Silent Auction
At every conference, NCSL hosts a silent auction to benefit a non-profit organization. Does your school have any cool gear or logowear? We’re looking for anything from school sweatshirts to hats to portfolios (and everything in between)! Bring it along to the conference and drop it off at the NCSL registration desk!
NCSL has selected City Year to be the recipient of the money raised through the silent auctions that will be held at our two fall conferences this year.
City Year is a non-profit organization that unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service, giving them the skills and opportunities to change the world. As tutors, mentors and role models, these young leaders make a difference in the lives of children and transform schools and neighborhoods. City Year is a proud member of AmeriCorps.
City Year has more than 1,000 young adults in 17 locations across the United States making a difference for children, their schools, and their communities. Each corps member pledges to complete 1,700 of service during their year of service – a challenging task that requires full-time dedication and teamwork. At the completion of their service, corps members earn an education award of $4,725.
In the 19 years of service, City Year has served more than 985,000 children through 14.5 million hours of community service. Please visit www.cityyear.org for more information.
School Pride Day
Show off your school spirit during the conference by wearing school or organization logo apparel on Sunday, October 26.
Trendsetters! Program
Your chance to boast about your best program! Fill out the form below.
Does your campus take ownership of an outrageously successful program, event, or idea? Are there any activities, service projects, or theme weeks on your campus that you have had success with? NCSL wants to know about them!
NCSL will again host its Trendsetters! program, a contest to highlight the best programs, events, and ideas from campuses across the country.
If your submission is selected as one of the top Trendsetters! programs, events, and ideas, you will be invited to share your submission with all NCSL conference delegates at the closing breakfast of the conference. The top three Trendsetters! will receive a monetary award of up to $100!
After the conference, all of the Trendsetters! ideas will be posted on the NCSL website and may be included in Magna Publication’s newsletter Student Affairs Leader.
How to Participate
Fill Out the Form
Complete the idea submission form below. NCSL staff will contact you within one week of the conference with additional details if your idea is chosen to be included in the Trendsetters! workshop at the NCSL you will be attending!
At the Conference
At the conference, the chosen participants will present their selected entries at the Trendsetters! workshop. Participants are encouraged to bring handouts or outlines of their program to share during the workshop. Workshop participants will rate the presented programs to determine the top Trendsetters!
Trendsetters! Form
If you have any questions about the program or your submission, please contact Kate Poppe at katep@magnapubs.com or call (608) 227-8103.
Past Trendsetters! - Spring NCSL 2008
Southwestern Community College
Adrian Del Rio
Text Book Rental Program
Joint program between ASO and Campus Store piloted Spring 2006, with District funding beginning Summer 2006.
First textbook rental program in San Diego county colleges and universities.
Started with 5 titles,30 copies each for a total of 150 textbooks. These five titles were the most popular in the areas of Math, Economics, Biology and Health
Rental fee per book was approximately $20.00. Cost of each book was approximately $100.00.
MIT
Chris Kennedy
Splash!
Splash is the main event of the Educational Studies Program, and runs over the weekend before Thanksgiving each year, with MIT students and community members teaching whatever they want. In 2007, we brought 1700 high school students to campus for 400 classes taught by 250 teachers, and Splash could reach 2000 students this year. The teachers and 25 or so student administrators ("admins") who run the program are all volunteers, as are the security staffers from the MIT community who run errands, assist lost parents and students, and help out all day. Students of the program pay $30 for the 20-hour weekend of classes, but the fee is waived for any student who demonstrates financial need.
Classes encompass a dizzying variety of subjects. There are many serious academic classes, like Goal-Oriented Machine Learning, The Sonnet, and The Riemann Hypothesis. Then there are borderline subjects and unique applications, like Markov and Baseball, Programming Video Games in C/C++, and Chemistry Magic. Finally, there are fun classes that border on the absurd, like Tasseography, Pulling the All-Nighter, and Learn Tolkien’s Elvish. In short, we encourage teachers to "Teach anything!", and they do. Students come to learn things they wouldn’t see anywhere else.
Though it requires a great deal of time and effort on the part of the volunteers who run it, Splash is an incredibly rewarding experience, and is an excellent way to build leadership abilities.
Community College of Philadelphia
Jenavia Thompson Weaver
Food Stamp Enrollment Program
Philadelphia L.E.A.D.S-Community Service Subcommittee members and alumni have established an on-campus site for food stamp enrollment. Most often, there is a stigma in applying for food stamps at the County office. Community College of Philadelphia gives an alternate way to address hunger.
Philadelphia L.E.A.D.S members primarily conducted food stamp screenings at our on campus community site where they determined if a client is eligible for the program, estimate how mcuh s/he might receive in benefits each month, and assist him or her in the initial stages of the application process. Students are also involved in the Campaign in many other ways, including staffing the Food Stamp Information Hotline, assisting with data entry and analysis, conducting follow-up calls with clients, helping with projects to improve customer service at the Count Assistance Offices, and organizing Food Stamp Information Fairs. Training, materials, and on-going support and supervision will be provided by our staff to participating student volunteers, work-study recipients, service-learning participants and interns.
The Food Stamp Program is our nation's number one defense against hunger. In Philadelphia, the Food Stamp Program serves an average of 300,000 people each month, with an average monthly benefit of $97 per person. Families who receive food stamps can improve the nutritional values of their diets and redirect money to meet other essential needs such as day care, transportation, and shelter. Food stamps also provide families with a choice about what food they eat.
The Greater Philadelphia coalition Against Hunger is leading this campaign to provide low-income households with the information and assistance they need to enroll in the Food Stamp Program. in addition, through advocacy efforts, the Coalition is working with County Assistance Offices to create a system that better serves low-income families. with the support of the student volunteers, local colleges and universities, we can help families receive the food stamp benefits to they are entitled.
