Available CoPs

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Communities of Practice are open to active Campus Compact members and are a benefit of Campus Compact membership. If you have a question about your member status, please contact Natalie at nfurlett@compact.org.

Application deadline: September 18

Collaboration for Better Practice: Creating Synergy Across all Sectors to Better Impact the Field

This CoP will focus on building collaborative relationships with industry, government and academia to achieve "glocal" sustainable development goals.

Co-facilitator: Yetunde Odugbesan 

Strategies to Grow the Movement of Teaching Social Action

Social action is a transformative experiential learning model where students in a college course launch their own campaign or join a community organization's campaign. The students' social action campaigns seek to change a rule, regulation, norm, policy, or practice of an institution, on campus or in the community. This social action model requires teachers to devote about one-half of the time to the social action campaign-related assignments and class time (e.g., to explore issue development, building power, tactics, and campaign implementation). The Teaching Social Action Initiative hosts Winter and Summer on-line Institutes, as well as an in-person Fall Institute at the U. of Michigan; these Institutes are designed to give instructors the tools and knowledge to incorporate student-led social action campaigns by modifying a current course or developing a new one. At this CoP, we will brainstorm ways so that on every college campus every semester, there is a course where students can learn about social action by doing it, which is the mission of the Teaching Social Action Initiative

Co-Facilitators: Bobby Hackett and Scott Myers-Lipton

Student Success and Civic Engagement

Participate in our conversations on how to best support and navigate the higher education/community relationships that our students engage throughout their education using Federal Work-Study, Fellowship funds, internal/external grants to support their experiential learning, civic/community engagement. This CoP is to share and deliberate solutions to our everyday practices and discuss obstacles/barriers that our students, faculty and community partners endure.

Co-facilitator: Daniel Fidalgo Tomé 

We're All In This Together: Building a Network of Mutualism among Young Community-Engaged Professionals

As we "exit" the pandemic and watch student loans rapidly thaw out, young professionals become increasingly aware that passion doesn't always pay the rent. What challenges do young community engagement professionals face regarding compensation and labor issues? Jobs in community engagement in higher education are often passion projects that don't pay out for years in the field as young professionals opt out of jobs that may pay double or triple the salary to do work they find fulfilling. Because of the reputation of community engagement centers as sites of social justice, there is tension for young professionals who assist students in making a difference in communities while they stretch to make ends meet off-campus. While there is a seeming contradiction to inviting conversations on social justice to sites celebrated for social justice work, it would enhance the community engagement practice to enter into discussions about labor, advocacy, compensation, and values when it comes to young professionals. 

Co-facilitators: Cory Schutter

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Application details:

  • There is no fee to participate.
  • Participants commit to attend all scheduled virtual meetings for the CoP.
  • Each CoP will meet regularly for four-six sessions. The specific meeting dates and times for each CoP can be found in the session description.
  • Meetings will take place online via Zoom using a webcam. Participants will need access to high speed internet and a webcam and be able to use Zoom.
  • CoP participants will be selected with the intention of creating a diverse learning community that includes multiple perspectives and experiences, institutions, roles, and approaches to community engagement.
  • All CoPs embrace and embody the following equity-based principles that:
    • (a) everyone has knowledge to share,
    • (b) everyone has learning to do, and
    • (c) participants bring many identities and ways of knowing and that such diverse expressions should be encouraged and incorporated into CoP activities.

Communities of Practice are open to active Campus Compact members and are a benefit of Campus Compact membership. If you have a question about your member status, please contact Natalie at nfurlett@compact.org.

Application deadline: September 18

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