Indicators of Engagement Project
January 2003 Update
In May 2002 Campus Compact received a three-year, $900,000 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. Using the thirteen “Indicators of Engagement” developed by Liz Hollander, Ed Zlotkowski, and John Saltmarsh, Campus Compact will research practices that highlight each of the indicators at different institutional types in order to document best practices and promising approaches at these institutions and disseminate models for the field. The grant will focus on community colleges in year one (May 2002-May 2003), minority-serving institutions in year two, and comprehensive universities in year three. The planned 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 and publishing a monograph of models of engagement for community colleges, minority serving institutions, and comprehensive universities.
Jennifer Meeropol is the Carnegie Project Coordinator. Compact senior Faculty Fellow Edward Zlotkowski brings his expertise in service-learning and civic engagement to the project as a consultant on the grant. In addition, Bob Franco of Kapiolani Community College and Donna Duffy of Middlesex Community College have been hired as consultants.
During the Fall of 2002, project staff partnered with the American Association of Community Colleges to survey all of their 1700 community college members about their civic engagement practices. Follow-up interviews with the strongest survey respondents led to the identification of 13 campuses with exemplary practices related to the indicators. Zlotkowski, Duffy, Franco, and Meeropol will conduct visits to these sites in the winter and spring of 2003 to document their practices for inclusion in the community college monograph. In addition to these site visits, project staff also identified 7 campuses with strong programs to include in the monograph as profiles. Zlotkowski, Duffy, Franco and Meeropol also plan to present project findings at key conferences this winter and spring.
|
|
© National Campus Compact, 2005.
|
 |
© National Campus Compact, 2005.
Printed from:
|
|
|
