Maine Campus Compact Programming:

Engaged Department Initiative

The Engaged Department Initiative focuses on academic departments and aims to help faculty and staff design seamless sequences of service learning courses. The program is geared towards professionals who already utilize service learning, those who wish to do so, and departments which wish to further solidify their commitment to the pedagogy. A second focus of the Initiative is to support campuses in changing faculty rewards structures, policy and practices to support engaged scholarship and teaching.

VISTA - Maine Campus Compact has been running a VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) program for over 10 years. In 2009-2010 our VISTAS are working with colleges and universities to fight poverty by building capacity for community service and service-learning.
College Access Corps - The College Access Corps is a new program designed to improve aspirations to and enrollment in higher education among high school students in Maine. Members work directly in high schools as well as in partnership with a local college or university to achieve these goals.
Serve Northern New England Education Award - Member campuses in Northern New England run programs for enrolled students to do community service and recruit other students to do community service. Upon completion of a certain number of service hours, students receive a partial Education Award.
Sustainability Internship Education Award - If a student completes 300 hours of service for an environmental organization (nonprofit or governmental) before September 14, 2010, they are eligible to receive an Education Award of approximately $1000 to put towards tuition or paying off student loans.
Next Year 2010-2011
- College Access & Success
- Sustainable Environmental Entrepreneurs
- VISTA
- Serve Northern New England Education Award

The Civic Leadership Network (CLN) is a program of the Campus Compacts of Northern New England. It is an online community of students and staff which offers: a calendar of trainings within the CLN, a framework of skills, knowledge, and values for the growth and development of civic leadership, as well as opportunities for students to network with each other across the state and region.

Maine Campus Compact is establishing a number of sustainability programs. These are designed to support the growing interest among students in the environmental movement and further the work of environmental organizations in Maine. These programs currently include a sustainability internship database, education awards, a training institute and the Sustainable Environment Entrepreneurs AmeriCorps program.

We are pleased to both present and support multiple opportunities for professional development and networking through our workshops and conferences.
- Sustainability Training Institute
- New England Regional Campus Compact Conference

The Campus Compacts of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont offer a consulting program to support campuses as they integrate service-learning and civic engagement programming into their curricula. Consultants are available to provide technical assistance and development training designed to meet the needs of faculty, administrators, or Community Service Directors. The goals of this program are: to assist colleges and universities and their faculty in implementing high quality, academically based service learning as a teaching and learning strategy - and - to support campuses in their efforts to infuse civic engagement into their curriculums.

Each year, Maine Campus Compact presents awards to faculty and students, and new in 2010, campus departments throughout the state who have embraced our mission of reinvigorating the civic component of higher education.