Greetings Campus Compact Colleagues

Dr. Debbie Blanke

We have seen very busy summer and fall semesters for civic engagement and service learning in Oklahoma. I want to thank all those who traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska in October for the Heartland Conference. We had 30 representatives there, which was a great showing for Oklahoma, and provided about one-third of the participants from the four states (Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska). The conference provided good information to bolster your campus efforts, and I especially want to thank those attendees for great feedback on some Oklahoma issues and planning for the spring workshop.

 

As you will note in this newsletter, Oklahoma Campus Compact recognized some exceptional efforts across our state with the state awards and the voter registration contest winners. We appreciate the efforts of all of our member institutions, but especially want to congratulate some outstanding accomplishments by our award winners.

 

As we move into the spring semester, we hope that you will mark your calendars to participate in the spring workshop on February 27, 2015 as we follow up on the momentum from the Heartland conference activities. The workshop will be in the State Regents' office building, with information on topics and speakers coming soon. As always, the Oklahoma Campus Compact staff is ready and available to you to assist in any way we can, so please call on us as needed. See you all in February!

 

 

Join us in congratulating the Oklahoma Campus Compact member institutions which qualified for the 2014 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, with special kudos to:

• Oklahoma City University, recipient of the Honor with Distinction for Interfaith Service

• Rose State College, recognized for both General Community Service and for Education Community Service.

The Honor Roll with Distinction recognition is given to applicants that display strong levels of institutional commitment, provide a compelling case for partnerships that produce measurable impact in the community, and have a Federal Work-Study community service percentage of 15 percent or above. Oklahoma City University is only the second Oklahoma institution of higher education to achieve this status.
 

OkCC Members on the 2014 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll  

 

Interfaith Service Honor with Distinction

• Oklahoma City University

Education Community Service

• Rose State College

General Community Service

• East Central University
• Northeastern State University
• Northwestern Oklahoma State University
• Oklahoma City University
• Rose State College
• Southeastern Oklahoma State University
• University of Central Oklahoma
• University of Tulsa

In all, eight institutions in the state earned recognition on the Presidential Honor Roll this year. The Honor Roll recognition is given to institutions that demonstrate relevant and meaningful service and achieve measurable impacts in the community. The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll was established in 2006 in collaboration between the White House, US Department of Education, and the Corporation for National and Community Service to annually highlight the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement by recognizing institutions that achieve meaningful, measureable outcomes in the communities they serve.
 

The Presidents Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions in the four categories: general community service, interfaith community service, economic opportunity, and education. The website for the Honor Roll is www.nationalservice.gov/special-initiatives/honor-roll, with some additional information available at www.nationalservice.gov/sites/default/files/
documents/factsheet_honorroll.pdf. Although the Corporation has not yet set an exact date for opening the spring application process, we do know that the application will remain exactly the same and that due date will again be in early April. OkCC will again help distribute information about technical assistance webinars once the dates have been determined.

 

 

 Two worthy individuals and one outstanding campus-community partnership were recognized at the Campus Compact Heartland Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska and honored at the December Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education meeting for their achievements in community engagements.

  

Community Engagement Professional of the Year
 

 

Congratulations to Oklahoma's higher education institutions for setting a new record in an off-presidential election year for both institutional participation and student registration in the Oklahoma Campus Compact Voter Registration Contest! 21 members of Oklahoma Campus Compact participated by registering 3,312 in-state and out-of-state students to vote during the contest.

 

Students, staff, faculty and administrators from most of the seven winning institutions were able to travel to Oklahoma City for the presentation of awards at the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education December meeting recognizing their diligent efforts in registering students to vote in 2014. More than 27,000 students have been registered to vote as part of the contest since its inception in 2003.

 

Join us in congratulating the winners of the 2014 Voter Registration Contest!

 

Winners for In-State Student Registration

 

East Central University triumphed in the mid-sized institution category (WHITE) by registering 6.8% of its students. Dr. Pappas successfully employed a peer-to-peer outreach approach with her students. The NOC campuses made runner up by registering 5.3% of their students.

 

 

 

 

The state Campus Compacts of California, Minnesota, and the Mountain West (Colorado and Wyoming) offer an exciting opportunity to participate in a webinar January 22nd on tracking tools for higher education service-learning and community service programs.  This area is one of those most frequently mentioned for frustrations experienced by Oklahoma higher education community service directors and service-learning coordinators.

 

Track.Serve.Report. Which Tracking Tool is Best for Your Campus? is free to all members of Campus Compact, which includes all of the OK public institutions, 8 private institutions, and one tribal institution in Oklahoma.  See the OkCC membership list here to find your institution: http://www.okhighered.org/okcampuscompact/members.shtml). For more information and to register go to: http://www.ccmountainwest.org/webinar-serve-track-report-which-tracking-tool-best-your-campus-0. For questions call the Mountain West Campus Compact at 303-458-4193.

 

An excellent resource for design and delivery of service-learning courses is now available through a different medium than print. Designing and Delivering a Service-Learning Course is a YouTube video in 6 modules (plus an Introduction) offered through the Campus Compact website. This online resource of approximately 1.5 hours is presented by Dr. Matt Roy, Assistant Provost and Director of the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement at UMass Dartmouth, and Dr. Dwight Giles, Professor, College of Education and Human Development at UMass Boston and Senior Associate with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education. Find the 6-part series at: http://www.compact.org/resources/designing-delivering-a-service-learning-course/28611/.

 

Those who heard Stephen Black's keynote address at the 2013 Heartland Conference in Tulsa will recall his inspiring delivery on the role of campus-community collaboration. Hear him again, or for the first time, on the Transformative Potential of Campus-Community Collaborations on TedX Talk at http://generationforchange.org/the-transformative-potential-of-campus-community-collaborations/. In recent decades, society has witnessed a fundamental shift in how we "sort" ourselves into like-minded groups, neighborhoods, and online communities. Stephen Black argues that the future of moral progress is incumbent upon developing empathy and compassion for those unlike ourselves.

One of the richest resources for accessing information on issues, professional development opportunities, publications and job openings is the Higher Education Service-Learning list service maintained by the National Youth Leadership Council. Anyone interested in subscribing to the list serv can visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/nylc.org/group/he-sl-listserv/.

 

Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin Campus Compact invite proposals for the Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit, which will take place June 9-10, 2015, at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Each session proposal should relate to the 2015 summit theme: The Global Is Local: Civic Engagement across Cultures, Communities, and Nations. Join colleagues from across the Upper Midwest for critical reflection, learning, and dialogue. We encourage you not only to save the date, but also to consider proposing a session (or even two!). The deadline for submissions is February 13, 2015; the planning committee will review all proposals and contact presenters no later than March 13, 2015. For more information about the Summit and how to submit a proposal, please visit http://www.midwestengagementsummit.org/request-for-proposals.html.

The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education is soliciting manuscripts for the 2015 edition. The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education is an academic peer-reviewed journal with a focus on community/civic engagement. JPSHE aims to advance the status and prospects for publicly engaged teaching and research in the academy by showcasing the new disciplinary and/or pedagogical knowledge generated by engagement with the community. Missouri Campus Compact has published 4 volumes, beginning in 2011 all in print form. Starting with the 2015 volume, JPSHE will be hosted online in an open access format.

 

The JPSHE provides a venue for higher education faculty and administrative leadership to reflect on the ways that community engagement affects work in higher education. The JPSHE welcomes diverse manuscripts, from empirically-based examinations to critical reflection pieces, theoretical investigations, commentaries, case studies, and pedagogical and research designs. All submissions must identify implications for the growth and viability of public scholarship in the academy. For more information, please see the JPSHE website at http://jpshe.missouristate.edu/ or contact the editors at jpshe@missouristate.edu. The deadline for the Call for Manuscripts is February 1, 2015.

   

 

The 2015 Annual Continuums of Service Conference, "Seeking Solutions to Complex Challenges Through Inquiry and Engagement," will be held April 8-10, 2015 in Long Beach, California. The 2015 Annual Continuums of Service Conference brings together civic engagement and service-learning administrators, faculty, students, and community partners to focus on the critical processes of inquiry and engagement in shaping how higher education and communities identify and respond to the complexities of the 21st century. For more information, please visit http://www.wacampuscompact.org/cos2015.php.

2015 marks the 17th year of North Carolina Campus Compact's annual conference for community engagement faculty, staff, researchers, community partners, and graduate students who want to gain skills, knowledge and best practice models for a spectrum of civic engagement pedagogies and activities. The 2015 keynote speaker is Dr. Rick Battistoni, Professor of Political Science and Public and Community Service Studies, and Director of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service, at Providence College. For over 25 years, Rick has been a leader in the field of community-based learning, especially as it relates to questions of democratic civic education and engagement, highlighted in 2013 by his receipt of the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. He will discuss "Beyond Service and Service-Learning."

 

The February 18, 2015 conference includes 32 workshops in research and theory, pedagogy, capacity-building, institutionalization, and community-campus partnerships for health. This year North Carolina Campus Compact is excited to partner with Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)  to host a track of four workshops related to their mission to promote health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions.

 

Learn more about the conference and register at http://www.elon.edu/e-web/org/nccc/confMeet-PACE.xhtml.

 

The 2015 SENCER Summer Institute will be hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts from July 30 - August 3, 2015. The program for this year's Institute will include a rich mix of all-Institute plenary sessions, workshops on effective pedagogies, examples of successful campus and community applications, and opportunities to meet formal and informal educators, administrators, students, and others from across the country interested in contributing to a civically engaged society and the improvement of s cience, tec hnology, engineering, and mathematics education.

 

As is the custom, SENCER will program sessions directly responsive to the particular needs identified by those selected to attend. It invites you to use the SSI 2015 application forms to tell it the ideas and suggestions you have for the Institute. Participation in the Institutes is by invitation to teams (four or more people), groups (two or three people), and individuals following a competitive application process. Applications are open now, and the deadline to apply for participation in the Institute is March 13, 2015.

 

Please contact Kyle Simmons, NCSCE Faculty Development Events Coordinator, at kyle.simmons@ncsce.net with any questions you may have about the Institute or see http://www.sencer.net/Symposia/summerinstitute2015.cfm. 

 

Designing an airport screening system, controlling ocean debris, and identifying criminals in a conspiracy network-these are just a few problems teams have competed to solve at the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM). A new book, published by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP), outlines the history of the contest and serves as a great resource for anyone interested in mathematical models and interdisciplinary education. What does it take to be outstanding at mathematical modeling, and how does modeling relate to real world issues across disciplines of study? For 16 years, teams of high school students and college undergraduates have competed in the COMAP ICM to find out. The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling: Culturing Interdisciplinary Problem Solving presents a history of the ICM, including descriptions of past problems, a list of outstanding teams, and commentary from participants, advisors, judges, and directors. Also included is advice on how to prepare a team for the contest and how to develop curricula on modeling, as well as discussions on the current state of interdisciplinary education. To find this book see http://www.comap.com/product/?idx=1440. Further information on civic engagement in the science and mathematics disciplines visit the Science Education for New Civics and Engagement Responsibilities website at http://www.sencer.net/index.cfm.  

Service-Learning at the American Community College is now available. The book includes the chapter "Connect2Complete: Combining Service-Learning and Peer Advocates to Increase Student Success in Development Education" which is co-authored by Shana Berger, C2C Program Director at Campus Compact and Donna Duffy, Professor of Psychology at Middlesex Community College in Bedford and Lowell, Massachusetts. The book examines theoretical and empirical studies of service-learning at community colleges and makes the argument that service-learning can have a profound impact on the students who experience it. See this link for more information http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/servicelearning-at-the-american-community-college-amy-e-traver/?k=9781137361707&loc=uk.

 

 North Carolina Campus Compact's peer-reviewed, online journal is hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Access to the full-text articles in the journal is free, but viewers must register. The current issue has articles on international service-learning, a community-based research project at an urban elementary school, and service-learning in a rural setting. Access the journal at http://www.elon.edu/e-web/org/nccc/. 

 Here is information on yet another program using surplus food on college campuses to fight hunger. The Food Recovery Network (FRN) has programs at more than 95 colleges in 26 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. and has recovered over 400,000 pounds of food. The organization is supported by Chartwells in addition to Sodexo, Bon Appetit, and many independent dining providers. Find more information on the website at http://www.foodrecoverynetwork.org/ or contact Kevin Finkelstein, New Chapter Coordinator at FRN, at kfinkelstein@foodrecoverynetwork.org or 914-330-1113.

The Institute on Philanthropy & Voluntary Service is an academic internship program for undergraduates passionate about service and interested in a summer experience making an impact. The program equips students with the practical and ethical tools needed to strengthen their leadership and professional skills. For more information, visit the website at www.DCinternships.org/IPVS or contact Jesse Schaefer, IPVS Program Manager, at jjschaefer321@gmail.com or 202-986-0384.

 

The Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service offers students a chance to spend either 4 or 8 weeks taking action while getting a hands-on learning experience in the nation's capital. Program components include: an internship of competitive placement with local and national nonprofit organizations; classes for up to 9 credits, selected from a range of course options (accredited by George Mason University); furnished on-campus housing in the heart of D.C. at George Washington University; mentoring and career building activities including seminars, site briefings, and guest lectures; and hands-on service projects, fundraising activities and briefings at local nonprofit facilities.