Campus Compact is pleased to announce that Castel V. Sweet, Ph.D., director of community engagement and assistant professor of practice in community engagement at the University of Mississippi, has been awarded Campus Compact’s Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award . The award celebrates the ethical leadership and advocacy demonstrated by Community Engagement Professionals. Recipients have demonstrated collaboration with communities focused on transformative change; a commitment to justice-oriented work; and an impact on the larger movement to build ethical and effective community engagement locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
University of Mississippi's First Bonner Program Cohort Gets to Work
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has its first-ever cohort of Bonner Program students who have started their four-year campaigns to transform their campus and community through service projects.
The university’s Bonner Program, housed at the new UM Center for Community Engagement, is part of a diverse, multistate network of colleges and universities with their own Bonner programs. The program is part of the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, which works to “transform students, communities and campuses through service.”