Providence, RI — Campus Compact is pleased to announce that it has joined the team of Program Advisors for Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse as advisor for the Higher Education sector. Because commitment to excellence and collaboration across service-learning audiences is critical to a vital Clearinghouse, Program Advisors provide NSLC with sector-specific guidance and expertise. Campus Compact, like all NSLC Program Advisors, was selected for this role because of the high quality research, practice, and advocacy they bring to the service-learning community. Leading Campus Compact’s efforts for NSLC will be Maureen F. Curley, president of the national Campus Compact organization, and Julie Plaut, head of Campus Compact’s national academic initiatives.
“Campus Compact is delighted at the opportunity to collaborate more closely with the Clearinghouse in supporting and advancing the great work being done by Learn and Serve grantees and others across the country,” notes Plaut. “This partnership is particularly exciting because working together will result in more robust resources for the entire field of service-learning.”
To learn more about Campus Compact and all of the NSLC Program Advisors, visit
http://www.servicelearning.org/about_us/prog_advisors/index.php
Maureen F. Curley, president of the national Campus Compact organization, has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, concentrating in the areas of community service and public policy. Among other leadership positions, Maureen has served as Director of Public Policy for the Community Service Society of New York and as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance, where she oversaw distribution of $12 million in grants to support AmeriCorps community service-learning and mentoring programs. She also founded the Forum for Women Leaders of Nonprofit Organizations. Most recently she was the Chief Relationship Officer for Bridgestar, where she developed services to connect executive-level managers with career and board opportunities in the nonprofit sector. Maureen has taught courses on nonprofit and volunteer management at Columbia University, New York University, and UMass-Boston. Currently she serves on the board of directors of the National Service-Learning Partnership and Friends of the Children – Boston. She holds a B.A. in political science from Emmanuel College and a master’s in human services administration from Antioch University New England.
Julie Plaut is head of Campus Compact’s national academic initiatives. Her work focuses on preparing and recognizing the next generation of engaged leaders and scholars; fostering research to inform good practice; and deepening higher education institutions’ intentional and active commitment to their distinctive civic missions. She brings to the Program Advisor role 20 years of experience with service-learning in higher education. As an undergraduate student at Stanford University, she initiated a service-learning option that grew into a community organizing track in the Urban Studies Program and launched COOL’s first national grant program supporting teams of faculty, community partners, and students developing service-learning courses. At Indiana University, where she earned a Ph.D. in history, she taught service-learning courses and helped to establish and lead the campus service-learning office. She then worked at Minnesota Campus Compact, developing new partnerships, writing proposals and publications, organizing numerous professional development and networking events, and administering Learn and Serve America and other programs. Julie’s work is grounded in an asset-based approach to collaboration and change and a deep commitment to creating just, democratic, and sustainable communities.
