Programs
Kansas Campus Compact supports programs that promote service initiatives to develop students' citizenship skills, help campuses forge effective community partnerships, and provide resources and practical guidance for faculty seeking to integrate civic engagement into their teaching and research.
Serve 2 Succeed Corps (AmeriCorps)
The Serve 2 Succeed Corps is an initiative designed to harness the power of peer mentoring and service-learning to increase student retention at all colleges in Kansas.
KsCC Engaged Faculty Fellows
Each year KsCC selects 2-3 faculty from member campuses to recognize as champions for engaged teaching and research. They receive a stipend and conduct collaborative research on service-learning and engagement.
KsCC Webinar Series
These webinars are designed to provide a variety of opportunities to learn from experts in the fields of civic engagement and service-learning from Kansas and across the nation.
Celebrate Kansas/Serve Kansas Grants
In recognition of Kansas Day, KsCC provides mini-grant support for efforts by colleges and their communities to celebrate state history and serve the needs of those around us.
Midwest Campus Compact STEM Consortium Grants (Learn and Serve America)
The Midwest Campus Compact STEM Consortium provides training and technical assistance to sub-grantees as they implement multi-institution service-learning projects to increase student engagement, participation, and persistence in STEM disciplines while helping to address local community concerns about food, its production, and its distribution; and about nutrition and related health issues. Funded service-learning projects will bring together multiple post-secondary institutions to collectively address local/regional food related issues such as, but not limited to, food security, sustainable agriculture, nutrition education, and childhood obesity/diabetes. Sub-grantees will gain expertise in designing, implementing, and assessing courses that use complex and compelling social issues to deliver STEM instruction building a cohort of experienced service-learning practitioners in each participating state.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service Grants
Kansas Campus Compact, with the support of the North Carolina Campus Compact, is proud to promote the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service program by offering $2,500 in five sub-grants to campuses creating or expanding MLK Jr. Day of Service curricular or co-curricular service-learning activities that contribute to physically, emotionally, and economically healthier families, especially among low-income Kansans.
Campus Compact Awards
In addition to the national Frank Newman and Thomas Ehrlich awards, KsCC is currently developing state awards to recognize the outstanding public service achievements of students, faculty, staff, and community partners in Kansas.
WaterLINK
WaterLINK is now coordinated by the Kansas State University Center for Engagement and Community Development and funded by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. WaterLINK aims to restore and preserve water quality in high priority watersheds through community/university partnerships. WaterLINK will help provide undergraduate students with real-world, community-based service opportunities, and link communities with state and university resources. Minigrants are available both for university faculty and interested communities.
