Samuel Huntington Public Service Award

  • The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides a $10,000 stipend for a graduating college senior to pursue one year of public service anywhere in the world. The award allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.

    The deadline to apply for the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award is February 15, 2010.  Please click here for more information and to obtain an application.

At A Glance: Engaging Students with the Community

  • The Harward Center for Community Partnerships offers students the opportunity to engage with community partners through:

    Community-Based Learning: Academically connected community-based work that includes courses, research, thesis, and independent study;

    Fellowships/Community Work-Study: Paid employment that includes work with non-profit agencies;

    Volunteerism: Student-led community engagement activities that are not tied to a course and are unpaid. These are one-time, short-term or ongoing activities supported by the Student Volunteer Fellows.

Kudos

  • A plan by three Bates College students to offer Tanzanian street children a survival alternative to a pervasive sex-for-food trade has won a $10,000 award from the 100 Projects for Peace program.

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Faculty Profile

  • In April 2007, Lee Abrahamsen was one of three Maine college educators to receive the consortium's Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence (named for Bates President Emeritus Harward).

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National Recognition

  • The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently selected Bates College for its new Community Engagement Classification, created to recognize colleges and universities that have institutionalized community engagement in their endeavors.

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Connections

   
Campus Compact

Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents — representing some 6 million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and community-based learning in higher education.

Imagining America

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design.

Project Pericles

Project Pericles is a not-for-profit organization that encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community.

National CBR Networking Initiative

With a three-year grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service, the National CBR Networking Initiative will support the development of high-quality community-based research (CBR) as a form of community-based learning and create a national networking structure that assists and connects practitioners. This effort will move CBR from the margins of the academy to the center through:

  • Spreading the practice of CBR by students, faculty, and community partners;
  • Providing tools and resources to ensure quality and collaboration at the local, state, and national levels;
  • Expanding faculty development and documenting innovative practices; and
  • Increasing the organizational capacity of our community partners.
CBRnet.org

This website is part of the National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative, which is being managed by Princeton University's Community-Based Learning Initiative and the Bonner Foundation with funding support from the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Public Humanities Collaborative

The Public Humanities Collaborative provides a gathering place, a ‘commons,’ where Michigan State University faculty, students, and outreach professionals from the arts, humanities, and design disciplines can collaborate with community groups, build strong campus-community partnerships, enhance public understanding of liberal arts for democracy, and engage in cultural work that serves the public interest.