One of our most popular events is coming home to Indiana this summer! The 2019 Pen to Paper Writing Retreat will take place Tuesday, July 16 – Thursday, July 18, 2019 at Waycross Camp & Conference Center in Morgantown, Indiana. The Retreat facilities are set in a rural semi-wooded area, offering participants the opportunity to unplug from the demands of the everyday and focus in on their engaged scholarship pursuits. Attendance is for this intensive Retreat is limited in order to foster personal connections between participants, journal editors, and Retreat facilitators, as well as to provide the ‘space’ for attendees to focus on their writing. Learn more about the Retreat here - and reserve your spot before they're all gone!

Campus, Community, & Student Connections: From the Inside Out The OCC Annual Meeting offers participants the opportunity to: 1. Network with others working to advance community and civic engagement; 2. Receive resources on best practices in community partnerships, faculty development, and student learning related to community and civic engagement; and 3. Share updates on critical state, regional, and national initiatives in higher education.

Campus Compact for the Great Plains is proud to partner with Jean Heriot of Hastings College and Sanaa Ahmed and Julie Dierberger of the University of Nebraska Omaha, who will be presenting a Service Learning and Community Engagement Workshop at Hastings College in Hastings, NE. Sessions will discuss retaining students through High Impact Practices and how engaging in critical reflection can transform service-learning experiences. Lunch will be provided.