Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit
Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN, United StatesThe Global Is Local: Civic Engagement across Cultures, Communities, and Nations
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Pen to Paper: Writing with, for, and about Service Engagement –An Academic Writing Retreat
Bay Pointe Inn 11456 Marsh Road, Shelbyville, MIPen to Paper is an academic writing retreat designed to provide time, space, and resources to help faculty, professional staff and graduate students working on (or planning for) journal manuscripts about service- and community-engaged scholarship. During the two-day retreat participants have time to discuss ideas with journal editors, receive mentoring from faculty coaches, share ideas with colleagues and peers, and write. The program is designed to accommodate 15-20 participants in each track; therefore space is limited to 40 total. Registration for the 2015 Retreat is closed.
Be a Part of a National Storytelling Movement
Your communityJoin Forces with Indiana Campus Compact & Be a Part of a National Storytelling Movement Five Indiana Campuses Will be Awarded a FREE Facing Project Indiana Campus Compact is excited to announce a new partnership with The Facing Project, a nonprofit that connects people through stories to strengthen communities. The Facing Project was co-founded by our Executive Director, J.R. Jamison, along with New York Times bestselling author Kelsey Timmerman. The Facing Project works with campuses and communities to organize and share the stories of citizens through the talent of local writers and actors. Writers are matched with community members facing the selected topic (depression, hunger, homelessness, disabilities, etc), meet with them face-to-face, and capture their stories in the first-person. The stories are compiled into a book and brought to life on stage through a community theatre event. Since its founding in 2012, The Facing Project has worked with 30 communities/campuses in eight states and two countries and has been hailed...
Campus Engagement Directors Retreat
Saint Mary's College of California 9128 Saint Mary's Rd., Moraga, CA, United StatesApplications due January 31, 2016 - more information about the process. The Campus Engagement Directors Retreat was created by Marshall Welch and John Saltmarsh exclusively for Campus Compact member campuses, The retreat is intentionally designed to be a relaxed setting for a center director and administrator to: Have un-interrupted time and space to ensure an intimate and productive experience Undertake an empirically based assessment of engagement infrastructure for the purpose of strategic planning Leave the retreat with a completed inventory of current practice Complete a strategic program plan to launch an initiative on campus Who Should Attend? We suggest each institution send two participants: the center director administrator to whom director reports Campus Compact member participants must apply and be selected for attendance. We are limited to 15 campuses (2 participants from each campus). www.stmarys-ca.edu/office-of-engagement/campus-engagement-directors-retreat/application-process Why Should You Attend? To take advantage of the rare gift of focused time and space in a beautiful location for intentional strategic planning to promote and...