News

Montana Campus Compact Awarded Funding for Campus Corps

Getting more of Montana’s college students involved in meaningful community service projects is an enterprise worthy of support. That was the consensus at the Corporation for National and Community Service this week when the leadership there voted to renew critical funding for the Montana Campus Compact’s Campus Corps program.

Montana Campus Compact (MTCC), a statewide nonprofit working to prepare college students for active and engaged citizenship, will receive approximately $350,000 to support its Campus Corps program for the 2007-2008 academic year.

“We are excited and grateful for this vote of confidence in the work we are doing on campuses and in communities across the state,” said Shannon Stober, MTCC’s Campus Corps Program Manager.

MTCC’s Campus Corps program integrates service into the lives of college students at Montana’s public and private universities, community colleges, and tribal colleges. The program is uniquely supported by local government and nonprofit funding, local college budgets, and by federal funding.

Rebecca Longtree, an MTCC Campus Corps member at Salish Kootenai College, mentors girls in seventh through 12th grades at Two Eagle River School on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Pablo. She provides information about domestic violence awareness and prevention in a class titled Healthy Relationships.

MTCC Campus Corps members serve with community organizations such as Big Brothers-Big Sisters, YWCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, and local school districts. These engaged students tutor and mentor school children, create after-school programming for at-risk youth, create and sustain community gardens, and most importantly help organization recruited more volunteers to meet their goals.

“The program is a win-win,” says Stober, “it enhances the college experience for these students; it helps colleges themselves to provide a better hands-on, more connected education for their students, and it addresses identified community needs.”

Program participants receive AmeriCorps education awards at the end of their service terms and the full-time members receive a modest monthly living allowance.

“Campus Corps is one of Montana’s most valuable assets, “ said Dean McGovern, MTCC’s Executive Director, “Civic engagement is a critical ingredient in education and we are proud of the local and national attention that this program has received.”

MTCC is a consortium of 19 colleges and universities committed to renewing the public purposes of higher education by promoting curricular and co-curricular service, service-learning, and civic engagement in communities across the state. MTCC administers several programs that benefit Montana’s low-income families, school children, elderly, at-risk youth, as well as migrant and minority groups.

For more information, call MTCC Executive Director Dean McGovern at 406-243-5177 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about MTCC also is online at http://www.mtcompact.org.

Dean P. McGovern

Executive Director

Montana Campus Compact

302 University Hall

Missoula, Montana 59812

PH: (406)243-5177

FAX: (406) 243-5407

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.mtcompact.org

Sorry, we couldn't find any posts. Please try a different search.

Leave a Comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.