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[4th Annual Innovations in Teaching Forum – Service Learning Keynote]
[Keynote Speaker Cathy Engelken]
[Cathy Engelken] Technology Hi I'm, I'm really happy to be here
thank you for taking time out of your end of the week
to spend a little bit of time with me.
I need the clicker [hand-gesture] so I can click.
I'm going do a little Campus Compact Introduction
and a little Western Illinois Introduction
and we're going to start talking about Envisioning
the Engaged Campus.
For those of you who don't know
Illinois Campus Compact is seventeen years old. We started
in 1993 way back then
and we were over at Illinois State University and while
I was there, I came in 2000
I meet Doctor Goldfarb and so we have
a long history. So we're at 2010.
Illinois Campus Compact has forty-three member campuses.
We actively engage presidents - I go and hassle them
every now and then and try and talk them into
into doing some work for me.
We work with faculty, staff and students on our campuses
around Service and Service Learning.
We try to promote a renewed vision of higher education
a little while into my presentation were going to talk about some trends.
We support the Civil Development of Students
Doctor Thomas said that you know we're all about students here at WIU
and I think that's really important and critical
You know, why else have a university
You know, if you're not going to be about the students?
And we try to support the campus as
an active and engaged member of the community.
We have 35 State Campus Compacts
around the country out of the 50 states, that's not too bad.
Our National Office is in Boston, Massachusetts
and I'm very proud of the fact
that Illinois Campus Compact is now a 501C3.
I'm also very - you know - I'd stay awake at night
worrying about how were going to pay for everything
that Campus Compact needs to pay for.
We're governed by a President's Board of Trustees and were hosted at
DePaul University so I would invite you if you're in downtown Chicago
please stop by, we're on the corner of Jackson and Wabash.
So the vision is to strategically plan and impact
service in civic learning toward responsible citizenship and community building.
We try to provide services, training and support
to our 43 members and to assist campuses
in developing their sustainable partnerships with, with P12
and the community organizations that are
that are in their community, and of course
we try to impact the lives of students through all of this training.
Okay, some of the benefits of membership. I'm just gonna run through these really, really
quickly and maybe not even hit them all but,
you know, we try to provide models for the work that you do
We try to assist institutions
I stop in on campuses as often as I can.
I was here last October and I'm here again
that's - if I make it twice to a campus in a year, that's really good.
Because we're just so busy. We offer Presidential Fellows Grants.
Doctor Goldfarb had one of our McCormick Presidential Grants
two years in a row when we started in,
I think it was 2003 when McCormick started funding us
so the grant was to begin to civically engage and develop
some service and service learning on your campus.
So he was the benefactor of one of those grants
and you know it's a pretty prestigious grant
we're the only state in the country that has Presidential Fellows
for Campus Compact and for this work, so you know I -
I very proudly go to our Executive Directors meetings and,
and talk about the, the I think we have 14 presidents now in
the state who have been Presidential Fellows.
We do annual President Meetings and of course we try to publically
let everybody know about all the work that we do.
We do grant opportunities
and I'm gonna go through a list of some of the things
that are a part of, of the Western list.
We recognize and resource faculty
we do disciplinary workshops we do grants
and the community service directors in our state
meet at least every other month to talk about the
work that, that there doing.
So some of our signature programs I talked about
the McCormick Presidential Fellows already.
We also have the Raise Your Voice Student Fellows so the students
get a thousand dollars for a project that they might be interested in doing.
We have the Carter Campus Community Partnerships
Western was a recipient of one of those a couple of years ago.
We have State Farm Faculty Fellows
this year we have four Fellows from four different institutions.
We do that and we have MC3 Fellows which is an Education Award
through the Mid-West for students who are doing
service and receive a thousand dollar Ed Award
at the end of their year of service and we have an
AmeriCorps Vista Program and I'm proud to say that Western
has a Vista Andrea's over here on at this table so.
So that is some of the programs we have
my staff is very meager myself, Amy Ludwig is our Associate Director we have
a Vista leader Aaron [Unintelligible] and right now
I have a Chicago semester intern Brittany Reid.
I don't have this if I stand here can you still here me?
Okay I, I talked to Mary last night Mary Kubisak and I said
you know what I just want to put into my presentation
the things that, that are going on and that have been apart of
the Western history with us.
So just so you know that you've been, you've been members since
two thousand I believe I'm not quite sure what year Al came
President Goldfarb came to, to Western was it in two thousand?
Two thousand-one okay and I, I knew the President when
was the Provost over at, at Illinois State because
we were located over there and he was one of our Presidential Fellows
for two years Mary Kubisak who is in you're volunteer center
is on my Illinois Campus Compact Executive Counsel
I call and bend her ear a lot
and Mary's also one of our Community Service Director Fellows this year.
This is the first time year for those Fellows and Mary
is the Project Manager for the Regional Dialogues that we've done.
So when she's missing on campus
she's probably doing something for me
over the years Western has hosted a number of things
Service Learning Workshop way back when early on
I think it was in two thousand three or two thousand four
you held a Faculty Community Engagement Institute here
some of you may have been apart of that.
We had I think I don't know probably ten or twenty faculty
that were apart of that we did our State Student Conference here
in two thousand four we did a
Civic Engagement Forum for the State
I can't remember two thousand five I think it was or two thousand six
and Doctor Goldfarb hosted that and today I'm here doing the
Envisioning the Engaged Campus
as I said you have an AmeriCorps Vista for two years
and there will be I know an application for the third year.
We also know that Western sponsored our
Twentieth National Campus Compact Anniversary by bringing
sponsoring a table and bringing students
and also our Fifteenth Anniversary Gala what else.
so you've had two Presidential Fellowships
we've talked about the CSD Fellowship the Carter Award
I know that you know that Mary has taken students to Greece and that
part of that fellowship award went to that.
You've had a Community Engagement Grant,
A Partnership In Action Institute Grant for Faculty and Community this year
you had a Martin Luther King grant for the students
I know you did a Service Learning Survey
for the area not just here in Macomb but the area that
Mary and some faculty put together
and a state you've been just basically
evolved in the state in all the work that we have been doing.
I'm just so appreciative of that
and you know this is, this is been a really a good thing
for Mary and I to do because sometimes we forget
you know how much, how much has happened over
the course of a period of time with an organization and, and with the faculty
and what's been going on, on your campus.
As I'm gearing up for renewing my memberships I'm, I'm thinking
you know this is a really good thing
that I need to be saying to my campuses you know let's look at, at
what's, what's been happening you know as their saying
you know were red lining [Hand-Jester] you know memberships or whatever
I'm very proud of the fact that Western has been so involved
in the work that were doing
and you know over the course of eleven years now
you you've been really involved so thank you for that.