National Campus Compact Updates and Events

National Learn and Serve Challenge

October 6-12, 2008
Take the National Learn and Serve Challenge! Join your peers from around the country for a concentrated week of special events and community outreach activities designed to raise awareness and build support for service-learning. Visit www.learnandservechallenge.org/participating.php to learn more.

Campus Compact Leadership Award for Campus and Community Engagement

Campus Compact has created the Leadership Award for Campus and Community Engagement to highlight the valuable role of the community engagement professional in higher education. This award will honor an individual whose work embodies the vision and value of the engaged campus. The objective of this award is to recognize the work of a community engagement professional who advances her/his campus's civic vision and the field by creating and/or coordinating high-quality campus and community engagement initiatives, contributing significantly to the development and sustainability of strong, reciprocal partnerships between higher education and communities, and fostering a deep culture of engagement on their campus.The 2008 application process for this award will begin August 1, 2008. Please see www.compact.org/awards/leadership/ for selection requirements.

Utah Youth Service Marathon

Kick-off for the Service Marathon will be Saturday, September 13
The Utah Youth Service Marathon is a state-wide initiative to raise awareness of youth service through demonstrating the power of youth to change communities through civic engagement and service learning. It is likely the largest youth service initiative in Utah's history and will draw significant attention to the good that can be done in our society when people of all ages come together. Playing off the marathon theme (think: 26 miles) there will be 26 impactful service projects that will run from November 2008 - April 2009, each having an element of service. Volunteers are needed to staff the kick-off event on September 13, 2008 at the state capitol. To sign up to be a volunteer at the Kick-Off event please go to: www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=639564. To propose a service project go to http://www.youthlinc.org . Project proposals are due on October 24, 2008.
The Utah Youth Service Marathon is organized by the following committee of partners: Utah State Office of Education, Utah Commission on Volunteers, Association of Youth Councils, Utah Federation of Youth, Utah Campus Compact, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring, YouthLINC, and the State Capitol Preservation Board.

5th Annual Dialogue on Democracy Save the Date

Thursday, October 23
This year's keynote speaker will be Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft!
Some information for you on Brent Scowcroft: As President and founder of The Scowcroft Group and one of the country's leading experts on international policy, Brent Scowcroft provides Group clients unparalleled strategic advice and assistance in dealing in the international arena. He served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Ford and Bush. From 1982 to 1989 he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. In this capacity, he advised and assisted a wide range of U.S. and foreign corporate leaders on global joint venture opportunities, strategic planning, and risk assessment. His prior extraordinary twenty-nine-year military career began with graduation from West Point and concluded at the rank of Lieutenant General. His Air Force service included Professor of Russian History at West Point; Assistant Air Attache in Belgrade,Yugoslavia; Head of the Political Science Department at the Air Force Academy; Office of the Secretary of Defense International Security Assistant; Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Military Assistant to President Nixon. He earned his masters and doctorate in international relations from Columbia University.