This webinar is an opportunity for Interfaith Youth Corps (IFYC) and Campus Compact to explore the intersection of faith and service as it relates to student motivation to engage in civic engagement.
Widely known through the work of the Harlem Children’s Zone and the federal government’s Promise and Choice Neighborhood programs, geographically specific community engagement initiatives have the potential to positively address the challenges of inequity and injustice within our communities. This webinar will include a presentation of a recent national study and the facilitators’ recent book on place-based community engagement in higher education, followed by an exploration of several of the most salient topics arising from this promising new strategy.
This webinar is for campuses that are in the process of putting together their application - for first-time and re-classification applicants - for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. The focus of the webinar will be discussion of strategies for coherently conveying evidence in a way that makes your best case for institutionalization. Advice and insights will be provided from campus-based experiences with putting together an application, and ample time will be provided for any questions participants have as they finalize their application. Anyone interested in the classification is welcome to attend, but this webinar is not oriented to a more foundational overview of the classification framework.
Building on the 2014 “What Went Wrong?” conference, this session offers a framework for analyzing and transcending the wrongness of structures and practices in community-academic research, education, and social action partnerships that limit effective democratic participation of and the distribution of power with those who experience marginalization.
Colleges and universities face the significant challenge to help students from all backgrounds enter and complete college in a timely manner. This webinar will highlight the potential that community engagement offers to increase college completion rates, using specific research studies that have contributed to the growing body of evidence that connects community engagement with student success for all students.
