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Current Issue - May 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
Guilford College's James Shields is the 2008 Civic Engagement Professional of the Year!
Highlights from Shield's work at Guilford include:
Additionally, he supervises student groups who participate in service trips overseas and partners with the African American Studies department to teach about the Underground Railroad. In his "free time" he stars in "Sword of Peace" the stage play on the Underground Railroad at the Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre. Dr. Lisa Keyne will present the award at the Civic Engagement Administrator Conference during the Dinner & Celebration on Wednesday, May 28. Special thanks to the 2008 Selection Committee:
Calling All Members! Please Complete the NC Campus Compact Member Survey Today! The annual NC Campus Compact Member Survey helps us evaluate and assess our resources and programming and provides general information about the civic engagement programs our members faciliate. The online survey should take no more than 20 minutes to complete. Please complete the survey today. Thanks to the nine campuses who have completed it thus far. Click here to begin the survey. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Announces New Executive Director & Home The Board of Directors of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) recently announced that Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Public and Community Health and Professor of Population Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, will become CCPH's next Executive Director, effective August 1, 2008. CCPH will also begin operating out of its new organizational home at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) at that time under Cheryl's leadership. The announcement concludes an extensive search process led by the board that began when founding CCPH executive director Sarena D. Seifer announced a year ago her decision to step down. Cheryl's involvement in CCPH dates back to the very start of the organization, having served as founding chair of the CCPH board. She has received national recognition for her work in building community-academic partnerships to improve health. Within two years of arriving at MCW in 1995, she founded its Center for Healthy Communities and has since built many partnerships for improving health in the Milwaukee community and the state of Wisconsin. As Senior Associate Dean for Public and Community Health, Cheryl has expanded MCW’s community efforts, fostering collaboration among existing centers focused on community and public health, and facilitating partnerships, both urban and rural. Cheryl has also played a leadership role in the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Program, a statewide community-academic partnership, research and education initiative, with a specific focus on the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program. This initiative was funded by the $300 million dollar endowment from the conversion of Blue Cross/Blue Shield United of Wisconsin to for-profit status. Cheryl previously served as Associate Dean for Community Health at Wright State University School of Medicine where she founded the University's Center for Healthy Communities. Under her direction, that interdisciplinary center was selected as one of 20 national models by the U.S. Public Health Service's Health Resources and Services Administration. Before Wright State, she was a faculty member at Purdue University, where she directed the Social Research Institute. Cheryl received her PhD from Purdue University and completed a four-year U.S. Public Health Service Fellowship in health services research. She received her undergraduate degree from Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she recently received the Distinguished Alumnae Award. In MCW, CCPH has found a supportive organizational home that shares its commitment to improving the health of communities through community-campus partnerships. Notable for identifying community engagement as one of its four core missions (along with education, discovery and patient care) and receiving the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Award for Outstanding Community Service, MCW offers significant strengths as the home for CCPH. These include the enthusiastic support of senior leadership and a critical mass of dedicated faculty, staff, students and community partners. The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program alone has funded 102 projects for $23.5 million dollars in its first four years. Between now and August 1, the CCPH board and staff will be transitioning the CCPH headquarters from the University of Washington to MCW. The day-to-day work of CCPH is expected to continue as usual throughout the transition period. Plans are already underway to hold the next CCPH conference in Milwaukee from April 29 - May 2, 2009. The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education Seeks Editorial Board Members Sponsored by Indiana State University's Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, this new journal is intended to serve as a forum for the review of research and practice by professionals in higher education in the fields of community engagement and engaged learning practices. The journal is seeking qualified individuals to serve on the editorial board. Responsibilities of the editorial board include:
Associate editors are not precluded from submitting manuscripts. Interested individuals should submit an email of interest and an abbreviated copy of their vita to: Nancy Brattain Rogers For more information, visit http://www1.indstate.edu/jcehe/ Register Today for the 2008 National Campus Compact Professional Development Institute
Registration begins March 3 and closes June 30, 2008.
Syllabi Sought for Online Database Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is now developing a national, searchable, online database of higher education service-learning syllabi, K-12 lesson plans, and community-based project ideas. I am writing to invite you and your colleagues to submit service-learning syllabi for possible inclusion in this new resource. Service-learning syllabi are welcome from any accredited U.S. college or university, for courses in any academic department or program and at any level of higher education (undergraduate or graduate). Courses need not have been supported by a Learn and Serve America grant in order to be eligible for inclusion, although we expect many syllabi will come from past and current Learn and Serve America grantees. Staff from Campus Compact, the Clearinghouse’s Higher Education Program Advisor, will review all submissions according to four criteria of quality in service-learning: engagement, reflection, reciprocity, and public dissemination (see www.compact.org/syllabi for details). All syllabi determined to meet these criteria will be publicly available on both the Clearinghouse’s and Campus Compact’s websites. In addition to syllabi from individual courses, we welcome information about more extensive civic and community engagement opportunities that involve multiple service-learning courses or other intentional connections between students’ academic experiences and engagement (e.g., minors, certificates, honors/scholars programs, core curricula requirements). Please submit syllabi and other materials as Word documents attached to emails to jplaut@compact.org; please also download, print, and sign the Permissions Form available at www.compact.org/syllabi and mail it to Julie Plaut at Campus Compact, Brown University Box 1975, Providence, RI 02912. We look forward to showcasing your good work and demonstrating the rich variety of high-quality service-learning taking place at colleges and universities across the country. Thanks in advance for sharing the materials that allow us to do so! Of course, you’re also more than welcome to contact me with any questions and to share this invitation with your colleagues.
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