Campus Compact is excited to welcome Kelvin F. Alfaro as the new director of Campus Compact for Wisconsin! As director of Campus Compact for Wisconsin, Alfaro will be a leader in campus engagement efforts across the state, serving as the point person for member institutions, facilitating place-based network gatherings, providing institution-specific technical assistance, and connecting the work taking place in Wisconsin to national efforts and opportunities. Alfaro will be based at Campus Compact for Wisconsin’s office at Cardinal Stritch University. His first day will be Monday, May 20, 2019. Starting Monday, he can be reached at kalfaro {at} compact(.)org or (608) 839-7331. Alfaro comes to the role with a wealth of experience in grantmaking, philanthropy, strategic planning, and nonprofit management. Throughout his career, he has focused on building capacity in communities, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions with the goal of creating a more equitable society. For the past decade, he served as director of programs and evaluation at the Central…

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...