Free for members and Campus Compact national service members $25 per webinar for non-members Campus Compact’s 2020-2021 national webinar series takes the great and varied work happening on the ground around the country and brings it straight to your desk. Topics touch on issues of relevance to faculty, staff, students, and their partners in education and community building. Be sure to tune in each month for information, tools, and resources to support and inspire you. Register Description National Service programs like AmeriCorps and VISTA have a long standing history with Campus Compact, across networks, regions, and the country. Compacts are finding creative solutions to campus-community problems to address student basic needs, co-creating student learning experiences, and much more. Join us for this call to learn just a few ways that our National Service members are helping Campus Compact fulfill its mission. Speaker:  Monique Ellefson

The Fusion Project provides critical training and support for faculty as they continue to navigate online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers instruction for how to integrate community engagement methodologies into existing curricula to improve the quality of course delivery and foster student engagement. As part of the Fusion Project, in partnership with Maine Campus Compact, we are offering a series of 4 free webinars to provide added support to faculty with the generous support of the Davis Educational Foundation. Re-Imagining Engagement and Partnerships During Virtual CEL Friday, March 12, 2021, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Regardless of the need to pivot Community Engaged Learning (CEL) to remote and virtual platforms, we can still develop meaningful community partnerships and engaging experiences for our students. In fact, the pandemic has increased the urgency for human-centric experiences and ways to address the needs in our community. This presentation will first focus on...

Friday, March 19, 2021  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) $30 per individual $100 per group (up to five) This event is designed for campus teams to come together and work on creating and implementing strong Civic Action Plans. Teams can include individuals from across campus and beyond including faculty, staff, administrators, students and community partners. We also recommend engaging leaders from across campus including faculty, staff from a variety of areas (diversity, ministry, teaching and learning, research, etc), student leaders, and community partners. Teams will have the opportunity to consider new strategies for civic action including applying an equity lens and engaging key campus leaders and will have the opportunity to work together and receive expert consultation on their planning and/or implementation. For more information/ to register, please visit: https://events.compact.org/cap21 

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many institutions had to rapidly shift from in-person to online learning in the spring of 2020. The Fusion Course aims to provide critical training and support for faculty as they continue to adapt to online teaching and offers instruction for how to integrate community engagement methodologies into existing curricula to improve the quality of course delivery and foster student engagement. Through this faculty development course, learn how to infuse community-based learning into online courses to give students hands-on, real-world experience that will strengthen learning, create connections to the larger community, and improve student retention rates. Sessions will be facilitated by Laurie Walker and Daniel Tome. The curriculum for this program aims to: Introduce faculty to best practices in community-based and problem-based learning pedagogy Introduce faculty to best practices in engaged online teaching and building community online Explore the potential benefits and challenges, as well as best practices, of using community-based learning in online courses Introduce faculty...

The Fusion Project provides critical training and support for faculty as they continue to navigate online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers instruction for how to integrate community engagement methodologies into existing curricula to improve the quality of course delivery and foster student engagement. As part of the Fusion Project, in partnership with Maine Campus Compact, we are offering a series of 4 free webinars to provide added support to faculty with the generous support of the Davis Educational Foundation. All webinars in this series are offered free of charge. Preparing Students for Remote Learning and Assessing/Evaluating Student Learning in an Online Setting Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) The shift to remote learning this past year has highlighted challenges and opportunities for both preparing students for online learning environments and incorporating effective assessment and evaluation of student learning in an online setting. Additional challenges and opportunities...

Global Health & Innovation Conference A virtual event on April 8-11, 2021 18th annual conference http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world's largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference.  This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,000 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. Register in November for a nearly 40% discount off of the full rate. Abstracts are currently being accepted from professionals and from students for research presentations, program presentations, and for the social impact pitch presentations, including submissions for the $1,000 GHIC Innovation Prize. November 15 is the final abstract deadline for research and program presentations. If you have any questions or require additional information, please feel free to contact us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr38zvefnOk&feature=youtu.be

The Fusion Project provides critical training and support for faculty as they continue to navigate online teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers instruction for how to integrate community engagement methodologies into existing curricula to improve the quality of course delivery and foster student engagement. As part of the Fusion Project, in partnership with Maine Campus Compact, we are offering a series of 4 free webinars to provide added support to faculty with the generous support of the Davis Educational Foundation. All webinars in this series are offered free of charge. Flipping the Online Classroom Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) This session will focus on designing and implementing courses with high levels of student interaction, engagement, and community-based learning. We will introduce strategies and approaches for enhancing students' skills in leadership, teamwork, and problem solving through supportive learning communities, student-led activities, and student-directed learning. We will discuss...

Justice and Injustice in America When: Tuesday, April 20 from 6-7:30 p.m. (EST) Who: Danielle McDonald and David Singleton What: More details to come shortly. Where: Online via Zoom - a link will be sent to you before the event Sign up: https://nku.eventsair.com/sixatsix/tickets/Site/Register

Free for members and Campus Compact national service members $25 per webinar for non-members Campus Compact’s 2020-2021 national webinar series takes the great and varied work happening on the ground around the country and brings it straight to your desk. Topics touch on issues of relevance to faculty, staff, students, and their partners in education and community building. Be sure to tune in each month for information, tools, and resources to support and inspire you. Register Description This webinar idea grew out of a Campus Compact Community of Practice entitled 'Developing Students' Critical Consciousness through Meaningful Praxis in Community Engagement'. During this Community of Practice, facilitators and participants alike found the need to continue this ever-increasingly important dialogue and consider ways to further enhance, development, and theorize critical consciousness in community engaged teaching and learning. Presenters will 1) define critical consciousness as it has been articulated in current and relevant research, 2) describe ways to engage others in their own...

Global Youth Service Day is the largest youth service and civic action event in the world and the only one that celebrates and builds the capacity of all youth ages 5-25 to help our communities and democracy thrive by working together for the common good. On Global Youth Service Day, we call on every one to engage all young people and adult champions to serve, advocate, join, celebrate, or build capacity. People in your network can choose from 100 GYSD Activity Ideas at www.GYSD.org.  

Zoom Cafe: The Changing Landscape of Performing Arts Local performing arts experts will discuss the impact the past year's events have had on their industry, along with any changes that could be beneficial to the future of the performing arts in the NKY/ Cincinnati area. Margaret McGurk- Moderator Kim Popa- Director of Pones Dance Academy J.R. Cassidy- Music and Executive Director of KSO Kimberly Best- Executive Director of The Carnegie Alecia Kintner- President & CEO of Artswave When: Tues. April 27th from 6 pm- 7:30 pm Where: Zoom- register at nkyforum.org

You are invited to join us this summer for: PEN TO PAPER WRITING RETREAT A retreat focused on preparing scholars to publish their community-engaged work.  Pen to Paper is an academic writing retreat designed to provide time, space, and resources to guide faculty, professional staff, graduate students, and community partners working on manuscripts related to service-learning and community engagement - at every stage of the publishing process. Pen to Paper 2021 will bring writers, editors, and coaches together in a cost-effective, safe way throughout the summer. Next month, the virtual retreat will kick off with an opening plenary workshop and continue throughout the summer months, concluding in early August 2021. Pen to Paper 2021 will include: 2 facilitated half-day workshops Facilitated, cohort-based writing meetings occurring every 2 or 3 weeks—organized based on the availability of participants Four exclusive webinars with editors of the leading community engagement publications Individualized feedback from a senior Retreat facilitator on your scholarly project Access to...

When: Tuesday, May 11 from 6-7:30 p.m. (EST) Who: Robert K. Wallace What: More details to come shortly. Where: Online via Zoom - a link will be sent to you before the event Register: https://nku.eventsair.com/sixatsix/tickets/Site/Register

Black Business Activism in the Mid-Twentieth Century South When:Tuesday, May 18 from 6-7:30 p.m. (EST) Who:Brandon K. Winford What:Lecture will discuss John Hervey Wheeler's leadership as a bank president and civil rights lawyer in the mid-twentieth-century South. It will especially highlight his activism and interest in fulfilling the ideals of New South prosperity through an emphasis on black economic power and full citizenship. Where:Online via Zoom - a link will be sent to you before the event Register: https://nku.eventsair.com/sixatsix/tickets/Site/Register

In response to the uncertainties brought on by COVID virus, the Eastern, Midwestern, and Western Campus Compact Consortia each are moving their regional conferences to a one-day virtual convening open to participants across all three regions. The overarching theme for the three days is Full Participation, with a specific focus on “Resilience and Responsibility for Racial and Environmental Justice.” Stay tuned for details!