Indicators of Engagement Project Summary
EDUCATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACTIVE CITIZENS
A Strategy for Deepening Civic Engagement in American Higher Education
Campus Compact has received a three-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation to combine documentation and dissemination of best practices of the engaged campus with an organizing effort to help campuses achieve broader institutionalization of civic engagement.
The focus: Campuses are hungry for good information about how to achieve an engaged campus. Campuses need a series of exemplars that they can use to create civic engagement strategies appropriate to their particular type of institution and specific needs. Campus Compact will research community colleges in year one (May 2002-May 2003), minority-serving institutions in year two, and comprehensive universities in year three.
The major activities of this project include:
• Visiting colleges to identify, document and disseminate best practices of civic engagement that demonstrate successful strategies for that particular type of institution
• Publishing a monograph of models of engagement for community colleges, minority serving institutions, and all of higher education
This research will be based on the thirteen revised “Indicators of Engagement”*:
• Mission and Purpose
• Academic and Administrative Leadership
• Disciplines, Departments, and Interdisciplinary work
• Teaching and Learning
• Faculty Development
• Faculty Roles and Rewards
• Support Structures and Resources
• Internal Budget & Resource Allocations
• Community Voice
• External Resource Allocation
• Coordination of Community-Based Activities
• Forums for Fostering Public Dialogue
• Student Voice
For more information on the Carnegie project, please contact Jenn Meeropol, Project Coordinator, at jmeeropol@compact.org or 401-867-3950.
* For a more detailed discussion of the indicators, see Hollander, Elizabeth, John Saltmarsh, and Edward Zlotkowski. “Indicators of Engagement,” in Simon, L.A., Kenny, M., Brabeck, K., & Lerner, R.M., eds. Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society Through Service-Learning. Norwell. MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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