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Special Thanks to Ohio Campus Compact
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 Dear OCC members & friends,
Welcome to the December 2009 issue of the Ohio Campus Compact Newsletter. This month we are spotlighting a report from the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, Washington, D.C.: The Aspen Institute, October 2009.
The Knight Commission's report attempts to examine the information needs of 21st Century American citizens and communities based on the premise that technology is changing attitudes toward information in basic, critically important ways, but that free flow of all sorts of information continues to be as critical as ever to the core of democracy. To examine these issues, the Commission's report attempts to address a deceptively simple charge:
1. Articulate the information needs of a community in a democracy,
2. Describe the state of things in the United States, and
3. Propose public policy directions that would help lead us from where we are today to where we ought to be.
In the report's conclusion, the Commission states: "Society can be lulled into feeling that the very availability of exciting new tools will bring the solution to all problems. Alternatively, as long-standing practices are upended, people may imagine a past somewhat rosier than reality and exaggerate the threat to enduring values and allegiances. This Commission has tried to resist both impulses. This report is intended to help America maintain its commitment to enduring information ideals, even as individuals and communities create information ecologies more relevant, participatory, and inclusive than ever. There need be no second-class citizens in the democratic communities of the digital age.
Whether America fulfills that vision will require individual and collective initiative at every level of society. The Knight Commission has attempted to provide through this report a set of durable principles and broad recommendations that can frame the pursuit of the informed communities America needs."
For more information or to purchase additional copies of the report, contact:
The Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute
Communications and Society Program Publications Office
One Dupont Circle, NW P.O. Box 222
Suite 700 109 Houghton Lab Lane
Washington, DC 20036 Queenstown, Maryland 21658
Phone: (202) 736-5818 Phone: (410) 820-5326
Fax: (202) 467-0790 Fax: (410) 827-9174
www.aspeninstitute.org/c&s
Sincerely,
Richard Kinsley
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Compact Updates:
National Campus Compact Survey
needs your inputThis survey seeks to capture data for the 2008-2009 academic year. Only one survey should be completed for each Campus Compact member higher education institution. The last day to submit information on behalf of your institution is Friday, December 11, 2009.
We are relying on your feedback to calculate student and faculty involvement in community service, service-learning and civic engagement activities; to understand institutional support/culture, community-campus partnerships, and assessment; and to gauge satisfaction with Campus Compact programs and services.
This survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete if you have prepared in advance to answer the questions. We encourage you to view and/or print a blank copy of the entire survey before starting it online. To complete the survey, click here
Thanks to Ashland, Capital, Case Western, Denison, Hiram, LCCC, Lourdes, Mercy, Miami, Mount Union, Notre Dame, Oberlin, OSU, Ohio Wesleyan, UC, UD, UF, Urbana, Walsh, Wilmington, Wittenberg, and Xavier for filling out the survey. Your help is much appreciated!
University of Dayton
A Savior of Our City
UD is singled out as the "most innovative of all engaged colleges and universities" nationally in a new survey of the nation's top 25 universities helping to save America's cities from blight.
To read more, click here
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Feature Article of the Month:
The Report of The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy
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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
www.knightfoundation.org
If you have any suggestions for our feature
of the month, please let us know!!
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January 8, 2010: Language in Action Symposium at Denison University
VISTA Regional Meetings
Jan 6: OSUN - Central & SE Regions
Jan 13: UF - NW RegionJan 20: LCCC - NE Region
Jan 27: UC Clermont - SW Region
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Campus Highlights
Wilmington College
Tyler Williams, VISTA at WC reported that the Grow food, Grow Hope Garden Initiative, a community gardens project will be receiving a $20,000 grant from Tom's of Maine. Congrats!
Ohio University
Pamela Pate, VISTA at OU organized and hosted a Campus Community Collaboration Steering committee consisting of students, faculty, staff, & community-based organization leaders. They discussed rural poverty, Appalachian culture & history, and campus and community collaborations. Twenty people attended and it was deemed a success.
Wittenberg University
Stephanie Rines, VISTA at Witt in partnership with the Circles Campaign of Clark County coordinated a Leave Out Lunch fundraiser and awareness event about poverty. WU students, faculty, and staff raised $464.30 to alleviate local poverty and nearly $1200 was raised county-wide. WU sororities also donated dinners to the weekly Circles meetings.
The City of Springfield has granted Rines permission to garden a 1.5 acre corner lot allowing her in partnership with Clark County Habitat for Humanity to develop a community garden as part of a neighborhood stablization and revitalization project.
Mount Union College
The MUC students, faculty, and staff worked together to Make a Difference by reactivating their Mount Union Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter and completed a Super Service Saturday event. Both were a huge success.
Ashland University
Make a Difference Day this year fell during the Family Weekend at AU, so the Center for Community Service put together a project for parents and their children to do together. They assembled 130 Caring Kits for the United Way.
Erica Phillips, OCC VISTA, participated in a poverty simulation where there were 34 participants and 15 volunteer staffers (including 8 local VISTAs). The poverty simulation was an interactive and role-playing activity designed to show participants the realities and ambiguities of living in poverty and to dispel the myths and stereotypes often associated with it.
University of Dayton
Through Dayton Youth Center Adventure Central, University of Dayton VISTA, Andy Badinghaus has implemented an after-school Nature Discovery Club. Eighteen youth enrolled in this program experience nature in their neighborhood through inquiry based learning once a week. Badinghaus has also created and distributed to UD faculty a list of service-learning opportunities at the Neigborhood School Centers. 45 UD students complerted 10hrs of s-l each helping with homework, assisting teachers, and helping with a variety of after-school programs. Keep up the good work Andy!
Shawnee State University
SSU VISTAs Kelly Hatas and Sarah Lowe partnered with the Sodexho Dinning Services at SSU for Cans Across America to collect over 700lbs of food for local food pantries. The food was distributed to the Kingdom Builders and Pleasant Baptist food pantries. Lowe and Hatas also planned a free salsa-making and canning demo using produce grown in "God's Garden", one of the local community garden efforts from this past summer.
Wright State University
WSU VISTA Gillian Wynn partnered with community organizations to recruit and coordinate 120 volunteers to clean-up and beautify an urban school and its neighborhood. Volunteers weeded, raked, mulched, and planted bulbs at homes of seven seniors on the block surrounding the school as well as the entire schoolyard.
Notre Dame College
NDC VISTA Jennifer Scott organized the donation of 9 trays of food, 3 bags of rolls, and plenty of gravy from NDC's Thanksgiving meal to a group of John Carroll University students that serves food to the homeless. JCU students participating in the Labre program focus on building relationships with homeless men and women. Scott also organized three students and one community volunteer to pick 580 pounds of apples to be donated to the Heights Emergency Food Center.
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Grant & Award Resources
Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
The NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement
Recovery Act Limited Competition:Building Sustainable Community-Linked Infrastructure to Enable Health Science Research (RC4), RFA-OD-09-010 has just been published in the NIH Guide.
Description:NIH has designated up to $30million in 2009-2010 to fund 30 or more grants, contingent upon the submission of a sufficient number of scientifically meritorious applications.
Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter Parnership Foundation
CASE Grant
Amount: $1,000
Description: Each month JRCPF offers a $1000 CASE grant through our ServiceBook Monthly award. Students wishing to be considered for this award can apply via www.ServiceBook.org. As with our other CASE awards, students must register, log in, then follow the links: Students>Submit Your Project. Within the application, students must be sure to select "ServiceBook Monthly" under the "CASE Competition" drop-down list. For more information: http://www.ServiceBook.org
Do Something Offers Grants for Community Action Projects
Application Deadline: Rolling
Amount: 52 $500 grants
Description: Do Something will award one $500 grant each week to help young people implement or expand a community action project, program, or organization. Applicants must be no older than 25 and a U.S. or Canadian citizen.
For more information and additional requirements, please visit:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016678/dosomething
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Call for Articles
A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
sponsored by North Carolina Campus Compact
Deadline for submissions: December 21, 2009
Submissions Guidelines : WWW.PARTNERSHIPSJOURNAL.ORG
Questions? TRACY.ESPY.FSMAIL@PFEIFFER.EDU
3rd International Conference on
Conflict Resolution Education (CRE)
March 26-27, 2010
Pre-Conference March 24-25, 2010
Cuyahoga Community College
Parma, Ohio
Conference details available at: www.creducation.org/cre/goto/3rd
Language in Action Symposium
Friday, January 8, 2010
9:00-4:30 Burton Morgan Ctr
Denison University
Register Now
MLK Day of Service
Monday, January 18, 2010
http://www.mlkday.gov/
IMPACT: National Student Conference on
Service, Advocacy & Social Action
March 19-21, 2010
The Clinton School of Public Service
Little Rock, Arkansas
More Information
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference
May 12-15,210
Portland, Oregon
Proposals due: Oct 16, 2009Download the Call for proposals at
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf10-cfp.html
Visit: www.ccph.info for details
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Employment Opportunites
DC Nonprofit Internships for Undergraduates
Summer Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service in Washington, DCEarly Deadline for Applications: Dec 4,2009
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