As part of Campus Compact for Southern New England's four-part series on Civic & Community Engagement, this workshop, hosted at MCPHS, will focus on strategies for evaluating the impact of civic engagement initiatives on your institution including policies, practices, and institutional mission and culture. The workshop has the following overall goals: to examine the ways in which we ... Read more

Eleven percent of college students seriously thought about attempting suicide in the past year. Of this percentage, one in 20 made a plan to carry it out. Three out of 10 college students have struggled with depression in the last two weeks. One in 4 students have expressed issues with anxiety.​ These sobering statistics remind us ... Read more

What will be the future of internationalization in higher education? In the United States, student enrollment is reflecting more than ever a diversity of student identities and life stages —students of color, adult learners, single parents, veterans, first-generation immigrants, and international students. How can U.S. colleges and universities recognize the complexity of their student body ... Read more

Part of the 2018-19 Campus Compact Webinar Series Widely known through the work of the Harlem Children’s Zone and the federal government’s Promise and Choice Neighborhood programs, geographically specific community engagement initiatives have the potential to positively address the challenges of inequity and injustice within our communities. While we may be familiar with these types ... Read more

**This is an EXTERNAL EVENT, open this post to find registration.** Featuring: Paul Arntson  from the Asset-Based Community Development Institute + Taylor Nelson from the Solutions Journalism Network Click here to sign up for the public call. This month, we’re thrilled to unite schools and community organizations on a call to examine our fundamental orientation toward ... Read more

Eleven percent of college students seriously thought about attempting suicide in the past year. Of this percentage, one in 20 made a plan to carry it out. Three out of 10 college students have struggled with depression in the last two weeks. One in 4 students have expressed issues with anxiety. These sobering statistics remind us ... Read more

Part of the 2018-19 Campus Compact Webinar Series Building on the 2014 “What Went Wrong?” conference, this session offers a framework for analyzing and transcending the wrongness of structures and practices in community-academic research, education, and social action partnerships that limit effective democratic participation and the distribution of power of those who experience marginalization. SUSAN GUST ... Read more