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Current Issue - September 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.
Announcements
Awards and Contests
Calls for Papers and Requests for Info
Grants and Funding Opportunities
Job Opportunities
Internship Opportunities
Calendar: Conferences and Events
VISTA
Resources
Announcements
Important Deadlines
Here We Grow Again!
We celebrate the addition of two community colleges as members which brings our number to 32 members including 4 community colleges. We welcome into our network President Dr. Michael R. Taylor (Stanly Community College - Albermarle, NC) and President Dr. Garrett D. Hinshaw (Catawba Valley Community College).
We look forward to working with our primary contacts for the new campuses, Julie Carpenter, Coordinator of Service Learning and Cooperative Education, (Stanly Community College) and Linda Lutz, Vice President for Servant Leadership and
Christina Little, Educational Support Services (Catawba Valley Community College). They join the Charlotte/Western region.
New Website Launched!
On Friday, September 7, the new NC Campus Compact website went live! We invite you to visit and spread the word. We also have a new way to access it at www.nccampuscompact.org. You may need to update any bookmarks and links to pages (included the student conference site link sent previously).
We are still in need of service-learning syllabi! .We only have a small number posted and most are a year old. Please invite your service-learning faculty to submit theirs for posting. They can send the attachment directly to Leslie Garvin, Assistant Director, at lgarvin@elon.edu. Visit the syllabi page at this link http://org.elon.edu/nccc/resources/syllabi.html
We hope that the new design is more user-friendly and current. Thanks for your patience over the last few months while we have been in the development process.
Campus Compact Annual Survey - Coming Soon!
It’s almost time again for the annual Campus Compact survey. As in past years, we will ask our member campuses to respond. The targeted date of release is October 1 and the deadline will be Friday, December 7. All our primary contacts will receive a membership-wide email from the national Campus Compact office announcing the survey.
Is it critical that as many members as possible respond to provide a broad perspective of Campus Compact activities. In recent years, this annual survey data has been picked up by news outlets and is consistently referenced. If at least 50% of state members respond, the national office will provide us with a report detailing our state's data compared to the national data. NC Campus Compact staff will send regular reminders.
Facilitators Sought for VISTA Professional Development
We are seeking presenters on the topics “Overcoming Student Apathy to Increase Volunteer Recruitment (October 18)” as well as “Creating Enticing Marketing (October 19)” for upcoming VISTA professional development workshops at Elon. Please contact Kristen Carter, VISTA Leader, at kcarter12@elon.edu or (336) 278-7197 if you know faculty or staff on your campus who may be interested in facilitating.
“Deeply Rooted, Branching Out...” Appalachian State Celebrates
20 Years of ACTion!
The A.C.T. (Appalachian and the Community Together) program at AppState celebrates 20 years of service this October. Highlights include an anniversary dinner, a service project and the launch of a campaign to increase funding and support for their growing programs, with emphasis on providing need-based assistance to students participating in international service. Visit the website to learn more.
Western Carolina Welcomes New Assistant Director
This month we welcome Melanie Clark back to the North Carolina Campus Compact family. Melanie is the new Assistant Director of Service Learning at Western Carolina University. She previously served as the Director of Leadership and Community Service at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP). Under her leadership, UNCP began to build an infrastructure to utilize service learning as a teaching and learning method. Her responsibilities at Western include providing leadership for co-curricular service learning and advising residents in Civic Place, the living-learning community established by the Center for Service Learning. Melanie is thrilled to join Western and rejoin the NC Campus Compact family.
2007-2008 National Youth Presidential Forum
On November 6, the first National High School/College Presidential forum will be webcast to approximately 20 million high school and college students, live and interactively. This event will allow students to pose questions of our candidates, discuss the answers during panel debates and vote in a validated on-line poll. Presidential candidates will participate in the forum from locations of their choice. The candidates will field questions from a moderator and students representing the National Honor Society from across the United States. Students will participate in an on-line, post-forum vote for the candidate they would choose in the Presidential election. Feedback about the candidate responses will be collected and provided to the candidates after the event.
This Presidential Forum is presented by Advanced Innovative Resources, Inc. in collaboration with EWN Foundation, Presidential Classroom, Lou Frey Institute at The University of Central Florida and the United States Association of Former Members of Congress.
For more information, visit the Rock the Web website http://www.rocktheweb.org/
Important Deadlines!
$15,000 Campus Compact Grant Opportunity to Promote Philanthropy
Campus Compact and the Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund? have come together to educate and inspire a new generation of philanthropists in a new era of giving. The project, called "Inspiring Philanthropy's Future" will provide colleges and universities with the educational resources and initial funding to engage students in strategic grant-making activities within the context of community-based learning. Campus Compact member colleges and universities are invited to respond to this Request for Proposals to be eligible to participate in the Inspiring Philanthropy's Future project as one of five pilot sites throughout the country. Each site will be allocated $15,000 which will be managed through a Giving Account®, a donor-advised fund at the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. Sites will also receive additional funds for administrative support. Visit http://www.compact.org/inspire/ for more information. The deadline is October 1, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
C.A.S.E. Grant
Applications are due on October 5, 2007 for the $1000 Carter Academic-Service Entrepreneur (CASE) Grant for Campus-Community Collaboration. This grant, funded by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation, is awarded to one NC Campus Compact student with the most innovative and promising idea to use the funds to establish or significantly further a partnership between the student (and his or her school) and a community non-profit organization. You can learn more and download an application at http://org.elon.edu/nccc/resources/grants.html
NC Campus Compact 2007 Student Conference
November 9-10, 2007, at East Carolina University
Workshop Proposal Deadline – October 5, 2007
Lodging Reservations Deadline – October 5, 2007
Registration Deadline – October 12, 2007
Keynote - David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, has confirmed participation as our keynote during the luncheon program.
Visit this link for 2007 Conference registration information and to download the workshop proposal form: http://org.elon.edu/nccc/conference.htm
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