#CLDE16: Thank you to our Sponsors!

Thank You to our #CLDE16 Meeting Sponsors and Exhibitors!

As part of your #CLDE16 experience be sure to connect with our meeting sponsors and exhibitors in the Marriott Ballroom Foyer during the hours of registration.  You can also, connect with them during 2016 CLDE Meeting Opening Reception on Thursday, June 2 from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Marriott Foyer Ballroom and throughout the entire meeting as they attend, participate in, and present sessions.

 

The All In Campus Democracy Challenge recognizes post-secondary campuses committed to improving democratic engagement and honors those achieving significant student voting participation rates.

For more information visit http://www.allinchallenge.org/

 

Ask Big Questions partners with universities to train students as facilitators who help their peers engage in conversation about vital questions across lines of difference. Since 2011, Ask Big Questions has trained over 1,000 students, faculty and staff at over 100 colleges and universities in North America. Through workshops, partnership programs, and accessible and usable resources, students develop the skills and habits to hold conversations characterized by trust, respect, and deep listening. Ask Big Questions empowers students to use these tools and techniques in their personal and professional lives, and helps university leaders create stronger campus communities, where all students are seen, heard, valued, and connected.

For more information visit http://askbigquestions.org/

 

Campus Vote Project help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote.

For more information visit http://campusvoteproject.org/

 

 

Circle K International (CKI) is the premier collegiate and university community service, leadership development, and friendship organization in the world. With nearly 14,000 members on more than 500 campuses in 17 nations, CKI is making a positive impact on the world every day. CKI blends community service and leadership training with the opportunity to meet other college students around the world. Circle K Clubs are self-governing, electing officers, conducting meetings, and determining service projects.

For more information visit http://www.circlek.org/home.aspx

 

Eco Promotional Products, Inc. (EPP) is the only totally “green”, full line promotional products company in the Ad Specialties Industry (ASI). We are dedicated to sustainability, supplying environmentally responsible merchandise and respecting our natural resources. We help our customers project their brand and environmental goals while reducing landfill usage.

For more information visit https://ecopromotionsonline.com/

 

Empowrd Apps is a comprehensive, simple to use technology platform that facilitates all aspects of a value-centered two-way collaboration amongst leaders. Organic and/or elected leaders as well as those they represent can benefit from Empowrd. We are the only platform that provides a holistic approach towards facilitating every aspect of what it means to be a successful leader. Education, campaigning, operational tools, and brand management are all fluidly intertwined. Empowrd University is a component of Empowrd Apps that is especially designed for college and university campuses to make coordinating campus events, emergency alerting, staying in touch with alumni, Having direct contact with elected officials that impact your campus experience, and so much more easier than ever!

For more information visit http://www.empowrd.com/

 

ETS is a team of education experts, researchers and assessment developers who believe that, through learning, people can improve their situations in life and make incredible contributions to the world. We also believe that by designing our assessments with industry-leading insight, rigorous research and a commitment to quality, we can advance equity and help education and workplace communities make informed decisions about people and programs. Above all else, we are passionate about our mission, which serves as both a north star for our strategy and a pulse-check for everything we do. All of our programs and services are evaluated based on how well they help us achieve this purpose. Our Mission: To advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services. Our products and services measure knowledge and skills, promote learning and performance, and support education and professional development for all people worldwide.

For more information visit https://www.ets.org/

 

GivePulse is a database and management platform to track, measure and report all community engagement, experiential and scholarship activities of students, faculty, staff and alum. Using our analytics and tracking platform, along with its management applications, scholars and decision makers are able to determine student success, community impact, and how to move the need in addressing social issues.

For more information visit https://www.givepulse.com/

 

icitizen is a civic engagement app that connects people with their communities around civic issues to promote meaningful change. Just by tapping their finger, students can use the platform to connect with the news, issues, organizations, and representatives that affect them both on and off of campus. Meanwhile, higher ed institutions can use it to communicate directly with students, find out what they care most about and track the impact of their education on their students’ development as civic leaders.

For more information visit www.icitizen.com/

 

Indiana Campus Compact is a partnership among 35 Indiana colleges and universities, representing 60 campuses, dedicated to preparing college students to advance the public good in their communities. Indiana Campus Compact is an affiliate of National Campus Compact, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

For more information visit http://indianacampuscompact.org/overview/

 

Lyon Software is the world leader in community benefit and engagement software.  Through our exceptional product and personalized training, support and customer service, we work hand-in-hand with heath care facilities, colleges and universities, businesses and other community organizations to report their tremendous impact on the populations they serve.  Our secure, web hosted application provides a streamlined process for collecting, tracking and reporting how your institution is giving back to your community.  We proudly serve over 2,000 organizations with CBISA™, and we have been providing this excellent service for more than 30 years.  Our promise at Lyon Software, and our passionate commitment, is to continue to provide the best possible community benefit software and service.

For more information visit www.lyonsoftware.com

 

TurboVote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that helps students engage successfully in their democracy. Institutions nationwide use TurboVote to strategically – and easily – promote and monitor voter engagement. Through TurboVote, students can register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and receive reminders with important election information, dates and deadlines.

For more information visit www.turbovote.org

Learn the Value of Institutional Impact Reports in a Free Webinar with Lyon Software

 

Join us for a free webinar about Institutional Impact Reports on Wednesday, March 11 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern.
Register here!

As a non-profit college or university, telling the story of your institution’s community involvement is crucial. Are you currently collecting the information you need to create your institutional impact report?

Institutional impact reports are a way for colleges and universities to share all of the steps they are taking to improve their local communities. Impact reports allow colleges and universities to show the bigger picture of what their institution is doing to serve their community, how their activities align with their mission, and validate their not-for-profit status. As stewards of place or anchor institutions, colleges and universities have the responsibility of being good stewards of their resources. Impact reports provide a way of demonstrating to students, staff members, and the community, that you are using your resources wisely. Show your community how you are making an impact!

If you are interested in learning more about the value of institutional impact reports and how your school may benefit from tracking your service-learning and community engagement information join our webinar! On March 11^th at 2 p.m. Eastern we will be hosting an informational webinar on institutional impact reports and an opportunity to partner with Lyon Software. The webinar will walk viewers through some of the basic benefits and advantages of impact reporting. Join us to learn how institutional impact reports can help you see how your current service-learning and community engagement activities align with the culture and values of your institution. See how other anchor institutions are providing community members with the bigger picture of how they are serving the community and showing how they are living out their mission.

Unsure of what to include on your institutional impact report or where to start? We will also be highlighting some of the key components needed to create an institutional impact report. Lyon Software will provide webinar viewers with a summary of the details often included in an institutional impact report as well as some sample reports. Find out how to help your community see the big picture and show them what you are doing to make your area a smarter, safer and better place to live, learn and work.

Webinar viewers will also be among the first to hear about Lyon Software’s AASCU User Group Opportunity. During this year’s Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Meeting Lyon Software will be extending an offer to AASCU member institutions (including ADP and TDC campuses) allowing them to join a user group for their software CBISA Plus. CBISA Plus is a planning, managing, and tracking tool higher education institutions can utilize in creating their institutional impact reports. AASCU CBISA User Group members will receive their CBISA Software subscriptions at a discounted price and have the opportunity to work closely with Lyon Software. User group members will have full access to all of the newest benefits and features of the premiere package, CBISA Plus. AASCU members wishing to join the CBISA user group will be among the first to provide feedback on the new Community Needs and Goals modules. Lyon Software is very excited to team up with AASCU and hear the insight user group members will be able to provide!

Click here to learn more about CBISA Plus for Higher Education. You can also contact Crystal Randolph at crandolph@lyonsoftware.com or at 419.882.7184 for additional information.

Sign up for the Institutional Impact Report Webinar here. Webinar is from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

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TWC Higher Education Civic Engagement Award

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, an independent nonprofit educational organization, invites nominations for the 2014 New York Life Higher Education Civic Engagement Award. The award recognizes institutions that are achieving breadth and depth of civic engagement through mutually transformational partnerships that address issues of public concern at any level from the local to the global.

In reviewing nominations, The Washington Center and the selection committee will consider the extent to which institutions are building strategic partnerships that demonstrate the following:

1. Leadership and innovation in defining and addressing issues of public concern;
2. Vision for change that is systemic and sustainable;
3. Depth and breadth of institutional commitment.

The Washington Center has presented the Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards each year since 2009. Past awardees have reflected a broad diversity of institutional profiles.

Learn more about past recipients and how to nominate an institution at twc.edu. Nominations are due Friday, May 23, 2014.

The 2014 New York Life Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards are sponsored by the New York Life Foundation. Five winners will receive $20,000 in scholarship funding to help their students participate in The Washington Center’s Academic Internship Program in the nation’s capital during the following year.

AASCU’s American Democracy Project offers a sincere thank you to The Washington Center for its support of our civic learning and engagement work and sponsorship of our upcoming 2014 ADP/TDC National Meeting in Louisville from June 5-7.

Sponsor Spotlight: The New York Times in Education

Guest Post by Lynn M. Hall, National Education DIrector, The New York Times

You’ve known us as The New York Times in College, but we have taken a new name — The New York Times in Education — to better communicate with audiences abroad as well as here in the U.S.

We’ve also launched these exciting resources that we hope you will view and share:

• An elegant new Web site at our old address, www.nytimes.com/edu. We welcome your contributions to our Classroom Ideas section!
• The New York Times in Education YouTube channel, where you can watch exclusive, 30-minute Webcasts with Times journalists addressing focus areas of our Leadership and First Year programs. Visit www.nytimes.com/edu/video.
• An inspiring, two-minute video that introduces our multimedia journalism: “The New York Times: Because The World Has a Lot To Teach.”  Watch in at www.nytimes.com/edu/video.

Please contact me at lynn.hall@nytimes.com if you wish to contribute your classroom ideas to our new Web site, or for further information about our program.

#ADPTDC13: Sponsor Spotlight — Lyon Software

We’re excited that for the second year in a row, Lyon Software is a sponsor of the ADP/TDC National Meeting! Lyon Software is also an ADP Partner working to support our Campus & Community Civic Health Initiative. A number of ADP campuses use Lyon Software to track civic engagement and community service efforts on their campuses.

By Jessica Franchino, CBISA Specialist/Event Coordinator, Lyon Software

At Lyon Software, we believe in helping you and your community achieve a better tomorrow.  We enable our clients to track how their programs and partnerships are working together to improve the communities they serve.  Track both quantitative and qualitative data about your programs to make sure they are meeting the needs of your community and your organization.  Easy reporting features allow you to report to your stakeholders with the click of a button.  Customizable features ensure your community and their specific needs are tracked.  Let us show you a whole new world of data.

Come talk to us and check out our giveaways at our table, which will be set up during the ADP National Meeting!