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New York Campus Compact Weekly
In This Issue:
1- Spotlight on Members
1- NYCC Welcomes Student Worker
2- National Service Budget Update
3- NYCC 10th Anniversary Event
3- St. John Fisher Relay for Life
4- Faculty Institute Call for Nominations
6- NYCC Spring Calendar
NYCC Welcomes Student
Worker
NYCC is excited to announce the hire of our
new student worker, Jennifer Pierre. Jen
comes to us as a Sophomore
Communications Major from Cornell
University. With a background in public
relations and lots of volunteer experience,
Jen brings valuable knowledge to our team.
Also, her jovial personality and eagerness to
learn make her a pleasure to work with, and
we are pleased to welcome her as the
newest addition to our growing office.
April 15, 2011
NYCC Spotlight on Members—
SUNY Geneseo
Submitted by: David Irwin, Media Relations Manager, SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Geneseo alumna Ysaye Barnwell, an internationally known
composer and singer, returned to campus March 3 to help Geneseo
celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Barnwell, best known as a vocalist in the Grammy Award winning,
internationally renowned all-woman African-American ensemble
―Sweet Honey in the Rock,‖ conducted a Community Sing on campus
for about 200 participants. She invited members of the community to
gather, raise their voices and learn about African-American culture
and traditions.
―You don‘t have to know how to sing for my Community Sings but you
have to be willing to show up and raise your voice along with others
who come,‖ said Barnwell. ―I sing and the audience sings back.‖
Barnwell spends much of her time offstage conducting vocal
community workshops in all parts of the world. She earned both a
bachelor‘s and master‘s degree in speech pathology from Geneseo.
She also received a doctorate in cranio-facial studies from the
University of Pittsburgh and a master‘s degree in public health from
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Howard University. Geneseo conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters on her in 1998.

Barnwell has been with ―Sweet Honey in the Rock‖ for 32 years and has written many of the songs they perform.
Their music ranges from spirituals and gospels to blues, jazz and hip-hop. Barnwell tours with the group to all parts of
the country. She also has acted on television and appeared in the 1998 film ―Beloved,‖ which starred Oprah Winfrey.

Barnwell was a very active and involved student at Geneseo during the Civil Right Movement in the 1960s. She was
at Geneseo when Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968 and sang at the college‘s first memorial
commemoration.

―As a society, we recognize that Dr. King is the most visible leader of the modern Civil Rights Movement, but
unfortunately we have frozen him in time with his famous ‗I Have a Dream‘ speech‖ said Emilye Crosby, professor of
history at Geneseo, who chaired the committee that coordinated Barnwell‘s visit. ―King‘s life addressed so many more
issues related to social justice, including poverty and militarism.‖

Barnwell‘s Community Sing was sponsored by Geneseo‘s Office of the Provost, Africana/Black Studies Program, the
Xerox Center for Multicultural Teacher Education and the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services.

Update on National Service Budget

On Thursday, April 14th, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) budget was cut by $74 million,
with a $40 cut to eliminate Learn and Serve America and the remainder coming from AmeriCorps programming.
According to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, "Save Service in America, a group that mobilized thousands of people to
contact lawmakers in an effort to fend off deep cuts to national-service programs, looked for the silver lining in a plan to
cut $74.6-million from the Corporation for National and Community Service budget. The agency, which operates
programs including AmeriCorps and Senior Corps, had been gearing up for a big expansion as called for by the 2009
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act—but that is now ancient history.

―The good news is that thanks to your leadership and mobilization, the [national-service agency] was funded at 94
percent of FY 2010 levels,‖ the Save Service campaign director, AnnMaura Connolly, said in an e-mail message to
supporters.

It‘s easy to see why she considers that somewhat of a victory: The House had voted to eliminate the agency entirely."

At this point, we do not know the exact impact of budget cuts on NYCC programs, but look forward to a conference call
with CNCS to discuss the Continuing Resolution that will fund CNCS for the remainder of fiscal year 2011.

Our national service colleagues have drafted a support letter intended for President Obama. The letter states the
importance of service-learning and encourages the administration to aid CNCS in finding innovative, cost-saving
strategies to continue the Learn & Serve Program. We are asking directors and community leaders to sign-on by end
of business today, Friday, April, 15 2011.

Click the link below and fill out the Survey Monkey form to sign-on

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9FCQ3YG

Please forward to any interested community partners, campuses, and organizations. There are still many unanswered
questions about these recent cuts. We are closely monitoring the situation and will report any new information as it
becomes public.

Thanks to everyone for your efforts over the past few months and your continued support of these valuable programs.
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NYCC Tenth Anniversary Event ALERT

The New York Campus Compact will celebrate its ―First and Next Ten Years‖ of leadership and services this fall.
We will count NYCC members‘ achievements and progress in campus/community partnerships, but more
importantly, we will look ahead at the next decade as well. To that end, a Leadership Summit for presidents and
topical workshops will explore the key issues, both near-term and long range, which will guide NYCC‘s mission and
operations. Also featured will be the stories and impacts of NYCC members‘ student projects.

This is an early alert. You will receive a ―Save the Date‖ card and program information as the date, location and
events of the Tenth Anniversary celebration are finalized. We are looking forward to an exciting and productive time
together.

10th Annual Relay for Life Raises Over $30,000 at St. John Fisher
College
On Friday, April 1, over 350 students, faculty, staff, and community members rallied and relayed in the 10th Annual
Relay for Life at St. John Fisher College. The College's student organization "Colleges Against Cancer" (CAC), along
with Nazareth College and the American Cancer Society (ACS), hosted the inspirational 12-hour event to celebrate
and

"This is such an amazing gathering," said Henry. "We're all here for the same reason, to put an end to cancer. The
next 12 hours will take us on a life-affirming journey – symbolizing a day in the life of someone fighting cancer, a
disease that never sleeps. Thank you so much for participating."

Dr. Donald Bain applauded the students for their efforts before the event began.

"I am often asked what I think is one of the most remarkable attributes of students at this College, and the first thing
that always comes to my mind is the gratitude that each of you has shown for the gifts you have received in life," he
said. "But what is even more important than being grateful for the blessings, is what you do with them. And what you
are doing with your blessings here makes us proud. You have our admiration, respect, and most importantly, you
have the appreciation of all of the people you are going to help as a result of your efforts tonight."

The keynote remarks were delivered by 12-year cancer survivor, Mike Tobin '06. He was diagnosed at the age of 15
with stage 2 testicular cancer, and was cancer-free after two surgeries. He founded Fisher's Relay for Life while he
was a student, making the event the first college relay in Upstate New York.

"One of the best days of my life is when my doctor called and said, 'It's gone.' I had done it, I fought cancer, and I
won. So, what now? The answer was simple, keep fighting," he said. "We're here because we're all fighting for
someone. So, thank you for inviting me tonight to join the fight once more with all of you."

Tobin led the other survivors who were at the event in the first lap – the survivor lap – to Queen's "We Are The
Champions." The survivors walked the lap to a standing ovation, and the event had officially begun.

After the 12 hours, the committee announced that the total amount raised was over $30,000. All proceeds will benefit
the American Cancer Society. http://www.sjfc.edu/news/detail.dot?id=467b76bf-e6f7-4550-93e2-d57ec5ffd10e
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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Campus Compact state offices of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Vermont along with the University of Connecticut present:

FACULTY INSTITUTE
MAKING IT COUNT: STRATEGIES FOR REWARDING
ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP IN PROMOTION AND TENURE
MAY 23, 2011
10:00AM – 3:00PM
University of Connecticut, Greater Hartford Campus
Zach’s Community Room

Many of our college campuses struggle with the same challenge. Our academic reward
systems have not caught up with 21st century scholarship and teaching, including
engaged scholarship and service-learning. Numerous studies of faculty involvement in
community engagement show that academic reward systems that do not change to
assess and recognize engaged scholarship stand as a formidable barrier to the careers
of engaged scholars, recruitment of faculty for this critical work, and campuses truly
institutionalizing the work at their core. This is why the Carnegie Classification for
Community Engagement considers reform in faculty roles and rewards a major part of
the application for classification as an engaged institution and why the Eastern Region
Campus Compacts have come together to plan an Institute on strategies for rewarding
engaged scholarship. These state Compacts wish for member campuses to become
role models for the rest of the country in not just talking about faculty roles and reward
change, but actually doing something to change what is not working.

In the last 15 years, one of the most powerful and effective strategies for organizational
learning and change is the use of teams. In fact this approach has been used to
examine national models for change in general education reform, incorporating diversity
and global perspectives into the curriculum, and revitalization of faculty development
and growth. On May 23rd we aim to use this model of institutional teams to examine
academic reward systems for how they support engaged scholarship.

Institutional Teams of 4-5 individuals should be comprised of 1-2 tenured faculty

involved in rank and tenure process, while the remaining faculty should be
untenured scholars with experience in community engagement and an interest in
advancing tenure and promotion guidelines to explicitly merit community
engaged scholarship.

Team Registration Costs:

$250/ Campus Compact member –NYCC will pay for any NYCC member teams
$350/ non Campus Compact member
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Prior to the Institution, teams will:

• consider the range of documents addressing key policies and practices most
relevant for team review (annual faculty report requirements, promotion and tenure
materials, union agreements if applicable, merit and contract renewal procedures,
faculty recruitment materials, campus mission, strategic plan)

• meet as a team and consider the central questions of: how well does our
institutional reward system recognize the work of engaged scholars? Going forward,
which of our policies and practices with regard to faculty roles and rewards could be
improved to better support this work?

• from this, each team will create and submit (to spetersen1@fairfield.edu)
a one page critical issue statement which: o identifies and provides some
explanation of one or two critical areas where the team wants to concentrate their
efforts at the institute
o provides a timeframe for achieving resolution to critical area(s)

During the Institution, teams will:

• work collaboratively on critical areas throughout the day; assisted by Dr.

KerryAnn O‘Meara who will share best practices on parallel issues from other
campuses, and by the learning of other teams with similarly identified challenges;
develop action planning outline from collaborative work and accumulated resources

Following the Institution, teams will:

• report back to their campuses on recommended changes-either to a Deans

council, faculty senate, provost or a meeting of key stakeholders and potential allies for
reform

• NOTE: This kind of approach was also used by the former AAHE Faculty roles
and rewards conference for 10 years, is now regularly built into AACU's process, and
was the process for Community Campus Partnerships for Health faculty development
programs funded by FIPSE

Objectives of the Institute are that every team walks away:

• With a set of concrete recommendations for how the policies they concentrated
on might be changed to better acknowledge engaged scholarship
• With examples of how other campuses have approached similar problems
• With a sense of shared energy and momentum for making these changes real
and moving them through shared governance procedures

Click here to Register Registration deadline: 5/6/2011

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NYCC Spring 2011 Calendar

April 29, 2011- Initiate. Integrate. Impact. Developing and Sustaining a Service-Learning
Program, Onondaga Community College, Coyne 216/220, 9:30am-3:00pm

Have you been trying to find active methods of connecting your students' learning experiences to their local, national,
or global community? Interested in implementing service-learning into your curriculum, but unclear on where to start
or what to do?

Take advantage of this opportunity for interactive and engaging workshop options that will cover topics including:
service-learning models; course integration strategies; sustaining community partnerships; reflection & assessment of
student learning.

Speaker: Donna Killian Duffy is a professor or psychology and coordinator of the Carnegie Community of Practice
at Middlesex Community College, Bedford and Lowell, Massachusetts. During 2004-2005 academic year she served
as an Engaged Scholar with Campus Compact on a Carnegie grant investigating civic engagement at community
colleges.

Click Here to Register

May 13, 2011- Virtual Reality - Online Academic Service Learning: Challenges and
Opportunities, Berkeley College

What is Service Learning? Service Learning is often described as ―learning by doing.‖ It is a teaching method which
combines community service with academic instruction, enabling students to apply academic knowledge and critical
thinking skills to meet genuine community needs. It often provides an opportunity for students to gain a deeper
understanding of course content and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility.

Take advantage of this opportunity to see how Service Learning is applied in the Virtual World. Experience online
academic service learning from multiple perspectives that will assist your institution in implementing successful online
academic service learning courses.

Click Here to Register

May 19-20, 2011- Faculty Development Institute “Problem-Based Service-Learning”, SUNY

Oswego

―Problem-based service-learning (PBSL) engages students working teams in the solving of real, community-based
problems… While seeking solutions to problems that represent real needs for their communities, students access
knowledge, enrich their understanding of academic content, and make connections among ideas… PBSL offers a
substantive yet flexible model for designing experiences that address both the highest ideals of service and learning‖
(Gordon, 2003)

New York Campus Compact is pleased to offer an intensive 1 ½ day faculty development institute designed to provide
the time, space, and resources for designing/redesigning a course from problem-based learning framework. Rick
Gordon and Mathew Johnson will be co-facilitating the institute on the campus of SUNY Oswego.

Click Here to Register

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May 31- June 3, 2011- 2011 Engaged Scholarship and Teaching Symposium

New York Campus Compact is pleased to announce collaboration between NYCC, The Bonner Foundation, and Siena
College. In conjunction with our first annual meeting to announce the findings of the Assessment of Service and Civic
Engagement survey, The Bonner Foundation and NYCC are hosting a two-day conference on community engagement
in the curriculum—May 31st- June 3rd.

Faculty at NYCC member institutions are invited to propose a workshop on any of the four following themes: Student
Learning and Leadership; Community Partner Capacity, Voice, and Impact; Strategic Campus Change and
Institutionalization; and Promising Research and Innovative Practice.

For more information and to register, please go to http://bonnernetwork.pbworks.com/w/page/37795371/Faculty-

Engagement-Symposium-RFP.

June 9-10, 2011- SAVE THE DATE! Fourth Annual Institute on Global Service-Learning, Pace
University

Keynote Speaker: Niklaus Steiner is the Director of the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill. A native of Switzerland who moved to the U.S. in his youth, Steiner has had the good fortune of moving
between cultures all his life, and this experience shapes his academic focus. Steiner earned a B.A. with Highest Honors
in International Studies at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern
University. His research and teaching interests include migration, refugees, nationalism, and citizenship, and his
publications include Arguing About Asylum: The Complexity of Refugee Debates in Europe (St. Martin's, 2000); The
Problems of Protection: UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights eds. Niklaus Steiner, Mark Gibney and Gil Loescher
(Routledge 2003); Regionalism in the Age of Globalism, eds. Lothar Hoennighausen, Marc Frey, James Peacock, and
Niklaus Steiner (Wisconsin, 2005); and The Age of Apology: The West Confronts its Past eds. Mark Gibney, Rhoda E.
Howard-Hassmann, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Niklaus Steiner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). His most recent
book International Migration and Citizenship Today (Routledge, 2009) is a thought-provoking examination of the ability
of international migrants to move and the ability of states to control this movement.

June 27-28, 2011- Faculty Development Institute “Service-Learning and Your Institutional
Mission‖ , St. John‘s University

Ed Zlotkowski, Professor of English at Bentley University and academic service-learning pioneer, will facilitate a 1-day
institute for faculty who want to explore and/or deepen their understanding and practice of service-learning pedagogy.

Click here to register

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