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1 Letter rom Laurie S. Worrall,

NYCC Executive Director

3 Reection by James M. Heernan,

NYCC Senior Associate

4 A Commitment to Civic Engagement

5 Recognition or Exemplary Campus Work

6 Recognition or Student Leadership

7 The Higher Education Community Service Act

8 Proessional Development

8 Regional Roundtables

9 Co-Sponsored Events

10 Crossing Boundaries

10 Regional and Academic Discipline Networks

11 Expanding Campus Capacity

11 NYCC AmeriCorps VISTAs

12 VISTA Projects

14 Learn and Serve Grant Makes a Lasting Impact

16 Governance and Leadership

17NYCC Members

New Yrk Campus Cmpact

is an assciatin cllege

and university presidents

and their campuses cmmitted

t prmting active citizenship

as an aim higher educatin.

Inrmatin n New Yrk

Campus Cmpact initiatives,

resurces, prgrams, and

members is available at

http://nycampuscompact.org.



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In June 2010, I became the thIrd execu-

tive director o New York Campus Com-

pact (NYCC). I had the good ortune o

ollowing Jim Heernan, who had spent

ve years developing NYCC’s excellent

reputation and membership base.

Since taking the helm, I have visited 45

o our 83 member campuses and driven

across New York State rom Ithaca to Ni-

agara Falls to Potsdam to Long Island. Thegeographic diversity o the state hit home

when, in one ve-day stretch, I drove

rom the Adirondack Mountains to the

Finger Lakes Region and then to Western

New York. It elt like traveling rom New

England to the Midwest, and I never let

New York.

While I am relatively new to NYCC, I am

not new to Campus Compact, to commu-

nity and civic engagement, or to New York

State. I worked with two state Compacts

beore assuming this job; I’ve led the civic

and community engagement eorts in

Academic Aairs at two institutions; and I

was born in Syracuse. I eel as i I’ve come

home, in more ways than one.

Ater a ull year directing NYCC, I have to

say I could not have made a better deci-

sion. I have the privilege o working on

issues to which I am deeply committed,

living in an exquisitely beautiul state, and

meeting with dedicated colleagues locally

and nationally who care deeply about

education, scholarship, and strengthening

our democracy and communities. While

the times are challenging, the uture is

bright with opportunity.

In recent months we’ve introduced a new

AmeriCorps Education Award Program—

Students in Service—to our campuses,

addressed the challenges o a threatened

Corporation or National and Communi-

ty Service (an important unding source),

continued to host regional roundtables

and symposia, and brought in nationally

recognized experts or our aculty insti-

tutes.

For help in achieving these and other suc-

cesses, my thanks go to Rev. Joe Levesque

and Dr. Don Katt, co-chairs o the NYCC

Executive Committee, or providing their

eedback and support during my rst

Laurie S. Wrrall, Ed.D.

Executive Directr


ENGAGINGRESULtS

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year; Susan Murphy at Cornell, or help-

ing to navigate the complexities o the

institution; and nally the sta o NYCC,

Brittany Campese and Marianne Ridley,

or their humor, thoughtulness, and work

ethic.

This report

highlights

NYCC’s

accomplish-

ments over

the past two

years in creat-

ing and sup-

porting civic

engagement

eorts that benet our member campuses,

their internal and external communities,

and society as a whole. It also gives us a

chance to look back over the past decade

as we observe NYCC’s 10th anniversary.

Throughout the report you’ll nd a

timeline o major milestones and achieve-

ments as well as other inormation on our

growth and impact.

Anniversaries are opportunities or

celebration and refection, and NYCC

has a great deal to celebrate. While we

were chartered relatively recently, we have

quickly grown to have the largest mem-

bership o the 36 state Compacts. We have

brought millions o dollars in cash and

in-kind resources to support community

service and academic service-learning

programs on our members’ campuses. As

our institutions have expanded the deni-

tion o community engagement to include

teaching, learning, and scholarship, aculty

and students have shited rom a charity

model o working with communities to an

equity model o working as partners. We

have come a long way in 10 years!

I expect our next 10 years to be as busy

and ruitul, and I eel privileged to be

leading NYCC during such a pivotal time.

Happy 10th anniversary, and many thanks

to the committed band o leaders who

have made NYCC what it is.

the uture is

bright with

opportunity

Letter from the Executive Director (cont.)



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When I began as neW York campus

Compact’s executive director in 2005, my

son commented, “This will be an ideal job

or you to retire rom.” It was a prophetic

observation. Ater a 47-year career in

higher education as an administrator,

proessor, researcher, and consultant, I

must say that I enjoyed my NYCC stint

more than any other. So it was with a

mixture o gratitude, satisaction, and a

little sadness that I retired last year rom

this “hardest job I’ve ever loved.”

The rewards have been signicant. NYCC

has grown to more than 80 members.

We have distributed over $1.5 million in

grants. Our VISTAs have aected lives in

scores o communities in New York. The

NYCC network o colleagues has become

an active orce or building campus/com-

munity partnerships across the state and

has harnessed the energy and idealism o

thousands o students engaged in service.

We have also advanced the quality and

impact o service-learning as a pedagogy,

bringing campus resources, academic

rigor, and refection to bear on communi-

ty needs and social issues. In the process,

NYCC has been an agent or advancing

the civic engagement priorities o higher

education.

Among the many high spots I’ve enjoyed

are our grant programs or students, ourdrat legislation to support campus/com-

munity partnerships, and our

regional roundtables on topics

such as aculty tenure issues

and evaluating service-learn-

ing outcomes. Perhaps most

notable has been the progress

made by our members in

adopting and perecting the

“best practices” that NYCC has

advanced.

The high level o respect or

NYCC across the state is a

product o the strong network

o supporters who have helped

NYCC fourish, and o the con-

tinuing support o our institutional host,

Cornell University. We could not have

achieved the success we’ve had without

them.

My son was right. Retiring rom an

organization that one is proud o, and

doing work that one loves, with colleagues

whom one cherishes, is indeed an ideal

way to wrap up a career in higher educa-

tion. It has been a delightul ride, and

I am pleased to continue to serve in an

advisory role to Laurie Worrall, who has

already proven to be an accomplished and

dedicated leader. I am condent that she

will guide NYCC to continued success as it

moves into its second decade.

Pas Success, Fuure Prmise

James M. Heernan, Ph.D.

Senir Assciate




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tWo YEARS oF AC

The NYCC task rce drats a missin statement and gals.

Pace University & Unin Cllege spnsr a gathering 13 clleges and universities, at which time a task rce isrmed t establish NYCC.

1999

1999

The presidents SUNY Genese, SUNY BinghamtPace University, and Nazareth Cllege rmally assuleadership rles in develping NYCC.

2000

NYCC remained the largest state organization within the national Campus Compact network, and

its member campuses continued to lead the movement to advance civic engagement, campus/

community partnerships, and service-learning throughout 2008–2010.

A Commitment to

Civic Engagement

The 2010 Campus Compact Annual

Membership Survey highlighted NYCC

members’ commitment to the public

mission o higher education with nd-

ings that routinely outperormed nationalaverages:

• Valueofservicetothecommunityfrom

students on NYCC member campuses:

$560 million

• Studentsinvolvedinservice-learning/

community service: 41%

• Averagenumberofservice-learning

courses taught per campus: 71

• Institutionsthathostand/orfundpub-

lic dialogue on current issues: 87%

NYCC: 10-Year Snapsh

VIStA bY tHE NUMbERS

Since NYCC began its AmeriCorps VISTA program in

2003, 120 NYCC VISTA members at 52 project sites have

coordinated 50,332 volunteers in 474,014 hours o service

and helped generate more than $1.7 million in cash and

non-cash resources or their communities.

tIMELINE oF ACHIEVEMENt

The timeline at the bottom o this and the ollowing pages

oers windows into the milestones and achievements o

NYCC since its inception.

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2001

13 ounding members

2011

83 members, more than any

other state Compact

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oMPLISHMENtS

The task rce sends inrmatin abut NYCC t thepresidents all New Yrk State clleges and universities.

2000

NYCC is fcially established with 13 members,becming the 26th state rganizatin afliatedwith Campus Cmpact.

Recognition for Exemplary Campus Work

New York campuses were at the head o the pack as

recipients o the ederal President’s Higher Education

Community Service Honor Roll:

• In2008,nineNewYorkcollegesanduniversities,all

NYCC members, gained “Honor Roll with Distinction”

recognition. Thirty-eight New York institutions earned

“Honor Roll Member” status—the third highest in the

nation.

• In2009,eightNYCCmemberinstitutionsearned

“Honor Roll with Distinction.” A total o 62 New York

colleges and universities earned Honor Roll Member

or Distinction status—the highest o any state. O

those, 45 were NYCC members.

• In2010,arecordtwelveNYCCmemberinstitutions

earned “Honor Roll with Distinction.”

In the most recent round o recognition

rom the Carnegie Foundation or the

Advancement o Teaching, ten NYCC

members earned the Carnegie Classifca-

tion or Community Engagement, joining

nine others that received the designation

in 2006 and 2008:

• 2010:AdelphiUniversity,Cornell

University, Hobart and William Smith

Colleges, Jeerson Community College(SUNY), St. John’s University, Skid-

more College, Stony Brook University

(SUNY), SUNY College at Oneonta,

SUNY Oswego, SUNY College o Envi-

ronmental Science and Forestry.

• 2006/2008:DaemenCollege,Keuka

College, Nazareth College, New York

University, Niagara University, Pace

University, SUNY Cortland, Syracuse

University, Wagner College.

“ New York Campus Compact oers a wealth

o superb resources to institutions like SUNY

Cortland that are committed to teaching stu-

dents the importance o making a dierence

in the lives o others.”

ERIk J. bIttERbAUM, PRESIdENt,

SUNY CoRtLANd

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100 students, aculty, and sta rm acrss the stateattend the frst NYCC Student Leadership Cnerencen Civic Engagement.

Crnell University agrees t serve as the hst site r NYCC and unds the psitin executive directr,flled by Kevin Michael Days.

2002

2002

NYCC is invited t cllabrate with the stateDepartment Educatin and with the NY StateCmmissin n Natinal and Cmmunity Servic

2002

Students at NYCC member schools are at the

oreront o the movement to incorporate civic

and community engagement into campus lie.

These students not only participate in service at a

very high rate, but they do so in ways that make a

lasting impact and garner national attention.

One o ve national winners o the prestigious

national Campus Compact Howard R. Swearer

Student Humanitarian Award or 2008 was Eliza-

beth Stern, a student at Cornell University. Eliza-

beth co-ounded Cover Arica, a student organi-

zation dedicated to reducing the global burden

o malaria. To spread the word urther about

this work among her peers, she also organized

a service-learning course on malaria interven-

tions in Ghana.

Elizabeth is now a

medical student at

SUNY Downstate

Medical Center.

Students rom SUNY Geneseo, Hamilton College,

Pace University, SUNY Bualo, Rochester Institute

o Technology, and Union College recently won

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Academic Service

Entrepreneur Grants to support their innovative

and wide-ranging projects, such as dental hygiene

in Nicaragua, a reugee weavers’ guild, a pro-

gram to design computer equipment or disabled

students, grant-writing or poverty alleviation

agencies, community gardens and nutrition, and

community organizing.

Sae an Nainal Recgniinfr Suen Leaership

“We at ESF believe that community service is

an essential component in the education o

our students. New York Campus Compact has

supported us in realizing the ull potential o

service-learning.”

NEIL MURPHY, PRESIdENt,

SUNY CoLLEGE oF

ENVIRoNMENtAL SCIENCE ANd FoREStRY

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Jim Heernan is appinted the secndexecutive directr NYCC. Membershipsurpasses 50 institutins.

Through Students4Giving, a partnership between na-

tional Campus Compact and The Fidelity Charitable Git

Fund, Binghamton University earned a highly competitive

$15,000 award, to be allocated or charitable purposes

through a campus philanthropy project. With these unds

and additional support rom the Sunshine Lady Founda-

tion, Binghamton began The Philanthropy Incubator . Over

the past three years, undergraduate and graduate stu-

dents have had the opportunity to take a course in which

they are encouraged to become engaged in community

lie through philanthropy and learn how to use private

resources eectively to address public problems. To date,

students have made 18 grants totaling $45,000.

An Ac f ServiceNYCC has made great progress in building legislative

support or the civic engagement work o New York’s

campuses.In2009,theHigher Education Community

Service Act passed in both houses o the New York State

Legislature(S-4847-AandA-1697A)forthepurposeof

“promoting and recognizing volunteer service involve-

ment by students in higher education.”

NYCC worked with legislative sta in both houses to

develop the language, rationale, and scope o the Act.The legislation:

1) Provides support or selecting and rewarding exem-

plary community service programs, promoting social

responsibility among college students engaging in

long-term community service projects;

2) Creates inormation systems to expand service

activities on and o campus; and

3) Establishes a Council or Higher Education Commu-

nity Service, which will include a representative rom

NYCC.

ToP: The Philanthrpy Incubatr students rm 2010’s

undergraduate class at Binghamtn University are

amng thse wh have made grants ttaling $45,000t cmmunity causes. BoTToM: The Philanthrpy

Incubatr students, pictured with rmer Binghamtn

University President Lis B. Deleur (2010), learn t

use private resurces t address public prblems.

2003

NYCC secures AmeriCrps VISTAsr 7 member campuses.

2004



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NYCC establishes the Reginal Rundtable andoccasinal Papers series and appints its frstull-time VISTA prgram crdinatr.

NYCC receives reslutins rm bth the NY State Assemblyand the state Senate r “Advancing Campus/CmmunityPartnerships and Civic Engagement.” NYCC and PACC receive $1.5M rm CNCS r aw

sub-grants t 19 campuses and cmmunities r slearning and ther partnerships.

Prfessinal develpmen tha WrsRegional Roundtables

The NYCC Regional Roundtable series was developed to provide low-cost, easy-access, topical work-

shops or campus and community partners. More than 20 campuses hosted roundtables over the past

two years, during which time the number o participants doubled. Sessions oered a wide range o

essential inormation on building eective collaborations, rom philosophical underpinnings to hands-

on advice. A sampling ollows:

• AdphUnsy:“Service-Learning

Partnerships with Local Schools:

Optimizing Opportunities or All

Majors”

• CyCooNwYok&Ononda-

ga Community College: “Community Partners as True Partners”

• CoumbaUnsy:“Integrating

Service-Learning into the STEM

(Science, Technology, Engineering,

and Math) Disciplines”

• ConUnsy:“Global Service-

Learning: Assessing the Impact on

Students, Faculty, Institutions, and

Communities”

• DamnCo:“Eective Methods

or Assessing the Impact o Service-

Learning on Students, Institutions,

and Communities”

• HamonCo:“Community-

Based Research in an Undergraduate

Setting: Models and Practices”

2005

2006

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Nine NYCC members receive the prestigius CarnegieClassifcatin r Cmmunity Engagement.

• MounS.MayCo:“Refection:

The Essence o Service-Learning”

• NaahCo:“The Art o Reci-

procity in Service-Learning Partner-

ships”

• SnaCo:“Service on the Road to

Tenure—Issues o Retention/Promo-

tion/Tenure and Community-Based

Scholarship and Teaching”

• SkdmoCo:“Seamless Web or

Unbridgeable Gap?—Service-Learning

and Community Service on Your

Campus”

• SyacusUnsy:“Issues o Risk

Management and Liability”

• SyacusUnsy&PacUnsy:

“Achieving Carnegie Community

Engagement Classication”

• WanCo:“Assessment o Com-

munity Outcomes in Service-Learning

Eorts”

Co-Sponsored Events

NYCC works with a range o other organi-

zations to bring members the best train-

ing across disciplines and sectors. Recent

co-sponsored events include:

•“ScholarshipinPublic:KnowledgeCre-

ation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged

University”—co-sponsored with Imag-

ining America, the New York Council or

the Humanities, and Colgate University

•“DevelopingaGoodHeartinSTEM:

The 1st Summit on Incorporating

Social Justice and Service-Learning into

the STEM Curriculum”—co-sponsoredwith Ithaca College, Learn and Serve

America, and Pennsylvania Campus

Compact

AR LET and RIGHT: aculty rm acrss thestate attend Prblem-Based Service Learning:A aculty Develpment Institute held at SUNYosweg and spnsred by NYCC.

2007

With 79 member campuses, NYCC becmes thelargest state Cmpact in the natin.

2008

2009

The Higher Educatin Cmmunity ServiceAct, which NYCC helped develp, passesbth huses the NY State Legislature.



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The President’s Higher Educatin Cmmunity ServiceHnr Rll recgnizes a natin-high 62 New Yrkcampuses, 45 them NYCC members.

2009

NYCC publishes Partnerships That Work: The Stories and Lessons fromCampus/Community Collaborations, drawn rm Learn and Serve prjects.

2010

“ Niagara University is proud to be one o the rst

institutions o higher education to have joinedNYCC. O particular signicance have been

regional workshops, which have enabled aculty,

administrators, and students to keep up to date

with the current research in the eld and to learn

best practices.”

REV. JoSEPH LEVESqUE, C.M.,

PRESIdENt,

NIAGARA UNIVERSItY

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Regional Networks

NYCC has established regional networks

to promote cross-ertilization and com-

munication within geographic regions

to help campuses establish and expand

service-learning and to strengthen insti-

tutional and community connections.

Between2006and2009,LearnandServe

grants allowed NYCC to provide aculty

stipends, training and technical assistance

or course development, support or re-

gional coordinators to provide leadership

and organizational continuity, and jointworkshops with community partners.

Through these networks, interactions

among NYCC members increased sub-

stantially, leading to the launch o many

new campus/community projects. Networks and their

lead institutions include:

• Campus-CommunityConsortiumoftheCapitalRe-

gion (4CR)—Siena College

• NewYorkMetroAreaPartnershipforService-Learning

(NYMAPS)—City College o New York

• NortheastRegionCommunityColleges(5CC)

• SouthernTierConsortiumforService-Learning—

Binghamton University

• WesternNewYorkService-LearningCoalition

(WNYSLC)—Daemen College

Academic Discipline Networks

These networks have enabled aculty to establish or

expand peer-driven service-learning projects within their

academic disciplines. Sharing course materials across in-

stitutions, developing evaluation and quality guidelines,

and establishing a presence or community-based learn-

ing at proessional associations helped build continuity

or these aculty networks:

• ErasingBoundaries,SupportingCommunities:

Interdisciplinary Service-Learning in Architecture,

Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning—SUNY

College o Environmental Science and Forestry

• NativeAmericanStudiesInterdisciplinaryService-

Learning Initiative—Nazareth College

• Engineering,Peace,JusticeandtheEarth— Binghamton University

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Laurie Wrrall is appinted thehird executive directr NYCC.

2010

2011

NYCC pilts the “Students in Service” AmeriCrps EducatinAward Prgram n 5 campuses, hlds 2 aculty institutes,and awards 15 mini-grants r members t hld MartinLuther King, Jr., Day Service events.

NYCC VISTAs Help Members, Communities

During the 2008-2010 program years, 28 member

campuses received grants to place AmeriCorps VISTA

(Volunteers in Service to America) members in campus/

community partnerships to help ght poverty and its

root causes in communities across New York.

By coordinating campus service eorts, NYCC’s VISTAs

help colleges and universities address community needs,

develop leadership among their students, and improve

collaborations between the institution and the commu-

nity. The NYCC state oce recruits, trains, and supports

VISTAs and their site supervisors, in addition to ensuringederal grant compliance.

Between 2008 and 2010, 44 NYCC VISTAs helped

mobilize $500,000 worth o cash and in-kind resources

or their communities, and coordinated over 250,000

hours o service by 25,000 volunteers. Collectively, these

VISTAs were eligible to receive approximately $200,000

in education awards as a result o their year o service.

VISTAs and their host campuses developed and enhanced

a wide variety o projects, including tutoring/mentor-ing and college access programs, reugee resettlement

services, anti-violence work, and ree income tax services

or low-income amilies.

ToP: NYCC’s 2008–2009 AmeriCrps VISTAmembers take a rpes curse as part their nging skills and team-building training,which ccurs thrughut their terms service.BoTToM: AmeriCrps VISTA member RachaelBruketta with vlunteers at a Day Service sherganized at Bual State Cllege.

Expaning Campus Capaciy

NYCC’s membership climbs t83 clleges and universities.

2011



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ALFRED UNIVERSITY

Ryan Arroyo worked with CORE (Creating Op-

portunities or Rural Education), a consortium

o organizations and individuals committed tourthering the educational aspirations and attain-

ment o youth in Allegany County, to develop a

mentoring/tutoring program as well as volunteer

and service-learning opportunities or students

and aculty at Alred University. Students contrib-

uted 1,300 hours o service through these cam-

pus/community partnerships.

BiNgHAMtONUNiverSitY

Through Joe Picalila’s work, Binghamton raised

approximately$9,000incashandin-kind

resources to assist local anti-poverty organiza-

tions that were hit particularly hard during the

economic downturn. In addition, volunteers

contributed 1,350 service hours to 10 organiza-

tions such as the Southern Tier AIDS Program,

Broome County Homeless Coalition, Faith in

Action Healthy Liestyle Mentor Project, and the

SOS Shelter.

BUffAlOStAteCOllege Rachael Bruketta’s work supported six ater-

school and reugee resettlement programs in

Bualo through ongoing volunteer placements,

service-learning courses, one-day events, and an

alternative spring break. More than 50 known

gangs operate in Bualo. Ater-school programs

and city recreational centers provide a sae,

neutral space where youth can receive homework

help, attend enrichment activities, use a computer,

and play games and sports.

COlgAteUNiverSitY

Jason Beck supported several high-impact pro-

grams at Colgate. The Young Scholars Liberty

Partnerships Program works with poverty-level

youth at risk o high school dropout. Through

tutoring to raise students’ SAT scores, the partner-

Alred University

Binghamtn University (SUNY)

Brme Cmmunity Cllege

Bual State Cllege (SUNY)

City Cllege New Yrk(CUNY)

Clgate University

Daemen Cllege/WNYSLC

Hamiltn Cllege

Hbart and William SmithClleges

Lehman Cllege (CUNY)

Marymunt Manhattan Cllege

Mrrisville Cllege (SUNY)

Nazareth Cllege

Purchase Cllege (SUNY)

Rchester Institute Technlgy

St. Jhn’s University

St. Lawrence University

Stny Brk University (SUNY)

SUNY Cllege at old Westbury

SUNY Cllege EnvirnmentalScience and restry

SUNY rednia

SUNY Genese

SUNY osweg

SUNY Ptsdam

Syracuse University

University at Bual (SUNY)

Upstate Medical University(SUNY)

Wagner Cllege

VISTA Host Sites, 2008–2010

Tackling Poverty: A Sampling of NYCC VISTA Projects

While not exhaustive, the ollowing vignettes illustrate the variety and impact o New York

Campus Compact’s VISTA projects.



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ship makes scholarships more accessible, opening options

or attending college. The Family Literacy Project helps

youth transitioning into the American school system

rom abroad with ESL support and mentoring relation-

ships. Participants gain important language skills to

help them in school and in the job market. The Creating

Assets, Savings, and Hope coalition and the Voluntary

Income Tax Assistance program helped 1,300 low-income

residents to recover nearly $2 million in ederal tax

returns. Such programs have reduced the poverty rate by

12% in Madison County.

NAzAretHCOllege

Matt Krueger served three community organizations in

Rochester. He helped develop programs and unding at

Rise Up Rochester, a grassroots anti-violence organiza-tion. He also worked with the Community/University

Partnership Project (CUPP), a ree, 15-course training

program to help human service workers build capacity

at their organizations. In additional, Matt coordinated

the Nazareth Reugee Resettlement Advisory Board

(NazRAB), increasing Nazareth’s capacity to meet the

needs o local reugees.

SUNYCOllegeOfeNvirONMeNtAlSCieNCe

ANDfOreStrY

Liz Mix implemented a tutoring program that gives chil-dren living in poverty opportunities to work one-on-one

with college students. Through days o service, alternative

spring breaks, service-learning courses, and volunteer

placements, Liz supported the work o 10 community

partner organizations and has acilitated nearly 2,000

hours o service.

SUNYOSWegO

ChristieHillenbrandhasmobilizednearly900volunteers

to perorm 13,500 hours o service at 38 poverty-serving

community organizations. She supported seven mentor-

ing programs that serve 120 low-income and/or at-risk

youth in the Oswego area. Additionally, Christie raised

nearly $7,500 to support community programming.

ToP AND CENTER: NYCC’s 2008–2010AmeriCrps VISTA members attend in-servicetrainings t imprve their eectiveness.

BoTToM: A student at Bual State Cllegewrks with a lcal yuth during the MartinLuther King, Jr., Day Service.



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SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Andrea Leier’s our tutoring/mentoring pro-

grams served 400 youth in Syracuse. Through

her eorts, medical student volunteers provided

nutrition programs and medical services at ree

clinics. One goal was to help prevent chronic

diseases prevalent in low-income amilies by

demonstrating well-balanced diets and easy ways

to prepare nutritious oods. Free medical ser-

vices improve the health o community members

and dispel mistrust o hospitals and physicians,

encouraging marginalized individuals to seek

medical care. Additionally, Andrea’s work has mo-

bilizednearly$9,000incashandotherresources

or community programming.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Laura Notarangelo supported ve tutoring/men-

toring programs in Syracuse, which serve nearly

600 low-income and/or at-risk youth, specically

targeting Somali-Bantu reugee youth. Several

community organizations also received student

volunteers through her coordination o service-

learning courses. Students worked with local

anti-poverty organizations to build capacity by

updating outreach materials, including videos,

website layouts, posters, and brochures.

Learn an ServeGran Maes

a Lasing Impac In 2006, the state

Campus Com-

pacts o New York

and Pennsylvania

(PACC) won a

grant rom Learn

and Serve America–

Higher Education

or their consor-

tium project, “Building on Our Strengths.” Both

organizations unded 16 projects over three years

to establish and expand service-learning through

regional networks and academic disciplines. Fed-

eral unds o nearly $1.5 million were matched

by sub-grantees to catalyze campus/community

partnerships, establish aculty development and

networking projects, and engage both college

students and disadvantaged youth.

LET: Partnerships that Work: The Stories and Lessons from Campus/CommunityCollaborations, a new resurce develped by New Yrk Campus Cmpact incllabratin with Pennsylvania Campus Cmpact, is available rm the CampusCmpact bkstre at www.cmpact.rg/publicatins.

“ Like all areas o endeavor that involve the

common good, it can be too easy to leave

the work o service learning and community

engagement to others. We all believe in the

value o these things, but who will remind us

to act on our values and who will help us do so?

This is why I value NYCC.”

tHoMAS RoCHoN, PRESIdENt,

ItHACA CoLLEGE

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“ When I arrived at SUNY Geneseo in July

1999,oneofmyrstactionswastoestablish

an Oce o Student Volunteerism and Ser-

vice Learning. I knew that Campus Compact

would be a helpul resource or this new

oce, but I soon learned that a New York

branch o the organization did not yet exist.

I received word that a task orce pursuing the

establishment o a state compact had met

in July and was in its ormative stages. By

October, I had become a member o this task

orce, and I have enjoyed observing NYCC’s

development ever since.

I believe that, as Palmer and Zajonc note, “all

learning is situated … within community and

we should not neglect our responsibilities to

it, [including] cultivation o the undamental

human capacities or compassion and altru-

istic action.” This is why Campus Compact is

so important to me: it is a joint maniestation

o our educational commitment to compas-

sion and altruism.

I cannot imagine higher education in New

York today without NYCC. Its growth over

the past 10 years is a testament to the vi-

sion o the college and university presidents

who ounded and continue to support it.

The oundation they put in place bodes well

or the long-term uture o this vital, robust

organization.”

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RobERt A. boNFIGLIo,

VICE PRESIdENt FoR

StUdENt ANd CAMPUS LIFE,

SUNY GENESEo

Over the three years o the grant, NYCC and

PACC engaged 310 community partners, 280 ac-

ulty members, and 3,700 college students through

this work. The projects catalyzed more than 230

service-learning courses and touched 2,200 K-12

pupils, including more than 800 disadvantaged

youth.

While widely diverse in their scope, size, purposes,

and outcomes, these projects illustrate the value

o loosely coupled networks. Many o the organi-

zations involved had never worked together be-

ore. Collaborations were ormed on the basis o

mutual and reciprocal interests among civic en-

gagement sta, aculty, and community partners.

Each group developed its own administrative

structures, communication and outreach styles,

and sustainability strategies within a geographical

region or academic discipline.

The models o collaboration and resource sharing

developed by these projects were especially timely

during the dark economic days o 2008. The gen-

esis and operation o the project, and the impact

and experiences o the sub-grantees, are explored

in Partnerships That Work: The Stories and Lessons

from Campus/Community Collaborations (Cam-

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NYCC is governed through an Executive

Committee that oversees the organization’sgoals, programs, and budgets. An Advisory

Committee supports NYCC sta in program

development.

NYCC Executive Committee

Co-chairs:

Donald C. Katt, President, Ulster Community College

Joseph L. Levesque, President, Niagara University

Members:

Erik Bitterbaum, President, SUNY Cortland

Daan Braveman, President, Nazareth College

Kimberly Cline, President, Mercy College

Daniel P. Larson, President, Cayuga Community College

Eduardo Marti, CUNY Vice Chancellor orCommunity Colleges

Thomas Rochon, President, Ithaca College

Robert Scott, President, Adelphi University

David J. Skorton, President, Cornell University

NYCC Advisory Committee

Allison Alden, Director o Center or CivicEngagement, Binghamton University

Robert Bonfglio, Vice President or Student andCampus Lie, SUNY Geneseo

Nuala Boyle, Executive Director o the Center orCivic Engagement, Nazareth College

Edward Engelbride, Assistant Vice Chancellor,

State University o New YorkMarilynn P. Fleckenstein, Associate Vice Presidentor Academic Aairs, Niagara University

Mercedes Franco, Assistant Proessor, Mathemat-ics and Computer Sciences, QueensboroughCommunity College

Cassia Freedland, Director o the Center or

Leadership, Wagner CollegeNora Heaphy, Deputy Director o The ColinPowell Center or Policy Studies, City College o New York

James Heernan, Former Executive Director,New York Campus Compact

Pamela Kirwin Heintz, Associate Vice Presidentor Engagement and the Director o the Mary Ann Shaw Center or Public and Community Service, Syracuse University

Ann Howard, Director o RIT Community

Outreach Partnership Center, Rochester Instituteo Technology

Mathew Johnson, Director o Presidential VISTAFellows Program, Siena College

Stephanie Malinenko, Executive Director orthe WNY Service-Learning Coalition, DaemenCollege

Terry Martinez, Dean, Community Development& Multicultural Aairs, Columbia University

Laura Hill Rao, Volunteer and Service-LearningCenter Coordinator, Bualo State College

Paul Roodin, Director o Experience BasedEducation, SUNY Oswego

Cynthia Smith, Assistant Dean o PipelineInitiatives and Partnerships, RensselaerPolytechnic Institute

Leonardo Vargas-Méndez, Director o the PublicService Center, Cornell University

Urszula Zalewski, Career and Volunteer ProgramsCoordinator, Stony Brook University

NYCC StaffBrittany Campese, Program Coordinator

Marianne Ridley, Administrative Assistant

Laurie S. Worrall, Executive Director

Gvernance an Leaership



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Adelphi University

Albany College o Pharmacy and HealthSciences

Alred State College

Alred University

Bard College

Barnard College

Berkeley College

Binghamton University (SUNY)

Broome Community

CollegeBualo State College(SUNY)

Canisius College

Cayuga Community College

City College o NewYork (CUNY)

Colgate University

Columbia University

Cornell University

Corning Community College

Daemen College

Dominican College

Farmingdale StateCollege (SUNY)

Hamilton College

Hartwick College

Hobart and WilliamSmith Colleges

Hostra University

Ithaca College

Jeerson Community College

Keuka College

LaGuardia Community College

Le Moyne College

Lehman College(CUNY)

Long Island University

Marist College

Marymount ManhattanCollege

Medaille College

Mercy College

Molloy College

Nazareth College

New York University

Niagara University

Nyack College

Onondaga Community College

Pace University

Polytechnic Institute o NYU

Purchase College(SUNY)

QueensboroughCommunity College

Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute

Rochester Institute o Technology

Sarah Lawrence College

Siena College

Skidmore College

St. BonaventureUniversity

St. John Fisher College

St. John’s University

St. Joseph’s College

St. Lawrence University

Stony Brook University (SUNY)

SUNY College at OldWestbury

SUNY College atOneonta

SUNY College o Environmental Scienceand Forestry

SUNY Cortland

SUNY Delhi

SUNY Empire StateCollege

SUNY Fredonia

SUNY Geneseo

SUNY Institute o Tech-nology at Utica/Rome

SUNY Oswego

SUNY Potsdam

Syracuse University

The College atBrockport (SUNY)

The College o NewRochelle

The College o SaintRose

The New SchoolUniversity

The Sage Colleges

Ulster Community College

Union College

University at Albany (SUNY)

University at Bualo(SUNY)

University o Rochester

Upstate MedicalUniversity (SUNY)

Vassar College

Vaughn College

Wagner College

Wells College

New Yr Campus Cmpac Memers

NYCC Founding Executive

Committee MembersNYCC is indebted to the ounding leaders whoseoresight and dedication led to early success o theorganization. The oundation they built was strongenough to support a decade o progressive growthand impact.

David A. Caputo, President, Pace University

Antonette J. Cleveland, President, NiagaraCmmunity Cllege

Christopher C. Dahl, President, SUNY Genese

Sean Fanelli, President, Nassau Cmmunity Cllege

Mark D. Gearan, President, Hbart and William

Smith Clleges

Robert A. Miller, President, Nazareth Cllege

Hunter R. Rawlings III, President, Crnell University

Kenneth A. Shaw, Chancellr, Syracuse University

Deborah F. Stanley, President, SUNY osweg

Judson H. Taylor, President, SUNY Crtland



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Singing one

f NYCC’s

Heres—

than Yu,Angela dwning!

Every successul orga-

nization has unsung

heroes who are the vital,

behind-the-scenes keys

to that success. From

its inception, Angela

Downing has served in that role or NYCC. Angela’s

service began in 2000, beore the organization’s ocial

establishment. She worked with NYCC’s rst executivedirector, Kevin Days, kept NYCC on track during the

search or a new director, and during her ve years with

Jim Heernan expanded her role rom administrative

support to oce manager.

With her trademark cheerulness and can-do style,

Angela has been a consistent and energetic resource

or NYCC members and sta. Her nine years o service

were marked by dedication, dependability, insight,

and good humor. Whether juggling member services

and conerences, supervising the work o young ocestaers, or mastering the intricacies o Cornell’s budget

systems and ederal grants, Angela worked to help

NYCC succeed. She has had a signicant and sustaining

impact on this organization, and we’re indebted to her.

Au New Yr

Campus Cmpac

New York Campus Compact (NYCC)

is a statewide coalition o more than 80

college and university presidents who are

committed to promoting active citizen-

ship as an aim o higher education.

Our members include campuses o all

types—two-year and our-year, public and

independent, rom Bualo to New York

City and rom the Southern Tier to the

North Country—that have joined NYCC

to advance community partnerships,

service-learning, and civic engagementon campuses.

NYCC provides statewide leadership in

advancing the public purposes o higher

education through student involvement

in academic and non-academic campus

programs, community-based research

initiatives, and community partnerships.

NYCC seeks to strengthen the capacity

o member institutions to serve society,

resolve public issues, enhance studentlearning, and improve the quality o civic

lie in New York State.

95 Brwn Rad, Bx 1006Ithaca, NY 14850Phne: (607) 255-2366ax: (607) 254-6397Email: [email protected]

http://nycampuscompact.org

Angela Dwning

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