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state office
Patricia Paredes, M.A.
Executive Director
Jim Conditt
Assistant Director
Lynn Prince
Director of Adminstrative Services
executive board
Dr. Charles Cotrell, Chair
President, St. Mary's University
Dr. Steve Kinslow, Vice Chair
President, Austin Community College District
Dr. Juliet Garcia, Immediate Past Chair
President, The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Dr. Max Castillo
President, The University of Houston - Downtown
Dr. Ana Guzman
President, Palo Alto College
Dr. Cary Israel
President, Collin County Community College District
James Spaniolo, J.D.
President, The University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. George Wright
President, Prairie View A&M University
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Texas Campus Compact Visits the Texas State Legislature
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 Texas Campus Compact state office staffers visited members of the Texas Legislature on March 9th and 10th, to pursue important Legislative requests, that if granted, will be returned to members of The Compact.
TXCC staff, led by Executive Director, Patricia Paredes met with over 18 state Senators and Representatives and members of the Legislative staff. By the time we left the Capitol, we had even become friends with the guards. Stay tuned for more updates as the session continues.
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VISTA 2009
Spirit of Service Award Nominations | |
VISTA host site
supervisors; do you have an exceptional TXCC VISTA, worthy of consideration for
the 2009 Spirit of Service Award? If you would like to nominate one of your
VISTAs, please email me a one page narrative outlining why you think your VISTA
should be THE VISTA walking across the stage at the 2009 National Conference on
Volunteering and Service, June 22-24, in San Francisco, CA. Please attach any
supporting documents, video links, media stories, etc., that will add weight to
your nomination.
Deadline for submission
to Texas Campus Compact: 12:00 noon, Friday March 27th.
To read about 2008
recipients, go to: http://www.nationalservice.gov/about/spiritofservice/2008.asp.
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ACC
Students Win Advertising Awards
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AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2009 - Two Austin Community College students won
prestigious Addy Awards for their graphic design entries during this year's
competition hosted by Austin Advertising Federation.
Summer Teague-Strotkamp earned a Silver Addy in packaging for her work,
"Martine's Baked Goods." Ryan Robbins earned a Bronze Addy in promotion/point of
purchase for his "Drunken Sailor Ale."
"We are very proud of Ryan and Summer and especially thankful to Adjunct
Professor Meagan McKeeman," says Priscilla Wicker, chair of the Visual
Communication Department. "Their success is the result of their hard work
throughout the graphic design program and the excellent instruction of the team
of design instructors led by Gail Bayeta."
Teague-Strotkamp and Robbins produced their projects in fall 2008 as part of
their Design Communication II class with Adjunct Assistant Professor Meagan
McKeeman.
The Addys were presented February 19. for more information go to the ACC Newsroom
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| | University of Texas LBJ School and Dell Invite College Students Worldwide to Help Change the World
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AUSTIN, Texas - The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
at The University of Texas at Austin and Dell are seeking undergraduate
and graduate students from universities and colleges around the world
to share their ideas for making the world a better place.
Students winning the grand prize in the 2009 Dell Social Innovation Competition will receive $50,000 to turn their ideas into a reality.
The RGK Center introduced the competition in 2006 to engage students
in social entrepreneurship, encouraging the next generation of leaders
to dream up solutions to today's most pressing issues....
For more information, contact: Kerri Battles, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, 512-232-4054;
Susan Binford, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, 512-232-4006;
Heather Alden, senior program coordinator, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, 512-797-4985.
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| | Using Photography to teach about Service Learning
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Jimmy and Rosalynn Cater Partnership Foundation
provides grants and awards to recognize the best practices in
campus-community partnerships and the best new ideas for student-led
community service learning. Strategies include awards for the best
campus-community partnership program, grants for innovative community
service ideas of students and online connectivity for students,
faculty, administrative staff and community organizations.
We received this grant with the help of Logan Aimone of the National Scholastic Press Associationas a way to help promote service learning and photography all at once.
By taking our knowledge and going out into our community to teach area
high schools, we are, in a way, also a part of a service learning
project. Our knowledge may be primarily self- taught but we are helping
to get photography a little more recognition and to show students what
service learning is all about.
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goal was to do a training session on the basics of photography at area
high schools with the photographers from the newspaper, yearbook and
other photography classes. At the end of the training we explained to
them what service learning was, gave them some examples and their task.
Their task was to go into their community, or school and document a
service learning project using the knowledge we passed along to them.
Upon receiving the photos, we have made this site to show their hard
work to the world. We appreciate everyone's help in making this happen
and being able to help train such promising photographers.
Read more...
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| | Best Practices of the Week Highlights TxCC Member, Blinn College
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Blinn College offers two Service
Learning options: course-imbedded Service Learning and student leader/organization
based. To find more information about the option you are interested
in, please click a link on the lefthand menu.
Service Learning hours documented: 84,500
Additional hours of community service: 8,120
Some Best Practice Highlights:
American History II-Students record the oral history of Area residents with emphasis on national events.
Texas History-Students recording oral history of County residence and veterans. These oral histories are being transcribed electronically and stored at Brenham Heritage Museum.
Sociology: Students are working with Goodfellows, Host, United Way, assisted living, and other organizations that allow the students to become more aware of social issues and concerns.
Fundamental of Mathmatics I: Students considering education as a profession are teaming with HOSTS (Helping One Student To Succeed) and tutoring elementary students.
Fundamental of Mathmatics II: Students considering
education as a profession are teaming with HOSTS (Helping One Student
To Succeed) and tutoring elementary students. For more information go to: http://www.blinn.edu/servicelearning/ |
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Send us YOUR Article, Story, or Press release. We would LOVE to hear from you! Email your article with the header "TC2 You Newsletter" to. lynn@texascampuscompact.
Sincerely,
Lynn Prince
Texas Campus Compact
Editor, TC2 You.
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