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July 13, 2012

1- NYCC Welcomes LillianHartman

2- NYCC Accepting EAPHost Site Applications

3- The Crisis in HigherEducation: How CivicEngagement Can Save

Higher Education

4- NYCC 2012-2013Membership Renewal

4- Campus ElectionEngagement Project

5- WNYSLC Fall Conference

6- EAP Spotlight fromCayuga CommunityCollege

6- Congratulations to NYSNewman Fellows

8- Campus Compact Books

October 11-12, 2012: TheSecond Annual EasternRegion Campus CompactConference: PromotingClear Pathways to CivicEngagement, hosted byDartmouth College

NYCC welcomes Lillian Hartman as our new Program Coordinator for AmeriCorpsVISTA and the Education Award Program (EAP). She has a Master of PublicAdministration degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and Bachelorof Science degree from Cornell University, where she was a Cornell Tradition Fellowfor community service. She comes to NYCC after serving as Director of theTompkins County Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). RSVP places,supports, and recognizes approximately 450 volunteers in Tompkins County. Lillianmanaged federal and state grants and worked with staff and volunteers to grow theprogram.

Lillian moved from Bedford, MA to the Ithaca area in 2003. Her current volunteeractivities include serving as a nursing home ombudsman and volunteer tax preparerfor low-income families. Previous volunteer experiences include interning with United

Way of Tompkins County and coordinating a service-learning course that introducedat-risk teens to the hospitality industry through student mentors.


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Dr. Richard Guarasci, President, Wagner College

Huffington Post 6/27/12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-

guarasci/civic-engagement-programs_b_1630919.html

In the midst of the most significant global economiccrisis in more than 80 years, higher education faces anacute crisis of resources, organization andlegitimization. Colleges and universities find themselvesin a double bind, one external and economic and theother internal and existential. Public tolerance iswithering for increasing tuition as legislativeappropriations shrink and student debt continues togrow.

We have entered an age of economic limits, fracturedpolitics, stalemated government and personal fear. Howwe organize academic and campus life begs analternative to the very foundation of the prevailing modelof higher learning in the United States. The traditionalhigher education business model is essentially adeflating balloon if not a bursting bubble, as the globaleconomic crisis has created a highly risk-averse climatefor students, parents and donors.

The crisis facing American higher education is rooted ina series of challenges around access, cost, affordability,learning outcomes and institutional priorities. The core

concepts of the prevailing model of higher learning faceacute interrogation including what and how facultyteach, how students learn, how information technologyshapes pedagogy and delivery cost, how education isdelivered and priced, and how institutions assuresuccessful student learning outcomes and careerprospects.

Further, a skeptical public requires a greaterunderstanding of the achievements, and ultimate socialvalue, of colleges and universities.

Perhaps this is due to a widespread lack of

understanding about what colleges and universities dobeyond their educational function. Higher educationneeds to help the public to appreciate how it creates,refines and applies knowledge and how this leads tospecific and pragmatic solutions to current social andeconomic problems. In the midst of these challenges,the traditional college is confronted with a variety offorces that seek to reduce higher learning to merely asimple instrumental equation of virtual time invested inexchange for a quickly earned diploma.

Amidst a weakening public commitment to learningabout the breadth and depth of human experience andthe natural world, universities and colleges are undergrowing pressure to reduce higher learning to merely atransaction as opposed to a transformation. From itsinception American higher education held acommitment to educating for the development of criticalabilities, disciplinary mastery and civic learningnecessary to develop the independent minded citizensrequired for a dynamic republic and a vibrant economy.Now the current critique around affordability carries withit a devaluation of American higher education's historicmission. Proposals to reduce higher education tomerely an online, non-residential experience will denystudents the opportunity to learn how to successfullynegotiate and collaborate within one of the fewremaining, truly diverse communities left: the campus.Add to this the increased emphasis that colleges placeon civic engagement and international education andwe begin to see how the campus experience develops

more fully rounded citizens, professionals and futureleaders, and you understand the value of the campusexperience.

Taken as a whole, the global economic crisis and theinternal challenges to colleges and universities havegiven birth to the most fundamental crisis in a century. Itis a crisis of legitimacy as well as one of the politicaleconomy of higher education. And while thesedilemmas appear on campus, our local neighborhoodsare severely challenged to maintain their potential assuccessful communities with opportunity, choice andmobility for its residents. In New York City alone1.6

million peoplehave fallen below the poverty line,roughly 20 percent of its population. The economy hasseen neighborhoods spiraling downward fromunemployment, income inequality, the shrinking of thesocial safety net and the despair over decliningopportunities and the absence of hope for a betterfuture. This is the new context facing civic engagementprograms for our colleges and universities.

These are not statistics that will afford a vibranteconomy or viable neighborhoods. They promisedeteriorating conditions of health, education andcommerce. Many lives are unnecessarily shattered and

the capacities of too many children are stunted. Just ashigher education faces dramatic challenges so do ourlocal neighborhoods, particularly urban ones.

I believe that comprehensive and demanding civicengagement programs will help colleges anduniversities find new relevance, and communities regaineconomic footing and social rebirth in the midst of thiscrisis and a new kind of partnership is created betweentown and gown. I'll explore this new connection in mynext post.
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As many of you know, NYCC is one of several State Compacts partnering with the Campus Election EngagementProject (CEEP) to mobilize the student vote on our campuses. It may seem like the presidential election is off inthe distant future, but the Democratic and Republic Conventions will take place NEXT month. The election is justaround the corner.

What is your campus doing to ensure that students understand how to exercise their rights and responsibilities asdemocratic citizens? NYCC and CEEP can help get that conversation on your campus started!

Go tohttp://www.campuselect.org/to learn how your campus can engage with our non-partisan efforts to mobilizemillennial voters! And heres a cheat sheet to get you started quickly! http://www.campuselect.org/6-ways-to-act-now.html

Membership renewal time is upon us again. Invoices went out in May to campus presidents and our primary

contacts. If you did not receive an invoice or would like to learn more about NYCC membership, please contact

us [email protected] 607-255-4131, or visit: http://www.nycampuscompact.org/how-to-join.html

Thank you to the following members who have already renewed membership for 2012-2013:

Adelphi University

Berkeley College

Broome Community College

Colgate University

Hofstra University

Jefferson Community College

LeMoyne College

Medaille College

New School

Niagara University

Pace University

Polytechnic University

Purchase College

Queensborough Community College

Rochester Institute of Technology

SUNY Delhi

Ulster Community College
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The Newman Civic Fellows Award honors inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated aninvestment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. Through service,research, and advocacy, Newman Civic Fellows are making the most of their college experiences to better understandthemselves, the root causes of social issues, and effective mechanisms for creating lasting change. These studentsrepresent the next generation of public problem solvers and civic leaders. They serve as national examples of the rolethat higher education canand doesplay in building a better world.

Newman Civic Fellows are recommended by college and university presidents to acknowledge motivationand ability in public leadership. Newman Civic Fellows awards are made in memory ofFrank Newman, whodedicated his life to creating systemic change through education reform. Frank Newmans leadership was selfless,optimistic, and determined, spanning an incredible career of more than five decades. At the core of Dr. Newmansleadership was a belief in the power of individuals to make a difference and in the power of connection with others.Newman Civic Fellows form a unique network of leaders who will inspire and keep hope alive for one another duringcollege and afterward, as the network expands exponentially each year. Frank Newman had a tremendous impact onAmerican education and its role in the development of citizens who want to make a difference. The Newman CivicFellows are reflections and affirmations of his lifes work.

New York Campus Compact is very proud of these students and their continued hard work. We will be highlightingeach of the Fellows in our next few NYCC Weekly Newsletters but you can read more about their work here.

Congratulations to:

Karim Abouelnaga, Cornell University

Akosuah Agyei, The College of New Rochelle

Raphael Durand, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Kevin Ferreira, Wagner College

Anna Graves, Skidmore College

Hallie Greenberg, Bard College

Willa Skeehan, Dominican University

Elizabeth Stoltz, Ithaca Colle e

Pictured is Earl Heath, Cayuga Community Collegestudent and AmeriCorps volunteer (NYCC EAP). Heis working as both a tutor at CCC and for the FingerLakes Institute over the summer, educating boatowners at the Emerson Park boat launch aboutcontrolling invasive species to protect the waterquality of Owasco Lake.
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Willa Skeehan, a Math Education major and Social Justice and Civic

Engagement Minor, is dedicating her time as an undergraduate tounderstanding the disparities in educational opportunity, especially inurban Chicago. She immersed herself in service experiences atCatholic Worker Houses in Kansas City and Iowa, and internationally inMexico. Inspired by her service at San Miguel Middle School, sheinitiated a research project that will compare educational resourcesbetween San Miguel and a suburban school to provide San Miguel withstatistical support for their critical grant applications.

Congratulations Willa!!

Elizabeth Stoltz is the Founder and President of the organizationFood for Thought, which provides seeks to eradicatemalnurishment in the developing world through fundraising,awareness, and healthy food. Currently a junior at Ithaca College,Elizabeth also researches for Shes the First, an organization thathelps girls in developing countries become the first in a family tograduate from school. Elizabeth uses her developing marketing

and communications skills to write for several websites onhumanitarian issues, including Concern Worldwides GlobalClassroom blog, and Ithaca Colleges Buzzsaw Magazine.

Congratulations Elizabeth!!


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New York Campus Compact95 Brown Road, Box 1006

Ithaca, NY 14850607-255-2366

www.nycampuscompact.org

When we found that three of our most popular titles were out of print, yet people were still asking for them, weundertook a new project to digitally reprint them. Now they are available here in our Book Store for administrators,faculty, and students alike. Please let us know what other books you would like to have reprinted and we will consider

making those available as well. Contact: Sue Kelman, Director of Communications, [email protected]

The Engaged Department Toolkit & CD Rom

Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum: A Resource Book for Service-Learning Faculty in All Disciplines

Introduction to Service-Learning Toolkit: Readings and Resources for Faculty
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