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Chronicle The Newsletter of Florida Campus Compact
JANUARY 2017 EDITION
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2017 Florida Campus Compact
Institutes
By popular request, we developed our spring calendar of events to better accommodate your needs including programing on a variety of topics to be explored during the spring 2017 semester. February 9 & 10, 2017: Broadening and Deepening Engagement Bring your campus team and join Dr. Laurie Worrall, Executive Director of New York Campus Compact at Cornell University, for two days of content and group work focused on opportunities for expanding engagement efforts on your campus. This is a great opportunity for campuses in the early stages of planning for the 2020 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. >>>continued on page 2
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2017 FL|CC SPRING INSTITUTES (CONT’D FROM PAGE 1) February 17, 2017: Engagement, Completion, and Attainment Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale (In collaboration with the South Florida Regional Meeting) Held in collaboration with the South Florida Regional Meeting, this Institute will focus on the role of experiential learning on completion and attainment agendas. Keynote speaker Nicole Washington of the Lumina Foundation will provide insight on Florida’s goals for completion and attainment. February 24, 2017: Developing and Sustaining Partnerships FSU Panama City Campus, Panama City (In collaboration with the Florida Panhandle Regional Meeting) Join us for a dialogue focused on developing mutually beneficial partnerships in the local community. This institute will feature several speakers – including Dr. Joi Phillips, an Assistant Director at the FSU Center for Leadership & Social Change who coordinates a K-12 youth mentoring program, and Kim Harris, the Florida Director for Impact America – who will present tensions, challenges, and best practices for partnerships. Following their content, the group will engage in dialogue, sharing from their experiences and teasing out essential elements of robust partnerships. March 10, 2017: Galvanizing Collective Impact University of North Florida, Jacksonville (In collaboration with the Northeast Florida Regional Meeting) Since the first article about collective impact appeared in 2011, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and governments have adopted projects rooted in the tenants of collective impact in order to address complex social problems. In Florida, a group of campuses has been exploring a collective impact project to address college readiness and completion. This gathering will provide an opportunity to learn about the tenants of collective impact as well as a collective impact project in Florida. Please register to secure a spot at any or all of these unique gatherings taking place on multiple campuses across the state. Additional details and links to register for events are on our website at http://www.floridacompact.org/ flcc-institute/.
GULF SOUTH SUMMIT 2017 Partner Up! Fostering Just and Inclusive Communities Together March 22-24, 2017 The 2017 Gulf South Summit Conference will be held in Greensboro, North Carolina, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Registration for the conference, award nominations, and the proposal submissions are now live. Visit their website for more information and to register: http://www.gulfsouthsummit.org/
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FL|CC REGIONAL MEETINGS Florida Campus Compact has five regional collaborative groups that meet regularly throughout the year in addition to the FL|CC Annual Conference. There are never registration fees for these gatherings! Online registration is available approximately one month prior to each meeting. Upcoming Florida Campus Compact Regional Meetings: Central Florida More Information Coming Soon! Florida Panhandle FSU Panama City Campus, Bland Conference Center Friday, February 24, 2017 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Central Time) Held in collaboration with the FL|CC Spring Institutes. Please see page 2 for Institute descriptions. Northeast Florida University of North Florida University Center Conference Room Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Held in collaboration with the FL|CC Spring Institutes. Please see page 2 for Institute descriptions. South Florida Broward College (Downtown Campus) Community Room Friday, February 17, 2017 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Held in collaboration with the FL|CC Spring Institutes. Please see page 2 for Institute descriptions. Southwest Florida University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee Selby Auditorium Friday, March 31, 2017 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
PRESIDENT’S HIGHER EDUCATION COMMUNITY SERVICE HONOR ROLL Congratulations to the following Florida Campus Compact member institutions, named to the 2015 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll! General Category Barry University Rollins College Stetson University University of North Florida Economic Opportunity Category Florida International University Education Category Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc. Stetson University Interfaith Category Stetson University
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FL|CC MEMBER CAMPUSES THROUGHOUT Here are just a few examples of the great events held by institutions in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King day, Adventist University (ADU) held its 2nd Annual Actions 4 Others Day at Florida Hospital for Children. FL|CC AmeriCorps VISTA members Keaira Kittrell and Melina Pineyro helped organize the event. Thirty volunteers gathered on January 16th, along with the University’s choir, to help make the event a success. Pizzas were served on each floor of the hospital to patients, families, and staff. Patients received Giggle Bags and their parents were given care bags. Volunteers led crafts and played games with the patients and the choir sang Disney tunes. The event was the fourteenth in a series of twenty-five service events. ADU is celebrating its 25th Anniversary by holding twentyfive service events and serving 25,000 hours.
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
At the University of Florida, The David & Wanda Brown Center for Leadership & Service hosted an MLK Day of Service. Organized by FL|CC AmeriCorps VISTA member, Laura Guzman, the event was a great success, with over 270 volunteers participating. The volunteers engaged in a variety of service projects throughout the Gainesville area, ranging from prepping and serving meals to removing invasive plants from a local park.
Students worked at several sites throughout Gainesville in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Ringling College students participated in the annual MLK Day of Service at Orange Blossom Community Garden. Students assisted with cleaning up various plots at the garden, and then assisted with the set up for the community pot luck lunch. Approximately 40 community members and students were present to break bread, serve the community, and engage in conversation.
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THE STATE CELEBRATE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY OF SERVICE
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
FIU marked the MLK Day of Service with about 344 volunteers working at five different sites throughout the greater Miami area. FL|CC AmeriCorps VISTA member, Oriana Peñaranda, led a group of about 40 students at one of the sites. This group completed their service at Booker T. Washington High School by painting the hallways of the school and doing maintenance on the school’s garden.
PBAU CELEBRATES KING’S LEGACY WITH DAY OF SERVICE from The Palm Beach Post by Jennifer Sorentrue Palm Beach Post A group of Palm Beach Atlantic University students on Monday honored the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by picking 6,300 pounds of produce to feed Palm Beach County’s neediest residents. With the hum of cars speeding along Lantana Road filling the morning air, roughly 50 students worked in Mecca Farms’ tomato field just east of Florida’s Turnpike, gleaning imperfect Roma tomatoes from plants that had already been harvested. In all, the group filled 180 produce boxes, which were sent to the Palm Beach County Food Bank to be distributed to families. “So much of this gets wasted,” said Holly Wetzel, a PBAU freshman, who together with another student, picked six boxes of tomatoes Monday morning. “This is valuable food that people don’t have access to. Now we are giving them access.” The gleaning event was one of four community service projects the university held across the county as part of a day of service in honor of King. The university said 216 of its students, staff, faculty, and family members participated in the projects. In West Palm Beach, university volunteers gathered in Dreher Park to help clear walking trails and trim landscaping. Another group of volunteers helped host a neighborhood block party in partnership with Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church. The party was held near West Palm Beach’s Rosemary Village neighborhood. Emily Zarzycki, the camp director for CROS Ministries, which worked with the university to organize Monday’s gleaning event at Mecca Farms, said that tomatoes that the students picked would have been wasted if not for their work. Most of the tomatoes were misshapen, had minor blemishes, or just weren’t ripe enough when the field was harvested. “They weren’t considered Grade A to go to market,” Zarzycki said. Another group of students from The Benjamin School in northern Palm Beach County worked with the ministries on Monday to glean green peppers from a field along State Road 7, Zarzycki said. That group filled 200 cases of produce. “All of that would have gone to being fertilizer,” Zarzycki said.
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THE THOMAS EHRLICH CIVICALLY ENGAGED FACULTY AWARD The nomination cycle for the 2017 Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award will open in early April 2017. The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award recognizes one senior faculty member (post-tenure or middle-to-late career at institutions without tenure) each year. Honorees (who must be affiliated with a Campus Compact member institution) are recognized for exemplary engaged scholarship, including leadership in advancing students’ civic learning, conducting community-based research, fostering reciprocal community partnerships, building institutional commitments to service-learning and civic engagement, and other means of enhancing higher education’s contributions to the public good. The award — previously known as the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning — is named in honor of Thomas Ehrlich, former chair of the Campus Compact board of directors and president emeritus of Indiana University. The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award is made possible through the generous support of the KPMG Foundation. Please visit http://compact.org/initiatives/awards-programs/the-thomas-ehrlich-civically-engaged-facultyaward/ for more information.
NEWMAN CIVIC FELLOWS AWARD NOMINATION PERIOD NOW OPEN The nomination period for Campus Compact’s prestigious Newman Civic Fellows Award, which recognizes community-involved student leaders, is now open! The Newman Civic Fellows Award is named in honor of late Frank Newman, one of Campus Compact’s founders and a tireless advocate for the civic engagement of higher education. In the spirit of Dr. Newman’s leadership, undergraduate or graduate students who are proven leaders with both the motivation and ability to make substantial contributions toward public problem solving who have also taken action in pursuit of long-term positive social change may be nominated for the award. To be eligible for the award, students must be nominated by their institution’s president or chancellor. Each president and chancellor can nominate one student to become a Newman Civic Fellow who will then represent that institution in a national group of student leaders. Students will receive an award certificate and an invitation to join the Newman Civic Fellows online network. They will also be featured prominently on the Campus Compact national website and invited to participate in state-specific activities as appropriate. Last year, 19 students representing Florida colleges and universities were honored as Newman Civic Fellows. The online nomination process is simple, and the application can be found here. Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 PM EST on March 3, 2017. Questions about the nomination process can be directed to Michaela Grenier at mgrenier@compact.org. Campus Compact is grateful to the KPMG Foundation and Newman’s Own Foundation for their support of the 2017 Newman Civic Fellows awards.
APPLY NOW! SUMMER INTENSIVE ON COMMUNITY-ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP Applications are being accepted for Summer Intensive on Community Engaged Scholarship hosted by Michigan State University, June 5-9, 2017. MSU’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement welcomes faculty, academic staff, and advanced graduate students to five days of workshops, dialogue, and field trips focused on community engaged research and community engaged teaching and learning, including service-learning and community-based research in courses. For more information, visit https://engage.msu.edu/learn/learning/summer-intensive-on-communityengaged-scholarship.
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Application deadline: April 7, 2017 Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.