Vulnerability, Humility and Learning in GSL
“For all of this ambiguity, however, many of us are still drawn to support our students as they risk learning something unexpected and without the cold and clin…
GSL 6 Themes Announced: Inclusion and Transformation in Global Service-Learning
The 6th Global Service-Learning Summit website is officially under construction here. Take a look at the themes and begin connecting with colleagues and friends…
Press Releases Campus Compact and Tyson Foods Announce Second Year of Innovative Partnership
Program will support community organizations through college student internships For immediate release, November 8, 2018: Campus Compact and Tyson Foods today a…
Public Purpose: The Blog of Campus Compact President Andrew Seligsohn
Continuing the Work after the 2018 Midterms
It’s Wednesday. November 7. The day after. The dust has not yet settled on the midterm elections. There are recounts to complete and runoffs to be held. Many of…
Intersectionality, Power, and Lessons Learned: Avoiding Paternalistic Partnerships
In last week’s post, I revealed how, the summer of 2016 after my freshman year, I embarked on an internship in Nicaragua that worked with youth in a residential…
Ending Orphanage Volunteerism: Get Involved and Host a Film
Check out this guest post from ReThink Orphanages to find out how you can be part of the upcoming campaign to end orphanage volunteering in favor of holistic ch…
Good Intent and Grave Missteps: How I Went from Latinx in the United States to White in Nicaragua, and the Lessons In Between (Part 1 of 2)
From insidious stereotypes to survivor’s guilt, my summer in Nicaragua after my freshman year of college was a whirlwind of emotions, mishaps, misunderstandings…
Now Accepting Nominations for the Newman Civic Fellowship
Campus Compact is now accepting nominations for the 2019-2020 Newman Civic Fellowship. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a yearlong program that recognizes and sup…
Caring & Connecting: A Crash Course in Community Civic Engagement through Campus Compact
By Oneida Shushe, Colgate University This blog post is part of a two-part series on the second annual national convening of Newman Civic Fellows hosted by Campu…
Naïve Hope? Hokey Hope? – Critical Hope in International Service-Learning
“We propose that the social justice turn in service-learning is premised on, and can be aided by, the necessary tension between criticality …&… a hope that…
