AmeriCorps Week 2018
It’s AmeriCorps Week! In appreciation of Americorps VISTA members, we would like to highlight a few of our many success stories from around the state of Florida. Melina Pineyro Melina Pineyro has served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member at Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU) for nearly two years and has renewed for a third…
2020 Carnegie Classification Cycle Launches at Brown University’s Swearer Center
On Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching & The Howard R. Swearer Center at Brown University released the newly revised application frameworks for the 2020 Elective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. Using these frameworks, colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement are invited to begin the application…
2017 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award
The nomination period for the 2017 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award is now open! The award recognizes excellence in engaged teaching and scholarship The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (posttenure or middle-to-late career if not in a tenure line) each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus…
Congratulations, 2017 Newman Civic Fellows!
Congratulations to the 2017 Newman Civic Fellows! Campus Compact has announced the 273 students who will make up the 2017 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows. The Newman Civic Fellowship is a one-year fellowship for community-committed college students from Campus Compact member institutions. The fellowship honors the late Frank Newman, one of Campus Compact’s founders and a…
FL|CC Institute: Galvanizing Collective Impact
On Friday, March 10, FL|CC held its final spring 2017 institute at University of North Florida. At this institute, Madeline Yates, Executive Director of the Maryland-DC Campus Compact, and Emily Knowles-Kellett, P-20 CONNECTS Partnerships Coordinator, talked about the challenges and successes of a multi-year collective impact initiative. Collective impact projectFL|CCs are collaborative, inter-organizational efforts to effect change. P-20 CONNECTS…