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March 15, 2019
Women Hold Up Half The Sky: L.O.V.E Notes
In our montlhy blog L.O.V.E. (Living Our Value of Equity) Notes, we share ideas and stories about equity-based community engagement and fostering L.O.V.E. in our communities. Here, we acknowledge how L.O.V.E., as an acronym, and love, as a way of operating in the world, require relationship-building, vulnerability, reflection, and opportunities for healing. During the 2019 Campus Compact Western Region Continuums of Service Conference, attendees were able to tour the largest collection of outdoor murals in the US at Chicano Park in San Diego. Participants had the opportunity to gaze upon transformative works of community/public art. One such mural (pictured above) was titled “Women Hold Up Half the Sky.” If you look at the image, you can see that the effort of holding up half the sky requires dedication, strength, and determination, but also opportunities for rest and healing to continue the work. In this installment of L.O.V.E. Notes, we want to highlight healing as a tool for equity-based community engagement…
March 6, 2019
Announcing the 2019-2020 Newman Civic Fellows
Campus Compact Announces 2019 Newman Civic Fellows 262 students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., Mexico, and Greece honored for their commitment to solving public problems BOSTON, Mass. – March 6, 2019 – Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 262 students who will make up the organization’s 2019 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a one-year fellowship for community-committed college students from Campus Compact member institutions. The fellowship honors the late Frank Newman, one of Campus Compact’s founders, who was a tireless advocate for civic engagement in higher education. In the spirit of Dr. Newman’s leadership, Campus Compact member presidents and chancellors may nominate one student who has demonstrated a capacity for leadership and an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country and abroad. Through the fellowship, Campus Compact provides a variety of learning and networking opportunities emphasizing personal, professional, and civic growth….
March 4, 2019
Community Partnership for Global Learning and Human Rights: May 14 – 16, University of Dayton
testThe University of Dayton invites you to attend the Inaugural Midwest Summer Institute – Community Partnership for Global Learning and Human Rights – from 1pm on May 14 to 1pm on May 16, 2019. The Institute will be held on UD’s campus at Emerson’s Helix Innovation Center. Collaborating with globalsl (globalsl.org), a multi-institutional hub supporting ethical global learning and community campus partnerships, the Institute will bring around 50 people together as members of a learning community dedicated to continuously improving community and student outcomes through community-campus partnerships for ethical global learning — domestically and internationally. For two and a half days, participants will think and dialogue deeply with academic and practitioner leaders and community partners, and they will consider innovative approaches for advancing ethical community-engaged global learning. Learn more and register.
February 26, 2019
The Community Engagement Professional Credentialing Program to Open in March 2019!
In 2015, Campus Compact initiated an exploration of what it might mean to create a professional certification for higher education community and civic engagement practitioners that could advance practitioners’ preparation, improve civic experiences and partnerships, and yield better results for students, institutions, and communities. Four years later, the Compact is on the cusp of rolling out this first-of-its-kind Community Engagement Professional (CEP) Credentialing Program. The purpose of the new credentialing program is to provide civic and community engagement practitioners with a means to gain formal recognition for the knowledge and skills they possess and to enhance their professional competencies in ways that encourage more effective, inclusive, and equity-based partnerships and practices. Where did all of this start? When Campus Compact first raised the idea of a certification program in 2015, it was exploratory. We wanted to find out whether there was demand for such an initiative among practitioners and, if so, which professional organization might be perceived as its most…
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