REGISTER FOR THE MIDWEST CAMPUS COMPACT STEM CONSORTIUM

The Midwest Campus Compact STEM Consortium invites you to participate in a regional workshop focused on community-engaged learning for food sustainability. Two different dates and locations are offered to ensure that faculty, staff, students, and community partners have the opportunity to participate in one of these exciting workshops. 

Sessions/Topics

 

Positioning Your Community-Engaged Work for Promotion and Tenure

 

This session will review challenges community-engaged scholars face, and in particular, challenges posed by the traditional promotion and tenure process. Strategies for making your best case for promotion or tenure as a community-engaged scholar will be reviewed and some concrete tips for preparing your promotion dossier will be presented.

 

Developing a Premier Community-Based Learning Course

 

This session will address issues important to high-quality community-based service-learning courses, including a conceptualization of service-learning as a pedagogical model, developing academic and civic learning objectives that leverage the students' community service experiences, developing and evaluating reflection assignments compatible with those learning objectives, and assessing student academic and civic learning. Much of the workshop will use active learning around your particular service-learning course.

 

Deriving Scholarly Products from One's Community-Engagement

 

We will review (a) the opportunities for deriving scholarship from one's service-learning teaching and/or other manifestations of community engagement, (b) assessment criteria used by traditional and nontraditional publication outlets, (c) recommendations for getting your "community-engaged scholarship" published, (d) publication outlets friendly to this kind of work and (e) co-publishing with community partners.

 

Featured Speakers

• Howard Rosing, Executive Director of the Steans Center and Egan Urban Center,  DePaul University, Chicago, IL 

• Jeffrey Howard, Director of Faculty Development, Steans Center, DePaul University, Chicago , IL. Founder and editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

• Barb Willard, Professor DePaul University, founding board member of the Institute for Nature & Culture at DePaul University, 2012 DePaul ENGAGE award winner

Registration

June 25, 2013: Loyola University, Chicago, IL (Register Here)

Before May 25th - $50 Campus Compact Members, $100 non-Member

After May 25th – $75 Campus Compact Members, $100 non-Members

​Sponsors & Partners

• Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
• Illinois Campus Compact​
• Iowa Campus Compact
• Kansas Campus Compact
• Michigan Campus Compact
• Minnesota Campus Compact
• Wisconsin Campus Compact

For details regarding accomodations please contact Amy Ludwig at aludwig1@depaul.edu

Inside Look at CPS VISTA RACHEL HIRSCH'S Year of Service

My year as an AmeriCorps VISTA has involved learning new perspectives, working out of my comfort zone, and having fun with various Service Learning Projects.  One of the projects that I helped organize was the Martin Luther King Jr. Month of Social Action. The event involved CPS high school students and teachers participating in Service Learning projects in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his work towards peace, and equality. Some of the projects included, assorting food donations at food pantries, writing letters to the Congress, making Peace flags, discussion peaceful solutions with seniors, conducting peace rallies, and more. I organized eight projects with six new partners.

Following the Martin Luther King Jr. projects my supervisors and I began preparation for a month of Service dedicated to the works of Cesar Chavez. Most of the projects focused on Immigration rights, Hunger, Social Justice, and Environmentalism. Growing Power was a new organization that I partnered with as they have a local urban farm in Chicago and believed in helping youth “grow” and learn about where food comes from. Students, as well as teachers thought Growing Power was a “fantastic organization to work with and will be contacting them to work with them again on other service learning opportunities for the students.” There were other projects that I organized with Benton House, Lakeview Pantry, and Play for Peace. A total of 40 projects were organized through the CPS Service Learning initiative.

A project that I assisted in training high school students on Social-Emotional Service Learning was the Kimochis project. The word Kimochis means feelings in Japanese and is a program that teaches students how to express themselves. High school students learned about the Kimochi Characters and presented them to a local elementary school.  All students gained something from the Kimochis experience as everyone learned how to get in touch with their emotions and express them with different vocabulary.

Lastly, the Peace Within YOUth project is a project collaboration between myself, and Yoga Therapist, France Yoli Joseph. The project focuses on teaching high school students how to cultivate peace within themselves and then go out into the community and spread that peace through Service Learning Projects. Throughout the entire project, students learn nonviolent communication skills, peace breathing and meditation, yoga, and leadership skills. By the end of the project, students would be geared to lead peace projects to others. In my opinion this project has potential to expand and thrive because unlike other violence prevention projects, this has an introspective perspective and includes the students taking leadership roles. Also, since Service Learning is a requirement, students earn their credit through this project. Therefore this project could be a source of proof that Service Learning can reduce violence, and Service Learning is still essential for providing our students with experiential education. One of my hopes is to continue this project, after my year of service ends.

Overall my year has been great, and have bittersweet feelings about the year ending. Many people ask me “what will you do next year?” I often reply “To continue with my life’s journey in discovering mysteries, myths and myself.” My advice for perspective VISTAS would be to come with an open mind and a warm heart because it would be impossible to have a positive impact on others without both.

If you have any questions, for rachel or want to learn more about her projects/how to get involved, you can reach her at rachel.h@gmx.com

NOW RECRUITING IL CAMPUS COMPACT AMERICORPS*VISTA MEMBERS!

Illinois Campus Compact is Hiring for 2013-2014!! Click below for more information on how to apply. Interested in opportunities outside of Illinois? Both the The Michigan Nonprofit Association (MNA) Civic Engagement AmeriCorps*VISTA program and Wisconsin Campus Compact have also opened VISTA recruiting for the 2013-14 season!

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2013 Newman Civic Fellows Announced

Illinois Campus Compact would like to congratulate Matthew Schneider and Jessica Tieman on being named 2013 Newman Civic Fellows!

Mathhew Schneider is a senior at Illinois College where he is a resident assistant, student ambassador, Peer Educator, president of the Sociology Club and member of Illinois College baseball team. During his time at Illinois College, Schneider has made the full leap from basic volunteerism to true civic engagement; from leading an anger management course for developmentally disabled adults at the Jacksonville Developmental Center, to organizing the annual Senior Day event for the Prairie Council on Aging, to recruiting and leading activities for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jacksonville, Schneider has proven his passion for improving education and development.

Jessica Tieman is senior at McKendree University where she is on track to graduate a double major in English and History. In addition to being a member of the university honors program, Tieman is also involved in a wealth of civic and service action clubs including the Community Service Scholars, Community Action Team, Student Government Association, McKendree Young Feminists and Sigma Tau Delta National English Honors Society, all of which she serves in an executive capacity or has remained active in for all four years.Tieman also co-coordinates the service program at the McKendree Family Living Center, a transitional housing shelter in East St. Louis for homeless women and children.

Nominated by their college and university presidents, these students are making the most of their college experiences to better understand the root causes of social issues and the generation of effective mechanisms for creating lasting change. Schnieder and Tieman represent two of the 181 students that were selected nationally to receive this award.

“This is a great accomplishment for Matthew,” said Illinois College President Axel Steuer. “He embodies the sort of personal growth, commitment to one’s community, idealism and lifelong dedication to lead by serving others that the founders of Campus Compact hoped to encourage among our nation’s college students.”

“Jessica has successfully blended academics and co-curricular activities into a well-rounded educational experience,” said Dr. James Dennis, McKendree University president.

The Newman Civic Fellow Awards are named in memory of Frank Newman, a founder of Campus Compact, who dedicated his life to creating systemic change through education reform. At the core of Newman’s leadership was a belief in the power of individuals to make a difference and in the power of connection with others. 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. For a full list of the 2013 Newman Civic Fellows, please go to: www.compact.org.

University of St. Francis Hosting First Generation College Student Conference

ILCC member campus University of St. Francis is hosting an exciting and innovative conference that seeks to empower first generation college students, educators and those interested in assisting FGCS's in procuring what they need to succeed in post-secondary education environments.

The conference is taking place at the University of St. Francis Campus, and is scheduled to run from 8:30am-3:00pm.

To register/view more details, please click HERE

This conference will feature sessions on Financial Literacy, Introduction to Leadership, Managing Parental Expectations and more. The keynote speaker is Jackie Reed, founder of Westside Health Authority

Breakfast and lunch are also included with this conference, ensuring plenty of networking opportunities.

For questions please contact Yemisi Oni at 815-768-8343 or yoni@stfrancis.edu