Texas Campus Compact
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state 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
Texas Campus Compact
702 Colorado
Suite 1.118
Austin, Texas
78701
Building Communities. Educating Citizens.
www.texascampuscompact.org 
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TxCC Notes-From the Assistant Director
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Happy Memorial Day
Weekend!
TXCC recently
submitted a project concept paper on behalf of a six school consortium to bring
a series of financial management, and pre-graduation career prep workshops to
their student bodies. Sadly, we were not chosen for this RFP, but we will
continue to search for grants and other funding that compliments the service
learning and civic engagement activities of our member campuses. Some of these
fits are very obvious, such as health related grants for our members with
nursing programs, agri-science related grants for schools with a heavy
agri-business focus, etc., but we hold no illusions that we are capturing every
school's less publicized programs and projects. One way to make certain that
your school is being targeted for some extra funding is to keep TXCC in the loop
regarding your best practices. A quick paragraph and a picture or two posted on
the Texas Campus compact Service Learning blog at www.education.meetup.com/96, will
allow us to cast a wider net for potential support for your
projects.
TXCC has received
nine applications from member schools to become TXCC VISTA host sites, as of the
host site deadline of May 15th. TXCC has been awarded 25 VISTA slots
so we have more supply than demand at this time. A few schools have stated that
they needed a little bit more time to complete their applications, but it still
looks like we may have to give some slots back. If your campus has never hosted
a VISTA before and you think a college graduate program coordinator could assist
you with your service learning, civic engagement, and college readiness efforts,
act quickly. We will continue to work with everyone right up to the wire or
until we run out of VISTA slots or host sites. If your school has hosted a TXCC
VISTA for three or more years, you will have to participate in cost sharing with
AmeriCorps for another VISTA, but even if that is the case, you are still
getting a qualified employee for less than $10,000.00 a year.
Enjoy your weekend
and please take some time to reflect on the incredible sacrifices made by our
family, friends, and neighbors of the U.S. Armed Services.
Jim
Conditt
Assistant
Director
Texas Campus
Compact
702 Colorado
Street Suite 1.118 Austin, Texas 78701 Tel 512 579-5027 Fax 512
579-5028
jim@texascampuscompact.org
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Check out the Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit Offered by Campus Compact
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 This toolkit offers a guide to the best resources on engaged
scholarship, along with models, exemplars, and original essays.
Developed by The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN),
for which Campus Compact serves as coordinator, the toolkit offers
information and resources for all institutions seeking to implement or
expand engaged scholarship on campus.
find the toolkit at...
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| | Campus Compact Professional Development Institute To Be Developed Online
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Campus Compact's ground-breaking Professional Development  Institute for
community service and service-learning professionals is moving to an
online format. As more campuses institute travel restrictions, and as
new technologies make it possible to interact more effectively, Campus
Compact is responding by creating a series of webinars geared toward
institutionalizing civic engagement and implementing best practices in
community service-learning. This new format will allow more
participants to connect over a greater period of time, extending the
reach of the curriculum while facilitating deeper learning. More
information about this series, slated to begin this fall, will be
available in the coming months. The in-person Professional Development Institute will not be held in 2009.
Read more of this story...
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| | Research Brief: Linking Service Learning and Civic Engagement in Community College Students
| Published by the American Association of Community Colleges, and written by Mary Prentice and Gail Robinson. This paper is a 12-page research brief summarizing the findings and implications of a
three-year study of service learners and non-service learners at 12
community colleges.
(.pdf)
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| | Leadership Award for Campus and Community Engagement
| Campus Compact has created the Leadership Award for Campus and
Com munity Engagement to highlight the critical and valuable role of the
community engagement professional in higher education. These dedicated
individuals form a vital link between the community and campus, they
are central to realizing the vision of the engaged campus, and integral
in the education and development of students. The tremendous growth of
the field is due in large part to the dedication and hard work of the
community engagement professional. This award is for staff members on
Campus Compact member campuses; please see our other awards for faculty and students.
Call for Nominations...
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Sincerely, 
Lynn Prince,
Director of Operations,
Texas Campus Compact
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