Campus Compact launches Community Engagement Professional Credentialing Program New program offers professional certification for civic and community engagement professionals BOSTON, Mass. – APRIL 29, 2019 – Campus Compact today launched its Community Engagement Professional Credentialing Program, the first such program for higher education civic and community engagement professionals. “Campus Compact is launching this credentialing program because we believe the work of higher education Community Engagement Professionals matters,” said Campus Compact President Andrew Seligsohn. “It matters enough that it’s worth supporting professionals to help them do their work well–reflectively, ethically, and effectively. We also believe supporting CEPs as they build their own competencies will help higher education colleagues and community partners understand the value of CEPs and the importance of the knowledge and skills they bring to their campuses and communities.” To earn certification as a Campus Compact community engagement professional, the program will require applicants to earn micro-credentials across a range of topics. Applicants can earn individual micro-credentials by submitting…

When we talk about equity, we often think of big systems--education, the economy, legal institutions. But equity also includes access to a healthy and clean environment. In this edition of LOVE notes, we will focus on the environment, sustainability, and efforts to highlight community engagement and environmental justice. Earth Day was earlier this week, and as stories highlighting the day appeared on broadcast and social media, it was hard to miss the centrality of efforts to influence legislators to make change. The roots of the modern environmental movement are closely tied to the civil rights movement. The actions that led to laws such as the Clean Air Act and other environmental regulations followed from strategies directly drawn from the civil rights movement. As climate change drives an uptick in environmental disasters--wildfires, hurricanes, floods--we in higher education community engagement must ask ourselves: In what ways have we or are we facilitating the opportunities for the university, students, and community members to...

The past year in Nicaragua has been marked by protests, violence, and political and economic crisis. Our globalsl blog series last summer explored a key question sparked by these crises:, Nicaragua, Nicaraguita: What is our responsibility as partners even if our students can’t travel?. As part of that blog series, Erin Sabato (Director, International Service and Learning, Quinnipiac University) shared Quinnipiac Global Solidarity Program’s immediate response and longer-term planning steps in her reflection: Working towards solidarity in times of crisis: Partnering in Nicaragua now.    Quinnipiac University and Alianza Americana, a language and leadership institute in Leon, Nicaragua have worked together for 14 years. Each year over 150 Quinnipiac University students have traveled to Leon, Nicaragua through 11 different programs. This partnership has worked with the same 19 host families in Leon since 2004. As Quinnipiac University and Alianza Americana worked to continue partnership during the last year, one opportunity that emerged was a Spring Break trip to Costa Rica…