By Bobbie Laur, Campus Compact President One of the first meetings I had after starting as Compact’s new President was with Ira Harkavy, Founding Director of the Netter Center for Community Partners at the University of Pennsylvania. Ira is a force in our field and has been an instrumental advisor and strategic partner to countless campuses and leaders seeking to deepen civic and community engagement. All of his work comes back to advancing the democratic mission of higher education. During this meeting, Ira reinforced how valuable and necessary Campus Compact is—now more than ever as our campuses and communities recover, respond, and heal from loss, deep inequities, and division. He even contributed his perspective in our updated membership brochure.  Among his many hats, Ira leads the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy. From its inception, the Consortium’s steering committee has included Campus Compact, along with many of our U.S. association partners. Today the Consortium's steering committee works...

The field of community-engaged scholarship is new in its naming and old in its application. As with all fields, community-engaged scholarship depends on the diversity of its practitioners to move the field forward. Now, more than ever, we as a field strive to move forward with equity at the center of all we do by working with practitioner-scholars to develop the field through uplifting voices from diverse perspectives. To move these goals forward, Campus Compact is pleased to bring together 15 faculty and practitioner-scholars who were selected from an outstanding field of applicants to form the newest cohort of the Engaged Scholars Initiative. Elizabeth Brandt | The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation Bio Liz serves as the Community Engagement Director at the Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation (Princeton, NJ), a national non-profit organization, and its network of 70+ colleges and universities across the United States who are working to advance campus-community engagement in higher education. In this role, she...

With the midterm election around the corner, Campus Compact knows there are a lot of organizations out there in the Student Voting space. Who are the best partners for your campus? Who is working with faculty, staff, and students? How is a campus supposed to know who they should turn to for all their campus election engagement needs? The Students Learn Students Vote Coalition has all the answers! Check out this helpful infographic to learn more about some of the nonpartisan student democratic engagement organizations that may be helpful on your campus. Campus Compact is proud to be part of the SLSV Coalition and to work with dozens of great organizations across the country providing resources for campus election engagement. In addition to all the great resources available through SLSV, here are some great Campus Compact resources: On June 9th, we held a webinar with ALL IN Democracy Challenge on Community College Voter Registration. Find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4qL5KbWN4. The…