MoCC Mini-Grant Applications Now Open 

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 2013-2014 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.

Registration Now Open for Institutions to Apply for 2015 Community Engagement Classification

Registration is now open for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Community Engagement Classification.

Carnegie invites colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement to apply for the elective classification, first developed and offered in 2006 as part of an extensive restructuring of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The elective Community Engagement Classification provides a way for institutions to describe their identity and commitments to community with a public and nationally recognized classification.

To learn more about the application process, please visit the Carnegie Website. 

The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education Volume Two

The Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education (JPSHE) Volume Two is complete and ready for your order. The JPSHE aims to advance the status and prospects for publicly engaged teaching and research in the academy by showcasing the new disciplinary and/or pedagogical knowledge generated by engagement with the community.

The 2012 Journal features a wide spectrum of research articles that discuss topics such as interdisciplinary faculty collaboration in service-learning, service-learning enriching advertising knowledge, and community partnerships in mathematics. To see a full list of authors and their research articles from the Journal, Click  Here.

You can order the Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education for $17.00 By Mail or Online. This year, we will be also give one FREE JPSHE Volume One with each delivery order per customer.

10 MoCC Members Named to Honor Roll

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 2013 honorees:

Honor Roll with Distinction

Westminster College 

Honor Roll

Cottey College, Missouri State University, Missouri Western State University, Northwest Missouri State University, Rockhurst University, Saint Louis University, Truman State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and William Jewell University.

Overall, 501 of the 690 campuses selected in the three categories were members of Campus Compact. “The recognition of such a high percentage of our members by such an elite distinction validates that our mission of deepening civic engagement is absolutely the right path for us to be taking. It re-energizes us to do even more and we congratulate our members receiving this distinction,” said Campus Compact President Maureen Curley.

Visit the Corporation for National and Community Service website for more information.

 Five Missouri Students Named Neman Civic Fellows

Campus Compact has named five Missouri student leaders who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country as 2013 Newman Civic Fellows. Nominated by their college and university presidents, these students are making the most of their college experiences to better understand themselves, the root causes of social issues, and effective mechanisms for creating lasting change.

This year's fellows are:

• Abigail Stokes, Westminster College
• Bailey Bollinger, University of Missouri - St. Louis
• Joshua Aiken, Washington University in St. Louis
• Debra Horn, Missouri State University
• Briana Bonner, Truman State University

"These students represent the next generation of public problem solvers and civic leaders. They serve as national examples of the role that higher education can—and does—play in building stronger communities," notes Campus Compact President Maureen Curley.

The Newman Civic Fellows Awards are made possible through the generous support of the KPMG Foundation.

 2012-2013 Mini-Grant Recipients Announced

Missouri Campus Compact is pleased to support the development of service-learning enhanced courses and civic engagement activities on Missouri's college and university campuses.  Since 2004, Missouri Campus Compact has awarded over $370,000 in grants to its member campuses.

This year, we awarded both outstanding institutions and faculty members who work towards promoting service-learning and civic engagement in their communities. To see the recipients, Click Here

Thank you to all that applied and congratulations to all of the recipients!