This site is designed for college and university presidents, provosts, chief academic officers, and deans who wish to deepen the civic education of their students and to increase the engagement of their institutions with their local communities.
Defining the Engaged Campus
What is meant by an engaged campus?
What are the indicators of an engaged campus?
Assessing Current Activities
How can I find out what engagement activities are already happening on my campus?
Strategic Planning for Engagement
How do you get a campus thinking about civic engagement? Why is the campus mission important? How can I find out what engagement activities are already happening on my campus?
Faculty Development
How to interest faculty in the scholarship of engagement. How to evaluate such work and reward it.
Specific Change Strategies
What are some promising ways that campuses have found to move an institution forward in civic engagement and what resources are available to learn more about ways to foster change?
Measuring and Counting Civic Engagement
Can accreditation, classification or ranking systems be changed to recognize civic engagement and service-learning efforts on campus?
Resources
Model campuses, natural initiatives, bibliography, links