Montana Campus Corps
Overview
The mission of Montana Campus Corps is to actively engage college students in meeting community-identified needs through meaningful service. Each year, this AmeriCorps program places students from MTCC member institutions with community agencies, non-profit organizations, schools, and healthcare facilities to address Montana's most challenging problems. Campus Corps members serve in the fields of education, human services, public health and safety, the environment, and homeland security, and are helping to improve our state while gaining valuable connections and skills, and insight into communities and careers in the common good.
Service Team and Service-Learning Members
The program has two equally important parts: Service Team members are part of a team-based corps that primarily focuses on extra-curricular service, while the service of Service-Learning members is focused on addressing community needs while meeting academic goals. If you are receiving a modest living allowance administered by your campus during your term of service, specifically for your involvement in the program, you are a Service Team member. Otherwise (most members), you are a Service-Learning member. All members, both Service Team and Service-Learning, who successfully complete a term of service, receive an Education Award. Many Service-Learning members are combining AmeriCorps service with their academic work, so they also receive course credit for their service term hours, in addition to an Education Award.
Training
Students serving with Campus Corps receive training so that they are better equipped with the skills required to address community needs. As a result of their academic course work, Service-Learning members receive discipline-specific training, such as lesson planning and teaching techniques, nursing and radiologic procedures, and social work and counseling practices. Service Team members receive service-specific training in such areas as volunteer recruitment and management, project planning, time management, and team work skills. All Campus Corps members reflect upon their service and the type of impact it will have on the local community, in order to better understand communities and themselves.
Program Coordinators
Campus Corps Program Coordinators are campus-based staff or faculty members at member institutions who recruit, supervise, and coordinate Campus Corps members. In order to enroll in the program, a student must speak with the program coordinator on his/her campus or or in his/her department regarding the Campus Corps opportunities that may be available and orientation schedule(s).
Campus Corps 2008/2009 Program Coordinator Roster
Program Coordinator Information
For forms not found in this list, please check below in the Member Information section or contact the MTCC office.
Program Overview
Program Roles & Responsibilities
About the Team Leader Position
Reporting and Training Calendar
Campus Corps Frequently Asked Questions
Paperwork, Paperwork - What do I have to complete and when?
Education Award Frequently Asked Questions
Accessing and Using Your Education Award
Reporting Tools
Mid-term Member Performance Evaluation - all 900-hr and 1700-hr members must have a mid-term performance evaluation completed by their supervisor!
End-of-term Member Performance Evaluation
Provisions, Guidelines, & Instruments
Sample Memoranda of Understanding (MOU)
Campus Corps Branding Guidelines
Recruitment Materials
Campus Corps Informational Brochure
Member Information
All informational documents are available here for download in PDF format.
Program Overview 
Campus Corps Frequently Asked Questions
Program Roles & Responsibilities
Paperwork, Paperwork - What do I have to complete and when?
Reporting and Training Calendar
Careers in the Common Good Scholarship *PLEASE NOTE: All CCG scholarship funds for the 08/09 program year have been allocated at this point, and we are unable to accept further applications. (4/30/09)
Enrollment
Campus Corps Enrollment Packet
Service Site Needs Statement - for Student Teachers ONLY
Timelogs, Reporting & Evaluation
To receive a timelog for a month other than one listed below, please contact our office!
Timelogs:
Mid-term Member Performance Evaluation - all 900-hr and 1700-hr members must have a mid-term performance evaluation completed by their supervisor!
Team and Special Projects form
Team Leader Progress Report form
Exit
End-of-term Member Performance Evaluation
Education Award Information
Accessing and Using Your Education Award
CNCS Education Award online resource
Education Award Frequently Asked Questions
Newsletters
Read about what Campus Corps members across the state of Montana are doing to improve the lives of their fellow citizens and "get things done for America" in these issues of the Campus Connections newsletter.
Volume 1: Issue 1 (February 2005), Issue 2 (May 2005), Issue 3 (August 2005), Issue 4 (December 2005)
Volume 2: Issue 1 (March 2006), Issue 2 (May 2006), Issue 3 (August 2006), Issue 4 (December 2006)
Volume 3: Issue 1 (February 2007), Issue 2 (May 2007), Issue 3 (November 2007)
Volume 4: Issue 1 (November 2007), Issue 2 (April/May 2008), Issue 3 (July 2008)
Volume 5: Issue 1 (December 2008), Issue 2 (Spring 2009)
Resources
Ways to Serve Your Community Over the Summer
Tutoring & Mentoring evaluation forms:
- America*Reads pre-post
- America*Counts pre-post
- grades K-2 smiley
- grades 3-4 smiley
- Upward Bound mentee survey
- MTCC mentee survey
- MTCC youth skills inventory
For More Information
For help with questions or more information about Montana Campus Corps, please contact:
Eric Cardella, Campus Corps Program Manager (243-5177 x.6)
Emily Clark, Campus Corps Program Assistant (243-5177 x.5)
Ashley Widtfeldt, Campus Corps Team Leader (243-5177 x.7)
