Resources for Community Colleges
Training, technical assistance, and resources:
- Membership Benefits for Community College Members
- Community College Resources from Robert Franco
- Indicators of Engagement Project - The first year of this project focuses on community colleges.
- Campus Compact Consulting Corps
- Campus Compact Syllabus Project
- Campus Compact Reflection Guide
- Program Models Database - For examples of program models at community colleges, search or browse under the "Engaged Campus" heading.
Publications
Campus Compact offers a host of free and discounted toolkits, guides, and other publications for our community college members to help them build effective service and service-learning programs. A sampling of our offerings follows. For a complete listing, please visit publications.
- The Community's College: Indicators of Engagement at Two-Year Institutions
- Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum. Offers sample course materials, exercises, assignments, and other resources.
- Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Construction. Practical guidance to assist faculty in designing and developing service-learning courses.
- Assessing Service Learning and Civic Engagement. An extensive overview of assessment, including specific assessment tools for gauging the impact of service-learning on students, faculty, the institution, and the community.
- Establishing and Sustaining an Office of Community Service. Offers a wealth of information and models for creating and sustaining a community service office.
- The New Student Politics and The New Student Politics Curriculum Guide
- "The Community College Conscience," Robert W. Franco, Campus Compact Reader, Volume II, Issue 3, Winter, 2002. (448 k pdf download.)
- "The Civic Role of Community Colleges: Preparing Students for the Work of Democracy," Robert W. Franco The Journal of Public Affairs. Volume VI, Supplemental Issue: Civic Engagement and Higher Education, 2002.
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