Fall 2020  Free for Campus Compact members and national service members. $25.00 per session for non-members. All participants must register in advance to receive an access link. REGISTER HERE This multi-part series, presented as part of our Education for Democracy initiative, will explore how colleges and universities can deepen their commitment to political learning, civic education, and building a diverse democracy through teaching and learning, student life, and civic engagement. This series is designed to complement the numerous voter registration and mobilization resources available through our partners in the field. In an age of hyper-partisanship and divisive public discourse, how can we help our students engage in the upcoming elections with a posture of inquiry, empathy, and generative conversation? With the low youth turnout in the last Presidential election, there’s a lot of effort being spent getting young voters to vote. But are we doing enough to help students become capable and confident voters, helping them approach their voting decisions as independent...

Thursday, October 1, 2020  3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Join us for a training on the use of the deliberative dialogue method as an educational tool for building student capacity to engage in thoughtful, constructive, and critical discussions of public questions. Faculty, community engagement professionals, and administrators are all welcome to attend! This training focuses on the National Issues Forums method of public deliberation and includes an overview of the theory of deliberative pedagogy and a deep dive into the method and practice of deliberative dialogue. Participants engage in a practice forum and receive strategies and tools for effective moderation with specific attention to online formats. The offering is facilitated by Leslie Garvin, MSW, Executive Director of North Carolina Campus Compact. As a facilitator and trainer, Leslie has more than 20 years of experience working with community groups, faculty, students, and administrators. Campus Compact is grateful to Up to Us for their partnership in support of student civic learning and deliberative...

A day-long virtual summit for students and young adults on racial justice, leadership development, and radical imagination. Check out the full program! REGISTRATION: $20 per participant FOR GROUP RATES (50+ participants): Contact programs@speakoutnow.org Spread the word to your students & the young people in your life! Calling all young people in college, high school, and the community! We’re coming together for an empowering day curated by SpeakOut - The Institute for Democratic Education and Culture. Join us as we envision a just and equitable future: Learn from today’s leading youth activists and changemakers Hear from inspiring and iconic speakers and artists Connect with peers around the country…and the world! Get tools to build your capacity to lead and make a difference We are redefining what society can look like, now and post-pandemic. It’s time to tap into our power, build together, and speak out! Recommended for Ages 35 and Under GET YOUTH SUMMIT TICKETS HERE!

Free for Campus Compact members and national service members. $25.00 per session for non-members. All participants must register in advance to receive an access link. Register This multi-part series, presented as part of our Education for Democracy initiative, will explore how colleges and universities can deepen their commitment to political learning, civic education, and building a diverse democracy through teaching and learning, student life, and civic engagement. This series is designed to complement the numerous voter registration and mobilization resources available through our partners in the field. Description Research shows that mainstream media is losing its place as a trusted source of information, and individuals worldwide report avoiding the news because it is predominantly negative and fails to present solutions. Rather than contributing to a knowledgeable and engaged populous, the news instead often undermines civic participation and builds cynicism. Solutions journalism is an antidote to this problem; rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about...

Free for members and Campus Compact national service members $25 per webinar for non-members Register 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. Description Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service has collaborated with 55 public, private, two- and four-year institutions since 2013 to develop an innovative holistic framework: "Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement." The pathways describe a range of possibilities by which students can contribute to the common good: community-engaged learning/research; community organizing/activism; direct service; philanthropy; policy/governance; and social entrepreneurship/corporate social responsibility. The framework guides students in exploring how the pathways differ from each other in language, practice, and impact, and how pathways might...

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 Community engagement professionals from UW-Madison will facilitate a session with EU practitioners to increase cross-country connections for knowledge exchange. With so much output around engagement within our own borders, it can be difficult knowing where to access new knowledge coming out globally, and there is much to share between countries about different ways to organize community-based research in all its forms (CBR, CBPR, PAR). In our experience, graduate students and new faculty have said they want to learn more about different models to...

Helping people learn together across organizational boundaries is a challenge, and one of the most important things we can do to spark creative community solutions and transcend social divisions.   To enhance your skills in this realm, please join in one or more Learning Together training sessions on Wednesday, November 18th and Thursday, November 19th. For a description of each training, please visit https://www.cefellows.org/learning-together-trainings and/or view them below.  Dr. Travis Tennessen of the Center for Community Learning at Western Washington University will facilitate the sessions. He serves as the lead convener of Community Engagement Fellows (www.cefellows.org) - a community of practice focused on building learning partnerships across organizations. To sign up, please complete this simple Google Form: Sign-up for Learning Together Trainings The sessions will be conducted via Zoom. Those who sign up will receive calendar invitations and email reminders. Learning Together training sessions are free and open to all. We encourage you to forward this invitation to friends and colleagues who may be interested. Please send questions...

Helping people learn together across organizational boundaries is a challenge, and one of the most important things we can do to spark creative community solutions and transcend social divisions.   To enhance your skills in this realm, please join in one or more Learning Together training sessions on Wednesday, November 18th and Thursday, November 19th. For a description of each training, please visit https://www.cefellows.org/learning-together-trainings and/or view them below.  Dr. Travis Tennessen of the Center for Community Learning at Western Washington University will facilitate the sessions. He serves as the lead convener of Community Engagement Fellows (www.cefellows.org) - a community of practice focused on building learning partnerships across organizations. To sign up, please complete this simple Google Form: Sign-up for Learning Together Trainings The sessions will be conducted via Zoom. Those who sign up will receive calendar invitations and email reminders. Learning Together training sessions are free and open to all. We encourage you to forward this invitation to friends and colleagues who may be interested. Please send questions...

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 Mutual benefit and reciprocity are arguably the defining characteristics/principles of the Carnegie Foundation's definition for community engagement partnerships. In this session, we examine how these two characteristics/principles are often conflated as synonyms by researchers, administrators, and practitioners (Dostilio, et al, 2012; Janke, 2018), and offer definitions and measures that demonstrate their distinctiveness. We will share an emerging research program that is aimed at creating greater conceptual clarity and operationalization of these two terms in how we measure and track community engagement activities and...

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 The 21st century is an era of rapid environmental change, from rising sea levels to the growth of cities. Globally, low-income communities and youth constitute a majority of the urban population and experience disproportionate impacts, yet their perspectives are often not included in the planning and design of their environments. Advancing environmental justice requires critically examining what counts as knowledge and applying inclusive and equitable approaches to nurturing knowledge in the next generation. Community-engaged teaching and research offer valuable opportunities to recognize multiple...

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 provides participants with ideas and resources to work alongside community organizations in mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships to deepen community-engaged civic learning. Participants will learn about our educational initiatives and community experiential learning programs that focus on redressing racial and socioeconomic inequities. Presenters will highlight the development and implementation of partnerships between James Madison University and local civic actors and community organizations in the broader Shenandoah Valley on programming, including: experiential learning tours of key sites related to slavery and the...

Join us Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 6-7:30 p.m., when Dr. David J. Childs, associate professor of Social Studies Education and History at Northern Kentucky University, will place the recent deaths and violence against Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Jacob Blake by the hands of law enforcement within a historical context. Household names such as Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Hannah Williams, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura Rosser, Botham Jean and Eric Garner are a part of state and community sanctioned violence against African Americans that goes back nearly 400 years. Childs’ Six@Six presentation will help people understand how the recent deaths fit the definition of lynching—a phenomenon that has long been an unfortunate part of U.S. history. Resources for teachers will be discussed in order to guide meaningful conversations in middle grade, high school and college classrooms around the subject of racial violence. RSVP to receive Zoom link. Questions? Contact engage@nku.edu.