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Workshops & Conferences

Indiana Campus Compact Institutionalization of Service Engagement Workshops
Feburary 10, 17, and 24
Indiana

The goal of these workshops is to provide a space for individuals from across campus to come together and have conversations about the institutionalization of service and civic engagement on their campus-where they have been, where they are, and where they want to go-and then develop some strategic action steps based on their priorities. It is only $150 for an entire campus team to attend. We have space donated from our campuses and are only charging members enough to cover food expenses for the day. Registration ends February 1.
 

Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education
“Transforming Lives Through Collaboration, Community and Citizenship.”
March 21-23,
Hattiesburg. Mississippi

Indiana Campus Compact’s 2nd Annual Service Engagement Summit
March 29-30, 2012
Indianapolis, IN

The conference will focus on emerging trends in service engagement in higher education including the use of new technologies (e.g. social media, web-based collaboration, or teaching), new ways of engaging (e.g. innovative approaches to community based learning and research), and new ways of partnering. 

IMPACT 2012:  The National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy and Social Action

March 29 - April 1, 2012
Stetson University in DeLand, Florida 

Experience the energy of a national conference that has been going strong for over two decades. By offering workshop at the IMPACT conference, you will gain experience presenting and marketing to a vibrant and motivated group of dynamic change agents. Your contributions will enrich and empower the youth of today to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Registration for the IMPACT Conference is currently open. Please register at  will showcase a variety of workshops at all levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced).

15th Annual Continuums of Service Conference
April 11-13, 2012
Seattle, Washington
Call for Proposals now open.

Higher education is changing. We are rethinking how we do everything on and off the campus.  Colleges and universities across the country are re-structuring, re-branding, cutting degree programs, developing new initiatives, collaborating with new partners, etc. Yet so many people are approaching this change from a very fearful resource-poor perspective. Let's change that!

Monitoring and Measuring 2012
The Historic Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center

This program is designed for individuals or teams that are responsible for developing or advocating for an assessment plan for engagement. Participants will explore a variety of planning models, different dimensions of monitoring and measuring, and perspectives of the multiple constituencies of engagement. Participants will understand strategies for building institutional capacity for engagement and will return to their campus with a plan for measuring and monitoring that is aligned and consistent with other aspects of their institutional work.

National Service Learning Conference
April 11-14, 2012
Minneapolis, Minn
Its time to make a difference! Join us at the 23rd Annual National Service Learning Conferenceand youthrive PeaceJam National Leadership Conference: Our World, Our Future. If you are a young person, or a person who works with young people, this conference is for you!

Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
April 21 - April 22, 2012
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.  Register during September to secure the lowest registration rate. The registration rate increases after September 30.

Interested in presenting at the Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale?  Unite For Sight is currently accepting abstract submissions for presentation, and the final abstract deadline is September 30.  Submit an abstract for consideration.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 15th Anniversary Conference
April 18-21, 2012 
Houston, Texas

The conference, "Community-Campus Partnerships as a Strategy for Social
Justice: Where We've Been & Where We Need to Go" promises to be CCPH's
best yet as hundreds of community and campus partners convene for 4 days
of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting!  Whether you are
directly involved in community-based participatory research,
service-learning or other community-academic partnerships - or are working
to ensure the conditions are in place for such partnerships to thrive and
have impact - the conference will challenge and inspire you!  Regardless
of the social justice issue you are passionate about - health equity,
education, environmental justice, food security, sustainability,
indigenous rights and more - together we will explore how to leverage
partnerships to create change.

REGISTER TODAY!
Register by February 3rd to receive discounted early-bird registration
rates.

The Biennial National Conference
May 31-June 2nd, 2012
Messiah College, Grantham, PA  

Faith-Based Service-Learning:  "Serving Our Neighbors:  Learning Across the Lines that Divide Us" .  

Online submissions are now being accepted for engaging papers, workshops, roundtable presentations. You are invited to propose research based or conceptual topics that relate to current campus/community service-learning issues. Proposals should actively encourage discussion and participant engagement.   Breakout session proposals should be sent via the online web form on the conference website no later than February 15, 2012.  To register for the conference and/or submit your presentation proposal click here. 

The International Center for Service-Learning in Teacher Education (ICSLTE)
Third international conference Conversations that Matter: Research, Policy, and Practice.
June 21-23, 2012
Duke University, Durham NC

For information or general questions about the conference, contact Kathy Sikes, Executive Administrative Director, Kathy.Sikes@duke.edu
 Session Proposals Sought for Regional Summit
Iowa Campus Compact is partnering with Minnesota Campus Compact and Wisconsin Campus Compact for the inaugural Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit to be held June 5 and 6, 2012 at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. We are now seeking proposals for a variety of session presentors and facilitators and entrants in a poster session. Complete the RFP for by February 24 to be considered.

Program Advisory Council to Meet February 24
The Iowa Campus Compact Program Advisory Council will meet Friday, February 24 from 10 am to 3 pm in Des Moines at the Pappajohn Center. We hope to have a representative from each member institution so please check your calendars.
 
 
Network Spotlight                          

IACC would like to welcome  one of our newest members to join the compact as the point person for Grinnell, Susan Leatham Sanning. Susan is the Community Service Coordinator at Grinnell College.  In this capacity she works to connect students, faculty, and staff with collaborative service opportunities in the community and mentors students as they learn to lead their own sustainable social justice endeavors.   
 
Susan is the first full time Community Service Coordinator that Grinnell has had in five to six years and is excited to lead the program into a new and dynamic chapter of the college’s history. This year the Community Service Program is working with the Student Government Association (SGA) and other campus offices on new volunteer initiatives, incentives, awards, and tracking systems. The SGA has committed to funding student volunteer projects and social justice endeavors and has streamlined the process by which students can request such funds.  New relationships are being forged with academic departments and an advisory board is being established. 
 
Susan looks forward to the networking with other members of Campus Compact and is thrilled that President Raynard Kington has made the commitment necessary to be part of this distinctive professional organization.

Get to know Susan!
Susan received her B.B.A. in finance & management from Baylor University and her M.Div. and Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary before doing her Ph.D. coursework in religion and women’s studies at Drew University.  Originally from Boston, MA, Susan now lives with her husband, Erik and two daughters, Maile and Katherine on their hobby farm just west of Grinnell.   

Prior to coming to Grinnell College, Susan was the Chaplain/Spiritual Care Coordinator at Grinnell Regional Medical Center where she spent the majority of her time learning from and serving hospice patients and their caregivers.  These patients, and some of their life situations, helped inspire Susan to empower positive social change in the community. 

Please feel free to contact Susan with questions or to welcome her to the IACC network!

Upcoming Professional Development Workshop: Strategic Partnerships in Service-Learning
February 15, 2012
11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Loras College Academic Resource Center, Dubuque, IA
FREE to Campus Compact members

Iowa Campus Compact member faculty and staff are invited to participate in this free workshop (lunch will be provided).

Presenters are Dr. Charles Connerly, University of Iowa Professor and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning and Maggie Baker, Loras College Service Learning Coordinator.

Presenters will discuss two successful models of strategic partnerships to help attendees gain insight on:
- the meaning and purpose of building strategic partnerships in service-learning and civic engagement
- strategies for developing and sustaining partnerships
- faculty, staff, community partner and student role in building these partnerships

Register today!

AAC&U Releases Report on Civic Learning
AAC&U recently released a report from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement entitled A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future. The report outlines a call to action on civic learning in higher education.

Campus Compact Webinar Series

Two webinars are currently scheduled for this semester:

February 29, 2012
1:00 to 2:00 PM
Service-Learning and Addressing Sexual Violence and Abuse on Campus
Presenters: Drs. Curt and Christie Brungardt, Fort Hays State University and Founders of Jana's Campaign

April 5, 2012
2:00 to 3:30 PM
Service-Learning in Graduate Professional Education

Further information and registration will be available soon on our web site. If you would like to serve as a webinar presenter, please submit a brief proposal.

International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change
Columbia College is currently looking for submissions of articles from students for the International Undergraduate Journal for Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change. They are hoping to receive submissions from your students by February 15. Click here for more information.

With any questions contact:
Ned Scott Laff, Ph.D.
nslaff@columbiasc.edu

Joyce Fields, Ph.D. 
jfields@columbiasc.edu
 
Volume 15 (4) of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement

Volume 15 (4) of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement has been published, and is available online at www.jheoe.uga.edu

2012 Newman Civic Fellows and Ehrlich Awards Now Open!
Please consider nominating one or more of your outstanding student service leaders for the 2012 Newman Civic Fellows Award. This is a great opportunity to help your dedicated students achieve national recognition. Nominations are to be submited onine and are due Tuesday, February 21, 2012.

The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus Compact member institution) are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good. The award — previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning — is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University. Nominations should be submitted online by March 30, 2012.

All questions about the process should be directed to Sue Kelman at 617.357.1881, x207 or to skelman@compact.org.

2012 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), the annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.

The Lynton Award emphasizes community-based scholarly work across faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement (also known as outreach scholarship, public scholarship, scholarship for the common good, community-based scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship) represents an integrated view of faculty roles in which teaching, research/creative activity, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly work tied to a faculty member's expertise, is of benefit to the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects the mission of the institution. In addition, NERCHE conceptualizes scholarly engagement in terms of social justice in a diverse democracy.

The award will be presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) which will be held from October 13-16, 2012, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. CUMU is a co-sponsor of the Award.

Nominators will submit nominations via an online application by April 27, 2012.  To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions click here.


 

 
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