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officePatricia Paredes, M.A. Executive
Director Jim Conditt Assistant Director Lynn Prince Director
of Operations executive boardDr. 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 News From Assistant Executive Director, Jim Conditt.
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 VISTA recruitment is in full swing
at the Compact offices. This week has been packed with assisting colleges and
universities with their host site applications,
directing VISTA candidates into our AmeriCorps project portal,
and designing new host site record keeping tools.
TXCC staff has added gigabytes of
resources, including service learning manuals, grant RFPs, award nomination
requests, etc., to the TXCC
Service Learning Meetup blog. As an added member benefit, and by-product of
the STEM In Action CI grant, we will soon have interactive training modules to
assist high school and middle school science, technology, engineering, and math
teachers in the development and implementation of service learning curriculum.
In Addition, TXCC staff has been researching
grants and foundation support for those activities identified by our member
institutions as being integral to their service learning curriculum and program
design. TXCC has a six school consortium grant currently under review, and is
in the data collection and needs assessment phase of a five university
consortium statewide pilot project.
Have a Great Week!
Jim Conditt,
Assistant Executive Director,
Texas Campus Compact
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Austin Ranks #1 in Job Growth
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Texas dominates a new list on job growth potential among the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
Austin ranks No. 1 on the list
of big cities for employment potential from NewGeography.com. The
Capital City posted modest job growth of just 1 percent in 2008-but
that was still better than a lot of other big cities. That growth,
coupled with Austin's long-term potential to continue creating new
jobs, garnered it the top spot.
Texas' major metros round out the top five
spots on the big cities list, with Houston coming in 2nd, San Antonio
3rd, Fort Worth-Arlington 4th and Dallas 5th.
The list, based largely on job growth in regions across the nation
over the long, middle and short term, has changed over the years, but
the reports authors say the employment landscape has never looked like
this...
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| | Nation needs
youthful idealism more than ever
By Michelle
Obama
USA Today April
14,2009
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Embedded in
our nation's core values is a spirit of  community,?generosity
and entrepreneurship ? a can-do attitude that says no challenge is
insurmountable. When so many
people are struggling to make ends meet,?we need
everyone pulling together to solve our nation's problems and to lift up our
fellow Americans. And this includes our young people. Today, more than
ever, we need their energy,enthusiasm
and idealism.
Service
groups, non-profits, faith-based organizations, philanthropists, corporations,?government
and individuals all have a role to play in moving this country
forward,?and more and more students are filling these
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What if there were a single source that any
student, parent, teacher or community leader could access to find almost all the
 information needed to go to college?
The newly released Go-to-College Guidebook
includes the essential tools necessary to help Central Texans achieve their
dream of a college education.
The Go-to-College Guidebook is now available
online FREE with special thanks to the Ready by 21 Coalition's Go-to-College Team.
Click here to download your
copy!
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Texas Tech Education Faculty Member Receives Fulbright Grant
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A Texas Tech University educator will be
teaching in India during  the next academic year. Nora Griffin-Shirley,
director of the Virginia Murray Sowell Center in Research and Education
in Visual Impairment and program coordinator of the Orientation and
Mobility Program, received a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at M.P. Bhoj Open University in Bhopal, India from July through December.
Her project is Training Professionals to Teach Persons with Blindness and Visual Impairments in India via Distance Education Delivery.
Griffin-Shirley will assist in the personnel
preparation of professionals to educate persons with visual impairments
to become independent and productive members of Indian society via
distance education delivery methods. She is one of
approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel
abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected
on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as
demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.
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TxCC member spotlight:
Collin College Invites Public To Volunteer, and Service-Learning Fair
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April 7, 2009 - Collin College invites the public to the free
 Volunteer and Service-Learning Fair from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 21, at the Spring Creek Campus Atrium, 2800 E. Spring Creek
Parkway, in Plano.
The Volunteer and Service-Learning Fair, which
is sponsored by the Center for Scholarly and Civic Engagement, will be
an informal informational poster session regarding volunteer and
service-learning opportunities for students, faculty and staff.
Participants will meet and greet some of Collin College's community
partners and gain helpful insight into their organizations, missions,
and service-learning and volunteer opportunities.
customized training and
work force development...
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TxCC member spotlight:
Lee College signs on for energy project
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Lee College, (Baytown, Tx), recently entered into an energy-savings
performance contract with Johnson Controls, the global multi-industrial
leader in creating energy efficiency. 
It is the first signed contract for a higher education institution
under the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI). CCI's Energy Efficiency
Building Retrofit Program brings together many of the world's largest
cities, real-estate firms, financial institutions and energy-service
companies in an effort to reduce energy consumption in existing
buildings across the municipal, institutional, commercial, private,
educational and public housing sectors.
"This project will result in cost and energy savings for the college
and improve the environment for our students and faculty," said Dennis
Topper, Lee College interim president...
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Sincerely, 
Lynn Prince,
Director of Operations,
Texas Campus Compact |
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