Compact22 is Campus Compact's all-virtual 2022 national conference. It is the largest and most inclusive national conference focused on the role of higher education in building healthy communities and fostering a just and equal democracy.

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The global pandemic brought challenges and uncertainty like no other time in recent memory. We're all making very tough decisions in our organizations on how to engage our volunteers and members, how to keep them safe, how to maintain budgets when fundraisers are cancelled, and how to do so much more with so much less. 2021 Ohio Conference on Service & Volunteerism Shaping the Future of Service & Volunteerism October 27 - 28, 2021 Virtual via Zoom   Now Accepting Proposals for Workshops The 2021 Ohio Conference on Service and Volunteerism Planning Committee is seeking proposals for presentations at the 2021 Ohio Conference on Service and Volunteerism. Specifically, the Planning Committee is seeking diverse proposals that will be informative and relevant, encourage opportunities for participant engagement, and/or demonstrate application to the work of participants. Our ultimate goal is to select proposals that: Contain new ideas, and are on the cutting edge; Stimulate and provoke discussion; and Have diverse and experienced presenters…

The Assessment Institute, hosted by IUPUI and usually held in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the oldest and largest higher education event in the United States focused on assessment and improvement.  In 2021, we will once again offer complimentary registration to members of the higher education community as our way of supporting colleagues facing travel restrictions and resource constraints associated with these challenging times.  Because we are offering complimentary registration in 2021, we anticipate several thousand registered attendees!  In 2020, registration exceeded 10,000 registered attendees. This record-breaking attendance truly positioned IUPUI’s Assessment Institute as the global gathering place focused on higher education assessment and improvement.

Third annual event brings together business, education and workforce leaders About this event The Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation and Ohio Excels will come together again this fall to host the Aim Hire Workforce and Education Conference – designed to strengthen relationships between businesses and educators at all levels. This year’s virtual event will be held on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, from 1-3 p.m. Ohio business and education leaders will discuss the state of education and workforce in Ohio and key issues and solutions to better prepare Ohioans for success, such as work-based learning, career pathways, and business advisory councils. Attendees will have the opportunity to attend breakout sessions immediately following the main event. You may select from the following options while submitting the registration form: The Workplace as a Classroom: How work-based learning optimizes results for students and employers A Clear Way Forward: Helping students create their path to career success The Ultimate Power Partnership: When educators and employers team up for…

OVERVIEW Download flyer » Facilitating Improvement Teams℠ is an intermediate-level course for individuals seeking to build their skills in facilitating small improvement teams through cycles of testing and learning. Through both reflection and practical application, participants build understanding of improvement dispositions and how to foster them, hone skills for communicating with diverse audiences about improvement and change, and learn strategies for supporting social learning to advance an improvement aim. Through hands-on practice in which they work in their own local context to lead an improvement team, participants also develop concrete skills in supporting others through Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles and facilitating improvement activities. 

Building Accountable Practices and Transforming Power About this event This summer, from July 28 to July 30, the Place-Based Justice Network will host its annual Summer Institute, a virtual experience centered on two focus areas: (1) building practices of accountability and (2) transforming power. Read the full framing note with links to resources and citations on the website here. Building Practices of Accountability During this year’s Institute, we have intentionally constructed a three-day experience that allows for vulnerable (un)learning and wisdom sharing at multiple levels of accountability. Through PBJN offerings (Leadership Retreat, Continuous Learning sessions, BIPOC Healing Circles, White Affinity and Accountability Circles) held this year, we’ve witnessed power dynamics emerge in our relationships and within our institutions. Indeed, when we understand that the tentacles of power reach well beyond the individual and interpersonal into institutions and even societies, it can feel overwhelming. While we may be inclined to act with urgency, we find ourselves grasping for more authentic relationships, a…

The Ohio University/Athens Organizing Committee are excited to welcome you to the 2021 Ohio Town and Gown Conference.  While all conference programming will be held virtually, we are also offering a discounted Getaway Package and small reception for those interested in visiting Athens during the conference. Click HERE for more info on the Getaway Package.

Start your summer with the latest from Washington. Terry Hartle and Jon Fansmith are joined this month by ACE’s Director of Government Relations Sarah Spreitzer to discuss policy developments impacting higher ed. Topics will include the legislation designed to enhance competitiveness with China while protecting national and economic security, Department of Education (ED) plans on Title IX and student aid regulations, President Biden’s 2022 budget, and the higher education community’s efforts to double the maximum Pell Grant. And as always, we will be taking your questions live. What: Public Policy Pop-Up: National Security, ED Regulations, and Doubling Pell When: June 21, 1:00-1:45 p.m. (ET) Who: ACE’s Terry W. Hartle, Jon Fansmith, and Sarah Spreitzer Where: Online via Zoom         Register Now        

Equity in the Center (EiC) is hosting open enrollment working sessions on its "Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture" research. The first module will be a training on the Race Equity Cycle framework for organizational transformation, and include break out groups for discussion and Q&A. The second module will be a deeper dive on operationalizing equity, and include break out discussions designed to support the definition of specific priorities and action steps to build a Race Equity Culture. For individuals, the cost for both modules is $150. If you are an organization that wishes to register your team of 15 or more individuals, please register here. These sessions will be facilitated by EiC Managing Director and Lead Researcher Ericka Hines. Session Results: Understanding of research, best practices and Race Equity Cycle framework (Module 1) Understanding of Race Equity Cycle levers for organizational transformation, including management and operational scenarios from EiC’s research and participants’ organizations (Modules 1 and 2) Identification…

The Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN for the 32nd Annual National Service-Learning Conference!   Workshops are the heart of the National Service-Learning Conference, providing professional development opportunities for youth and adults alike. With the 2021 theme, “Engage. Evolve. Energize!” we will be evolving to a new model of offering both online recorded sessions available for 30 days before and after the Conference dates for registered participants* as well as a limited number of live online sessions during the virtual Conference on April 14-15, 2021. *Following this time period, recordings will be added to NYLC’s archive and available to NYLC Members.   Conference workshops are intended for skill-building and topics applicable to the selected audiences, not solely for describing a service-learning project or program. (For the latter, consider a Service-Learning Showcase application instead.)   Workshop proposals are being accepted for recorded presentations that are either 30 minutes or 45 minutes in length. You may additionally indicate your willingness to do…

What does it mean for white people to be effective allies to people of color in our work for racial equity and collective liberation? Whitney Parnell, executive director and co-founder of Service Never Sleeps (SNS), will lead an intensive, fast-paced webinar series designed to explore how white folks use individual and collective areas of privilege to advance racial justice in an intersectional context. Using SNS’ CLAIM framework (Care, Learn, Act, Influence, Maintain), this workshop will explore what it means to adopt an allyship lifestyle as a white person. Please note that this two-day workshop is only for individuals who identify as white. If you seek to promote racial equity within your organization, this workshop will equip you with tools to be an active ally for racial justice through methods of naming white privilege, centering people of color, navigating intersectionality across identities, influencing others, and continuing your own self-work journey. You’ll leave this workshop committed to the Allyship lifestyle, and prepared…

This webinar for multi-racial participants aims to disrupt the ways anti-Blackness shows up in organizations and communities. The facilitated workshop will involve interactive exercises and an experiential dialogue using historical and contemporary information, self-reflection, institutional analysis, visioning, and collective action planning. A key learning objective of this training is for participants to be more equipped with resources for identifying and undoing anti-Black racism and building pro-Black spaces within teams, organizations and communities. As a result of participation in this session, folks will develop: Enhanced understanding of how anti-Black racism operates as a fulcrum of white supremacy Deeper analysis of how anti-Black racism distinctly influences institutional culture and inter- and intra-personal dynamics within organizational, community and movement spaces Practices and commitments for undoing white supremacy and anti-Blackness, and advancing pro-Black organizing spaces as a necessary foundation for racial equity Strategies to be accountable to Black people and communities in the work to build anti-racist organizations and communities. DATE/TIME Tuesday, March 16,…

The mission of the Gulf-South Summit on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education is to promote networking among practitioners, research, ethical practices, reciprocal campus-community partnerships, sustainable programs, and a culture of engagement and public awareness through service-learning and other forms of civic engagement.

Each year, Pitt celebrates the diversity and impact of community-engaged work across the University at the Community Engaged Scholarship Forum. In 2021, as part of Pitt's Year of Engagement, the third annual forum—“Progress Through Partnerships: Advancing Community Resilience”—will be held as a virtual event on March 2, 2021. The forum runs 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.