New England Campus Compact Spring 2009 Regional Conference Reexamining the Engaged Campus: Community, Reciprocity, & Social Justice

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Call for proposals - Deadline Extended

Who: This conference is designed for beginning through advanced practitioners, including community service and community service-learning staff, faculty members, campus administrators and other stakeholders.

What:

Topics include: What intersections are there between civic engagement and social justice? How do they affect our work? How do we help students to work - and learn - effectively in communities and across boundaries? How do our programs and campuses engage in just, reciprocal relationships? What are the emerging issues, and exciting models in the field? How do our programs welcome and engage individuals of all backgrounds and identities? What are the outcomes we're seeking - for our students, communities, and institutions - and how do we achieve them? How can we apply our work at the conference to our campuses?

Post-Conference Institutes Include: From Action to Impact: The Community College in Community Student Understanding & Use of Power in Service-Learning Classrooms & Beyond Moving a Campus from Volunteer Service to Engaged Citizenship Preparing Students for Service-Learning in a Social Justice Framework Technology and Civic Engagement Building Campus-Community Collaborative Social Justice and Art Service Learning Course Development Institutional Change for Inclusive Excellence Using Business Models to Enhance Service Organization Processes

Where: The Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center, UMass at Amherst

When: March 30th - Conference; March 31st - Post-Conference Institutes

Why: Connect with colleagues and leaders in civic engagement from across the region in discussions, presentations, workshops and intensive institutes.