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 Our civic engagement work with and in diverse communities is authentic to the extent that we honor and amplify the ways of knowing of our partners, be they experts from community-based organizations, communities of color, or the indigenous cultures of our places. Shared respect for different ways of knowing is the foundation for mutually beneficial, lasting and transformational partnerships. Four case studies will highlight the process of honoring community ways of knowing. Participants will reflect on their "amplifying" of the diverse ways of...

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 Until very recently, deliberative democracy has mainly meant in person, face-to-face discussions. However, the current crisis has created an opportunity to innovate by experimenting with moving deliberation online. We will share insights we gained from hosting a national week of cross-campus online deliberative dialogues using Common Ground for Action (CGA), a series of weekly campus based online deliberations, and from several experiments in campus, community, and classroom deliberations using CGA and video conferencing software. Specifically, session attendees will have the opportunity to participate...

Join us for a free virtual symposium on the intersection of anti-racism and community engagement in higher education. About this Event Faculty, staff, administrators, students, national service members, community partners and community members invited! Zoom information will be shared closer to the event.

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-engaged experiences provide the opportunity for faculty to collaborate authentically and reciprocally with partners who often represent historically disenfranchised communities where policy, resource allocation, and deficit-based communication strategies had an impact on growth, perception and development. This recipe results in implicit bias that exists in everyone, and as a result, microaggressions occur. That is exactly what happened on our campus and in our community. As Community Engagement professionals, during our support of faculty service-learning instruction and implementation, we started to see and hear...

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 It is no secret that market forces play an important role in shaping almost everything in the world, and the higher education civic engagement movement (CEM) is no exception. Market forces have created pressures within higher education that have created the “entrepreneurial university” driven by neoliberalism, which imbues the business creed across the university. How did this happen? What does it mean for the CEM? How does it shape the quest for authentically building just, neighborly communities centered on equity and voices of...

Date Thursday, March 11, 2021 Time 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST) 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 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 Here

The 12th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2021, which will be held on March 9 - 12, 2021, in Orlando, Florida, USA. You can submit an article at: http://www.iiis-2021conf.org/iceti This conference has always contemplated the two modalities of participation: face to face and virtual. However, given the current Coronavirus situation and travel restrictions, at this moment we are only accepting submissions for virtual participation. If the situation changes and we feel the safety of our participants would not be at risk, we will start accepting submissions for face-to-face participation, and those authors who submitted their article for virtual participation will have the ability to change their participation modality to face-to-face, if they wish. The Proceedings of IMCIC and ICSIT/ICETI have been indexed by Elsevier's SCOPUS since 2010. The 2021 proceedings will also be sent to Elsevier's SCOPUS. The conference will also be jointly held with: The 12th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2021 The 12th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2021...

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.