Attention: Early career, tenure-track faculty and advanced graduate students seeking faculty or staff positions in higher education Michigan State University's Office of University Outreach and Engagement is hosting a Summer Intensive that will focus on community-engaged research and community-engaged teaching and learning, including service-learning and community-based research in classes. The Summer Intensive is composed of interactive workshops, lunches in disciplinary clusters and with senior community-engaged scholars, dialogue with community partners, and time to develop your own community engagement plan for your return to campus. At the end of four days, you will come away with: Conceptual frameworks and scholarly resources Practical partnership, collaboration, and evaluation tools Perspectives from community partners on engagement Career advice from senior community-engaged scholars about promotion and tenure Strategies for publishing community-engaged scholarship Strategies for translating university knowledge for public audiences Support from a network of interdisciplinary colleagues Online applications due: April 5, 2019. Click here for application and more information.

Michigan State University’s Office for Education Abroad is partnering with Adanu (a Ghanaian-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) to offer an innovative international  symposium on Global Community-Engaged Learning. This symposium will discuss best practices in the field of Global Community-Engaged Learning. Participants will visit Ghanaian community partners and speak with community members while learning with and from each other about key elements of Global Community-Engaged Learning, program design, facilitation, and assessment. Participants in the symposium will gain an understanding of: Key principles of global community –engaged learning Elements of successful community –university partnerships Intentional community-engaged learning program design Strategies for connecting U.S./Africa higher institutions in the field of community-engaged learning and teaching Possibilities and risks associated with Global community-engaged learning Program assessment and evaluation Click here for more information and to register.

CCNH Community Service Directors Assessment Workshop Gavin Henning, a leading expert in assessment, is coming to help you understand and maximize the power of assessment in your work. This workshop is sponsored by Campus Compact for New Hampshire and is geared towards Community Service Directors and their colleagues in community engagement, service learning, and civic engagement. Arrival and networking begins at 9:30 AM followed by the workshop at 10 AM. Lunch will follow at 1 PM. We look forward to seeing you! Register today!

This session, part of Campus Compact's Fusion Webinar Series, will focus on designing and implementing courses with high levels of student interaction, engagement, and community-based learning. Find registration and other information at https://www.compactnh.org/2021/02/25/fusion-drop-in-sessions/.

FIND SPACE TO STRATEGIZE TOGETHER, ASK QUESTIONS, FIND ANSWERS, AND RECEIVE SUPPORT.

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.

FIND SPACE TO STRATEGIZE TOGETHER, ASK QUESTIONS, FIND ANSWERS, AND RECEIVE SUPPORT.

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.

FIND SPACE TO STRATEGIZE TOGETHER, ASK QUESTIONS, FIND ANSWERS, AND RECEIVE SUPPORT.

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.

FIND SPACE TO STRATEGIZE TOGETHER, ASK QUESTIONS, FIND ANSWERS, AND RECEIVE SUPPORT.

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.