Engage in dialogue with other members as well as the NC Campus Compact staff and gain in-depth information on a particular topic. The agenda includes a professional development session, lunch, business meeting (in which NC Campus Compact staff share updates about our work), and an opportunity for member campuses to share highlights.

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January 2014 Network Meetings

Western Region Network Meeting
January 7, 2014 - Catawba Valley Community College, Hickory, NC

Eastern Region Network Meeting
January 9, 2014 - Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC

 

Professional Development topic: "CEAs in conversation with Economic Development on Campus and in the Community"  Facilitators: Adrienne Cole, outgoing Business Development, at Lend Lease in Raleigh, incoming Executive Director of the Wake County Economic Development  Dr. Tom White, Economic Development Partnership, NC State

 

RSVP to Leslie Garvin by January 3rd.  Stay posted to the website for parking/driving info.

• General Community Service
• Interfaith Community Service
• Economic Opportunity
• Education Additional information about the categories will be available once the application is released. The application deadline is April 3, 2014. 

2014 CEI, February 5th at UNC Wilmington   

"Anchoring Communitiy Vitality: Campus Community Engagement and Economic Development"  

Each member campus Provost was invited to identify a team leader who will share regular updates and pre-work information. Be sure you have connected with your team leader and register by the deadlines below. 

  

February 3, 2014 (2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.) at UNC Wilmington

 

CEI participants are invited to come to Wilmington early for Deliberative Dialogue Moderator Training.

 

Participants will learn how to....
* Enhance your facilitation skills
* Convene public forums and help citizens discuss difficult issues
* Incorporate public deliberation into your classroom, committee, or community

NC Campus Compact is partnering with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNCW to host this moderator training which uses the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) model. NIF focuses on convening public forums for the consideration of public policy issues. Moderator training is free.

Trainer:
Dr. Katy Harriger, Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University, and co-author of Speaking of Politics: Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue (Kettering Foundation Press).

 

Register by sending an email to Leslie Garvin by January 6th. If you are registering more than one person, you will need to provide the name and email address of each registrant.

Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement Conference
February 5, 2014 at UNC Wilmington
 

The PACE Conference provides faculty, staff, administrators and community stakeholders with research, resources and best practice models for every aspect of civic engagement work.

  

The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) Volume 21 (fall 2014, spring 2015)
Call for Submissions

 The MJCSL is a national, peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles on:

   - research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues pertinent to curriculum-based servicice-learning,
   - campus-community partnerships,
   - scholarship of engagement, and
   - scholarship on engagement.

Please consult submission guidelines for more information and to review articles from all past issues.
 

Abstracts due: December 20, 2013 to Jeffrey Howard (no more than a page in length)
Invitations to submit an article will be made by email no later than mid-January, with invited articles due the last Monday in March.

Partnerships 2015 Special Issue: Call for Submissions

 

The editorial staff of Partnerships, NC Campus Compact's peer-reviewed, online journal hosted by the UNC Greensboro, announces a Special Issue to be published with Guest Editors Brandon W. Kliewer at Florida Gulf Coast University and Judith Ramaley, President Emerita, Portland State University and Winona State University.

 

 

Abstracts due: March 15, 2014

Final drafts due: October 30, 2014

 

More: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/index.php/prt/index

From Davidson College:

 

Registration is open for the remaining workshops in the 2013-14 Building Skills for Social Change  series sponsored by the Davidson College Center for Civic Engagement.  Building Skills for Social Change is a professional development opportunity designed to expand our capacity for making change in our communities and provide networking opportunities across organizations.  The series is offered at no cost to community leaders and nonprofit professionals as well as students, faculty and staff at the college.

 

We would love to share these opportunities with folks in the NC Campus Compact network if they are interested.  

 

Perspectives on Poverty	January 29
Documentary Storytelling featuring Andrew Jenks	February 25
Tools of Innovation: The Assessment Matrix	March 26

  

Register here.