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Colorado Campus Compact Press Room
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March 4 |
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"I Am Higher
Education"
march from
Auraria
campus to
the Colorado
State
Capitol.
Click
here to
see the
Denver Post
Photo
Gallery's
image
coverage as
students
speak out
for Higher
Ed funding!
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March 1 |
CONGRATULATIONS
to the
President's
Higher
Education
Community
Service
Honor Roll
The
President's
Higher
Education
Community
Service
Honor Roll,
launched in
2006,
annually
recognizes
institutions
of higher
education
for their
commitment
to and
achievement
in community
service. The
President's
Honor Roll
increases
the public's
awareness of
the
contributions
that
colleges and
their
students
make to
local
communities
and the
nation as a
whole.
President
Obama has
pledged to
make service
a central
cause of his
administration
and wishes
to
commemorate
the
significant
role that
higher
institutions,
their
students,
staff, and
faculty play
in helping
to solve
pressing
social
problems in
the nation's
communities.
CCC
recipients:
Honor Roll
with
Distinction
Colorado
State
University,
Fort Collins
Mesa State
College,
Grand
Junction
Honor Roll
Colorado
Christian
University,
Lakewood
Johnson &
Wales
University,
Denver
University
of Denver,
Denver
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February 18 |
On his first day in office, Patrick Corvington, the new CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, speaks about his background in the nonprofit sector and the unprecedented opportunity to address the nation’s challenges by expanding service and volunteering in the United States. See the YouTube video.
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January 18 |
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MLK Day of
Service observed around
Colorado, at six service sites
from participating CCC member
campuses
To see all
of CCC"s 2010 MLK activities
please click
here.
Denver Public
School's Student Board talks
about the importance of Martin
Luther King's Legacy after their
Service Rally on this Lyn Alweis
video:
To see more MLK activities in
Colorado, please visit The
Governor's Commission on
Community Service- MLK Day
Annual report
here.
Click on the links to see the
national movement: See
winner's of NCCC's
media competition &
photos.
We would like to
thank all of our wonderful
grantors and grantees for making
this important work possible!
A special thank you to Leslie
Garvin and Kara Brown from North
Carolina Campus Compact.
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December 15 |
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Lafayette
Mock
City Council Meeting
A testament to
Access Colorado, Colorado Campus
Compact and Public Achievement's
impact on students and their
community, Lafayette student's
host a "Mock City Council
Meeting"
http://www.dailycamera.com/lafayette-news/ci_14005692
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September 4 |
Colorado Campus
Compact releases Colorado's MLK Day
Subgrantees
Colorado Campus Compact would like to
congratulate the following campuses and
ACCESS CO VISTA members that have been
awarded the 2010 Colorado's MLK Day
Grant:
- Colorado State
University's Laura
Adams-Davidson and Maggie
Oberman
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- Metropolitan State
College of Denver, and
University of
Colorado-Denver's Alexandra
Basse
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- University of Colorado
Boulder IECE and INVST's
Enna Kladstrup and Kathleen
Wiley
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- University of Denver-
Center for Community
Engagement and Service
Learning's Sarah Rauenhorst
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We look
forward to these exciting projects and
creating meaningful cultural competency
at our member institutions across
Colorado. For more information please
stay posted to the
MLK section of our website.
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August 18, 2009 |
University of Colorado
at Boulder chosen as an
Ashoka 2009-2010
Changemaker Campus
Five Universities Will Join Consortium to Create the Ideal “Changemaker Campus”
Now in its second year, the partnership brings together students, faculty, and staff from across campus to transform their university into a hub for social change. "Today's generation of students is as socially engaged and ready to get to work as any in a generation. Unfortunately, this remarkable group of young people is about to walk into a job market as dismal as any in three generations,” said Phil Auerswald, one of the leaders of the partnership... [read more]
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July 31, 2009 |
Colorado Campus Compact
releases Website RFP
We
are now accepting
proposals for the
redesign of our
website. Please note
that proposals are due
Aug 17th. We
request notification of
intent to bid by Aug 10th,
as this will give us an
estimate of time
necessary to review
proposals. You may
submit further questions
to Lauren Alweis at
compact@regis.edu or
303-458-4193.
Click here to open the
RFP.
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July 20, 2009 |
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May 14, 2009 |
Colorado Campus Compact's Second Annual
Buffalo Can Challenge produces
yet another winner...
only this time in the hearts of the
hungry!
Visit The University of
Colorado's Buffalo Can- Challenge |
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May 14, 2009 |
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CU GRADUATE HEADS TO AFRICA WITH PEACE CORPS AS PART OF PASSION TO
IMPROVE GLOBAL HEALTH
Before applying
to medical schools, University of
Colorado at Boulder graduate Nick
Breitnauer is taking a two-year hiatus
to teach in sub-Saharan Africa with the
Peace Corps.
"One major
inspiration to serve is that it is a
very real, powerful way to serve the
community in which I'm placed," said
Breitnauer, who graduated May 8 with
bachelor's degrees in molecular,
cellular and developmental biology and
psychology. "I truly believe I can
improve the quality of life of those I
will be teaching."
He will leave
this November to join a corps of fellow
volunteers and begin training. During
his service, Breitnauer will direct a
class in secondary biology,
incorporating concepts of health and
environmental education as well as
promoting school and community
involvement. He also will take on a
self-directed project where he plans to
work in various health centers across
the region.
"I am excited
about understanding much better what it
would look like for me to work as a
doctor internationally," Breitnauer
said. "More specifically, I don't just
want to be another volunteer for
international medical foundations, but I
want to work tirelessly at real,
systemic changes in international
health."
Part of his
motivation for working on these changes
in Africa, Breitnauer explained, came
about from a previous volunteer trip he
took to a township in Cape Town, South
Africa. "I loved the culture," said
Breitnauer, who directed a camp there
and also spent a year teaching English
in China.
He learned
during his visit that 30 to 50 percent
of the children of the township were HIV
positive.
"I was
completely captivated by the smiles upon
the faces of the children, constantly
glowing in the face of hardship," he
said. "It became very clear to me that
the hope within these children was
something special. Their joy shone
through the darkness of an epidemic.
From that moment, my heart was
captivated by the African people and I
remain driven to be a change agent in
the face of this enormous battle for
global health."
Breitnauer's
background in leadership will assist his
efforts to make an impact through his
service. In addition to being in the
Presidents Leadership Class, he also is
one of two recipients, statewide, of the
Colorado Leadership Alliance Student
Leader of the Year award.
This honor,
presented by 9News, the Boettcher
Foundation and the Denver Metro Chamber
of Commerce and other organizations, was
created to recognize students who
demonstrate extraordinary support of
their campus leadership programs,
exceptional service to their community,
and outstanding character and personal
resilience.
"Nick leads with
integrity and compassion," said Barbara
Volpe, executive director of the
Presidents Leadership Class. "He leads
by connecting to others and drawing out
their strengths. That is a quality not
many people possess."
Contact: Nick
Breitnauer,
nicholas.breitnauer@colorado.edu
Dani Rodriguez,
720-217-5129 May 13, 2009
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April 22, 2009 |
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A huge thank you to all of the people
that helped make the Civil Rights Road
Trip such a success. Here all about it
through Road Tripper testimonials:
Civil
Rights Road Trip 2009
See more including a video created by
VISTA Member Laura Adams-Davidson at our
MLK Day of Service Page
CCC Road Trippers from
left, Sandra Mitchell, Ms. Mitchell,
Josh Hansen, Lauren Alweis, Stacey
Hammond, Matt Clark, Laura
Adams-Davidson, Peter Dearth and Jessica
Adams |
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February 5, 2009 |
Colorado Campus Compact's Winter Newsletter
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January 21, 2009 |
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MLK Day of Service observed nationally, four
CCC Campuses take part.
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November 18, 2008 |
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COLLEGE STUDENTS GET OUT THE VOTE in RECORD
NUMBERS
 “They” said young people
did not care enough to register to vote.
“They” said young people
would not follow through… and vote… early…
nor
on Election Day.
“They” were wrong.
Campus Compact was founded
on this very notion that young people care, very
deeply, about the civic health of their
communities. Over the Compact’s more than 20
year history working on civic engagement among
college campuses, we’ve come to know that when
students are given a positive and constructive
opportunity to engage in their communities, they
respond, en masse. In Colorado for example,
college students volunteer more than any other
age group in the state, and they volunteer among
the highest rates in the country, according to
the UPS Foundation’s Impact Survey.
The 2008 Presidential
Election has proven the power of the collective
college student voice when they are motivated to
engage. In the 2004 Presidential election, the
Pew Charitable Trusts invested in college
student voter engagement participation among
youth ages 18 – 35. These investments helped
grow youth participation by 11% in Colorado
alone. National media has already attributed
the youth turnout as a significant part of the
largest voter turnout in our nation’s history.
Please join Campus Compact
in thanking our college student Get Out The Vote
organizers and their campus advisors from Campus
Compact member campuses who received funding
support from gifts facilitated by civic author
and philanthropist, Paul Loeb.
Colorado Campus Compact
grantees:
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Fort Lewis College |
Johnson & Wales
University |
Naropa University |
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Regis University |
University of Colorado at
Boulder |
University of Colorado at
Denver |
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University of Denver |
University of Northern
Colorado |
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When
campaigns choose to go positive, college
students will engage. When college students
engage, the course of history can be changed.
We’ve seen it on more than a third of our
nation’s college campuses who are members of
Campus Compact.
See some of their hard work here...
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University of
Denver
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Regis University
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University of
Colorado at Denver
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Aug 12, 2008 |
ACCESS Colorado VISTA Team wins
BEST LARGE STRUCTURE at CU Boulder's Buffalo Can
Challenge for their 'Pathway to Success'
Can-U-Niversity!
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FEBRUARY 15, 2008 |
RAZE The
Machine; Rebuild Our
Democracy
100 Students
from around the West discuss personal obstacles to
political engagement and offer suggestions to local
politicians...
View the Press Release
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February 14, 2008 |
Colorado Daily writer Lance Vaillancourt's interview
with Father Sheeran about Colorado Campus Compact's
mission and his role as founder.
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