Listening Tour
2018-11-16 09:30 - 12:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Bicycle Factory Building, 201 Front Avenue SW #340, Grand Rapids, MI, 49504, United States
As the new director of Campus Compact for Michigan, I am using the 2018-2019 academic year to hold listening tours throughout Michigan. The concept of a listening tour is to learn about the different member campuses. Specifically, I want to gain a better understanding of the work you all are doing around community and civic engagement. The information gathered will inform future strategic plans.
Proposed Topic Areas
We may discuss the topic areas below. While we may not cover them all, I encourage you think about what is listed here.

Community and civic engagement champions on your campus and in your community.
Hallmark programs and partnerships.
Assessment and reporting
Recognition.
Support.
Campus priorities.
Areas of growth.
Interest hosting a regional listening tour.
Role of Campus Compact for Michigan.

Our host
Grand Valley State University is serving as the host for this first meeting and is providing us a space to reconnect, listen, and talk.

COVID-19 Conversation Series
2020-08-26 11:00 - 2020-09-09 17:00 | Webinar
COVID-19 Conversations Series
Campus Compact’s national webinar series came back for Summer 2020 with a special series focused on the needs of campuses as they thought about how to prepare for the Fall semester in light of COVID-19. CCMI/GP would like to give you a chance to talk with others to discuss locally focused information, tools, and resources. Be sure to tune in each session as we continue to prepare for the academic year. Descriptions are from the national webinars.
You are encouraged to watch the national webinar before the CCMI conversation, but it is not required. The webinars can be found on the Campus Compact website. They are also included in your event information after you register.
Schedule

Wednesday, August 12, 11:00am ET: Risk Management
Wednesday, August 19, 4:00pm ET: Part 2 – Ethical Partnerships in Community Engagement

In the context of service-learning and/or internship programs during the COVID-19 era (and beyond), what does it mean to support participation and voice amongst community partners? How can educators push students to be more critically reflective about their own positionality as it intersects with their aspirations for participatory development?

Wednesday, August 26, 11:00am ET: Part 3 – Engaging Online

In this interactive webinar, participants were presented with promising practices in building community-engaged experiences and courses online. Webinar presenters discussed a range of topics, including:

reimagining face-to-face civic and community engagement in an online environment.
incorporating effective learning design, digital tools, and assessments.
engaging community partners, students, and other stakeholders through online platforms.
naming and addressing barriers to access including how racial disparities and bias are encoded online.

Wednesday, September 2, 11:00am ET: Part 4 – Student Leadership

Democracy works best when all perspectives are included, but college students face unique barriers to participating in civic life. This panel showed how the James Madison Center for Civic Engagement and Dukes Vote are building the capacity of students as they lead 2020 Census and voter engagement initiatives. Presenters discussed how students developed and implemented a campus civic engagement plan and what they’ve learned as best practices and strategies for achieving full participation even in a time of global crisis.

Wednesday, September 9, 2:00pm ET: Part 5 – Virtual Mentoring and Tutoring

In response to COVID-19 and the call from community partners in Tampa Bay, the University of South Florida’s Office of Community Engagement and Partnerships moved quickly to facilitate collaborations for online mentoring and tutoring. By utilizing resources at the University and community organizations’ close ties to families in Hillsborough County, a new pathway to prevent K-12 learning loss during COVID-19 emerged. Actions steps, lessons learned engaging stakeholders, and discussion of implications to strengthen community engagement for a post-COVID-19 world were discussed. We will discuss what this could look like for us locally.

Engaging Equity
2020-09-01 09:00 - 2020-10-13 15:00 | Webinar
Engaging Equity Series
Campus Compact for Michigan/Great Plains is pleased to host a 7-part series on “Engaging Equity”.
Join your colleagues from across our regions as we work through the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide. Each step in the process of advancing and embedding race equity and inclusion within your institution will be the basis for our weekly conversation. We will connect our work in this series to the work being done in our community/civic engagement spaces.
Registration for this event is for the entire 7-week series. In order to create a space where participants can feel comfortable learning and sharing, I ask that you commit to the entire series during your selected time block.
Schedule
September 1
September 8
September 15
September 22
September 29
October 6
October 13
Follow this link to register for the morning group that meets at 9am Eastern/8am Central: bit.ly/9amEquity
Follow this link to register for the afternoon group that meets at 2pm Eastern/1pm Central: bit.ly/2pmEquity

Leadership Workshop
2020-09-16 13:00 - 2020-09-17 14:30 | Webinar
Authentic Leadership: Cultivating Compassion, Understanding, and Action
The events over that past few months have drastically shifted how we live our lives, engage in community work, and connect with each other. It is both a time of uncertainty and a time that can allow us to pause, reflect, and identify what we each need to be successful leaders. Join Campus Compact for Michigan for an an interactive workshop to better understand the diversity of roles we play and how to communicate our needs to those with whom we work.
This workshop, “Authentic Leadership: Cultivating Compassion, Understanding, and Action,” is delivered over two days. Participants can choose to join as individuals or invite others from their team. During our time together, you will be guided through a framework and engage in reflection exercises to help you:

See yourself in a holistic way.
Learn where and how you can influence.
Understand how your strengths align and support your work.
Develop a personal action plan for communicating personal and team needs.

This workshop is intended for anyone from a Campus Compact member campus who works in community/civic engagement or community based learning.
Schedule
Wednesday, September 16: 1-2:30pm
Thursday, September 17: 1-2:30pm
