KyCC Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Andrea Woodward, Associate Professor of Social Sciences and current Service-Learning Faculty Fellow.
“Service-learning is relevant, helpful, and it keeps everyone in tune with what is happening,” Service-learning is an educational approach that incorporates community service with the learning objectives to meet societal needs in the community. “If you are teaching something that has direct relevance to a community that could use help, then why not tie it into the learning?” Dr. Andrea Woodward, Associate Professor of Social Sciences and current Service-Learning Faculty Fellow at Berea College said. Throughout her career of teaching, scholarship, and service, Woodward has incorporated service-learning into her classes so students can relate what they are studying to what…
October 2020: VISTA Spotlight
Meet Michaela Mallory (she/her/hers). She serves at Berea College with the organization, Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (CELTS). CELTS is focused on being an active part of the Berea community and supporting everyone who calls this place home across generations. This organization has its own student-led programs that provide resources such as social justice outreach, tutoring, and mentoring. They also partner with other organizations in and around Berea. However, the organization also heavily focuses on the students that work and volunteer with CELTS by providing training, skill-building, and vocational opportunities. Throughout her time with CELTS, one of her most…
University of Kentucky Recognized As Top College For Diversity
INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest publication and website in higher education today, has recognized the University of Kentucky as a 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award recipient and a 2020 Diversity Champion. This is the fourth year in a row UK has received both honors. https://patch.com/kentucky/lexington-ky/university-kentucky-recognized-top-college-diversity
Spalding University to celebrate 100th year in downtown Louisville
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NKyTribune, NKU’s The Northerner team up to produce 2020 November Election Guide — coming soon
NKU’s student-run news organization, The Northerner, has teamed up with the NKy Tribune to produce a 2020 November Election Guide. “I am especially grateful to NKU President Ashish Vaidya, who understands community engagement in a big way, for bringing us together on this project, and to Michele Day, who is adviser to The Northerner, for her help in making it happen.” says The Northerner’s Editor- in- Cheif, Natalie Hamren. Check out the full article below: https://www.nkytribune.com/2020/10/nkytribune-nkus-the-northerner-team-up-to-produce-2020-november-election-guide-coming-soon/
Somerset Community College gets $2.2 million, five-year grant
Somerset Community College, one of our members at KyCC, was awarded a five-year grant of $2.2 million. “Words cannot express the importance of this grant,” said Dr. Carey W. Castle, president/CEO of Somerset Community College. “It will change the lives of our students, faculty, and staff.” Read more about their plans for the federal funding: https://www.wtvq.com/2020/10/05/somerset-community-college-gets-2-2-million-five-year-grant/
Six Kentucky College Students Awarded the Newman Civic Fellowship
Students from around the Commonwealth selected to join a national cohort of fellows Highland Heights, KY. – April 14, 2020 – Kentucky Campus Compact is excited to congratulate the following public problem solvers chosen for the 2020-2021 Newman Civic Fellowship. Presidents from institutions of higher education across the Commonwealth of Kentucky successfully nominated the following students: Aditya Singh (Bellarmine University), Elivia Rojas (Berea College), Cameron Galloway (Kentucky State University), Gloria Endicott (Kentucky Wesleyan College), Zane Garner (Lindsey Wilson College), and Kaitlyn Meyr (University of Kentucky). The Newman Civic Fellowship is a one-year fellowship for community-committed college students from Campus Compact…
Hacking Housing Insecurity: One Movie, Five Ideas, Infinite Conversations
Innovative Virtual Conference Creates Solutions Collaboratively Highland Heights, KY. – April 13, 2020– On February 07, 2020 from 12 to 4 pm, the Greater Cincinnati Service Learning Network (GCSLN), in coordination with Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio Campus Compacts, hosted a virtual conference on homelessness. The conference, titled Hacking Housing Insecurity: One Movie, Five Ideas, Infinite Conversations was inspired by Emilio Estevez’s 2018 drama “The Public.” Participants to the conference heard stories from five presenters highlighting their unique perspectives on the topic of housing insecurity. Following the presentations, each participating campus then hosted a campus dialogue to identify new strategies on how…
Kentucky Campus Compact wins Innovation Challenge
January 27, 2020 For Immediate Release Contact: Tori Vogelgesang (859) 572-7634 Kentucky Campus Compact Wins NKU Innovation Challenge Norse Skolars: From Summer Melt to Student Success to be implemented soon Highland Heights, KY. – January 27, 2020 – Northern Kentucky University, as part of its Success By Design strategic framework implementation, held an Innovation Challenge. Units within the university were asked to submit proposals to promote Success By Design’s strategic pillars of Access, Completion, and Career and Community Engagement. Kentucky Campus Compact along with NKU Undergraduate Admissions and the University Connect and Persist Office submitted: Norse Skolars:…
First-Generation College Celebration 11-08-2019
1965 Act made way for low-income, first-generation students to break chain of poverty, become first in their families to earn a college degree Highland Heights, KY. – November 08, 2019 – In 2017, the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE), in partnership with the Center for First-Generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA and The Suder Foundation, celebrated the inaugural First-Generation College Celebration on November 8 with an event on Capitol Hill. The 2019 celebration will occur again on November 8. College and university campuses around the nation will hold rallies, panel discussions, listening sessions, celebrations, and more in recognition…