the Causes that inspire the most number of people to donate. They will give $50,000 to the Cause with the most unique donors during the Challenge, $25,000 to the two Causes with the next highest number of unique donors, and $10,000 to the next ten Causes with the highest number of unique donors for a total of 13 large awards on top of all the donations collected from your supporters. In addition, they will give $1000 per day to the Cause with the most unique donors in a 24-hour period (as long as that Cause has a minimum of 10 donors that day). In both Challenges, a unique donation is defined as one single donation per individual-this means duplicate donations from the same individual to a single cause will only count once towards helping the cause receive an award. Additionally, the minimum donation is $10. For more information please visit: www.casefoundation.org. Member Campus Part of New National Initiative that Seeks to Build Cadre of Community-Engaged Faculty "Faculty for the Engaged Campus," a national initiative of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health in partnership with the University of Minnesota and NC Campus Compact member, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy by developing innovative competency-based models of faculty development, facilitating peer review and dissemination of products of community-engaged scholarship, and supporting community-engaged faculty through the promotion and tenure process.
The initiative, supported by a three year grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education, builds on the work of the FIPSE-funded Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative of health professional schools that has been working to build capacity for community engaged scholarship (CES) on their campuses and among their peers nationally (Details at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html). Initiative Co-Director Lynn Blanchard, Director of the Carolina Center for Public Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explains, "Through the Collaborative, we articulated a set of CES competencies and faculty development approaches. Faculty for the Engaged Campus takes this work 'to the next level' by collaborating with campuses across the country to test innovative models for developing community-engaged faculty." In January 2008, the initiative will issue a "call for applications" to select teams from twenty diverse colleges and universities to participate in a faculty development charrette* from May 28-30, 2008 in Chapel Hill, NC. At least four of the teams attending will subsequently be awarded two-year grants to implement and evaluate their designs. The initiative is also developing an online clearinghouse for peer review and dissemination of products of CES that are in forms other than journal articles, and a searchable online database of CES mentors and peer reviewers.
* A charrette is an intensely focused multi-day session that uses a collaborative approach to create realistic and achievable designs. Charrettes have mainly been used in architecture, urban planning and community design projects. Faculty for the Engaged Campus will convene campus teams, project staff and expert advisors to collaboratively design innovative models of CES faculty development. For more information, contact Deputy Director Piper McGinley at fipse2@u.washington.edu or visit the Faculty for the Engaged Campus homepage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/faculty-engaged.html The Faculty for the Engaged Campus leadership team welcomes questions, comments and suggestions of key articles, reports, people and programs that should be considered as we get this initiative underway. These may be emailed to fipse2@u.washington.edu. Stay connected with the initiative and related work through the Community-Engaged Scholarship electronic discussion group at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship Initiative updates and reports will be posted on the CCPH website as they become available at www.ccph.info Make It A Semester Of Service! The Semester of Service is a new, public-private strategy to help young people find their voice, take action, and have impact on the most critical problems facing the world, such as climate change, hunger, homelessness, malaria, water scarcity, disaster preparation, aging, violence, and literacy. In January 2008, Youth Service America and the Corporation for National and Community Service are encouraging students, ages 5-25, to develop a 14 week service-learning project that launches on the Martin Luther King Day of Service (January 21, 2008) and culminates on the weekend of Global Youth Service Day (April 25-27, 2008). "Recent research has shown that projects must be of sufficient duration, typically at least a semester of 70 hours long to have an impact on students…Fewer hours simply do not give the students enough time to grapple with difficult issues or to have a deep enough experience to make the learning endure.” --Dr. Shelley Billig, Unpacking What Works in Service Learning “Martin Luther King was interested in big results not the short-term. So, the idea of King Day being the signal for a long-term commitment by millions of students, during or after-school, over a semester would have warmed his heart. Martin always asked us to do more than we were doing because the Road ahead was still so long…the Mountain to climb was still so tall. The Semester of Service is just that opportunity to do more.” --Senator Harris Wofford, Colleague and Lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To learn more, visit http://www.ysa.org/semester New Volunteer Registry for Wake County, NC ME-3, a non-profit organization in Wake County that promotes volunteerism, civic engagement, and helping others, has launched a volunteer registry. This is an effort to help connect individuals with great causes in Wake County. Individuals who sign up must either live in Wake County, or be willing to travel to Wake County frequently enough to do their volunteer work (time needed will depend entirely on what the individual selects as his or her volunteer opportunity). To sign up, individuals simply have to fill out two online forms: 1) A volunteer information page http://www.me-3.org/registry.html and 2) A Registry waiver: http://www.me-3.org/registrywaiver.html
2008 Carnegie "Community Engagement" Classification Process Coming Soon In 2006 the Carnegie Foundation introduced the first "elective" classification of colleges and universities, focused on community engagement. Although they intend ultimately to bring the new classification onto the same update schedule as their other classifications, they will be repeating the community engagement classification process in 2008. Institutions currently included in the Community Engagement classification will retain their present classification. The 2008 process is to accommodate new participants. The Call for Participation will be announced on the Foundation web site in January 2008 at http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/sub.asp?key=1213&subkey=2215 Digest Homepage & Table of Contents
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