ERCC Registration Flash Sale-$100 off: Sept 9-11, 2015

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3-DAY SALE!!!* September 9-11, 2015 $100 off all Registrations! REGISTER TODAY OCTOBER 14-16, 2015 NEWARK, NEW JERSEY ACT FAST!!!* *conference presenter rates will continue at their early bird rate As a vital agent of social change, higher education is integral to creating vibrant, healthy communities in our towns, cities, regions, and our nation. To this end, the 2015 Eastern Region Campus Compact (ERCC) conference will advance our understanding of the intersection of collective impact and community engagement. This conference will highlight emerging theory and practice in place-based collective impact initiatives, moving beyond isolated efforts to conjoin the resources and assets of higher education with those of our communities. ERCC will provide a forum to showcase the strategic engagement of faculty, students and the wider higher education community through engaged scholarship, cross-sector partnerships, service-learning, student research, and volunteer opportunities. OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS Jeanna Keller Berdel Senior Strategy Office at the Lumina Foundation Thursday, October 15th 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ The Intersection of Community Engagement and Collective Impact   Jeanna Keller Berdel is Senior Strategy Officer for Lumina Foundation. She joined the newly formed Foundation in 2002, working primarily on pre-college access issues for underserved populations. Her current work focuses on strategies for sixty percent of the adult population to attain a post secondary education by the year 2025 through regional/ metro networks and community organizations. Her other major responsibilities include supporting a major Lumina Latino Student Success initiative in four metro areas. Prior to joining Lumina Foundation, Berdel worked in corporate philanthropy and educational outreach. She has held a variety of positions including positions in sales and marketing, corporate communications and community development. Berdel graduated from Purdue University with a degree in education and earned an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University. VIEW THE FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE HERE! REGISTER TODAY CLOSING PRESIDENTIAL PANEL Newark City of Learning Collaborative: Transforming a City Through High Level Collaboration Friday, October 16th 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Essex County College, Newark, NJ Dr. Nancy Cantor, Chancellor - Rutgers University - Newark Dr. Joel Bloom, President - New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Gale Gibson, President - Essex County College Dr. Brian Strom, Chancellor - Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences Honorable Ras Baraka, Mayor - City of Newark Moderator: Andrew Seligsohn, President - Campus Compact    The Newark City of Learning Collaborative (NCLC)  institutions is comprised of the Council of Higher Education in Newark (CHEN), along with 60+ agencies and institutions mostly representing philanthropy, local and state government agencies, and corporate partners to use educational opportunities to inspire city-wide change in the City of Newark. As we all know, the vast majority of current and future employment opportunities require a post-secondary credential.  The higher education community is banding together to ensure that the city’s population is equipped and prepared to assume employment opportunities as they become available.  With the goal of assisting 25% of the city’s population attain a post-secondary credential by the year 2025, this collaborative is implementing a number of intentional interventions to reach this goal.  This approach ensures that all vital agencies work closely along with city residents to read this goal.  NCLC has the technical assistance and reliable data to direct planning and decision making.  ERCC 2015 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ERCC is pleased to welcome a diverse set of speakers who are scholars and leaders of civic engagement and social change efforts in higher education and civil society. Attendees will interact with these experts through pre-conference institutes, workshops, keynote, plenaries and panels throughout the program. To view all Conference Speaker Bios visit: CLICK HERE ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP, ENGAGED TEACHING, AND THE PUBLIC PURPOSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION Chief Academic Officers Invitational Led by Andrew Seligsohn, President-Campus Compact Thursday, October 15th 10:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (includes lunch) New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ In 1999, a group of higher education leaders drafted the Presidents’ Declaration on the Civic Responsibility of Higher Education, an elegant statement that diagnoses a democratic deficit in the United States and calls upon colleges and universities to respond to that deficit by educating students for democracy, building partnerships to advance public goods, and aligning incentives with these objectives. The Presidents’ Declaration has become the core statement of the commitments of Campus Compact members, signed by hundreds of presidents over the ensuing sixteen years. A key theme in the Presidents’ Declaration is the essential connection between the academic mission of higher education and its democratic role. The statement acknowledges that more students are involved in community service then ever before, but it notes that, “this service is not leading students to embrace the duties of active citizenship and civic participation.” The Declaration identifies a central place for colleges and universities in enabling students to understand public policy issues, their historical context, and the processes for making change. And it embraces a vision of experiential civic learning: “We must teach the skills and values of democracy, creating innumerable opportunities for our students to practice and reap the results of the real, hard work of citizenship.” The Declaration calls upon institutions to bring all of their knowledge resources to bear on public challenges and identifies the necessity of an engaged faculty. In short, the President’s Declaration recognizes that colleges and universities can achieve the public purposes for which they were founded only when their teaching and scholarly capacities are fully engaged in that effort. Earlier this year, looking toward Campus Compact’s thirtieth anniversary in the 2015-16 academic year, our Board of Directors looked back at the Presidents’ Declaration and said this: The Presidents’ Declaration is a source of both pride and dissatisfaction. We are proud that our core statement of principles continues to speak with a clear and relevant voice about the challenge before us. We are dissatisfied that too much of the agenda announced in the Declaration remains unfinished. While higher education has made progress in accepting our civic responsibility, the pace of progress is too slow. With inequality on the rise and our collective capacity to practice democracy on the wane, we must take decisive actions to accelerate the process of change. The Board chose therefore to create a successor to the Presidents’ Declaration, an Action Statement through which member presidents and chancellors will affirm specific commitments to put the principles of the Declaration into practice. In this session, we will discuss an advanced draft of the Action Statement. This will be an opportunity to respond to the document before it is finalized. Most importantly, it will be an opportunity to discuss the central role of the Chief Academic Officer in re-orienting colleges and universities toward the achievement of their public purposes. For more information on Newark, visit: www.gonewark.com