Fifteen months later, CCC’s board of trustees gave the green light for the Vineland college to join a state affiliate of the national coalition of 1,000-plus college and university presidents committed to promoting civic engagement and community-based learning.

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Recovery from the worst recession in 80 years is too slow. For many people, both their personal world and the world outside look pretty scary.

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The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation recently granted the West Virginia Campus Compact $235,000 to be used toward its Campus-Community LINK program.

Since 2010, the Campus-Community LINK program has provided WVU professors with the funds to lead students in service learning experiences in class, which will aid rural communities by providing solutions to problems they face.

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“To have so many college kids flood our campus continues to affirm our vision of creating the college-going culture, given Dr. King’s dream. He provides this beautiful context of why we are doing what we’re doing,” said Williams.

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“It will make a big impression, especially when the Roosevelt students find out who did it, that it was a lot of college students who actually were here,” said Rhone, 20, a 2009 Roosevelt graduate and a junior at Portland State University. “It will inspire them in their academics.”

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These millennials are bucking stereotypes about their generation, not spending the day sleeping late or shopping but instead joining other citizens, young and old, to meet community needs in tough economic times.

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Civic learning includes knowledge of U.S. history, democracy, politics and diverse cultures and prepares students for action in their communities in order to become active citizens.

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TNCC and its 29 member colleges and universities look forward to serving as state partner hosts to explore the connections between community and economic development and civic engagement in higher education.

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Hope Development Volunteers welcomes people from every country on earth. We do not discriminate based on age, religion, sexual orientation, skin color or any other characteristic.

We simply hope to have enthusiastic, loving and caring volunteers, who would be flexible, tolerant and sensitive to the needs of fellow human beings.

We look for volunteers who are between the ages of 18 and 80, who would want to help while experiencing a new culture and enjoy themselves.

Named for John H. Barnhill, the organization’s founding executive director and an innovator in civic engagement, the award is presented to a student at a North Carolina Campus Compact member institution who demonstrates creativity and innovation to start or significantly deepen campus efforts to address community issues and needs.

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Thanks to a $7,500 grant from Kansas Campus Compact to Dr. Becki Bowman, assistant professor communication, students in her conflict communication class had the excellent opportunity to put what they learned in the classroom to practical use. The students in her class developed activities designed to help students prevent and deal with conflict and bullying. Then they presented an activity during the week of Nov.14 to grade school students at Washington Elementary School.

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“With online courses growing at a rate of 41% over the past two years, we knew we had to move fast to find ways for online students to apply their learning in real world contexts,” said Liz McCabe Park, MCC Executive Director.  “This grant will give faculty the ability to move students in a virtual learning environment out into the community to apply their learning and make a difference.”

In online learning, students take courses over the internet, interacting with their faculty through text, images, streaming video and audio, and chat. The student and the faculty member are separated in space and possibly in time.  Service-learning is a teaching method that takes students into a community service setting to apply their learning in the real world. It has been shown to motivate students to learn and keep them in school through increasing the meaning and challenge of their courses.

Through the two-year Fusion Project, 50 faculty members from 6-9 Maine higher education institutions will learn how to infuse service-learning components into online courses.  Students who participate in the online courses created by participating faculty will get hands on, real-world experience to strengthen their learning and create connections to the larger community.

Established in 1994 and hosted at Bates College, MCC is a statewide coalition of 18 college and university presidents working to build strong communities and a more just democratic society by developing students’ citizenship and problem solving skills through community-based learning.  MCC is an affiliate state office of Campus Compact, which encompasses more than 1,100 college and university presidents – representing some 6 million students-dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education. More than 15,000 student volunteers at MCC member campuses provide some 1.6 million hours of service annually, with an economic impact of more than $25 million a year.

The Davis Educational Foundation was established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.

He didn’t need a lot — he could live cheaply sharing a house — but he wanted meaningful work rather than a job dishing out burgers.

Jones’ explorations led him to AmeriCorps, the national service program founded in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton. AmeriCorps programs — there are three different ones — all, in different ways, enable people to serve their communities for a period in exchange for a small stipend and help repaying college loans.

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Spartanburg, S.C. – The University of South Carolina Upstate’s Chancellor Thomas F. Moore has become the newest member of the Presidents’ Council for South Carolina Campus Compact to promote service learning curricula and civic engagement activities in higher education in our state.

South Carolina Campus Compact is a growing coalition of colleges and universities committed to the promotion of community service, service-learning, and civic engagement.  South Carolina Campus Compact is an organization of college and university presidents, whose members include two-year and four-year, public and private higher education institutions throughout South Carolina.

SC Campus Compact now serves approximately 222,682 students on 16 member campuses. With the inclusion of USC Upstate’s campus, the coalition has grown more than a 10.1% increase this year alone.

“We are so pleased to announce the inclusion of USC Upstate in our growing SC Campus Compact network.  We know that with the experience and dedication Chancellor Moore brings to the area, USC Upstate will contribute significantly to our core mission of graduating active, engaged citizens through promoting service learning and civic engagement in South Carolina,” said Dr. Anthony J. DiGiorgio, President of Winthrop University and Chair of the Presidents’ Council of South Carolina Campus Compact.

Dr. Thomas F. Moore, Chancellor of USC Upstate, agrees. “USC Upstate has a strong history of commitment to the Upstate community in service and leadership. Joining Campus Compact will help us expand and strengthen these activities, connect to sister institutions across South Carolina, and promote higher education in our state as a national leader in civic engagement.”

College campuses nationwide have heightened their focus on service learning and civic engagement. The concept of service learning is simple: it is an intentional student learning process through civic engagement and service with community partners. Through service learning curricula, colleges foster civic responsibility, help make coursework more meaningful and memorable through real-world application, and build the relationship between the college and the community.

SC Campus Compact is a higher education-based membership organization, located and hosted by Winthrop University and works with university administrators, staff and faculty at member institutions to develop both curricular and co-curricular service learning and civic engagement activities.

“SC Campus Compact leverages all of our available resources to build students into good citizens at colleges and universities and in our communities,” said Kim Keel, Executive Director of SCCC.  “By incorporating service learning and civic engagement into both curricular and co-curricular activities, students are learning valuable life lessons in leadership, decision-making and civic responsibility.”

Member Presidents & Chancellors

• David H. Swinton – President, Benedict College
• Jairy C. Hunter, Jr. – President, Charleston Southern University
• Henry N. Tisdale – President, Claflin University
• James F. Barker – President, Clemson University
• David A. DeCenzo – President, Coastal Carolina University
• P. George Benson – President, College of Charleston
• Caroline Whitson – President, Columbia College
• Elizabeth A. Fleming – President, Converse College
• Keith Miller – President, Greenville Technical College
• Marshall White, Jr. – President, Midlands Technical College
• Anthony J. DiGiorgio
• Chairman, SC Campus Compact – President, Winthrop University
• Benjamin B. Dunlap – President, Wofford College
• Harris Pastides – President, University of South Carolina
• Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa – President, The Citadel
• Jane T. Upshaw – Chancellor, University of South Carolina Beaufort
• Thomas F. Moore – Chancellor, University of South Carolina Upstate

For more information about SC Campus Compact, or the recent addition of USC Upstate as a member of SCCC, please visitwww.winthrop.edu/sccampuscompact or contact Kim Keel by phone at 803-323-3936 or e-mail keelk {at} winthrop(.)edu.

East Elmhurst, NY, October 27, 2011—At a time when colleges and universities might be expected to hunker down and focus on internal priorities like building recession-proof endowments, many campuses are looking for ways to increase their commitment to external community work. These schools recognize that now more than ever, higher education has a responsibility to educate the next generation of responsible citizens—and that the best way to do that is to put students to work solving pressing community issues. Such work not only provides billions of dollars in direct services to communities nationally but also gives students real-world experiences that will shape their future role in society.

Nearly all colleges have at least one community partnership, but embedding community work into the campus culture requires a more profound commitment. Today marks the beginning of a region-wide two-day conference to explore specific tools, strategies, and policies for supporting a deep level of campus engagement with the community. The 2011 Eastern Region Campus Compact (ERCC) conference, “Moving Us Forward: Recognizing and Rewarding Civic Engagement,” focuses on the critical areas of engaged scholarship (i.e., involving faculty in their roles as teachers and researchers), institutional change (i.e., involving campus policymakers in creating campus support structures and rewards), and campus-community reciprocity (i.e., involving community organizations as equal partners).

“This conference brings together campus leaders from across the Eastern U.S. to strengthen campus-community relationships by supporting faculty and institutional involvement,” says Campus Compact Executive Director Maureen F. Curley. “The conference’s focus on bringing campus teams to the table, including faculty and high-level administrators, will help ensure buy-in. The leaders who are attending aren’t interested in paying lip service to these ideas; they’re here to build on their strengths and find ways to adopt best practices.”

Conference highlights include a two-day institute for faculty teams to explore ways to assess and recognize engaged scholarship, guided by Timothy K. Eatman, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Syracuse University and Director for Research of Imagining America, with KerryAnn O’Meara of the University of Maryland. Dwight Giles of the University of Massachusetts-Boston will examine faculty roles using data from the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification project, which evaluates campus engagement. A panel of college and university vice presidents will discuss their successes in revising faculty promotion and tenure guidelines to recognize engaged scholarship. In addition, Randy Stoecker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison will navigate ways to create reciprocal campus-community partnerships, Richard Guarasci of Wagner College will address the culture of the engaged campus, and Richard Kiely of Cornell University will discuss creating sustainable global service-learning partnerships.

Laurie Worrall, Executive Director of New York Campus Compact and one of the conference organizers, notes that the Community Engagement Classification has become a hallmark of excellence in this field. “Campus Compact has a rich history in this area. Our 13 “Indicators of Engagement” informed the Carnegie Foundation’s classification criteria, and most schools that have earned the classification are Campus Compact members. We’re in a great position to evaluate how campuses can strengthen their engagement efforts, which will improve community-based teaching, learning, and research and help campuses gain recognition for this work.”

Conference sponsor ERCC is a collaboration of eastern Campus Compact organizations spanning Maine to Florida. These state organizations, which represent 400 member campuses, are part of the national Campus Compact coalition of college and university presidents who are committed to the civic purposes of higher education.

“This conference is just one piece of Campus Compact’s sustained national effort to promote campus-based community and civic engagement,” notes Debby Scire, Executive Director of Campus Compact for New Hampshire. “Two keys to building this work are faculty involvement, which we’re exploring over these two days, and the ability to assess community impact, which will be the subject of the next regional conference in 2012. By focusing on collaboration within and among campus teams and sharing successful strategies, these conferences are helping to bring about major change in the region.”

About Campus Compact

Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents—representing some 6 million students—who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. As the only national higher education association dedicated solely to campus-based civic engagement, Campus Compact promotes public and community service that develops students’ citizenship skills, helps campuses forge effective community partnerships, and provides resources and training for faculty seeking to integrate civic and community-based learning into the curriculum.

With support from a national office and 35 state offices, students at Campus Compact member colleges and universities contribute an estimated $8 billion in service to their communities each year through campus-sponsored programs. By working in the community, these students gain real-world experience while meeting pressing needs in areas such as K-12 education, health care, the environment, hunger/homelessness, literacy, and senior services.

In an effort to instill this passion in its students, the college’s Center for Civic Engagement, along with co-sponsors University of Houston-Downtown and Texas Campus Compact, will host its first two-day conference on Nov. 18-19 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in the new Student-Conference Center. The conference will demonstrate to faculty the skills needed by students to increase civic involvement on campus and in their communities.

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The founding members of Nebraska Campus Compact are Nebraska Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Doane College, the College of St. Mary, Hastings College, Nebraska Methodist College, Peru State College, the University of Nebraska at Kearney, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Wayne State College and Western Nebraska Community College.

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