Colorado Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader Position Announcement The Colorado Campus Compact (CCC) Access Colorado program is seeking an AmeriCorps*VISTA team leader to support 21 VISTAs placed at 11 host site educational institutions in Colorado. The VISTA leader will be based in the CCC office at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. Campus Compact ...

Overview of the Spiritual Empowerment of Junior Youth Program The Magdalene Carney Bahá\'í Institute (MCBI) is a non-profit organization providing educational and service programs to children, youth, and adults of all faiths and denominations. These programs are designed to empower individuals by developing their spiritual and intellectual capacities for the ...

See link bellow for complete job information: http://www.umaine.edu/eo/jobs/ss/08163%20coord%20bodwell.html University of Maine seeks a Coordinator of the Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism. Position requires a bachelor’s degree (masters in higher education, student personnel or related field preferred); experience working with college-age students; experience with community nonprofit and charitable organizations; budgeting and fundraising ...

Thirty Americorps VISTA students…came to Lee University Thursday and Friday to learn how to better serve their communities and leave behind an enabling network upon which to build. The two-days of training was conducted by Mani Hull, executive director of the Tennessee Campus Compact, an organization of 28 colleges and universities… Read ...

Amherst College seeks a Manager of Internship Programs to join the Career Center and Center for Community Engagement teams. Reporting to the Directors of the Career Center (CC) and Center for Community Engagement (CCE), the Manager will work collaboratively with CC/CCE team members to advise and educate underclass students ...

April 13-14, 2010 In a rapidly changing and uncertain world, higher education has the potential and obligation to prepare students as problem-solvers able to address the complex challenges of the 21st century.  Yet our institutions also face internal and external challenges—they need to focus on improving access and retention, identifying and ...

When Rapides Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Connie R. Cooper began planning for her organization's spring marketing campaign, she said her first concern was cost.…But then she came across Louisiana State University at Alexandria's Office of Service Learning, a new campus office that offers a program that trimmed her costs ...

More than 50 N.C. Wesleyan College students, faculty and staff members fanned out across Rocky Mount on Saturday in a day of service that marked the first initiative of Wesleyan’s new Office of Community Engagement.…N.C. Wesleyan President James A. Gray III said Saturday’s volunteer effort is just the beginning…“Our Office ...

Discerning television viewers may notice a recurrent theme on their favorite shows this week. The doctors on ABC's "Private Practice" give homeless teenagers free checkups. On NBC's "30 Rock," page Kenneth Parcell tries to adopt all the dogs at an animal shelter. And two characters on CBS' "Numb3rs" talk about ...

Citizenship requires networks and networks can confer citizenship. The theme of the 2010 conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship explores the similarities and the tensions between networks and citizenship in the past, present, and future. It also considers how networks have shaped citizenship and how citizenship has ...

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to the Florida Campus Compact awards luncheon at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami to tell the students and educators to make community service a priority. Chuck Fadely / Miami Herald Staff

Get experience. Get out of your comfort zone. Get outside. If you need a change and want be a part of a change larger than yourself, then get involved. Mile High Youth Corps is looking for 19-24 year old motivated candidates for The AmeriCorps Leadership and Conservation Program. The AmeriCorps Leadership ...

President Barack Obama received a hearty "Howdy" from more than 2,000 attendees at the Presidential Forum on community service Friday afternoon… "Service isn't separate from our national priorities or second to our national priorities, it's integral to achieving our national priorities," Obama said.… Read the full story in The Battalion Online.

At 13, Geoffrey Canada knew that he had to help save himself and that, if he could, his life would be about saving others. A product of the rough and tumble South Bronx in the 1950s, the Harvard alumnus grew up in “one of the most troubled communities in America.” From an ...

Many MSU students are looking for a way to dominate their next interview and a way to make it through college without lacking that sense of personal accomplishment.…Volunteering is a fun, rewarding experience that you are sure never to forget, Into the Streets co-chair president Brigid Sweeney said, and there are ...

First lady Michelle Obama says it's becoming increasingly cool among today's youth to be involved in public service, but the question is how to harness that interest over the long-term. Obama was the keynote speaker Thursday at the Florida Campus Compact Awards Gala... Read the full story in The Miami Herald.

20th Annual Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values February 4-6, 2010 The Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Two Decades of College Student Character and Values Development: A Retrospect and a Call to Future Action Call for Proposals The Jon C. Dalton Institute on College Student Values has focused on issues related to trends in college ...

In order to keep track of service hours logged, George Washington University launches a website this week to monitor the progress toward securing the First Lady as a commencement speaker following her 100,00-hour challenge. Read the full article in The Daily Colonial

Here’s a way for students and parents to size up potential colleges using a metric not found in most guide books: Which institutions have the best relationships, fiscal and otherwise, with the communities in which they reside? Dr. Evan S. Dobelle, the president of Westfield State College in Massachusetts has compiled just ...

The Western Region Campus Compact Consortium (WRRCC) is seeking proposals for the 13th Annual Continuums of Service Conference, Vision, Courage, Leadership: Engagement to Strengthen Communities, to be held in Portland, OR on March 31 – April 2, 2010. The conference proposal review committee seeks proposals for sessions that are geared toward varying ...