Go Higher Further Together: Roadtrip Nation

Get ready for an adventure! Roadtrip Nation is sending 3 students on a cross-country road trip! Apply here by April 3, 2017: http://roadtripnation.beating-the-odds-roadtrip-apply.sgizmo.com/s3/

When you take charge of your future, anything is possible. But it takes hard work and struggle, and no one can do it alone. Roadtrip Nation is sending three students who have beaten the odds by making it to college on a free four-week road trip across the U.S. As they go, they’ll meet groundbreakers and trailblazers who overcame their own struggles to succeed, and discover what’s possible when you set your sights high and go after your dreams no matter what.

You’ve worked hard and come far to get to college! Now get inspired for the adventures and challenges ahead! We’re taking a road trip across the U.S. to talk to people who have pushed past obstacles to reach their dreams, and we want you to come along! It’s free!

Apply by April 3, 2017

We’re Roadtrip Nation, and we send people on road trips to talk to individuals who’ve built lives around what they love. We film it all and turn it into a show to inspire people to go after their interests.

This time, fueled by the ACT Center for Equity in Learning and with the support of Michelle Obama’s Better Make Room campaign, we’re sending students who’ve beaten the odds to make it to college (or are on their way!) on a four-week road trip across the U.S. to talk to people who have overcome struggles to succeed. If you’ve overcome educational, societal, or financial hurdles, or faced down odds that might have kept you from getting to where you are today—we’re looking for you.

Essential Details

• The application is open to current and prospective students in community college, four-year colleges or universities, or industry training programs who are between the ages of 18-26.
• Applicants must be available to commit to travel from July 16 through August 10, 2017. If chosen, you’ll travel in a Roadtrip Nation RV to meet industry leaders and explore pathways within a variety of fields.
• Individuals who are chosen will help plan the trip, researching and booking interviews alongside Roadtrip Nation.
• This is for a documentary, so you’ll be filmed, and the footage may be shared on public television and other video platforms.
• All travel expenses, plus a daily stipend for food, are paid for by Roadtrip Nation.
• Questions? Check out our FAQ page.
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To apply, answer a few questions and submit by 4/3/2017 at 11:59 p.m. PST.

Assessment Pre-Conference Workshop @CLDE16

The 2016 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting organized by the American Democracy Project (ADP), The Democracy Commitment (TDC), and NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education have created a special pre-conference workshop sponsored by Educational Testing Services (ETS).

Join us on Wednesday, June 1st to engage in planning activities and hear from experts in the field as we help you in “Building Institutional Capacity for CLDE Assessment across Your Campus”.

This pre-conference institute, sponsored by ETS, is intended to help colleges and universities as they consider the constellation of civic or community engagement assessment, tracking and monitoring possibilities.  Participants will be facilitated through a process that allows you to create a strategic plan to assess, track, and/or monitor civic learning and democratic engagement activities.  This plan could help your institution to fulfill teaching and learning, accreditation, and/or Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement goals.  We encourage teams of people from your campus who represent multiple layers of community engagement.

Register Today as space limited >>

Facilitators: Anne Weiss & Kristin Norris, IUPUI

Organizers:  Kristin Norris, Director of Assessment, Office of Community Engagement and Anne Weiss, Director of Assessment, Indiana Campus Compact, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI); Javarro Russell, Senior Research and Assessment Advisor, Higher Education Division, ETS; and Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, ADP National Manager, AASCU

More details:

Wednesday, June 1 | 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. 
CLDE Assessment Institute with ETS: Building Institutional Capacity for CLDE Assessment on Your Campus (includes lunch)
Cost: $150/person with a discounted rate of $85/person if you register as part of a campus team of two or more.
The fee for this institute includes lunch on Thursday.

Campuses confront an array of challenges when it comes to telling their story of fulfilling their civic mission because they lack a systematic approach to assessing student outcomes related curricular, co-curricular, and project-based activities. We encourage participation from campus teams to spend the day engaging in conversations with experts who will work with you and your colleagues to build a shared understanding and vision for how you can gather evidence that allows for informed decision-making, improved programs, and strengthened campus-community relationships. This pre-conference institute, sponsored by ETS, is intended to help colleges and universities as they consider the constellation of civic engagement assessment possibilities and work toward more meaningful strategic planning around civic learning and democratic engagement to fulfill teaching and learning, accreditation and/or Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement goals. We encourage teams of people from your institution who represent the multiple layers and levels of community engagement, for example, a team made up of:

• Faculty teaching community-engaged learning courses
• Student affairs professionals planning one-time or ongoing community-engaged events or programs
• Administrators support these individuals to connect the work of community engagement to the mission, vision and strategic plan of your institution.

 

Call for Grant Proposals: NIFI’s Taylor L. Willingham Grant for Community Public Engagement Projects

Apply Now for a Taylor L. Willingham Grant

Could you use some funding to plan or kickstart a public engagement project in your community?

Applications for small grants will be accepted until December 31, 2015, and recipient(s) will be announced by January 15, 2016.

Grants are provided to individuals to enable them to develop an understanding of deliberative democracy and launch one or more deliberative dialogues in their communities and organizations in order to advance National Issues Forums Institute’s(NIFI) overall mission, which is to promote public deliberation about national issues.

Read more and for link to download an application…

2016 Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit | Call for Proposals

 The 2016 Upper Midwest Civic Engagement Summit will be held May 31 and June 1, 2016, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. 

 

The UMCES planning committee and staff from Campus Compacts in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin invite session proposals related to this year’s conference theme: Beyond Service: Education, Research, and Work for a Just World. Campus Compact’s 30th anniversary action statement calls on higher education leaders to “harness the capacity of our institutions–through research, teaching, partnerships, and institutional practice–to challenge the prevailing social and economic inequalities that threaten our democratic future.” How can colleges and universities integrate this work more deeply into their core missions and operations, rather than marginalizing it as service? How can we best “prepare our students for lives of engaged citizenship, with the motivation and capacity to deliberate, act, and lead in pursuit of the public good”–not only in their spare time, but throughout their personal and professional lives?

 

Proposals are due February 12, 2016, for two-hour deep dive sessions, one-hour breakouts, and 15-minute mini-sessions. Faculty, staff, and student and community leaders are welcome to share research findings, program models, and new ideas or facilitate discussion on pressing issues. More details and the online submission form are available at: http://www.midwestengagementsummit.org/proposals.html. 

New NCoC Report: Latinos Civic Health Index (2015)

In the 1980’s, Latinos were described as America’s sleeping giant.

Over these decades, Latinos have gradually increased their civic aptitude and today are influencing the country’s civic life. With the release of the National Conference on Citizenship’s (NCOC) Latinos Civic Health Index, we now have an in-depth understanding of Latino civic engagement across a wide range of indicators.

The report finds that Latino youth are at the forefront of increasing civic engagement within their communities. While overall Latino civic participation rates are lower than the rest of the population, improved educational opportunities, English language proficiency, and a higher than average rate of social media usage create increased avenues for youth engagement.

Two particularly interesting findings are that young Latino Internet users use social networking sites at higher rates (80%) than non-Latino whites (70%) and African Americans (75%).  Additionally, lower income Latino youth are more likely than their higher income Latino counterparts to use social media.  Combined, these points offer new opportunities for civic organizations and governments to focus on social media as a way to increase engagement.

The report, which is available in English and Spanish, can be found here.