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Congratulations President Charles “Chick” Dassance on your retirement and the many, many successes that you have accomplished at the College of Central Florida!
College of Central Florida President and FL|CC Executive Committee Member Charles “Chick” Dassance announced that he would retire sometime this summer. Community leaders said that Dassance, 65, will be missed. President Dassance has helped create a culture of community with his commitment to the college’s core values of integrity, service, responsibility and dignity. Employees take pride in their work and are passionate about the college mission. The college culture supports individual growth and development and asks all employees to be part of the leadership of the college. Thank you, President Dassance, for your leadership and service to the College of Central Florida and the FL|CC community.
Attention Community Service and Service-Learning Directors... Mark your calendars for our annual Professional Development and Planning Retreat!
Oct 19-21, 2011 Orlando, FL For more information, visit www.csd.floridacompact.org
Registration Now Open!
Early Bird Special Ends
AUGUST 1, 2011 Early bird special: $1,500 Table of 8 for Member Campuses only. Table prices will go up to $2,000 after August 1.
To reserve a table(s) of 8, please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011Gala_TableReservations To reserve individual or multiple seats, please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2011Gala_IndividualSeats For more information, please email info@floridacompact.org or call Mable at 850-488-7782.
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Florida Campus Compact mourns the passing of STEM Faculty Fellow and Brevard Community College Professor and Mayor of Melbourne Beach, Rita Karpie. http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?id=82782
Conferences & Institutes Measuring & Monitoring for Engagement an Engagement Academy Program September 8-10, 2011 The Historic Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center www.http://hotelroanoke.com/ Roanoke, Virgina Virginia Tech is pleased to present Measuring and Monitoring for Engagement, home of the Engagement Academy for University Leaders, endorsed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU), and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). This unique executive development program is designed for leaders and teams responsible for developing institutional capacity for monitoring and measuring community engagement activities. Participants will develop action plans for capturing data on community engagement and will return to their campuses with the ability to advance the institutional plan for engagement as well as effectively link community engagement to the teaching, research, and service missions of the institution. Participants will explore their measurement goals, different dimensions of monitoring and measuring schemes, and perspectives and expectations of the multiple constituencies of engagement. Participants will understand how measurement strategies build institutional capacity for engagement and will return to their campus with a plan for measuring and monitoring that is aligned and consistent with other aspects of their institutional work. For more information on this conference, visit www2.cota.vt.edu/engagementacademy/measuring/ To REGISTER for this conference, please visit www2.cota.vt.edu/engagementacademy/measuring/ registration.html
$1599 per person. Includes instructional
materials, on-site faculty coaching, planning tools and resources, continuous break service, and lunches.
Registration deadline: August 26, 2011.
The 23rd Annual National Service-Learning Conference and youthrive PeaceJam Leadership Conference: Our World, Our Future Historically, this conference has emphasized service-learning in K-12. However, presentation may be of interest to broader audiences.
April 11-14, 2012 Minneapolis, MN
www.nylc.org/conference This event celebrates service-learning as a force that engages students in their education, builds communities, and strengthens young people and schools. The National ServiceLearning Conference is the largest gathering of youth and practitioners involved in service-learning, drawing more than 2,200 attendees from across the United States and many other countries each year. The conference’s multiple day, concurrent session format offers a self-directed, facilitated learning environment with education sessions, discussion groups and interactive workshops designed specifically for all levels of attendees engaged in service-learning and focused on current and emerging issues, best practices and the challenges facing us today. The youthrive PeaceJam Leadership Conference is designed to inspire and engage youth and adults through education, leadership and service to integrate peace making activities into their lives, their communities and the world. The 2012 conference will feature thought-provoking addresses from internationally recognized education leaders, service-learning professionals, and young people. For more information on conference, visit http://attendesource.com/profile/web/index. cfm?PKwebID=0x21775d15d Submit a proposal: http://attendesource.com/profile/form/ index.cfm?PKformID=0x44974de4a All workshop proposals must be received no later than September 23, 2011. Showcase applications: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dFJyc2E4NU9 kaHlrQldXZlB0SmNucEE6MQ#gid=0 All Service-Learning Showcase applications must be received no later than November 14, 2011. page 5
AAC&U’s 2012 Annual Meeting: SHARED FUTURES/DIFFICULT CHOICES Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning,Global Engagement, and Success January 25-28, 2012 Grand Hyatt Hotel Washington, DC Facing national and global challenges that demanded difficult choices, Commission members sought to reclaim a sense of shared future for a war-torn, nuclear age. If we imagine the educational goals such a Commission might highlight today, we confront a dangerous and potentially disastrous public narrowing of vision. Higher education is currently valued more for its economic and individual benefits than for its contributions to the common good. The resulting focus on market priorities has crowded out long-established civic commitments. A twenty-firstcentury liberal education cannot afford to be neutral about democratic knowledge and global engagement. Are today’s global challenges less compelling or less urgent than those faced 65 years ago? Is the need to preserve and extend freedom less pressing today than it was then? AAC&U’s 2012 Annual Meeting will explore these questions and showcase examples from institutions that are successfully building upon democratic visions and practices in complex global contexts—visions and practices that are shaping institutional missions, improving undergraduate education, and challenging narrow definitions of success. More information at http://www.aacu.org/meetings/ annualmeeting/index.cfm?utm_source=meetings&utm_ medium=blast&utm_campaign=am12cfp1
Service Opportunity Hope CommUnity Center Alternate Break
Apopka is brimming with history and stories - from its rural farmworker roots, to its increasingly more urbanized, multicultural state. Hope CommUnity Center has developed a unique model which makes it possible for people of various talents and walks of life to participate in our community. HCC has year-round availability for Alternate Breaks! For additional information, please visit: http://www.hcc-offm.org/ABOUT/SERVICELEARNING/SERVICE.html
Congratulations to Lynn University for receiving the Distinguished Volunteer Community Service award from the United Way of Palm Beach County.
Compact Book Store Launches 20% OFF BACK-TO-SCHOOL SALE on all available titles Take advantage of these unusual prices to purchase such titles as:
Getting ready for a new school year can hit your pocketbook, and your departmental budget, big time. Now, Campus Compact wants to take some of the sting out of those preparations. They are offering a special back-to-school sale: 20% off of all publications. And if you buy in quantity, They will first apply the usual discount on bulk sales and then take an additional 20% off your total. It doesn’t get much better!
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• Looking In Reaching Out • One with the Community: Indicators of Engagement at Minority-Serving Institutions • Partnerships that Work: The Stories and Lessons from Campus/Community Collaborations • Raise Your Voice: A Student Guide to Making Positive Social Change • Students As Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of ServiceLearning Leadership • Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction The sale ends on September 30th so visit the Book Store at www.compact.org
Student Opportunity Pennsylvania Campus Compact’s 2011 Student Engagement Conference
Establishment of the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps Advisory Committee and Call for Nominations
October 21-22, 2011 Holiday Inn-East Harrisburg, PA
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior.
Mark your calendar and plan to attend Pennsylvania Campus Compact’s Student Engagement Conference this fall, October 2122, 2011 in Harrisburg at the Holiday Inn-East. Through a generous grant from the Jenzabar Foundation, PACC is hosting this conference which will offer students a unique leadership training for social change and civic engagement. This conference is designed for students who are deeply involved in civic engagement on their campus, such as Community Fellows, Scholars in Service, AmeriCorps members, or other similar civic leadership programs. Additionally, you will find a Call For Workshop Proposals for this conference with a deadline of September 8th. These workshops will focus on Student Leadership Development, Hot Issues in Our Communities, and Nonprofit Careers. Conference registration will be open on August 11 with further details about the schedule, speakers and costs. Recognizing the current realities many of our campuses are facing, we are currently seeking additional grant monies to support this conference to keep the costs down to make this as accessible as possible to students. For more information, visit http://www.compact. org/events-jobs-grants-more/call-for-proposals/ paccs-2011-student-engagement-conference-callfor-workshop-proposals/16664/
ACTION: Notice and call for nominations. SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior is announcing the establishment of the 21st Century Conservation Service Corps Advisory Committee (Committee). The purpose of the Committee is to provide recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior on how to create a 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC) to engage young Americans in public lands and water restoration. The 21CSC will focus on helping young people, including low-income, underserved, and diverse youth, gain valuable training and work experience while accomplishing needed conservation work on and near public lands. The Department of the Interior is seeking nominations for individuals to be considered as Committee members. Nominations should describe and document the proposed member’s qualifications for membership to the Committee, and include a resume listing their name, title, address, telephone, email, and fax number. DATES: Written nominations must be received by August 1, 2011 CONTACT INFORMATION: Gabrielle Horner, Partnerships Coordinator, Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, NW., Mailstop 3559, Washington DC 20240; Gabrielle_Horner@ios.doi.gov, (202) 208–5904. WEBSITE: http://federalregister.gov/a/2011-16584
You can download a copy of the Call for Proposal here http://www.compact.org/wp-content/ uploads/2011/07/2011-Call-for-Proposals-PACCStudent-Conf.docx
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