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New York Campus Compact Weekly

March 22, 2013

Newman Civic Fellows Announced

In This Issue:
123Newman Civic Fellows Announced ERCC Save the Date Civic Engagement and Sustainability Summit Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award Ernest A. Lynton Award

Campus Compact has named 15 student leaders from New York State who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country as 2013 Newman Civic Fellows. Nominated by their college and university presidents, these students are making the most of their college experiences to better understand themselves, the root causes of social issues, and effective mechanisms for creating lasting change. As these students tackle community challenges, they provide fresh energy and perspective, inspire and mobilize others, and develop their own skills and potential. Through service, research, and advocacy, Newman Civic Fellows are making the most of their college experiences to better understand themselves, the root causes of social issues, and effective mechanisms for creating lasting change. These students represent the next generation of public problem solvers and civic leaders. They serve as national examples of the role that higher education canand doesplay in building stronger communities, notes Campus Compact President Maureen Curley. The following students are members of the 2013 Class of Newman Civic Fellows from NY: Reaz Khan, Adelphi University Allison Currier, Ithaca College Christopher Foye, The College of New Rochelle Kay Shafer, Bard College Caitlin McGuire, Le Moyne College Ashley Reynolds, Skidmore College Alejandra Moncayo, Stony Brook University Ronald Taylor, Syracuse University Dylan Gafarian, St. Joseph's College, NY Haeun Kim, Colgate University

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Graduate Student Engaged Research Conference National Study of Learning , Voting and Engagement International Journal of Education for Social Justice PKAL Leadership Institute Call for Spotlights/Articles PACC Assessment Workshop NYMAPS Symposium

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Hilary Gove, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Abubakar Ali, Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf Karina Edouard, Manhattanville College Crystal Lorenzo, Niagara University Melissa Garcia-Velez, Lehman College

See our upcoming events calendar at: http://www.nycampuscompact.org/events.html

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Congratulations to all of these deserving students!! We will be highlighting each member in upcoming issues of our newsletter and on our website. Newman Civic Fellow awards are made in memory of Dr. Frank Newman, a founder of Campus Compact, who dedicated his life to creating systemic change through education reform. At the core of Dr. Newmans leadership was a belief in the power of individuals to make a difference and in the power of connection with others. Frank Newman had a tremendous impact on American education and its role in the development of citizens who want to make a difference. This class of Newman Civic Fellows embodies this spirit and dedication.

The Newman Civic Fellows Awards are made possible through the generous support of the KPMG Foundation. You can see their profiles and photos, as well as the entire list of members from other states, on national Campus Compacts website at: http://www.compact.org/initiatives/awards-programs/the-frank-newman-leadershipaward/the-2013-newman-civic-fellows/

2013 Civic Engagement and Sustainability Summit Alfred State College June 6, 2013
Call for poster presentations
Higher education sustainability and civic engagement initiatives are increasingly working together for mutual benefit. To support this emerging trend and begin to identify models and best practices for such partnerships, New York Campus Compact and the New York State Sustainability Education Working Group are soliciting poster presentations highlighting successful collaboration between campus sustainability and civic engagement initiatives. Selected posters will be incorporated into a day-long summit on June 6 at Alfred State College in Alfred, NY and may be featured as a case study in a forthcoming publication. The summit is a pre-conference event in conjunction with Alfred States Innovations in Technical Education to Advance Sustainability: Student Leadership conference. Join us at to tell your story, learn about such collaborative initiatives at other higher education institutions, and network with colleagues. Guidelines for Poster Presentations Posters should include a balance of pictures and graphics with minimal but substantive text. Posters should highlight an innovative practice. Posters should complement an oral presentation of 5 10 minutes in length.

Poster presentations might include:

Innovative collaborative campus events that have integrated sustainability projects with civic engagement principles Innovative course structures that leverage service-learning pedagogy to engage in sustainability projects onand/or off-campus. Community service initiatives that focus on improving environmental practices and also incorporate elements of service-learning, such as critical reflection and mutually beneficial service

To submit your poster for consideration, please go to http://www.nycampuscompact.org/call-for-posters.html

Submissions are due by April 1, 2013 at 5:00 pm.

What is the innovative practice your poster presentation will highlight? How does it create collaboration between your sustainability and civic engagement initiatives?

Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award

The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-tolate career at institutions without tenure) each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus Compact member institution) are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher educations contributions to the public good. The award previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for ServiceLearning is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University. The award winner is granted $2,000 and the opportunity to conduct a session at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Conference. Four finalists are also featured in a panel presentation at the conference. Please visit the Awards Programs to read more about the 2013 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award and the recommendation process.

Deadline: March 29, 2013

2013 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty
Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)
The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement. Community engagement describes the collaboration between faculty and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching The Lynton Award emphasizes community-based scholarly work across faculty roles. The scholarship of engagement (also known as outreach scholarship, public scholarship, scholarship for the common good, community-based scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship) represents an integrated view of faculty roles in which teaching, research/creative activity, and service overlap and are mutually reinforcing, is characterized by scholarly work tied to a faculty member's expertise, is of benefit to the external community, is visible and shared with community stakeholders, and reflects the mission of the institution. In addition, NERCHE conceptualizes scholarly engagement in terms of social justice in a diverse democracy. The recipient of the award will have several opportunities to disseminate his or her community-based work, including presenting at the CUMU conference, presenting at NERCHEs annual Lynton Colloquium, publishing in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, and participating in one or more of NERCHE's webinars focused on communitybased scholarly work. Nominators will submit nominations via an online application. To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions. Application Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2013, at 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) To learn more about the Lynton Award, click here.

Graduate Student Engaged Research Conference May 21st and 22nd, 2013
Research Presentation + Workshop Request for Proposals
In an effort to kick off a long-term collaboration between engaged graduates and mentors across the Northeast and Upstate New York regions, Engaged Learning and Research (EL +R) at Cornell and the Cornell Participatory Action Research Network (cPARN) are pleased to announce their plans to co-host an inaugural Graduate Student Engaged Research Conference in Ithaca, New York, Tuesday and st nd Wednesday, May 21 and 22 , 2013 Graduate students (both masters and doctoral-level) from all academic disciplines who integrate some form of engaged research into their work are strongly encouraged to submit proposals by April 15 for research presentations and paper workshops. Potential scholarship includes, but is not limited to: translational science projects, community based participatory health initiatives, participatory program evaluations, community-based design projects, cooperative extension work, popular education and participatory action research. If you arent sure your research should be included, feel free to contact the organizers. Presentations are intended for graduate student researchers who have a polished paper and would like to present in traditional conference format. Participants will be part of on an organized panel, and can expect their presentation to run 15-20 minutes, with a group question and answer period at end of session. Presenters will have the option of including their papers in a special graduate student engaged research journal project, to be published during the Summer of 2013. Workshops are intended for authors who are in the early or draft stages of a research project, and who want peer review on their work as it currently stands. Depending on how many folks opt for workshops, participants can expect to focus on each author's work for 25-45 minutes. Workshoppers will be expected to submit copies of their draft project at least one week prior to the event. To submit a presentation or workshop proposal, please fill out and submit our Abstract Submission form no later than midnight on Monday, April 15, 2013. There is a 200 word maximum for all abstracts submitted. Accepted proposals will be notified by the following Monday, April 22nd. Conference registration is free and open to the public, and can be completed using our online form. NonCornell Graduate Students with an interest in these topics are also strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement

Special announcement! Are you interested in understanding whether or not your students vote? Are your get-out-the-vote drives on campus effective? Campus Compact is offering an outstanding opportunity for member campuses. In partnership with CIRCLE at Tufts, we are launching the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. Best of all, no one on your campus needs to do a thing except sign a form! No surveys. No focus groups. Please participate! It couldnt be easier. For more information, please visit: http://www.civicyouth.org/aboutcircle/nslve/

Submit Articles to the International Journal of Education for Social Justice

The International Journal of Education for Social Justice (RIEJS) is seeking articles for the autumn 2013 monographic issue on Service-Learning. RIEJS is an academic peer-reviewed publication in electronic format and open access, that is edited by the research group "School change for Social Justice" (GICE) from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, in collaboration with the Latin American Research Network on School Improvement and School Effectiveness (RINACE). It was created in November 2010 as a tool for promoting quality research that sees education as a powerful instrument for social transformation. You may consult the call for papers at http://www.rinace.net/riejs/proximos_numeros_english.html and submission guidelines at http://www.rinace.net/riejs/guia_autores_english.html The deadline for submission of articles is September 15, 2013.

PKAL Summer Leadership Institute Applications Due March 27

Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, Colorado Institute I: July 2328, 2013 Institute II: July 30August 4, 2013

The PKAL Summer Leadership Institute is designed for both early and mid-career STEM faculty engaged in efforts related to transforming undergraduate STEM education in their classrooms, departments, and institutions. The five-day intensive Institute provides faculty participants with the theory and practice required to act as agents of change in their home institutions or professional societies. Held in the heart of the Rocky Mountains on the Baca Campus of Colorado College in Crestone, Colorado, PKAL has been offering Summer Leadership Institutes since 1996. Since then, over 40 percent of Institute alumni have achieved positions of leadership at their home campuses. The Institute is designed around a carefully coordinated blend of theory, practice, and discussion of the politics of change and other issues of national relevance to higher education. A team of six mentors plays a key role in guiding the Institute, contributing first-hand experience in institutional change leadership at the local and national levels. Mentors work with participants during the Institute to shape a personal agenda for leadership, and to help participants conceptualize how they can implement an institutional change action plan at their institutions. If you are an early or mid-career STEM faculty member, we invite you to apply for this Institute. Alternatively, if you are a campus administrator please consider sponsoring the application of an emerging STEM leader at your campus. Many of our participant campuses have supported several members of the faculty and are thus building a team of STEM leaders ready to implement more effective and inclusive institutional transformation. Applications are due on March 27, 2013. For more information on the application process, click here. To learn more about PKAL, please visit www.aacu.org/pkal, e-mail us at [email protected], or call us at 202.884.7439.

Call for Spotlights and Articles

Do you want to see your stories and events featured in our newsletter? Everyone involved in the work of civic engagement and community-based education has a story to tell, and New York Campus Compact is eager to help you tell yours. Every Friday, we feature the outstanding work of our member institutions in a Spotlight on Members and news articles in our newsletter. This newsletter is e-mailed to over 950 college and university presidents, service learning faculty, community service directors and civic engagement offices at our member campuses.

You may e-mail your spotlight or news article entry to:[email protected].

PACC Assessment Workshop:

What Counts? And Why Does it Matter?

April 11, 2013 9:30 am-4 pm, Co-sponsored by Elizabethtown College and PACC Central Region

This workshop will identify approaches to align assessment and evaluation of civic engagement programs with your institutions mission. Its goals are to identify resources to: 1. 2. 3. Identify resources and opportunities to assess and evaluate Share next practices (the new best practices) Create opportunity for networking with a learning community.

Topics will address institutional mission alignment for community engagement, weaving with accreditation and assessment into your community engagement strategies, and a simulation activity which explores case studies of different university-community partnerships at various developmental stages. Registration Deadline: March 25, 2013. $40 (Campus Compact members); $60 (non Campus Compact members). Click here to register or https://www.elbowspace.com/servlets/cfd?xr4=&formts=2013-02-01 07:53:41.745218. Stay tuned for final program agenda. Workshop Components include: A Panel: Weaving Accreditation and Assessment Together Lina Dostilio, Duquesne University, moderator of institutional researchers: LaMont Rouse, Executive Director for Assessment, Accreditation and Compliance, Cedar Crest College; Steve Thorpe, Director of Institutional Research, Widener University. A Presentation: Community-Based Research and Student Learning Trisha Thorme, Princeton University, Director of Community-Based Learning Initiative Two Case Studies: Building a Team & Process for Planning Assessment & Evaluation

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Join us for a service-learning institute for faculty with Dr. Edward Zlotkowski

Service-Learning Faculty Institute

May 3, 2013 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Onondaga Community College

6th Annual Global Service-Learning Institute

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ILR Conference Center, Cornell University
Student Learning, Community Development: Advancing Equity and Opportunity through Fair Trade Learning Cornell University, New York Campus Compact, Amizade Global Service-Learning

Have you been thinking about teaching a service-learning course, but just havent found the motivation to (re)design a course? Whether you are faculty contemplating a community engagement project in your course, someone who has used service-learning before, or staff who works with faculty on a regular basis, this institute is for you! Dr. Zlotkowskis institute will give you what you need to effectively use service-learning pedagogy in your course. This institute will also highlight the importance of community partnership development and provide ample time for participants to draft a course outline and receive thoughtful feedback for their peers. Fee: $40 for Campus Compact members

$60 for non-members

Register Here

Diving In: Campus Compact's Institute for New Civic and Community Engagement Professionals: Registration is Open!
Take advantage of this great inclusive professional development opportunity! The cost of registration includes on-campus housing for three nights, breakfast and lunch for each of three days, dinner one evening and a copy of Campus Compact's Looking In Reaching Out publication, which will serve as a basis for the curriculum. For details on the agenda and registration, click here. We hope to see you at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX June 5-7, 2013.

The 6th annual Global Service-Learning Institute will build upon established institute strengths in global service-learning pedagogy and program development, while also integrating more explicit attention to best practices in community-based planning, community development, and movementbuilding within global service-learning. Previous institutes have highlighted encouragement of institutional teams and the opportunity to workshop global service-learning programs during the institute, along with deep collaboration, communication with, and learning from like-minded peers. This years institute will provide participants with the opportunity to further develop their global service-learning programs whether they are novice or advanced and it will also employ structured consideration of the concept of Fair Trade Learning and its associated commitments to community partners and program transparency.

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Hosted by Syracuse University with Colleges and Community Organizations in the Region Submissions Deadline: Friday, April 12
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life's 2013 conference in Syracuse, New York, builds on our 2012 conference, Linked Fates and Futures: Communities and Campuses as Equitable Partners. Designed as a call to action, our 2013 conference invites and challenges artists and scholars of many kinds to organize and engage in a democratic revival. A revival that's prophetic rather than nostalgic, centered on the urgent work of imagining and creating a future that aligns with the deepest cultural and political ideals of a diverse people. A revival that invites and challenges campuses to be part of their communities. A revival that focuses our energy, time, and resources on positive possibilities pursued through a practical and productive politics, even while it also opens up and sustains a critical discourse about pressing public issues and problems. A revival that exemplifies and builds what Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor refers to as third spaces--open and public free spaces--where the work of democracy takes place. Invitation to Participate We invite educators, students, artists, cultural workers, civic leaders, policy makers, funders, other concerned citizens and community members to develop sessions that point to the many possibilities for people to be agents of progressive, democratic change, and that illuminate the potential and challenges around key movements and themes. Imagining America seeks proposals from individuals and teams that present a strategy for engaging conference participants in one or more aspects of publicly engaged art and scholarship. These themes may include but are not limited to public humanities, community cultural development, public interest design, food justice, climate change, education, incarceration and reentry, urban connectivity and sustainability, and structural change within higher education. Priority will be given to sessions that represent a range of initiatives and institutions. We strongly encourage individuals to use the proposal process as an opportunity for regional, national, and international organizing--connecting with colleagues and community partners to propose sessions that reflect diverse perspectives on a topic or theme. Imagining America staff will facilitate additional connections among proposals once they are received. All accepted presenters must be willing to work with Imagining America to ensure that the session is integrated into the fabric of the entire conference and advances the conference goals. Deadline and Dates The web portal for submitting proposals will be up on Friday, March 8. The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 12. Accepted seminars will be notified by Friday, April 26. Decisions on all sessions will be made by Tuesday, May 14. For more information, visit: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=8nhm9kjab&v=0018RV34s7Da5182pp_QAD3btTbJ1twSVyZrlx7uqxFkj0Js06JVU8rsNgOsr2qCEdy9zY1nVa5wwo5VS0wTnETp6Xei2dGMRmmATtStsnThAtssGHSj04 nA%3D%3D

2013 Imagining America National Conference October 4-6, 2013, in Syracuse, New York A Call to Action

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