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Current Issue - February 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; Davidson County Community College and Wingate University which brings our number to 38 members; 36 individual campuses and 2 system offices. We welcome into our network
Dr. Mary E. Rittling, President
of Davidson County C.C. and our primary contact Laura Johnson, Chair of the Human Services Department. They will join the Triad region. We welcome Wingate's President, Dr. Jerry McGee and our primary contact Dane Jordan, Minister to Students & Assistant Dean of Student Affairs. They will join the Charlotte region. 2008 Civic Engagement Institute and Service-Learning Conference Highlights On February 12, 2008, 125 faculty, staff, community partners and students attended the 2008 Civic Engagement Institute on "Community Partners as Co-Educators." On February 13, 2008, 250 individuals attended the 10th Annual Service-Learning Conference. Click here to view highlights of the Institute and click here for Conference highlights. Mark your calendars for February 10, 2009 for the next Institute and February 11, 2009 for the 11th Annual Service-Learning Conference! 22 NC Campus Compact Members Named to Presidents Higher Education Honor Roll! Congratulations to the 22 member campuses who were named to the 2007 Presidents Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll! Special congratulations are in order to member campus Johnson C. Smith University. This year a new Special Achievement Award for outstanding service by minority serving institutions was added and Johnson C. Smith University was one of only two institutions in the nation to receive this honor. Visit this link to read the full list of NC institutions.
NC Campus Compact Welcomes New Staff Member On February 11, 2008, NC Campus Compact welcomed our newest staff member, Jamarl Clark, an AmeriCorps VISTA who will serve as our Program Coordinator. Visit this link to read more about Jamarl.
March 1st Deadline Approaching for 2008 Carnegie "Community Engagement" Classification March 1, 2008 is the deadline for declaring the intent to apply for the Carnegie Classification. 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. Visit this link to learn more. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/sub.asp?key=1213&subkey=2215
Mark Your Calenders for "The Student as Colleague" Facilitated Discussion on April 1, 2008 Make plans to attend the next Facilitated Discussion on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 from 10 a.m. -2 p.m. in the McCoy Commons, Oaks 212 room. This discussion will bring together practitioners at four of our member institutions to discuss their best practices at involving students to build and sustain civic engagement programs on their campuses. Featured examples include utilizing students to staff offices, recruit volunteers, coordinate programs and serve as community partner liaisons. Each campus that participates can purchase at 65% off the list price a copy of Campus Compact’s The Student as Colleague resource.This topic will be a terrific follow-up to the February 12 Civic Engagement Institute highlighting Community Partners as Co-Educators. Lunch will be provided. RSVP by Monday, March 24, 2008 to rsmith29@elon.edu. Questions? Contat Jamarl Clark, Program Coordinator AmeriCorps Vista jclark25@elon.edu Funding support provided by the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Save $10 when you order any 10 books from Campus Compact. Save $20 on 20 books. And so on. Mix and match from our library of titles on community service, service-learning, and civic engagement. There are books to help community service staff, faculty, students, and community partners get the most out of their programs. Sale ends March 30, 2008; free items do not count towards discount. Visit this link to order today! Apply to Participate in the Community-Engaged Scholarship Faculty Development Charette at UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty for the Engaged Campus is seeking teams from 20 diverse colleges and universities across the U.S. to participate in a Community-Engaged Scholarship Faculty Development Charrette (May 28-30, 2008, the Rizzo Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to facilitate development of innovative campus-wide mechanisms for preparing and supporting community-engaged faculty. If your institution is committed to furthering its investment in community-engaged scholarship through effective faculty development and would benefit from a focused, collaborative learning opportunity with a cadre of like-minded others, please consider sending a team to this action-oriented gathering. 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. In our case, we will convene campus teams, project leadership and expert advisors to collaboratively design innovative models of CES faculty development. Teams must include a minimum of three and a maximum of four members, with at least one of those being a senior faculty member with a proven track record of CES. There is no registration fee for the charrette. The Rizzo Center is an all-inclusive facility (i.e., rates include all meals), and Faculty for the Engaged Campus is covering a significant portion of the costs for those attending. Following the charrette, participating institutions will be invited to submit proposals to support the implementation and evaluation of innovative CES faculty development models developed through their team's participation in the charrette. At least four institutions will receive up to $15,000 over two years for this purpose ($10,000 in the first year and $5,000 in the second). Only institutions that send a team to the charrette are eligible to apply for these funds. Applications are due on March 17, 2008. The Call for Applications is available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/cfa-charrette.pdf For more information, visit the Faculty for the Engaged Campus website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/faculty-engaged.html or contact Deputy Director Piper McGinley at fipse2@u.washington.edu. Faculty for the Engaged Campus is a national initiative of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health in partnership with the University of Minnesota and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that 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. 2008 APPLES Showcase Coming Soon to UNC-Chapel Hill
On Thursday, April 17, 2008, the APPLES Service-Learning Program at UNC-Chapel will will celebrate their annual Showcase "Fruits of Our Labor." A tradeshow-style event, "Fruits of Our Labor" showcases all APPLES programs, from Service-Learning Courses to Social Entrepreneur Fellowships and everything in between. Along with presenting awards to honored faculty members and community partners, this event provides a broad overview of the program. UNC students, faculty, and community partners are given the opportunity to see a number of presentations on the various APPLES committees, thus allowing them to learn more about the program as a whole. The showcase is from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. in the Anne Queen Faculty Commons at the Campus Y. For more information Contact Joy Messinger, NC Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA at Chapel Hill at Joy_Messinger@unc.edu. Digest Homepage & Table of Contents
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