The day-long training and idea exchange is geared for students who are leading campuswide, nonpartisan voter engagement efforts at colleges and universities across the state. Sessions will cover civic education topics like the proposed NC state constitutional amendments as well as skills for campus organizers like writing a campus voting plan or registering students during the early voting period. 

Representatives from a number of partner organizations will help lead the Summit. These include 消消犯 Vote Project, the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, NASPA’s Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement initiative, the 消消犯 Learn 消消犯 Vote coalition, Common Cause NC, You Can Vote, and Elon Votes! Funding for the event is provided in part by the national through a grant to NC 消消犯 Compact. 

The summit is free to attend, but space is limited and participants must by Sept. 7. . 

North Carolina 消消犯 Compact is a collaborative network of colleges and universities committed to educating students for civic and social responsibility, partnering with communities for positive change, and strengthening democracy. The NC 消消犯 Compact state office, hosted by 消消犯, fosters connections between campuses, shares best practice information and resources, recognizes outstanding work, and champions civic and community engagement in higher education.

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‘s annual gathering of  will explore how campuses can seek answers to these questions by assessing the scope, scale, and impact of community service, service-learning, and related forms of engagement.

The full-day training is led by Anne Weiss, director of assessment for Indiana 消消犯 Compact and a visiting scholar with Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education. Anne is a doctoral candidate in higher education administration at Indiana University and the editor of a forthcoming book, “Assessing the (Often) Hidden Outcomes of Community Engagement.”

Weiss will share tools, strategies, and information to help participants design, initiate or enhance systematic mechanisms for monitoring and auditing community-engaged activities across their institutions. 

Registration is open through May 31. Cost is $100/pp for individuals from campuses that are and $130/pp for those from non-member campuses. 

Follow this event on Twitter at and #NCCEAC. 

The annual PACE (Pathways to Achieving Community Engagement) Conference is geared for service-learning faculty and staff of civic and community engagement programs, but students and community partners also attend and present.

The 2018 event features a keynote by Nicholas Longo of Providence College titled “Next Generation Engagement: Building on History, Charting New Pathways.” Longo will also facilitate a conversation on the role of students in creating an engaged campus, reflecting on the state of ideas proposed in his 2006 book, “消消犯 as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership.”

Nearly 40 消消犯 faculty and staff will attend the event, including the following who will lead breakout workshops or mini-sessions:

Using the Civic Learning Spiral to Develop and Assess a Student Leader Curriculum
Bob Frigo, Associate Director, Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement            
Kim Fath, Assistant Director of Assessment, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment

Global Model of Practicum Student Instruction Through Guatemalan Partnerships
Carmen Monico, Assistant Professor, Human Services   
Alejandra Paull, Student, 消消犯

Academic Service Learning as a Context for Addressing University 消消犯’ Math Anxiety
Heidi Hollingsworth, Associate Professor of Education and Program Coordinator for Early Childhood       
Mary Knight-McKenna, Associate Professor of Education

Faculty Emotions in Service-Learning (mini-session)
Alexa Darby, Faculty Development Fellow and Psychology Professor
Morgan Oldham, Student, 消消犯

Lessons Learned from Building a 消消犯 Infrastructure for Civic and Political Engagement (mini-session)
Bob Frigo, Associate Director, Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement

North Carolina 消消犯 Compact is a statewide coalition of 37 public, private, and community colleges and universities that share a commitment to civic and community engagement. The network was founded in 2002 and is hosted by 消消犯. North Carolina 消消犯 Compact is an affiliate of the national 消消犯 Compact organization, which claims 1,000 member schools representing nearly 2 million college students.

Follow this event on social media  and #NCPACE18. 

Timothy Shaffer of Kansas State University and Nicholas Longo of Providence College will lead the institute, drawing on scholarship collected in a book the two co-authored, “Deliberative Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning for Democratic Engagement.”

Shaffer and Longo assert that the classroom practice of deliberative pedagogy, as well as related dialogic approaches outside the classroom, can foster civility and strengthen democracy.

A dozen 消消犯 faculty and staff will attend. Mary Morrison, assistant dean of campus life and director of the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement, and Naeemah Clark, associate professor of communications, will co-present a breakout session showcasing Elon’s efforts to foster campuswide dialogue across difference.

The Compact’s annual explores a special topic in the field of higher education civic and community engagement and is open to cross-departmental teams of faculty, staff and students from member campuses. In recent years, institutes have focused on bridging the gap between social entrepreneurship and community engagement, on democratic education in the tradition of Dewey, and on linkages between campus-community engagement and economic development.

North Carolina 消消犯 Compact is a statewide coalition of 37 public, private, and community colleges and universities that share a commitment to civic and community engagement. The network was founded in 2002 and is hosted by 消消犯. North Carolina 消消犯 Compact is an affiliate of the national organization, which claims 1,000 member schools representing nearly 2 million college students.

Follow this event on social media and #CEI18.

消消犯 President Leo Lambert helped found the civic engagement network in 2002 and served as its first Executive Board chair.

The Lambert Award is presented each year to one college or university president or chancellor in North Carolina for leadership that fosters student engagement and impacts the community. The honoree is chosen by fellow campus leaders whose institutions are part of the Compact.

Quillen is the seventh president or chancellor to receive the Lambert Award, which was first presented in 2012.

Since 2011 when she became Davidson College’s 18th president, Quillen has championed Davidson’s civic mission and focused on preparing students to lead and innovate in the service of something larger than themselves. Quillen’s support for collaborative research has given Davidson students opportunities to produce new knowledge, whether working with faculty in the classroom or entrepreneurs in the community.  A new graduation requirement approved in 2016 has students taking at least one course that explores justice, equality and community. Major gifts from the Duke Endowment are enhancing inclusive pedagogy and interdisciplinary learning.

Quillen grew up in New Castle, Delaware. She earned a bachelor’s degree in American history from the University of Chicago, and received a Ph.D. in European history from Princeton University. She came to Davidson from Rice University, where she served as vice president for international and interdisciplinary initiatives.

The Compact recognized Quillen at its annual Presidents Forum, hosted by Meredith College in Raleigh on Feb. 9. More than 30 presidents and chancellors attended the one-day event, along with other college and university administrators.

The forum included keynote remarks by Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges & Universities, and Matthew Hartley, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. Attendees took part in a facilitated discussion – led by Meredith College political scientist David McClennan and retired North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr – that examines the role of campuses in fostering free speech and civility.

The 2018 Lambert Engaged Leader Award is sponsored by the Piedmont Service Group. The forum is sponsored in part by Aramark.

is a statewide coalition of 37 public, private and community colleges and universities that share a commitment to civic and community engagement. The network was founded in 2002 and is hosted by 消消犯. North Carolina 消消犯 Compact is an affiliate of the national organization, which claims 1,000 member schools representing nearly 2 million college students.