Representatives from two of California Campus Compact urban institutions with extensive experience partnering with or working for city government, along with one current local government representative, will share their reflections, recommendations, and lessons learned on how colleges can effectively partner and engage college students with local government.
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In this webinar, we will discuss best practices of community engagement for curricular and co-curricular activities. Specifically, we will review how to engage with communities in ways that are authentic and mutually beneficial, and what it means to build sustainable relationships with community partners that are truly reciprocal. We will discuss white saviorism, and how white saviorism shows up with community engagement efforts. Free for members, $25/session for non-members Register
This affinity network is open to any engaged professionals (faculty or staff) who work at Campus Compact member institutions and who have worked in the field of higher education community engagement for 8 to 15 years).
It provides space and structure for mid-career community engagement professionals to discuss issues of shared interest and in designing creative approaches to advance community engagement within their institutional and personal contexts.
This affinity network is open to any Campus Compact member institution with Carnegie Classification of Associate’s College, Mixed Baccalaureate/Associate's College, and Special Focus Two Year institution.
It provides space and structure for community engagement professionals to discuss issues of shared interest. These networks support members in designing creative approaches to advance community engagement within their institutional and personal contexts.
This affinity network is open to Campus Compact member institutions enrolling populations with significant percentages of undergraduate minority students or that serve certain populations of minority students under various programs created by congress.
Includes: Historically Black colleges or universities, Predominantly Black institutions, Hispanic serving institutions, Tribal colleges or universities, Native American serving nontribal institutions, Alaska native serving institutions, Native Hawaiian serving institutions, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander serving institutions.
In social action courses, students develop and enact campaigns to change a policy, which provides them with first-hand experience with power and democracy. There is no better response by Higher Education to the growing anti-democratic forces than social action since it is designed to do democracy.
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This affinity network is open to Campus Compact member institutions that primarily serve rural areas (an area that is defined, identified, or otherwise recognized as rural by a governmental agency of the state in which the area is located).
It provides space and structure for community engagement professionals to discuss issues of shared interest and in designing creative approaches to advance community engagement within their institutional and personal contexts.
Most campuses face lower student engagement levels due to pandemic challenges like low motivation, increasing academic demands, increasing mental health concerns, and changes in community practices. Re-Engaging Students in Community will explore how institutions can re-engage their students in meaningful community engagement as we transition back to “normal.” Date: January 19, 2022 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern time Location: Virtual Cost: Free for Campus Compact members This virtual meeting is one of three “coalition conversations” open only to Campus Compact members. These conversations are designed to foster collective thinking and action focused on common themes in advancing civic and community engagement in higher education. Learn more or register
Campus Compact for New Hampshire, with our partners in the Eastern Region Campus Compact, are pleased to offer our members support in preparing your college or university’s application for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. To help you and your team prepare for a successful application, we are offering two workshops in early 2022: an application overview in January and deeper dive in February. Workshop 1: Application Overview – Learn more and register January 26, 2022 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Virtual via Zoom $50/person, $75/teams of two, $100/teams of three + This 90-minute workshop will include guidance on getting ready to apply and designing your campus plan to organize. It will explore processes for enlisting a campus team and for managing application information/data, as well as how to tell the story of your institution’s community engagement evolution. In breakout rooms, participants will identify issues around topics such as community partnerships, budget, and co-curricular/curricular engagement. Presenter: Emily M. Janke, PhD Dr. Janke is...
How can those responsible for overseeing community engagement initiatives sustain momentum through executive leadership transitions and other changes on campus? This virtual meeting will explore ways to organize and collectively build a broader infrastructure that enhances buy-in, support, and shared leadership for engagement activities across campus and community. Date: February 3, 2022 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern time Location: Virtual Cost: Free for Campus Compact members This meeting is one of three “coalition conversations” open only to Campus Compact members. These conversations are designed to foster collective thinking and action focused on common themes in advancing civic and community engagement in higher education. Learn more or register
The concept of “civic identity” is perhaps intuitive, particularly for people who attend Campus Compact gatherings, but it is not well explored or understood. In this webinar, we define and explore what “civic identity” is, how it is formed, and how it intersects with our identities.
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Campus Compact for New Hampshire, with our partners in the Eastern Region Campus Compact, are pleased to offer our members support in preparing your college or university’s application for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. To help you and your team prepare for a successful application, we are offering two workshops in early 2022: an application overview in January and deeper dive in February. Workshop 2: Application Deep Dive – Learn more and register February 16, 2022 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Virtual via Zoom $50/person, $75/teams of two, $100/teams of three + This 90 minute workshop will include: Discerning your campus’s readiness to apply Tips & tricks for conducting a community engagement impact audit of 2021–2022 Strategies for applying Curating existing data vs. gathering new data Presenter: Emily M. Janke, PhD Dr. Janke is director of the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement (ICEE) at UNCGreensboro and serves on the National Advisory Committee for the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Elective Classification. A limited...
The field of community-engaged scholarship continues to evolve as we better understand the nuances of our work. Quality faculty development efforts must address different types of community-engaged scholarship, institutional context, and the transformative nature of this work. This virtual meeting will explore a variety of faculty development models. Date: February 16, 2022 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern time Location: Virtual Cost: Free for Campus Compact members This meeting is one of three “coalition conversations” open only to Campus Compact members. These conversations are designed to foster collective thinking and action focused on common themes in advancing civic and community engagement in higher education. Learn more or register
According to UNESCO, “Global Citizenship Education (GCE) aims to empower learners of all ages to assume active roles, both locally and globally, in building more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive and secure societies. In this webinar, participants will gain tools and resources to integrate GCE and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into curriculum to help develop core competencies such as collaboration, critical thinking, effective communication and empathy to be equipped to respond to global challenges.
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The UMass Dartmouth community and Campus Compact invite you to join the 2022 Engaged Scholarship Symposium. Date: February 25, 2022 Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm Location: The Grand Reading Room of the UMass Dartmouth Clair T. Carney Library. Registration also includes a virtual option. Higher education has been criticized for hiding in the Ivory Tower—isolating ourselves from our communities and producing irrelevant research. The Engaged Scholarship Symposium is designed to celebrate scholarship’s use in shaping policy and enriching our communities. Participants will learn strategies for involving students in active teaching and research, as well as examples of engaged scholarship across many disciplines. This event is free, but registration is required. Lunch will be provided at the in-person Symposium. Learn more and register