Campus Compact, a Boston-based non-profit organization working to advance the public purposes of higher education, has announced the 268 students who will make up the organization's 2018 cohort of Newman Civic Fellows, including Northwestern Oklahoma State University's own Riley Pearce.

Pearce, a senior political science major, from Enid is an active member of the university's Honors Program, the Psychology Club and the Civic Fellowship Program. She's been inducted into the Red & Black Scroll Honor Society and the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society. In May, she will complete her second in...