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Current Issue - August 2009 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
NC Campus Compact Welcomes Five New Members for the 2009-10 Year We are pleased to announce the addition of five new members for 2009. We look forward to working with each school to advance their civic mission as well as to support their efforts to improve their local communities. This brings the NC Campus Compact member total to 46; 43 individual campuses and the 3 system offices. Elizabeth City State University - Dr. Willie J. Gilchrist, Chancellor Primary Contacts: Dr. Anthony Brown, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Dr. Natasha B. Spellman, Lecturer, Birth-Kindergarten Education View an article about ECSU's new NC Campus Compact VISTA here. Fayetteville State University - Dr. James A. Anderson, Chancellor Primary Contact: Marsha McLean, Special Assistant to the Provost Mid-Atlantic Christian University - Dr. D. Clay Perkins, President Primary Contact: Renee Lease, Director of Service Learning North Carolina Wesleyan College - Mr. James A. Gray III, President Primary Contacts: Jessie Warren, Director of Internships and Career Services Leslie Veach, Director of Counseling and Disability Services View an article about NCWC joining the Compact here. Queens University of Charlotte - Dr. Pamela Davies, President Primary Contact: Benardo Dargan, Director, Multicultural Affairs Four Member Institutions Named "Best Colleges for Service Learning" We want to acknowledge the NC Campus Compact member campuses who were ranked amongst the best colleges for Service-Learning in U.S. News and World Report. Congratulations to Duke University, Elon University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Warren Wilson College. North Carolina had the largest number of institutions on the list. View the complete list here.
This summer NC Campus Compact worked with Elon University, UNC-Greensboro, and Wake Forest University in a pilot Summer Associate (SA) AmeriCorps*VISTA program that offered first-generation college students an opportunity to serve on campuses, particularly within their programs and summer offerings that target disadvantaged youth and first generation students. Funding for this initiative was provided by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Programs these 12 Summer Associates worked with include: Wake Forest’s Campus Kitchen Project, UNC-G’s Summer Launch, and Elon’s Pre-SERVE. Summer Associates also attended weekly professional developments which included: financial management, interview lunch skills and etiquette, service projects, and MBTI and Strong Inventory facilitations. On their campus and in their community each North Carolina Campus Compact Summer Associates facilitated an average of 343 volunteer hours through the generation or support of 29.5 volunteers each month. The Summer Associate Program ran from June 1st to July 31st and was an excellent way for campuses to bolster their human resource capacity as well as provide professional and service experience to college students. If you are interested in hosting a 2010 Summer Associate Program on you campus next year or have any questions, please contact Jonathan Romm at jromm@elon.edu, or 336.278.7197. Charlotte Region Reception & Conversation (R&C) - Save the Date! NC Campus Compact is hosting a reception and conversation at Queens University in Charlotte Monday, September 28, from 4-7 p.m. Plan now to join colleagues from the region to eat, share highlights of your work, and be inspired. More details to come . . . .
$9.3 million Contributed to UNC Charlotte for Leadership Citizenship Scholarship The Leon Levine Foundation is funding the largest individual gift commitment in UNC Charlotte’s history, establishing a major new merit scholarship program – the Levine Scholars Program – that will enable the school to recruit exceptional student-leaders from around the United States. Starting in the spring of 2010, 15 high school seniors from throughout the country will be selected annually to receive the Levine Scholarship. Levine Scholars will receive funding to cover all tuition and fees, housing and meals, books, a laptop computer, summer experiences, and a grant to support their community service work while undergraduates at UNC Charlotte. Visit this link to learn more about the Levine Scholars program. UNC School of Law Receives National Accolades for Pro Bono Work The school dedicated an additional $200,000 to help mitigate student exposure to a difficult job market. UNC also launched its loan repayment assistance program in March for graduates with law school debt working in public interest. Back to School Savings on Student Leadership Publications at National Campus Compact From now through Sept. 15, get $5 off each book in the Student Leadership category. This includes titles such as Students as Colleagues, Raise Your Voice, The New Student Politics, and Education for What. Simply enter SCHOOL at checkout. Please note that this discount is in addition to the discount you receive as part of the state network. Visit www.compact.org/publications New Guide Helps Members Navigate the College Cost Reduction and Access Act
Learn and Serve America Announces $20 Million in Service-Learning Grants The Corporation for National and Community Service recently announced 36 Learn and Serve America grants totaling nearly $20 million to engage students across the nation in service-learning projects that promote community service while enhancing students' academic and civic skills. The grants will support service-learning at schools, institutions of higher education, tribes, and faith-based and community groups. Higher Education Grants Approximately $9.27 million will be awarded to 18 individual colleges or statewide or national consortia. These grants help colleges fulfill their civic mission by supporting the development of courses, extracurricular programs, and faculty research designed to meet community needs and carry out partnerships with their surrounding communities. In addition, many projects enable universities to employ Federal Work-Study students in community-serving roles. The only North Carolina higher education institution to receive a grant is Fayetteville State University with a $465,378 grant for 3 years. For a complete list of grants, click here.
Kansas Campus Compact is hosting a series of Fall 2009 KsCC Webinars. These webinars are designed to provide a variety of opportunities to learn from experts in the fields of civic engagement and service-learning from Kansas and across the nation. The topics will vary each semester to offer a wide range of chances to learn from your colleagues on issues that interest you. Each webinar will be hosted by Kansas Campus Compact and will last one hour, including significant allotment of time for questions and answers. Registered participants will be sent details on how to log in, addressing any technology questions, and how to participate during the webinar. Participation will be free to faculty, staff, and students at Kansas Campus Compact member schools and KsCC AmeriCorps*VISTA Members. Interested participants from non-member institutions will need to pay a $25 registration fee to Kansas Campus Compact. All webinars will be recorded and KsCC members will have free access to these recordings for one month after they are conducted. To learn more and register please visit: http://www.k-state.edu/kscc/programs/webinars/index.html Below is the list of topics. Laying the Foundation: Service-Learning 101 (Registration closes September 10th) Thursday, September 17th, 1:00pm Dr. James Heffernan – New York Campus Compact In It Together: Building Lasting & Successful Campus-Community Partnerships In November but date/time TBD John Ziegler – Msgr. John Egan Urban Center, DePaul University (invited) Elaine Elliott – Center for Community Service Learning, University of San Diego STEM and Service: How Service-Learning Can be Effective in the Sciences Thursday, November 12th, 1:00pm Dr. Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University Dr. Amal Abu-Shakra, North Carolina Central University (invited) Civic Engagement Program Reviewer Sought Wartburg College, a selective liberal arts college of the Lutheran church (ELCA) in Waverly, Iowa is looking to enrich its work in the area of civic engagement by inviting an outside assessor to review and comment on their Center for Community Engagement (CCE). The CCE was founded in 2005 to coordinate or assist with a variety of community engagement projects, including internships, practica, service-learning, co-curricular service, K-12 school partnerships, and community-based research. Establishment of the CCE was made possible, in part, by a grant from the Lilly Endowment’s Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation. The College seeks those with professional experience in the areas of civic engagement and experiential education to review and assess the CCE and comment on its service to the institution’s mission and goals. Ideally, the assessment and report would be completed no later than January 2010.
Please contact Daniel R. Kittle, Ph.D., Director, Center for Community Engagement if you are interested at (319) 352-8701 or daniel.kittle@wartburg.edu
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