Institutions, faculty, and community engagement professionals recognized for outstanding work pursuing the public purposes of higher education. Campus Compact, a national coalition of colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education, announces this year’s recipients of the Campus Compact Impact Awards: the Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award, the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award, the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, the Richard Guarasci Award for Institutional Transformation, and the Eduardo J. Padrón Award for Institutional Transformation. These awards recognize the outstanding work of individuals and institutions in pursuit of the public purposes of higher education. “Through these awards, we celebrate action-oriented individuals and institutions that are building bridges and creating partnerships that deepen student civic learning and strengthen local communities, said Maggie Grove, interim president of Campus Compact. “Through their work as teachers, scholars, and institutional leaders, they show us the power of higher education leadership for public purposes.” The recipients of…

Campus Compact’s Board of Directors today announced that Bobbie Laur has been appointed the next president of the organization effective February 15, 2022. Laur currently serves as associate vice president for outreach at Towson University and simultaneously serves as executive director of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). “We are delighted to welcome Bobbie Laur as Campus Compact’s next president,” said Jonathan Alger, president of James Madison University and chair of Campus Compact’s Board of Directors. “Bobbie is an action-oriented leader with a proven track record of impact at both the institutional level and through her national leadership to expand and deepen the role of institutions as anchors in communities. The combination of both deep place-based and national-level work make her the perfect choice to lead the Compact at this moment.” As president, Laur will oversee the nation’s largest national organization dedicated to higher education civic and community engagement. Founded in 1985, Campus Compact develops member-driven resources for…

by Samantha Brandauer On November 4th, 2021 the Forum on Education Abroad hosted its first in-person event since the pandemic started in Boston, MA – an institute on Centering Justice in Short-term Faculty-led Programs. The institute emerged from a state of the field survey done by the Forum on Education Abroad that highlighted a desire for better support for faculty-led programs and a renewed strategic partnership between Dickinson College and the Forum. It was an excellent opportunity to feature the work of the Collaborative. The individuals who attended were eager to reflect on what they have been learning throughout the pandemic and how their roles are shifting within higher education and particularly within education abroad. As a field, international education is grappling with complex questions – What does global learning look like with limited student mobility? Have international educators done enough to address issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in education abroad? If we are not working toward larger…