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.
Stipended and Non-stipended members
The program has two equally important parts: Stipended members are part of a team-based corps that primarily focuses on extra-curricular service, while the service of Non-stipended 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 Stipended member. Otherwise (most members), you are Non-stipended. All members, both stipended and non-stipended, who successfully complete a term of service, receive an Education Award. Many Non-stipended 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, non-stipended members receive discipline-specific training, such as lesson planning and teaching techniques, nursing and radiologic procedures, and social work and counseling practices. Stipended 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.
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 recent issues of the Campus Connections newsletter.
Volume 4: Issue 1 (November 2007), Issue 2 (April/May 2008)
For more information
In order to enroll in the program, students must speak with the contact person on their campus regarding availability of positions and orientation schedule. To learn more about Campus Corps and for all program paperwork, visit the Stipended and Non-stipended web pages.
For help with questions or more information about Montana Campus Corps, please contact Gini Aten Erving, Operations Manager (243-5177 x.1), Eric Cardella, Campus Corps Program Manager (243-5177 x.6), or Josh Vanek, Network Services Director (243-5177 x.2).
