Workshop modules-Peer-led Training for Interfaith Cooperation for Campus Staff and Paraprofessionals
Building Regular Interfaith Dialogue through Generous Engagement (BRIDGE) is a series of downloadable modules focused on training campus professionals on interfaith cooperation. These modules are filled with resources to activate an awareness around worldview engagement and interfaith cooperation. Each module is available to you and free for download. The content in these modules focuses on increasing one’s confidence to … Read more
Public Discourse Resources for Campuses
Brought to you by Campus Compact for Southern New England. Public Discourse is an ongoing public conversation that can take many forms, ranging from in-person discussions, to journalism, to online and off-line activism, to community projects, and beyond. The purpose of public discourse is usually to promote understanding of complex issues among people who disagree, … Read more
The International Undergraduate Journal for Service-learning, Leadership and Social Change
Read the Fall 2017 edition here.
A Fearless VISTA Leader Gives Back
As the VISTA Leader with OCC I was encouraged to dig deep into the history and mission of the AmeriCorps VISTA program and to engage with the issues that confront low-income students on campuses across the country. With that fire in my heart, I felt deeply connected to the work and to the VISTA members … Read more
Campus Compact Announces Fund for Positive Engagement Winners
Ohio Campus Compact congratulates our members Marietta College and The College of Wooster for receiving an award. 40 institutions to receive funding from Campus Compact to bridge divides on campuses and in communities.BOSTON, Mass. – September 11, 2017 – Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has … Read more
September Guest Blog: Nonprofit Leadership at Youngstown State University
Greetings from Youngstown State University! I consider this a great honor to serve as a guest blogger for Ohio Campus Compact (OCC), and share some of our great work in the Center for Nonprofit Leadership at YSU. An even greater honor was receiving the 2017 David Hoch Memorial Award for Excellence in Service awarded by … Read more
A New Generation of Philanthropists
Ohio Campus Compact’s Pay it Forward (PIF) initiative is developing a new generation of philanthropists through an innovative course-based service-learning program that engages Ohio college students in hands-on philanthropy, grant-making, and volunteer service while providing community nonprofits with much needed assistance during difficult economic times. Each PIF course receives real dollars to award nonprofit agencies. Students typically … Read more
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field’s most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best … Read more
The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field
This book, offered by “practitioner-scholars,” is an exploration and identification of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are central to supporting effective community engagement practices between higher education and communities. The discussion and review of these core competencies are framed within a broader context of the changing landscape of institutional community engagement and the emergence … Read more