About Campus Compact
Read the President's Welcome from Maureen F. Curley
Our job at Campus Compact is to educate college students to become active citizens who are well-equipped to develop creative solutions to society's most pressing issues.
We turn students into citizens
Our track record is unmatched. Over the past 20 years, Campus Compact has engaged more than 20 million students in service and service-learning, and participation rates keep rising. Each year, our member students work in thousands of communities, both locally and globally, to provide desperately needed services such as:
$7.1 billion
Estimated value of service contributed by students at Campus Compact member schools each year.
- Tutoring at-risk youth in reading and math
- Building houses for low-income families
- Conducting environmental safety studies
- Caring for the sick, the hungry, the homeless, and the elderly
These students provide more than $7 billion annually in service within their communities. But they do more than volunteer. They build strong community partnerships. They lobby Congress. They start their own nonprofit agencies. They learn to apply their knowledge in ways that will bring about lasting change. And Campus Compact gives them the skills and resources to do it.
We have the reach to make a lasting difference
Our goal: Citizens for life.
Students spend about four years in college. It's what they contribute in the decades after graduation that really adds up.
Starting in 1985 with just four committed leaders, our coalition has grown to nearly 1,200 college and university presidents — representing more than a quarter of all American higher education institutions. Together, we have made educating citizens a national priority.
How have we been able to achieve so much?
- As a presidents organization, Campus Compact's reach extends across campus, allowing a coordinated approach to building community programs.
- We develop and spread effective practices through a multifaceted approach that combines research, policy work, fundraising, and training.
- Our extensive print and online resources have helped thousands of campuses form effective community partnerships, combine service with academics, and nurture student leaders by providing real-world learning experiences.
- Our unique structure, with a national office and 35 state offices, allows us to provide national advocacy and leadership as well as on-the-ground programs.
Our future depends on educating a new generation of leaders who are prepared to be both responsible professionals and effective stewards of our society. Campus Compact is making it happen.
I know of no other educational organization that has a track record like Campus Compact's over the past 20 years... It is a phenomenal success, not just in terms of growth in numbers, but in terms of the impact it's had on communities, on campuses, and on individual lives.
Frank Rhodes, Former President, Cornell University
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Being a part of Campus Compact has let us touch the heart and soul of building better communities while improving teaching and learning for faculty and students. James A. Drake, President, Brevard Community College