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Events:
Past Events - Academic Year 2005-2006
From Understanding to Action:
A Forum for College Students about Poverty in Massachusetts
April 28, 2006 | 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Terrace Room, Hillel Center, Tufts University
MA Campus Compact, Tufts University College of Citizenship and
Public Service, and the North Shore Community College Public Policy
Institute invite students to delve into the issue of poverty, its
causes, and how to take action. Participants will learn from
professors, students and community members about the root causes of
poverty and how, through thoughtful and deliberate action, change
can occur. Students attending this forum will be from various
institutions across Massachusetts and have demonstrated a commitment
to working to fight poverty at its root causes- including the lack
of affordable housing, limited access to education, food insecurity,
inadequate health care coverage, and low minimum wage / high cost of
living.
Northeast Regional Campus Compact Conference
Telling Our Stories: Measuring Our Impact
April 6 - 8, 2006
Crowne Plaza Hotel - Nashua, NH
We are pleased to announce that New Hampshire will be hosting the Northeast
Regional Campus Compact Conference in April of 2006. This exciting conference is
being planned and sponsored by Campus Compacts in Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
As in past Regional Campus Compact Conferences, our audience will comprise
students, faculty, community service and service-learning directors, Academic
Deans, Department Chairs and community partners. This years conference title and
theme is Telling Our Stories: Measuring Our Impact. This event will provide the
opportunity to exchange innovative practices, theories, philosophies, and
research across the Northeast. Our goal is to offer cutting edge strategies for
institutional transformation in higher education and to promote advanced
practice in service-learning.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 6 - Pre-Conference Sessions
12:45 - 1:15 pm - Registration
1:30 - 4:30 pm - Concurrent Sessions
- Students as Colleagues
- Research Design and Documentation of the Scholarship of Engagement
- Engaging the World: Developing a Campus-wide Approach to International
Service Learning
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Service Learning and Critical Thinking: A World Cafe
Experience
Friday, April 7 - Conference
8:00 - 9:00 am - Registration
9:00 am - Opening
9:30 - 10:30 am - Plenary and Keynote
10:45 - 12:00 - Workshops (Block 1)
12:30 - 1:15 pm - Lunch
1:15 - 2:30 pm - Workshops (Block 2)
2:45 - 4:00 pm - Workshops (Block 3)
4:00 pm - Closing
Friday, April 7 & Saturday, April 8
"Sharpening Your Mind, Building Your Skills: The First Annual Student Regional
Conference"
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Amanda Adolph, American Council
on Education (ACE)
AMANDA ADOLPH is the first director of marketing at the American
Council on Education (ACE). She is charged with creating the marketing infrastructure and
setting and implementing the Council's marketing strategy. Prior to joining ACE,
Amanda served as director of public relations and communications at George Mason
University's School of Management and in the College of Arts and Sciences. A
graduate of the University of California at Berkley, Amanda also worked at the
University of California's Washington Center (UCDC), for the Close Up
Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit civic education foundation. During her
keynote address, she will describe Solutions for Our Future, an awareness
campaign to remind America that higher education is one of our nation's greatest
resources.
Leveraging Resources for University/Community
Partnerships: Financial Institutions & Philanthropy
with Dr. David Maurrasse
February 19 - March 20, 2006 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Hosted by NERCHE and Worcester UniverCity Partnership
Co-Sponsor Massachusetts Campus Compact
Dr. David Murrasse is the President and CEO of Marga Incorporated, a consulting firm which
addresses cross-sector partnerships, philanthropy, strategy and various aspects
of management. Dr. Maurrasse is also an Assistant Professor in the School of
International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and the author of
"Beyond the Campus: How Colleges and Universities form Partnerships with their
Communities."
February ThinkTank for Community Service Directors and Service-Learning
Directors (CSDs/SLDs)
February 13, 2006
College of the Holy Cross
As CSDs/SLDs, how do we balance being a manager (of programs, offices, and
staff) with being a catalyst for change within our colleges and universities? We
are responsible for running programs and supervising student workers, VISTAs,
and perhaps other staff. At the same time, we are trying to change our
institutions so that they support community service, service-learning and civic
engagement more deeply and fully. In addition, many of us carry additional roles
as faculty or administrators. And many of us have come to these positions with
little or no formal training in effective management or in being agents of
change.
How do we balance these competing demands in ways that allow us to
be effective, remain sane, and work in alignment with our own
deepest goals and values?
Winter Service Learning Training Institute
Sponsored by Massachusetts Campus Compact & The Colleges of the Fenway
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 | 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Wheelock College - Locations TBA
The Winter Service Learning Training Institute will feature Edward Zlotkowski,
noted author and practitioner of service learning in the classroom. Dr.
Zlotkowski will present a keynote address followed by co-consecutive
sessions; one focusing on an Introduction to Service Learning and
another on Service Learning and the First Year Experience.
Community-Based Learning and Civic Engagement in Western Massachusetts
A Workshop for Faculty, Community Service Directors/Service-Learning Directors and VISTAs
Friday, January 27, 2006 |
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
9th Floor, Campus Center,
Amherst, MA 01003
Come meet and talk with other faculty and staff who are involved in teaching for
community engagement. The central feature of the afternoon will be "Praxis
Group" discussions: in small groups, you and other participants will share
stories of your experience in integrating community engagement into teaching,
and will explore the challenges that those stories raise. These discussions can:
- Help you think about the work you do in very concrete and useful ways, and
- Begin building a network of support with colleagues doing similar kinds of
work in other places.
This model of collective professional development is based on the learning
circles that Highlander Center and Educators for Community Engagement have used
for decades to deepen and strengthen movements for social change.
Other features of the afternoon will include an opening address and some time
devoted to collective exploration of ways to increase support for this work at
our institutions.
The event is organized by John Reiff, Director of the UMass Amherst Office of
Community Service Learning and Massachusetts Campus Compact Faculty Fellow, with
the help of Ashley Brown, MACC Five College VISTA.
Professional Development for Faculty, Staff, and Academic Leadership
Building Community-University Partnerships that Link to a University's Core Mission
December 15, 2005 | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Hogan Center Rm 320, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
PRESENTER: Dr. Linda Silka, UMASS/Lowell, Department of Regional and Economic and Social
Development. Co-editor of a soon-to-be published book, "Inside Out: Universities
and Education for Sustainable Development". Using the goal of education for
sustainability as their reference point, the book challenges the isolation and
insulation found within the walls of most campuses and makes a compelling case
for collaborative and interdisciplinary models of teaching and research.
WORKSHOP: Many colleges and universities are starting community-university
partnerships and are finding that this takes them into territory that is at once
both familiar and unfamiliar. Most higher ed institutions have had some sort of
working relationship with local communities, but many colleges and universities
are also finding that what worked in the past is no longer successful. New ways
of partnering are needed. This workshop will use case studies from a variety of
community-university partnerships to illustrate:
- Strategies for identifying partnership opportunities that are consistent
with the mission of a particular higher education institution.
- Strategies for involving multiple disciplines in partnership efforts.
- Techniques for starting and sustaining partnerships in the face of
common obstacles and challenges.
- Approaches for evaluating your partnership and improving its effectiveness
in meeting the goals both of the community and of your institution of higher education.
At the end of the workshop it is expected that participants will be prepared
to strengthen partnership efforts between their institution of higher education
and outside partners of various sorts.
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