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August 10, 2012

1- NYCC Welcomes NewVISTA Leader

2- MLK Day of Service MiniGrants Available

2- North Carolina CampusCompact Online Journal

3- St. Johns UniversityAmeriCorps VISTA

Recruitment

4- Unleashing AmericasTalent

5- NOSC 2012

6- 2nd Annual EasternRegion Campus CompactConference

7- IARSLCE Conference

September 30-October 3:NOSC 2012

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

October 26-27,

2012: WNYSLC Fall

Conference

September 23-25,2012: 2012 IARSLCEAnnual Conference

Rachel Ditch began as an AmeriCorps VISTA Leader with New York Campus

Compact in July. She is a State University of New York College at Cortland graduatewith a Bachelors degree in English Education. She recently served as the YouthInvolvement and Faith Relations Coordinator as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Habitatfor Humanity of Tompkins and Cortland Counties, where she worked to coordinatefaith related programming and strengthen ties between area groups and Habitat.She enjoys the Central New York area, and has decided to stick around and workwith New York Campus Compact for a year before heading to Seminary.

Rachel moved to Cortland from the Binghamton area in August of 2008. Hervolunteer experiences include working with the Cortland County Council of Churcheson various tasks, packing health kits and cleaning buckets to be sent anywhere theyare needed, ringing bells with the Salvation Army, and working building with Habitat.Rachel enjoys coffee, playing her guitar, running, and playing on her church softballteam. She can solve a rubik's cube in under 5 minutes, and always has a pen in herpocket. Contact her [email protected]
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The summer issue of NC Campus Compacts online journal,Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning

and Civic Engagement, was just released. With this issue we welcome new editor Dr. Spoma Jovanovic,

Associate Professor in Communication Studies (Community, Ethics and Social Change), at the University of

North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). Spoma received NC Campus Compacts 2012 Robert L. Sigmon

Service-Learning Award for her commitment to integrating service-learning into the curriculum, training

other faculty in service-learning, and sustaining service that has impacted her community and

profession. Spoma will pursue the journals vision and engage increasing numbers of faculty and leaders in

developing the journal.

UNCG also now serves as web host for Partnerships thanks to the technical team headed by Stephen Dew.

NC Campus Compact wishes to extend many thanks to Appalachian State University and Dr. Norman Clark

for hosting the journal since it began.

The journal may be viewed:Here.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service honors the life of Dr. King and reminds all Americans of their civic duty toserve. In 2012, 69 colleges and universities across the United States engaged over 14,000 volunteers in acollaborative day of service through the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Challenge. In January 2013, CampusCompact plans to mobilize 15,000 student and community volunteers to answer, in the words of Dr. King: "Life's mostpersistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'"

NYCC is accepting applications for mini-grants ($500 or $1000) that support campus-based service projects in theAtlantic Cluster: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, and Vermont. If your campus or collaborative is interested in participatingthis year, visit our RfP and application atwww.wicampuscompact.org/mlk/minigrant/. Applications are due by 5:00pmET on September 1, 2012.

Intent to apply is not mandatory, but appreciated by August 15, 2012via e-mail (Subject: MLK 2013 Grants) [email protected]
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New York Campus Compact has been partnering with the AmeriCorps VISTA Program since 2003 in order to assist

member campuses in developing deep, meaningful campus/community partnerships. VISTAs play pivotal roles inhelping colleges and universities address community needs, develop leadership among their students, and improvecollaborations between the institution and the community.

We are currently recruiting applicants for St. Johns University (see position description below):(start date in October or November, 2012)

Position Description:

Strengthen community partnerships by implementing programs to meet the needs of low-income residents in andaround Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn and homeless individuals in and around Jamaica, Queens.

The 2012-2013 AmeriCorps VISTA project will focus on implementing the project developed during the previous twoVISTA years. The previous VISTAs developed a longitudinal study to assess the needs and outcomes of Project IDat St. Johns Bread and Life, which assists clients in obtaining legal identification. In the third project year, the VISTAwill continue these efforts by administering and analyzing client interviews and surveys at Project ID, and usinggathered information to develop needs-based programs and other necessary improvements to the project. Inaddition, the previous VISTAs developed adult and youth programming at a Homes for the Homeless shelter. Thisyears VISTA will be responsible for continuing the development of youth enrichment programs as well asimplementing the adult programs, and evaluating the effectiveness of both.

The VISTAs efforts will aid the agencies in meeting their missions of alleviating poverty, hunger, health concerns,education deficiencies and homelessness. The position will be primarily housed at St. Johns Universitys Queenscampus although there will be frequent visits to community partner sites in both Queens and Brooklyn to assist withprograms and build strong relationships between the University and community partners. The VISTA will work withthe Director of the Ozanam Scholars Program to implement community programs and with the Assistant Director ofOutcomes Assessment for the evaluations.

The VISTA member will expand Project ID poverty alleviation efforts based on client feedback in surveys from yeartwo and provide tools to homeless and low-income youth and adults that will assist them in obtaining skills andknowledge.

Additional Qualifications:A valid drivers license is required and the position will also require an individual that has strong computer skillsespecially with Microsoft Office applications.


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"Back to school" season is in full swing. Hundreds ofthousands of our nation's recent graduates are wishingit were "off to work" season.

We are at risk of losing the tremendous creative,intellectual and economic potential of a generation ofyoung people. Youth unemployment is double thenational average. Even those young people graduatingwith four year degrees are not immune to challengesassociated with today's difficult job market. Prospectsfor returning veterans are even worse, and youngpeople disengaged from school and work face thegreatest obstacles to employment. How can youngpeople develop the skills and experience they need tofind jobs when employment opportunities are soscarce?

Voices for National Service recently released "NationalService: Providing Pathways to Employment," a reportthat highlights the unique role national serviceprograms play in providing young Americans with away to build leadership and jobs skills in a tougheconomy, while helping to solve some of the pressingproblems facing our communities and the nation.

Every year, national service provides tens of

thousands of people with a year of service thatteaches the skills and provides the experiencedemanded by nonprofit, corporate and public sectoremployers who are looking for workers in thischallenging economy.

A record number of young people are lining up toserve their communities through AmeriCorps.Applications have risen 62 percent from 360,000 in2009 to more than 582,000 in 2011. Today, just 82,500AmeriCorps slots are available, denying tens ofthousands of applicants the opportunity to gainvaluable experience and hone relevant skills before

stepping out into the globally competitive workforce.

It's a great deal for the country. For a small stipendand a modest education award to helpwith collegedebt, AmeriCorps members receive extensive on-the-job training and the chance to explore careers theymight not have previously considered while they aretransforming the lives of the people and communitiesthey serve. For example, two-thirds of CommunityHealth Corps alumni, many of whom had no priorexperience in the healthcare field, have pursuedcareers as doctors, health educators, social workers,medical assistants and registered nurses after the

conclusion of their service in the Corps. Sixty-sevenpercent of Teach for America's AmeriCorps members,remain in education after their two years in theprogram, working as teachers or as educationentrepreneurs leading some of the most innovativeeducation reform efforts in the country. YouthBuild, anAmeriCorps program that engages low-income 16-24year olds in six to 24 months of full-time constructionwork, reports that 70-80 percent of its graduates areplaced in post-secondary education or full-timeemployment, and researchers estimate that at least$96,000 and as much as $146,000 in benefits aregenerated in higher wages and increased productivity.

Given the rapid growth of the nonprofit sector, (the thirdlargest industry in America's economy which employs10.5 million workers, or one tenth of America'sworkforce), the skills acquired through a year or two ofnational service are particularly relevant tostrengthening and supporting communities and familieshit hard by the economic downturn.

As Members of Congress spend their August recess athome in their districts, they would benefit from talkingto the young people who want to serve. Despite themyriad benefits to the nation and historic bipartisansupport for national service, these programs areroutinely targeted for elimination or drastic funding cuts.At a time when young Americans of every backgroundneed pathways to employment, we should focus onincreasing access to every opportunity to build thevaluable skills that can lead to a meaningful career.With sufficient investment in national service, hundredsof thousands more Americans could be heading "off towork", to the great benefit of our communities and ourcountry.

Huffington Post 8/9/12 :http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annmaura-connolly/unleashing-americas-talen_b_1760897.html?utm_hp_ref=impact

AnnMaura Connolly, President, Voices for National Service; Chief Strategy Officer and Executive VicePresident, Cit Year, Inc.
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September 30, 2012PreconferenceWorkshops & Events

October 1-3, 2012

Conference

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More than 600 delegates from 75 universities and colleges from 35states, Canada and Africa are expected to attend NOSC 2012 atThe University of Alabama. There are 239 research proposals inthree tracks faculty/staff, students and community partners that have been accepted for presentation.

"As a student learning to engage others in service, I've beeninspired regarding how to incorporate scholarship withcommunity engagement." NOSC 2011 student

With more than 200 plenary, breakout sessions and posterpresentations, NOSC 2012 is the engagement scholarshipconference you dont want to miss.Register todayand join yourcolleagues from across the nation and around the world.

ABOUT THE NATIONAL OUTREACH SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCEThe focus of NOSC 2012 will be on engagement scholarship, an integrated approach tohigher education that combines teaching and research to solve critical problems throughcommunity partnerships.
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October 11th and 12th, 2012

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

The mission of this conference is to advance institutional engagement while helping institutions

strengthen their ability to meet the standards of theCarnegie Classification for Community

Engagement. Leaders in higher education will participate in workshops on campuscommunity

reciprocity and impact, institutional change, and engaged scholarship.

This conference will also include three preconference institutes:

1. For faculty teams to focus on institutional strategies for rewarding engaged scholarship inpromotion and tenure;

2. For academic leaders who aim to create a culture of the engaged campus; and3. For faculty/stafffocused on community based research and assessment practices.

Conference Schedule

Pre-Conference Institutes

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Connected Knowing

Baltimore, MD

September 23-25, 2012

The theme for the 12th annual conference is the generative power of connections and relationships inresearch on service-learning and community engagement. A distinguishing characteristic of both thedesign of engaged research and the pedagogy of service-learning is its intended reciprocity andmutuality. As educators we develop partnerships with community partners and citizens, undergraduateand graduate students, teachers and K-12 students, and other faculty to participate in engaged researchand teaching, and to study it. Such learning partnerships are at the center of how we connect research topolicy and practice. These learning partnerships are also how we connect different theoretical andgrounded perspectives to the research designs we choose, as they encourage interdisciplinary andcollaborative approaches to knowing and doing. Finally, these learning partnerships are how we engagein peer-to-peer mentoring and both mentor and learn from the next generation of engaged scholars, aparticular strength of the IARSLCE. The 12th Annual IARSLCE Conference in Baltimore seeks to breaknew ground by focusing our attention on transformative learning partnerships in our research andscholarship on community engagement, in our research with community partners, and in the kinds ofconnections those learning partnerships leverage and facilitate. We are particularly interested in how ourresearch provides evidence for how to improve these relationships.

The IARSLCE annual research conference is targeted to scholars, practitioners, students, and communitypartners interested in research on service-learning, community-based research, campus-communitypartnerships, and civic learning outcomes in P-20 education. Attendees include faculty, administrators,and scholar-practitioners in higher education, community partners, educators in K-12, and professionalsand leaders in educational policy and community development. To advance understanding of scholarshipfrom international perspectives, scholars from outside of the United States are particularly encouraged tosubmit proposals.

Hosted by the University of Maryland and co-sponsored by American University, George WashingtonUniversity, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, Maryland Campus Compact, McDanielCollege, Montgomery College, and University of Maryland Baltimore County.

For more information or to register, please visit:http://www.researchslce.org/conferences/

New York Campus Compact95 Brown Road, Box 1006

Ithaca, NY 14850607-255-2366

www.nycampuscompact.org
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