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New York Campus Compact Weekly

April 2, 2012

In This Issue:
1- Spotlight on Members- Alfred State College th 2- 5 Annual Institute on Global ServiceLearning 3- Campus Election Project 3- Ernest A. Lynton Award 4- Social Work Advocacy Conference

Spotlight on MembersAlfred State College

Submitted by: Jonathan Hilsher, Director of Civic Engagement, Alfred State College
Project-based learning is a cornerstone of the Alfred State culture. When students tackle real-world problems, they learn how to think, not what to think. They can also engage in meaningful civic engagement developing solutions to ongoing community challenges. A recent example took place in Apalachin, NY from March 11-16. Mark Payne, assistant professor, Heavy Equipment Operations, led a group of eight students during their spring break to engage in stream remediation. The team utilized heavy equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, wheel loaders, and an articulated truck to redirect the Apalachin Creek stream bed and create a berm that will better control any future flooding. The group invested long hours each day to ensure the work would be completed by the end of the week. Thankfully, all benefited by having Culinary Arts instructor, Brian Decker, prepare excellent meals on site to keep up the energy level and enthusiasm! This trip was the fourth relief team Professor Payne has organized with the Heavy Equipment Club to assist this region of New York after the historic flooding from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. The first team served in the Schoharie area to clear debris.

Upcoming Events:
May 31- June 1, 2012: The Fifth Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning, hosted by Cornell University June 14-15, 2012: 2012 New York Campus Compact and St. Johns University Faculty Institute October 11-12, 2012: The Second Annual Eastern Region Campus Compact Conference: Promoting Clear Pathways to Civic Engagement, hosted by Dartmouth College

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The second team worked with the Owego -Apalachin school district to rehabilitate a drainage system to mitigate future flooding. The third team began the work on the Apalachin Creek as well as rehabilitated a local cemetery at the request of Senator Tom Libous office. This fourth team sought to move beyond cleanup to provide a solution at Apalachin Creek that would mitigate and redirect future floods from having such a devastating impact in the future. This project was made possible not only through the initiative, expertise, and service of this team, but also through the collaboration and support of corporate, non-profit, and local/state government agency partners. Right down the road, Binghamton University again was a valuable partner by providing housing and parking options to the group throughout the week. Monroe Tractor donated the trucking of a bulldozer, excavator, wheel loader and an articulated dump truck to this project. And, LeChase Construction LLC working with ZMK Construction donated another bulldozer to the cause. Exaktime also donated time tracking software to allow the students to log and manage their time on the project. Finally, the team worked very closely with Tioga Soil County and Water and the Upper Susquehanna River Coalition to identify the need for stream remediation and develop a clear plan to fix this ongoing community challenge. Students have taken on leadership roles gaining valuable experience in logistical organization, project planning, collaboration, and real world experience on heavy equipment. Local residents have expressed their appreciation that their property and lives are now safer through the efforts of this team. And, all stakeholders appreciate the value of coming together to develop solutions to local challenges. The expectation is that future efforts will continue to leverage these strong partnerships to create solutions in communities that continue to recover from the flood damage. You can see a video that includes interviews and footage by visiting the following feature by Twin Tiers CW 2 or Fox 40 WICZ.

Fifth Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning

May 31- June 1, 2012 ILR Conference Center Cornell University
COME FOR THE INSTITUTE, STAY FOR THE FESTIVAL!
The Fifth Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning, co-sponsored by Cornell University (Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research & The Public Service Center) and New York Campus Compact, will be held on Cornells campus in Ithaca, New York, May 31 June 1, 2012. Do you currently teach a global/international service-learning course? Are you considering developing one? Do you want to transform an international course into one that is community-connected? Then this is the institute for you. This intensive institute will provide faculty and professional teaching staff with the reflective space and time to discuss and develop learning outcomes, assessment strategies, tools for reflection, the importance of reciprocal community partnerships, and strategies for creating institutional buy-in. The 2012 GSLI will be co-facilitated by Dr. Richard Kiely, Director, Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research, Cornell University, and Dr. Eric Hartman, former Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning. FEES: $150 NYCC Member $200 Nonmember Registration includes lunch and reception Thursday, breakfast and lunch on Friday, and free admission to the Ithaca Festival, an annual event that is the premier music and arts festival of its kind in the region. For more information, go to http://www.ithacafestival.org/. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1085164

Space is limited, so be sure to register now.

Campus Election Engagement Project

As the next generation of leaders and citizens, young people are a powerful force in todays political scene. Democracy is a two-way street: todays youth has the responsibility to educate themselves and participate in our democracy; and also has the right to be heard and respected by elected officials and candidates. Campus Compact is supporting an initiative to encourage higher education institutions to help educate and empower students and to make the process of staying engaged easier throughout the sometimes confusing election season. Post-Election Information from Indiana Campus Compact Outcomes from Ohio Campus Compacts Vote Initiative 10 Things Campuses Can Do This Spring to Engage Their Students The Campus Election Engagement Project includes resources for: Students How to register to vote, how to get an absentee ballot while away at school or while abroad, a Spanish/English glossary of election terms, ideas for mobilizing others on campus, and resources for learning about candidates and the issues. Faculty and Staff Sample programs that incorporate election activities and service-learning into courses, a web event taking place in January that allows students to interact with presidential candidates, studies and statistics about young people and civic engagement. Community Service and Service-Learning Staff Dozens of ways to organize voting activities and awareness events on campus, examples of schools who have had success with these programs, resources to provide to students.

2012 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty
Sponsored by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), The annual Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty recognizes a faculty member who is pre-tenure at tenure-granting campuses or early career (i.e., within the first six years) at campuses with long-term contracts and who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement. The award will be presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) which will be held from October 1316, 2012, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. CUMU is a co-sponsor of the Award. Nominators will submit nominations via an online application. To submit an application, please see the Application Instructions: Here.

Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2012.

Call for Spotlights, News Articles, and Event Listings

Do you want to see your stories and events featured in our newsletter? Everyone involved in the work of civic engagement and community-based education has a story to tell, and New York Campus Compact is eager to help you tell yours. Every Friday, we feature the outstanding work of our member institutions in a Spotlight on Members and news articles in our newsletter. This newsletter is emailed to over 950 college and university presidents, service learning faculty, community service directors and civic engagement offices at our member campuses. The article should be about 1 page or less, describing a particular course, program, event, or project that you want to share with your colleagues. Please indicate if you would like your article featured on the front page as a Spotlight on Members or if we should include it in the body of our newsletter. You may e-mail your spotlight or news article entry to:[email protected].

Social Work Student Advocacy Research Conference 2012

Theme: Student Advocacy From Main Street to Wall Street

April 12, 2012 9:30am-4:30pm

Dominican College of Blauvelt
Purpose: Promoting student-involved forum for regional BSW and MSW students to develop commitment to advocacy research and contribute to social justice discourse, locally and globally. Social justice here encompasses matters relevant to the environment, economic or human condition. Examples include universal health care, equal wages for women and men, naturaldisaster recovery for families and communities, school funding, or chronic unemployment. Format: Oral and poster presentations: Advocacy research includes: all forms of systematic inquiry or method including experimental design, survey research, ethnographic interviewing, qualitative, observational, policy analysis, meta-analysis, news-content analysis. Oral presentation will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 for discussion. For more information, please visit: http://www.wix.com/paulduongtran/advocacyresearchconfer ence

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