Join us where the road to the White House begins! Coinciding with NH's First in the Nation Primary, students from across the country are invited to experience the primary process up close and personal. The convention will feature visits from presidential candidates and campaign staff, members of the media, and political experts, along with a full agenda of educational sessions, an exhibit hall, conventioneering, ranked voting ballot, and social events. Hosted by the New England College Center for Civic Engagement and sponsored by Campus Compact.

Have questions about nominating a student for Campus Compact's Newman Civic Fellowship? Join us for a virtual Q&A to learn the ins and outs of the program.

In the face of ever-increasing polarization and divisiveness, there is a great need and desire for an effective, accessible, and inclusive tool for diverse people to engage across difference in pursuit of common ground for action on major social issues. A Deliberative Dialogue Forum brings people together in a small gathering to deliberate about challenging public issues. The process is guided by a neutral moderator and a discussion guide that presents multiple approaches to addressing the problem. Deliberative Dialogue provides an effective framework for mutual understanding and a common purpose that allows people to discuss difficult issues, weigh options, and ultimately take action. This workshop will provide an overview of the National Issues Forum deliberative dialogue model and allow participants to engage in a brief practice Forum. Since 2013, NC Campus Compact as trained over 550 faculty, staff, students, and community members from 71 colleges and universities, representing 12 states, to moderate deliberative dialogues.Campus Compact’s National Webinar series returns for...

As community engagement leaders, we navigate institutional power, internalized conditioning and patterns of entitlement through seen and unseen hierarchal systems. During this interactive webinar, you will learn a framework to give language and understanding for how fear and power imbalances impact our capacity to communicate and connect with people across power and dominance. Instead of retreating and protecting, we will explore what it means to remain “value-based” and vulnerable as you build and deepen authentic relationships across these barriers as the foundation for systemic and transformative justice. You will be asked to reflect on times you have braved the wilderness advocating for change to systems that perpetuate fear and power imbalances. And the times when you haven’t. What have you learned from those experiences? How can those experiences help each of us as leaders to advance change within the context of our community engagement work centered on equity and inclusion? Please note, this workshop will invite participants to share their...

This session will feature resources and tools on registering student voters, training students on registering others, best practices, and leveraging National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) to increase participation. Featuring resources from TurboVote, Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, and NVRD.Campus Compact is pleased to present a series of virtual resource exchanges on college student political participation. This six-part series is presented as a program of Campus Compact’s Education for Democracy initiative, preparing students for active and effective participation in public life. Each virtual resource exchange will feature a panel of experienced practitioners who will share best practices and resources and moderate an open exchange with participants.  See the full series at compact.org/education-for-democracy/virtual-resource-exchange.