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December 2018
Collaboratory Webinar – Faculty/staff tracking their engagement: Motivations and opportunities
Your institution is engaging in exciting and diverse ways throughout your community, without being aware of the various activities and partnerships! Your data collection may be basic, a sophisticated homegrown system, a third party solution, or a hybrid. How do you get those engaged to provide the data? How do you ensure all aspects of the institution are invited to participate and well-represented? Gain insights into the common tensions and motivations of faculty and staff when they are asked to provide data on engagement activities, as well as tools and strategies to communicate the value of and need for data to different stakeholder groups. We will also discuss best practices around the use of data, how to minimize administrative and political costs to data collection, and next steps your institution might pursue to successfully track community engagement data. The webinar is hosted by Ohio Campus Compact and free to Campus Compact members. Register online!
Find out more »November 2018
“Fueling for the Marathon” (a Carnegie application workshop)
Indiana Campus Compact is hosting two events as a means of supporting institutions as they prepare their applications for Carnegie’s Elective Classification for Community Engagement. These events – “FUELING FOR THE MARATHON” workshops – are a part of Indiana Campus Compact’s ongoing Carnegie series "It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint: Applying for Carnegie’s Classification for Community Engagement in Higher Education." More information on these two events and the series can be found here. The cost for the events is $120 per campus team (up to 5 people) and includes a light breakfast and lunch. If interested, institutions would only choose one of the two dates to attend: November 30, 2018 at Indiana University South Bend (South Bend, Indiana) January 25, 2019 at Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, Indiana) What is this event? An off-site gathering for campus teams who are engaged in the process of organizing and compiling the application for the 2020 distinction. This event will allow the time/space to dig deep, and…
Find out more »Peer Learning Call – Rural Colleges and Universities
Join colleagues from across the Upper Midwest for Peer Learning Video Conference sessions once per semester. These sessions are a chance to connect with community engagement leaders in similar organizations contexts. This can include faculty, staff, or other leaders of these efforts. Facilitated sessions will last for 90 minutes and offer the chance to share your challenges and questions to get new ideas, resources, and collaborations. Register here.
Find out more »Peer Learning Call – Community and Technical Colleges
Join colleagues from across the Upper Midwest for Peer Learning Video Conference sessions once per semester. These sessions are a chance to connect with community engagement leaders in similar organizations contexts. This can include faculty, staff, or other leaders of these efforts. Facilitated sessions will last for 90 minutes and offer the chance to share your challenges and questions to get new ideas, resources, and collaborations. Register here.
Find out more »Webinar – Community Colleges as Civil Power Plants: Generating, Harnessing, and Spreading Civic Power
REGISTER HERE for this FREE webinar! Inspired by Eric Liu’s You Are More Powerful Than You Think and his notion of civic power, this webinar will introduce the concept of community colleges as “Civic Power Plants” generating power in the civic life of their students and campuses. How can community colleges harness their true public purpose by educating for democracy and sending it out to making a difference in the civic lives of the community that they serve? This webinar will feature examples of civic engagement from across the diversity of the community college realm. Verdis Robinson – is the new Director for Community College Engagement at Campus Compact. As an advocate of community college civic education, Robinson directs The Democracy Commitment (TDC) initiative as part of his portfolio. Before becoming national director of TDC, Robinson was a tenured Assistant Professor of History and African-American Studies at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, NY. Mr. Robinson is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Seminar…
Find out more »2018 Civic Action Academy
Registration is open for the second annual Civic Action Academy. This is a unique professional development opportunity for students interested in learning new ways of making a difference and building skills through civic and community engagement. The event will be held November 9 and 10, 2018 at Drake University in Des Moines. Students from across the Midwest and beyond (undergraduate and graduate) are invited to learn from professional across sectors. Sessions will offer skill-building in civic action including philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, dialogue, advocacy and more. Students will also have a chance to learn what others are doing on other campuses and network with peers. Mike Draper, this year’s keynote speaker, owns RAYGUN, headquartered in Des Moines with locations in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and Kansas City. Students, staff, and faculty from Campus Compact member institutions can register at a discount for only $25 per person using the code “iaccmember.” Agenda Overview Friday, November 9, 2018 1:00 pm Opening Session and Welcome 1:30…
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