Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education
Edited By Elena Klaw, Andrea Tully, Elaine K. Ikeda This timely book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting […]
Compact 21 Midwest West: Resilience & Responsibility for Racial & Environmental Justice
California Campus Compact is committed to educating students for democracy and positive change. We commit to leading with generosity, integrity, empathy, kindness, and compassion. We commit to being a more clear and consistent voice for racial justice. As we approach the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, I’m reminded of one of my favorite quotes from him, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
Building a Healthy, Just and Democratic Society
LEAD California is committed to educating students for democracy and positive change. We commit to leading with generosity, integrity, empathy, kindness, and compassion. We commit to being a more clear and consistent voice for racial justice.
Resilient Community of Practice for Directors
We are a resilient community! We recognize that the past couple of years have presented new and different challenges. We have witnessed your commitment, creativity, courage and resiliency as we have dealt with the ever-changing landscape of our work. This virtual 8-month community of practice is designed to create an intentional space for up to 12 directors from service-learning or community engagement centers.
The Urgency and Relevance of Community Engagement
The disparate impacts of COVID-19,
as well as the effects of institutional racism that continue to profoundly impact our nation’s marginalized communities, have laid bare again, the staggering social and economic inequalities and injustices that continue to plague our country and the world.
CACC Calls and Resources for COVID-19
Campus Compact’s National Webinar series returns for 2019-2020 with more to support and inspire you. Topics touch on issues of relevance to faculty, staff, students and their partners in education and community building. Be sure to tune into each session for information, tools and resources to help you in your work. These webinars are free of charge but all participants must register in advance.
Honoring Don Kennedy, Co-Founder of Campus Compact and California Campus Compact
A reflection by Catherine Milton, founding director of Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service. Don Kennedy, former President of Stanford University and co-founder of Campus Compact and California Campus Compact, died on April 21, 2020 from COVID-19. Don Kennedy’s first commencement speech as President of Stanford University called upon graduates to devote some […]
CACC Fondly Remembers Dick Cone
Dick Cone – A personal reflection on his contributions to California Campus Compact Dr. Richard E. Cone (simply and fondly called “Dick” by his colleagues) passed away on April 3, 2020. He was a leader in the national dialogue on experiential education, civic engagement and service-learning since the 1970s. He provided a guiding spirit and […]