Imagine a world where all higher education institutions serve as vehicles for positive, sustainable social impact and innovation. At the Ashoka U Exchange, March 2-4, 2017, hosted by Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida, you can begin to see and create this world. During your three days at the Exchange, you’ll join hundreds of other innovators in higher education who are reimagining how to utilize colleges and universities as platforms to catalyze long-term change and social impact. Here inspiration is sparked and deep connections are formed with peers who share your passion for higher education. The Ashoka U Exchange is a program of Ashoka U, an organization dedicated to transforming higher education into a tool for social innovation. This year, the agenda will focus on three key pillars of leadership critical to transform higher education into a tool for social impact:  Developing Individual Skillsets to Lead Transformative Change Learning and Implementing Programmatic Innovations Advancing Social Innovation as a Field In Higher Education Click here...

ERCC2017@NYU Conference Theme: Equity through Community Engagement:  Each year the ERCC identifies a theme for deeper examination.  ERCC2017@NYU conference is asking participants to renew our commitment to equity as a core emphasis of our practice while exploring the extent to which community engagement activities contribute to equity in our local and global communities.   We aim to explore the challenges and opportunities that arise when we commit to equity in our institutional principles, practices and outcome objectives; and to learn from our efforts to do so thus far. Conference proposals are being accepted through November 18, 2016. Framing Questions: How are community engaged scholars, practitioners, and students building their own skills around diversity, social justice, and equity?  Where are the needs for improvement? In what ways can a focus on equity inform the design of community engagement programs? How are campuses assessing the inclusivity of community engagement practices and/or the extent to which equity-focused outcomes are being achieved? Eastern Region Campus Compact...

Partner Up! Fostering Just and Inclusive Communities Together Students, community partners, faculty members, administrators: Calling all practitioners! Come to Greensboro for the 15th annual Gulf South Summit!  Keynote and breakout sessions will focus on how our community/university partnerships foster equity and inclusion by leveraging the intersectionality of our identities. We will explore the complexity of embracing all voices in building community across diverse contexts, dialogue and deliberation as democratic practices, restorative justice initiatives, innovation through social entrepreneurship, best practices in student leadership for civic engagement, and the latest in community-engaged scholarship.  Join us!

Please join the Western Region of Campus Compact for the 19th Continuums of Service Conference in Denver, CO - the Mile High City - to elevate the commitment, action, and impact of higher education and the public good. The 2017 Continuums of Service Conference will empower students, faculty, administrators, and community partners to embrace a commitment to advance civic and community engagement for a just, equitable, and sustainable future.  Registration coming soon!

Nadinne Cruz will be hosting a day long workshop at the University of Chicago on the topic of engagement strategies for diverse communities both on and off campus.  Please feel free to invite other interested staff/faculty as well as community partners. RSVP to Amy Ludwig at aludwig1@depaul.edu.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! CONFERENCE PURPOSE The purpose of this conference is to bring together educators of all types (faculty, student affairs professionals, staff mentors and advising professionals, teaching assistants, administrators, etc.) to focus on the importance of well-being in higher education. Through the lens of intersectionality, conference participants will examine and explore how institutional values and campus cultures acknowledge or contextualize the intersections of student identity and lived experiences, support them, and challenge them. This conference takes seriously the commitment to “whole student” development through the exploration of the very elements that make students whole.Some conferences are about intersectionality. Some conferences are about student well-being. This conference is about the integration of both. CONFERENCE TOPICS The BTtoP project was founded on the principle that one of the fundamental purposes of higher education is the well-being of all its stakeholders, especially students. Through deep engagement in learning, civic experiences, and diverse discourse, higher education provides the unique opportunity for students to...

The American Democracy Project (ADP), The Democracy Commitment (TDC), and NASPA are committed to advancing the civic engagement movement in higher education. Join us from June 7-10, 2017 in Baltimore, Md. for our annual conference which brings together faculty, student affairs professionals, senior campus administrators, students, and community partners. Together we will work to ensure that students graduate from our colleges and universities--both public and private--prepared to be the informed, engaged citizens that our communities and our democracy need.  About the conference: The 2017 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (CLDE17) is a conference designed around an emergent theory of change adapted from elements of the 2012 Crucible Moment report.  Like this report, the CLDE17 conference invites participants to consider what does a civic-minded campus look like? To this end, several threads within the civic engagement movement will be considered including: how to build campus cultures and contexts that foster: civic ethos, civic literacy and skill building, civic inquiry, civic...

Advancing Community Driven Global Service-Learning Please join us for our 8th Global Service-Learning Institute! The Global Service-Learning Institute (GSLI) will build upon established institute strengths in global service-learning pedagogy and program development, while also integrating more explicit attention to best practices in community-driven global service-learning. Previous institutes have highlighted encouragement of institutional teams and the opportunity to workshop global service-learning coursework and programs during the institute, along with deep collaboration, dialogue with, and learning from like-minded peers. Given the success previous institutes, we will continue to provide participants with the opportunity to further develop their global service-learning programs – whether they are novice or advanced – in centrally located Syracuse, New York. NOTE:  The Institute is uniquely designed to be collaborative, open, and participatory. Past attendees have found the format and design offers opportunities for in-depth conversation, quality feedback, and network-building.  In addition, we welcome questions, suggestions and comments throughout scheduled programming. Who Should Attend? Faculty, professional staff and administrators...

  Citizens willing to partake in productive bi-partisan discourse is essential for a vibrant democracy, but it is becoming increasingly complex to engage in difficult or contentious conversations across partisan lines.  Campus professionals are looking for the best ways to engage students who may not agree with one another.  Join us on July 18th at 10 AM CST as we team up with Wisconsin Campus Compact to host a webinar presented by Eric Giordano, founding director of the Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service and Todd Price, Director of Policy Studies at National Louis University.  Together, we will explore the best strategies for introducing bi-partisan dialogue in and out of the classroom. Click here to register! This webinar is the second part of our three-part Summer Webinar series. Our third and final webinar will take place in August and cover the topic of Working with Development / Fundraising Offices to Support Community Engagement. Stay tuned for more info.

Developing Relationships for Growth This Campus Compact webinar is designed to introduce civic engagement professionals at Universities to the fundraising world. Civic engagement projects within universities have become accustomed to applying for grants, but there is room to grow by developing on-going relationships with donors. We hope that this webinar will spur outreach strategies in civic engagement offices that tap into the skills of the many development professionals on campuses across the country. Hear from two seasoned development professionals from two institutions in this strategy-building webinar: Lynette Green, Associate Vice President for College Advancement, St. Norbert College Jennifer McFarland, Associate Vice President of Development, Office of Gift Planning, Wisconsin Alumni and Research Foundation The webinar will take place on September 11 at 2pm CST. To register for this webinar, click here.

The CUMU Annual Conference is the largest nationwide meeting of leaders from urban and metropolitan universities and colleges. We are a diverse community filled with people who are focused on working in partnership to create vibrant, safe, thriving, and equitable neighborhoods, communities, and cities to work, live, and learn. The Urban Advantage Just as urban and metropolitan universities and colleges serve an important role in their communities, cities serve important roles in students' academic and personal growth. Urban institutions provide them with the resources to grow and thrive in a fast-paced environment. With better opportunities for experiential learning, research and development, creative activity, and partnerships that create immediate and substantive impact on communities, this urban advantage is on display in Denver, the setting of this year's conference. From a mile above sea level, learn about the ways administrators and scholars are changing the face of urban institutions, and the way these colleges and universities are contributing to the city they...

If your organization needs technical assistance in regards to the application process for the Tyson Summer Community Internship Program, consider attending this webinar! Click here to register for the webinar!  

Transformational Opportunity for Compact Members APPLICATION: Due March 21, 2017 Institute Description: Colleges and universities must play a leadership role in promoting racial and social justice.  Despite well-meaning intentions, both the systems we work in as well as our own fears and resulting biases limit our capacity to work, communicate and build relationships in ways that uphold equity and inclusion.  For most, the impacts on us and others are as invisible as our biases: from whom we choose to collaborate with to how we interact with our colleagues and students.  Early and persistent experiences of institutional oppression left their residue on us. The intention of this institute is to come together in community to understand the impacts of and heal from the effects of institutional and internalized oppressions in order to create a more just and connected present and future.  We will do this by deepening our understanding of who we are, where we come from and why equity and justice...