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09/04/2026

🎉 Campus Compact Announces 2026 Newman Civic Fellows

The Newman Civic Fellowship is a year-long program that recognizes students who stand out for their leadership potential and commitment to creating positive change in communities 👥

This fellowship develops civic leaders through learning and networking to drive personal, professional, and civic growth—empowering students to collaborate and create large-scale change! 🤝

“This group of exceptional students from campuses across the country is such a welcomed addition to the Newman Civic Fellowship,” said Campus Compact President Bobbie Laur. “Now more than ever, it is an honor to recognize student leaders who are applying themselves as changemakers and creating positive impact in their communities. This is just the start of their lifelong journeys as Newman Civic Fellows, and I couldn’t be more excited to watch them continue to grow and pursue their passions.”

💡 Click the link in our bio to learn more about the 2026-2027 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows!

09/03/2026

🌐 Navigating Dynamic Campus-Community Relationships, this volume utilizes conceptual frameworks around anchor institutions and place-based community engagement to explore the paradox of higher education as both rooted in place and responsive to dynamic change.

🤝 Featuring multivocal narratives from institutional and community members, it offers transformative insights and actionable strategies to help community members, administrators, instructors, researchers, and students foster agile, responsive partnerships. 🏫

👉 go to the link in our bio to grab your copy today!

08/27/2026

🍎💡”Engaging Community: A Toolkit for Reciprocal Teaching and Learning Beyond the Campus,” by Nicholas Longo (Rutgers Democracy Lab), Carmine Perrotti, Ph.D. (Feinstein Institute) & Matthew Roy (Leduc Center for Civic Engagement) co-published by Campus Compact and American Association of Colleges and Universities, is a free, open-access resource that helps educators design meaningful community-engaged learning experiences!

Organized into six adaptable modules that support faculty learning communities, professional development, graduate education, and undergraduate courses, the toolkit combines foundational concepts with:

✍️ Lesson plans
▶️ Video interviews with expert community-engaged scholars, educators, and local community practitioners
📚 Curated readings
🎯 Interactive activities
💭 Civic reflection prompts

🔗 Click the link in our bio to access the publication now!

08/19/2026

🗣️ Seeking Applications: 2026 Election Rapid Response Mini-Grants

Campus Compact is now seeking applications for the 2026 Election Rapid Response Mini-Grant Program. This initiative provides funding of $500 to $5,000 per award to support immediate, high-impact, nonpartisan activities that prepare students and campus communities for purposeful engagement around the 2026 midterm elections! 🗳️

🚨 Only 2 days left to apply! Application deadline: August 21, 2026.

🤝 Click the link in our bio to learn more and apply now!

08/18/2026

📣 Announcing the 2026–2027 Cohort of Engaged Scholars!

Campus Compact is excited to welcome 21 faculty and staff from 18 member institutions across 13 states to this year’s Engaged Scholars Initiative. 🎓

Over the next year, this cohort of early-career practitioner-scholars will strengthen their community-engaged scholarship, learn with and from one another, and develop the skills to lead equity-focused change in their institutions and communities.

Congratulations to the 2026–2027 Engaged Scholars! 👏

🔗 Head to the link in our bio to learn more!

08/13/2026

👥 Navigating Dynamic Campus-Community Relationships, published by Campus Compact, officially releases on September 3! A big shoutout to editors Suchitra V. Gururaj and Brianna Davis Johnson.

💡 This volume discusses the paradox of higher education as both rooted in place and also responsive to dynamic change. Featuring multivocal narratives from institutional and community members, it offers transformative insights and actionable strategies to help community members, administrators, instructors, researchers, and students foster agile, responsive partnerships.

🔗 Pre-orders are now available! Head to the link in our bio to reserve your copy!

07/30/2026

💡 For years, practitioners have done remarkable work in parallel. HEDEX gives it one home—where our field can contribute to building shared knowledge, cross-campus connections, and strengthening civic engagement efforts.

🔍 Explore the Resource Hub, Civic Practitioners Directory, Data Dashboard, and Credential Clearinghouse.

🤝 The real power and potential of HEDEX will be realized by each of us engaging with, contributing to, and leveraging the platform. Join HEDEX today and help strengthen democratic engagement!

📍Visit HEDEX: https://hedexchange.org/

▶️ Get a look at all the features and benefits of HEDEX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh7XL3vzdMI

07/28/2026

The CAP Readiness & Pre-Planning Interactive workshop helps individuals and teams assess their readiness for Campus Action Planning by examining current conditions, building relational capital, and strengthening the collective will to advance civic and community engagement. 💡💻

🔎 Campus Compact’s reimagined CAP initiative supports higher education leaders in aligning institutional and community priorities, empowering colleges and universities to serve as community anchors and engines of social change! 🤝

👉 Click the link in our bio to learn more and register now!

07/10/2026

🤝 Join us on Wednesday, July 22, at 2:00 p.m. ET for a webinar, co-hosted by Cornell’s Center on Democracy, the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, and Campus Compact, on how higher education institutions can participate in Braver Angels’ Citizens Commission on Immigration and foster dialogue across political and ideological differences.

The webinar will introduce the Citizens Commission on Immigration and its Common Ground Workshop model, highlight lessons from workshops and community forums held across the country, and discuss how campuses can host Braver Angels events that equip students and communities to listen, deliberate, and disagree constructively while connecting local dialogue to broader civic and policy conversations. 👩‍💻👨‍💻

👉 Head to the link in our bio to register now!

07/07/2026

The Higher Education Democracy Exchange is going live! Join the launch! 🚀

💻 HEDEX is an online platform designed to connect and support democracy-focused work across higher education. Join us for remarks from HEDEX founders, a live walkthrough of the platform, voices from the field, and information about how you can be part of what’s next.

🗣️ Hear from featured speakers:
• Ashley Finley, American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
• Bobbie Laur, Campus Compact
• Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo, Maricopa Community Colleges
• Melody Barnes, University of Virginia
• Nicholas Longo, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
• John Bridgeland, More Perfect
• Zoë Jenkins, Civics Unplugged

🔗 Register today and join us for the launch of HEDEX!

https://events.compact.org/hedex-launch

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