Mark your brackets, er, we mean your conference calendars: March is gearing up to be big month for cool college community service conferences! On March 9 and 10, Otterbein University will host Women and the New American Dream as part of the innovative Opportunity Nation/Be the Change initiative. This summit will bring together service professionals, scholars, students, higher education staff, and community leaders determined to help women and girls develop new pathways to success. Be a part of the conversation: complete the intent to participate or session submission form before February 9. Space is limited! Learn more. Conflict Resolution Education Conference features Service-Learning training workshop On March 14th, the International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education will kick-off with pre-conference training on Service-Learning in Cleveland. Ohio Campus Compact staff will facilitate this one-day workshop. The main conference, Developing Global Citizens in Schools, Higher Education, and the Community will take place March 15-16 followed by a Community College Seminar on Developing Peace and Conflict Studies Programs. Don’t miss these back-to-back big...Read More
Our roundup of new ideas, research & innovations related to campus community service Martha Stewart may have “Good Things,” but Ohio Campus Compact has “Great Things” –our monthly roundup of great service-themed news and information from our member campuses, on the web and around the world. Great honor: Kirsten Fox, Ohio Campus Compact’s Senior Program Director for Academic Initiatives has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the year from NASPA, the nation’s leading association for Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Great MLK activities: Ohio Campus Compact VISTA members recently organized service activities on campuses across the state which honored the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Great new guide: Campus Vote Project is a new initiative from the Fair Elections Legal Network which features an excellent toolkit for increasing student voter access. Great new book: Erica Phillips, Ohio Campus Compact VISTA at Otterbein College recently reviewed Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard, a book that cuts to the heart of topics related to homelessness, economic opportunity, work, and the importance of attitude. Great press: Owens Community College and Wright State University were recently featured in a Toledo Blade article on campus-based food pantriesfor students in...
Kirsten Fox, Ohio Campus Compact’s Senior Program Director for Academic Initiatives has been awarded the prestigious 2012 Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the year from NASPA, the nation’s leading association for Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Dr. Fox will receive the award and present her dissertation, Figuring it Out: A Grounded Theory of College to Post- College Transition, at the 2012 NASPA Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on March 13, 2012. Dr. Fox is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. Read more Way to go...
By Tara Purvis, Ohio Campus Compact VISTA at Wright State University Since Wright State was not in session during the month of December, I decided to focus on meeting some of the most basic needs of the students at Westwood PreK-8. Many of the students at Westwood come from low income families that struggle to meet all of the needs of their children. I was able to partner with some amazing community partners in order to provide resources to the students. Happy recipients of new shoes at Westwood Elementary One of these groups was Shoes 4 the Shoeless, a nonprofit in Dayton that provides properly fitting shoes to children in desperate need. They arrive at the school with the shoes for the children in hand. They then size, fit and send home new shoes with the children all in one day. In December they came to Westwood PreK-8 to size and donate shoes to over 120 children. One of the most powerful stories that came out of this event was a girl at Westwood being sized for new shoes. When the girl was being sized it became apparent that the child was currently wearing shoes that were 5 sizes too...
By Jocelyn Taylor, Ohio Campus Compact VISTA at Denison University In recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, President Obama called for all Americans to take part in some kind of service work on this day, in honor of the man who did so much to forward the civil rights movement in our country. As a part of this celebration, several Ohio Campus Compact VISTAs and their campuses took part in this service challenge. Here are just a few of the projects OCC VISTAs are working on throughout Ohio! At Wright State University, VISTAs Rebecca Fensler and Tara Purvis were awarded a project grant to fund their MLK service programs. Working together with Sinclair Community College and the University of Dayton, they used the grant to host a financial literacy fair and collected donated canned goods to the campus-based food bank, which provides meals for low income students. Siobhan Ryan coordinated over 150 college volunteers at Heidelberg University to work on various service projects throughout their community. “We’re working with numerous local non-profits to better the area of Tiffin, Ohio; local organizations involved include nursing homes, churches, developmental agencies, and more,” said Ryan. “On this day of service, students have...
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