Missouri Campus Compact

Apply Now for up to $500 for your Institution, or up to $250 for Faculty Members

Missouri Campus Compact will award mini-grants of up to $500 each for the best institution-wide proposals that meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Seek to educate about, create, or enhance public scholarship as a legitimate and rigorous form of scholarly work on a member campus.
• Promote the use of service-learning as a teaching pedagogy.
• Create or build upon civic engagement initiatives on campus for the 2012-2013 academic year.

We will also award mini-grants of up to $250 each for the best proposals regarding the transformation of courses by individual faculty members on member campuses that meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Redesign an existing course to include service-learning as a teaching and learning strategy.
• Conduct research with/on undergraduate students on the impact of service-learning/community engagement/public scholarship on students or community agencies.
• Research conducted by a faculty member with a community agency for the benefit of the community agency.

2012 Campus Compact Heartland Conference in St. Louis

The 2012 Campus Compact Heartland Conference will be held October 11-12 at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri.

For more information, visit the Heartland Conference website.

10 MoCC Member Institutions Awarded Presidential Honor for Community Service

The President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll annually recognizes colleges and universities that exhibit profound dedication to community service and make a measurable impact on their communities.

Congratulations to the 2012 honorees:

Honor Roll with Distinction

University of Missouri, University of Missouri – Kansas City, and William Jewell College

Honor Roll

Maryville University, Missouri State University, Missouri Western State University, Rockhurst University, Truman State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Westminster College

The full list of national honorees can be found on their homepage.

2011 Member Survey Results are In

In October 2011, Campus Compact conducted an online member survey in order to calculate student and faculty involvement in service and service-learning, assess institutional support/culture, identify community-campus partnerships and assessment mechanisms on campus, and assess satisfaction with Campus Compact programs and services.  The results summarize the findings for colleges and universities in Missouri alongside the findings nationally for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Thank you to all our member campuses who took the time to complete our annual survey!

Thousands of Volunteers Make the MLK Day of Service a Huge Success

Congratulations to all of our 2012 MLK Day of Service mini-grantees! Missouri Campus Compact’s southwest region totaled over 2500 volunteers serving 5400 hours on MLK Day.

Nationwide the MLK Day of Service mobilized over 15,000 unduplicated volunteers. In total, 15116 pounds of food were collected for food pantries, 83582 food kits were created, 719 at-risk youths were mentored, 4 new community gardens were created, 1 new library was established, 532 letters were written to troops, 537 gift packages were created, 8 murals were painted, 4924 hygiene kits were prepared, and 9 classrooms were painted. Volunteers also held a tax preparing event for low-income individuals, a financial planning event, and 7 disaster preparedness training sessions. 

MOCC office staff visited Missouri Southern State University to participate in their MLK Day projects and welcome breakfast.  It was a pleasure to see the grant dollars at work and the impact each project made in Joplin.  Great job to Sandra Lovett and Rikki Smith!