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Current Issue - October 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 Campus Compact:
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Get Ready to “Color Outside the Lines” During the 2009 Student Conference! NC Campus Compact and the 2009 Student Advisory Board are looking forward to seeing the 21 campuses that have registered for 2009 Student Conference, November 6-7 at Western Carolina University. The Conference promises to be exciting and informative with 28 workshops and acknowledgement of the 25 student leaders who will receive the Community Student Impact Award and the NC Governor’s Certificate of Appreciation for Volunteers. Western Carolina University is facilitating two service projects associated with the Conference. During the Friday Night Service Project, participants will make blankets to donate to organizations that serve the homeless on the area. Attending campuses have already begun collecting donations for the statewide food drive competition where campuses with the most donation and most creative picture from the drive will receive a prize at the Conference. If you have any questions about the 2009 Student Conference please visit (http://org.elon.edu/nccc/events/sc.html) or contact Jonathan Romm, NC Campus Compact Program Coordinator. Read WCU’s news release on the Conference is at http://www.wcu.edu/25420.asp PACE Conference Call for Proposals NC Campus Compact is now accepting workshop proposals for the 2010 PACE Conference on February 10, 2009. This annual conference provides participants with valuable information and skills they can utilize in their civic engagement work. Workshops, presented by faculty, staff, students and community partners, provide "how to", "best practice" and "research and theory" information and resources for any aspect of civic engagement work, including curricular and co-curriculuar courses, projects and programs and capacity-building and institutionalization efforts.
http://org.elon.edu/nccc/events/CallforProposals09.html Diving Deep: Campus Compact’s Institute for Experienced Civic and Community Engagement Practitioners - Applications Due December 2, 2009 Over 3 ½ days in July 2010, 40 seasoned practitioners from throughout the nation will gather with a team of distinguished facilitators to explore the future of the service-learning and civic and community engagement movement and come to an understanding on a deep, personal level of what it means to be a part of this field today. Diving Deep offers a professional development opportunity to support seasoned practitioners in influencing their campus and contributing to advancing the movement on the local, state and national levels. The institute will engage participants in the exploration of cutting- edge issues in service-learning and civic and community engagement in higher education, in a supportive, challenging and participatory environment among national peers. Campus Compact Annual Membership Survey Now Open The deadline for completion of the survey is December 4, 2009. For best results, we urge you to download the PDF version to review the entire survey and then complete the survey online.
Campus Compact Seeking Experiential Philanthropy Courses As part of the Students4Giving philanthropy, national Campus Compact will be supporting faculty research related to student philanthropy. A broader "learning community" of researchers interested in student philanthropy is being convened to provide a means for people doing this work to share resources and information. David Campbell, a faculty member at Binghamton University will be assisting with the learning community. Kansas Campus Compact Fall Webinar Series Continues STEM and Service: How Service-Learning Can be Effective in the Sciences Thursday, November 12th, 1:00pm Dr. Edmund Tsang, Western Michigan University Dr. Laura Salem, Rockhurst University To learn more visit: www.k-state.edu/kscc/ Wake Forest University Launches Institute for Public Engagement Building upon the educational philosophy of Wake Forest University and mindful of its motto, Pro Humanitate, the Institute develops for the common good university-wide excellence in public engagement, collaborative skills, and interdisciplinary teaching and research. The Institute prepares students for civic leadership, action and reflection and supports innovative relationships among faculty, students, administration, staff, alumni and the broader community. To learn more visit these links. http://provost.wfu.edu/16.76.1/Institute_for_Public_Engagement http://www.wfu.edu/magazine/archive/wfm.2009.09.pdf AppState Service-Learning Faculty Member Helps Launch Operation Medicine Cabinet Dr. Shea Tuberty (Biology) was an ACT (Appalachian and the Community Together) Faculty Fellow last fall and taught his first service-learning class (Environmental Toxicology) this past spring. As a result of some water testing projects, his students found that many of the male fish in the New River had been "feminized," and they suspect that it is from people flushing drugs (probably BC pills) down the toilet. Over the summer, Shea launched a county-wide campaign involving nearly 25 businesses and organizations to create Operation Medicine Cabinet -- a drug collection program to keep outdated meds out of our waterways and out of the hands of our children. The first ever program happened this past weekend and the Watauga County sheriff has been asked to write up how they organized the program as a national case study since it was so successful! Read more at the links below. http://theapp.appstate.edu/content/view/5473/42 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpAbv8IO4tA http://www2.wataugademocrat.com/
UNC-Charlotte's Jim Cook Receives Excellence in Public Service Award Dr. Jim Cook, Psychology Professor at UNC-Charlotte, is the 2009 recipient of the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Public Service. The award was created in 2007 to recognize the engagement of UNC faculty in improving the quality of life in North Carolina communities through public service. Jim Cook's broad and sustained contributions in this arena are exemplary. His 29 years as a faculty member have been marked by a deep commitment to our local community and in particular, its most disadvantaged citizens. He has worked on homelessness, health disparities, accessibility for the disabled, and systems of care for those in need of mental health services. Jim's service, integrated with his research and instruction, has touched the lives of thousands of people in our community and made it a better place for all. UNC-Wilmington's Nonprofit Fair Featured on the News Visit this link to see a news story on UNC-Wilmington's recent Nonprofit Fair. NC Campus Compact VISTA, Brandon Ostwalt, who has a cameo on the video, helped to organize the event.
UNC Asheville & the City of Asheville Launch RENCI Engagement Site
UNC Asheville Chancellor Anne Ponder and Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy, who signed the agreement, were joined by UNC President Erskine Bowles and city, university and elected officials at the ceremony, held at the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville. The memo of understanding provides a framework for further collaborations in a number of areas important to the city and the region: environmental sustainability, health and wellness, culture and recreation, economic development and technology, and public safety. Read the entire story at this link: http://www.unca.edu/news/releases/2009/mou-renci.html UNC-Pembroke Takes Larger Role in President’s Volunteer Program UNCP's Center for Leadership and Service (CLS) has become a certifying organization for the President’s Volunteer Service Award, a national program recognizing Americans who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to volunteer service. CLS, which facilitates student volunteer and community service programs, was enlisted to deliver the President’s Volunteer Service Award to honor volunteers. As a certifying organization, CLS is responsible for verifying service hours, nominating potential recipients and delivering the award. Previously, the award went to institutions instead of individuals. Established in 2003 by President George W. Bush, the award was created to give recognition to individuals, families and groups who meet requirements for volunteer service, as measured by the number of service hours performed over 12 months. UNCP will honor students who participate in community service with Presidential Awards at an annual event and with special distinction at graduation, said Director Aubrey Swett (Center for Leadership & Service). “We are extremely proud to recognize our most outstanding volunteers with the President’s Volunteer Service Award,” Swett said. “UNCP volunteers are role models in our community, donating their time, energy and talent to bring us closer together as neighbors and a nation. The award is our way of thanking these volunteers and inspiring everyone in our community to make volunteering a central part of their lives." Click here to read the complete story.
Next Week The Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) Promotes Service During Primetime During the week of October 19, more than 90 primetime programs will highlight volunteering during iParticipate, a national initiative of the Entertainment Industry Foundation to shine the spotlight on the ways that everyday Americans help their neighbors. Television shows on the 4 major networks (ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC) and several cable channels are incorporating themes of service and volunteering into their scripts and story lines. Make the pitch...
Learn more about the EIF campaign at www.iParticipate.org.
2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll - Deadline Approaching!
The deadline is 5:00 p.m. on October 29, 2009.www.NationalService.gov/HonorRoll UCLA students Blanket City for Nation's Largest-Ever University-Organized Volunteer Day An army of 4,300 UCLA freshmen and transfer students, the size of a NATO brigade, fanned out across Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 22 to make the city a better place. For UCLA's first Volunteer Day, nearly 1,000 students began trail repair at Griffith Park, 1,000 more tackled beach clean-up at Point Dume in Malibu, and about 500 each beautified the Veterans Affairs hospital in West Los Angeles and five Los Angeles Unified School District campuses.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, who has made volunteerism a priority since taking the reins in 2007, was joined by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at Gompers Middle School in South Los Angeles to applaud the 600 Bruins blanketing the campus. They scurried across the asphalt, repainting basketball court outlines and giving buildings a new coat of paint. (Watch the video) All together, the 4,300 students, joined by 300 staff, faculty, alumni and older undergraduates who served as task captains, slathered on 555 gallons of paint, planted dozens of trees at schools, restored trails at Griffith Park, rebuilt fences at Point Dume and more. Across the 26 different work sites, the people who care for the campuses and parks on a daily basis told the students how much the work meant.
Volunteer Day was organized in partnership with L.A. Works, a volunteer action center that links volunteers to service opportunities, and sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, Hollywood's leading charitable organization, which provided a $250,000 grant. UCLA's new Volunteer Center, which officially launched just 24 hours before Volunteer Day, is funded by The UCLA Foundation.
Photos and tweets about Volunteer Day poured in from students, staff and faculty all morning, making hundreds of details available on Twitter at #uclavol and creating an ever-growing Flickr photo page and an interactive photo-map.
President Obama Announces Intention to Nominate Patrick Corvington as CEO of Corporation for National and Community Service
View a Side-By-Side Comparison of the Serve America Act The new Serve America Act includes several new programs and changes from the previous Corporation for National and Community Service legislation. See a side-by-side comparision here. Two Charities are Seeking University Teams to Help Develop and Implement "Earth Kiva" Earth Kiva, information about which is at www.globalgreenlabs.org/ese.htm, is seeking to lend, invest or donate to accelerate a public transition to green living. Students, be they graduate or undergraduate, could have a number of experiences within the context of service-learning, depending on what faculty wished: social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, business planning, marketing, Internet marketing, television marketing, radio marketing, journalism, public relations, consumer behavior, management, customer relations, accounting, micro-financing, environmental studies, corporate law, nonprofit law, international law, language practice, intercultural business practices, cultural anthropology, international development, sustainable development, Web design, coding for Web functionality, and perhaps others. Faculty or staff looking for a project which could considerably increase their institution's network and interaction around the world, but which could be divided so that there be "semester milestones", might find Earth Kiva of value. Notably, in phase two, Earth Kiva would establish chapters on other campuses, and each such chapter would provide service-learning opportunities for students. If you are interested in pursuing, the contact information is below. Van Ajemian, JD on behalf of the Optimizing National Education and Technology Initiatives and Applications Foundation vanajemian@hotmail.com 323.803.8960, voice mail Montebello, California 90640
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