Events

Eager to help your institution deepen civic learning and community engagement efforts?  Join us in beautiful Vancouver, WA, just north of Portland, OR, for a two-day Institute to review your current efforts and build strategy for the future. You will receive your institution's results of a comprehensive inventory of current practice and infrastructure, benefit from personal ... Read more

Presented by the Greater Cincinnati Service-Learning Network. Community engagement has deep roots in higher education. But over the last 40 or so years, it has been reimagined with more structure, including principles and pedagogy for service learning. As the ideas took hold, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching created its Community Engagement Classification ... Read more

To support academia’s ongoing commitment to community engagement and engaged scholarship, academic libraries are building networks between partners internal and external to the campus community. Librarians are relationship builders for their campuses and recognize the value of building essential, foundational community partnerships. Academic libraries support community engagement by: * facilitating community engaged research activities and ... Read more

 Utah Campus Compact was the first Campus Compact affiliate to achieve full adoption of the Civic Action Statement by all of its member institutions. In preparation, UTCC offered a Civic Action Planning Institute in February 2016 that kick started the civic action planning process for eight campuses. This webinar will provide an opportunity for participants ... Read more

 The United States’ ability to contribute to, and innovate in, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) industries within the global market is of national concern. As the largest, most diverse and one of the most affordable university systems in the country, the California State University (CSU), with twenty-three campuses, 474,000 students, and 49,000 faculty and ... Read more

The Community College Conference on Legal Issues is a dynamic three-day conference, hosted by Valencia College, that addresses current trends and legal matters unique to community colleges. The conference will include general and concurrent sessions designed to speak to the various issues shaping the landscape of our learning institutions.

Join this two-day conference and gain professional development and networking opportunities related to supporting health and wellness in communities.  “For nearly 150 years, our mission has been to elevate our communities through the creation and dissemination of knowledge,” said Ohio State President Michael V. Drake. “Through this first-of-its-kind event, Ohio State will focus on expanding ... Read more

Can Higher Education Recapture the Elusive American Dream? AAC&U’s 2018 Annual Meeting will address higher education’s role in the American Dream in the face of a narrative arguing that the two have become disconnected. On a societal level, the American Dream has long been associated with improvement in quality of life from generation to generation. ... Read more