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This spring North Carolina Campus Compact offered two trainings to develop moderators of deliberative dialogues.  Deliberative dialogue is a technique used by the National Issues Forums Institute (www.nifi.org) to explore diverse views and experiences related to a specific issue. The trainings were offered to member institutions as follow-up to a deliberative [...]

Position Summary About Utah Campus Compact and the AmeriCorps Program: Utah Campus Compact is a coalition of Utah’s college and university presidents and their campuses. It provides leadership to strengthen service-learning, co-curricular service, community-based research, and other civic engagement initiatives statewide. The UCC AmeriCorps Program partners with member campuses across the state to [...]

SUMMARY: Assist with developing experiences designed to promote and increase the awareness, knowledge, and skills of the campus community about diversity, multiculturalism and social justice through programmatic and educational opportunities. In particular, address issues of power, privilege, and oppression regarding all social identities: including but not limited to [...]

SUMMARY: Develop experiences designed to promote and increase the awareness of the campus community about social justice issues and culturally diverse groups through programmatic and educational opportunities. Serve as consultant and resource for OSI and the Division of Student Life to plan and develop programs through a social [...]

Director of the Center for Social Concerns Gannon University, a diocesan Catholic University, seeks to fill the position of Director of the Center for Social Concerns. The Director will work closely across campus with administrators, faculty and students to advance University-wide initiatives that facilitate meaningful work both in and outside of [...]

We are pleased to report that Volume 17 (2) of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement  is now available online at www.jheoe.uga.edu. We hope you enjoy this edition the Journal.   Thank you for all that you do to advance university-community engagement. Sincerely,The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement  Office of the Vice President [...]

A common theme explored on this site is the fact that nearly all college students have mobile devices, and that increasingly those “phones” are smart phones. Why then, are we not taking full advantage of this fact to more effectively connect student learning to the community? The post, Let’s Brainstorm with [...]

By Kyle Henri Andrei Originally published at idealware.org Advocacy organizations often encourage their grassroots supporters to influence politicians and corporations using different methods, from promoting a cause or opposing legislation to challenging ad campaigns or policies. A large display of public opinion can have a powerful message, and advocacy groups often help [...]

Pew Internet has released an extensive new report titled, “Civic Engagement in the Digital Age.” The research, based on over 2,000 phone interviews during the summer of 2012, begins to paint a picture of civic engagement, particularly political engagement, during a period of explosive growth in the use of social [...]

I was thinking about embedding this video from the Case Foundation in our “About” page; because this is what our site is about. Good stuff. [...]

Students from 36 states recognized as next generation of public problem solvers and civic leaders Boston, MA – Campus Compact has named 181 student leaders who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country as 2013 Newman Civic Fellows.  Nominated by their college and university [...]

Funding will create high impact projects to benefit Indiana communities and college students INDIANAPOLIS – Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded a three-year $900,000 grant to the Indiana University Foundation on behalf of Indiana Campus Compact, a consortium of more than 40 Indiana college and university campuses committed to fulfilling the civic [...]

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National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE) Campus Compact is proud to announce a partnership with The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) – the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement (NSLVE). NSLVE offers Compact campuses an opportunity to study student-voting rates and to correlate [...]

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