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West, DiSpirito earn Maine Campus Compact awards Bailey West, the University of Maine’s 2021 valedictorian from Stockton Springs, and Dominique DiSpirito, a junior from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, both earned the Maine Campus Compact’s 2021 Heart and Soul Student award.  The award, one of five administered by the Maine Campus Compact, recognizes six Maine undergraduate students who are actively involved in transforming their campuses and communities into environments of civic engagement. According to the organization, these students have developed positive community and campus change...

Communication major named Newman Civic Fellow UNG junior Justin Bray, who is pursuing a degree in communication with a concentration in public relations, was selected by Campus Compact as UNG's Newman Civic Fellow. He is one of 212 students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico in the 2021-22 academic cohort. After working for eight months on the application for the nationally competitive Harry S. Truman Scholarship, University of North Georgia (UNG) student Justin Bray wasn't ready to apply for another. But he did thanks to a little encouragement. Bray was glad he applied, as was Dr. ...

SOM Detroit Service Learning Academy Celebrates Learn & Serve Challenge Kick Off Contact: Chawn Greene-Farmer Detroit, Michigan - Today, Michigan Community Service Commission Executive Director, Paula Kaiser VanDam, was on hand to recognize the 3 rd Annual 2009 National Learn & Serve Challenge at Detroit's Service Learning Academy (DLSA).  VanDam will join 250 students in a kick off celebration at the DLSA at 3:00 p.m.  During the celebration, she will present a proclamation from Governor Jennifer M. Granholm recognizing Learn & Serve Challenge Kick Off.   "Service learning provides an opp...

Fri, 03/12/2021 - 3:30pm Celena Zacchai. (Photo courtesy University of Maine at Augusta) Campus Compact, a Boston-based nonprofit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 212 students who will make up the organization’s 2021-2022 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows, including the University of Maine at Augusta’s own Celena Zacchai. This year’s cohort includes students from 39 states, Washington, D.C., and Mexico. Celena Zacchai is a UMA Social Science major, who attends many classes at the UMA Rockland Center. In addition to being...

Ohio University junior Micaela Beatham-García has been named as a member of the prestigious 2021 Newman Civic Fellowship Cohort. A political science pre-law major, Beatham-García is also pursuing an undergraduate certificate in law, justice & culture. She was nominated to the fellowship due to her dedication to effecting social change and promoting civic engagement and dialogue.  Larry Hayman, Center for Law, Justice & Culture pre-law advisor and mentor in the Newman Fellowship, said that he “cannot think of a more deserving student than Micaela for this honor. I look forward to working...