Indicators of Engagement Project
Project Update -- September 2003
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. 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.
Year One—Engagement at Community Colleges
In the winter of 2003, Campus Compact added an Indicators of Engagement site to its webpage (www.compact.org/community-colleges/indicators/). This site includes project updates, upcoming presentations, contact information for project staff, and a new searchable model programs database based on findings from the first year of the project. Project staff also published an article on the initial findings from the first year of the IOEP in the June 2003 issue of the Compact Current. These findings are also highlighted in a new executive summary of the first year of the IOEP. Published in May 2003, this brochure was mailed to presidents and community service directors at all member community colleges and was available at key conferences. It was also sent to all minority-serving institutions, along with a letter describing the activities for the second year of the project, and is available on the Compact’s website.
Project staff also disseminated findings from the IOEP at a number of conferences and meetings. These include presentations at the New England Regional Campus Compact Conference in April, 2003; the Western Regional Campus Compact Conference in April, 2003, the Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges Conference in May, 2003; and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Meeting in May, 2003; the Illinois Campus Compact National CSD Conference in June, 2003; the HBCU Institute in June, 2003; and the AAHE Assessment Conference in June, 2003. Staff will continue to present the findings from the first year of the IOEP at relevant conferences, including the League for Innovation in the Community College Conference in February 2004; the Gulf South Summit in March 2004; the American Association of Community Colleges Conference in April 2004; the New England Regional Campus Compact Conference in April, 2004; the Western Regional Campus Compact Conference in April, 2004; and the Community College National Center for Community Engagement in May 2004.
Project findings will be explored in greater detail in a monograph on engagement at community colleges. Tentatively entitled The Community’s College: Indicators of Engagement at Two-Year Institutions and expected in early 2004, this monograph will examine successful engagement practices and programs on community college campuses across the country. Designed to provide specific guidance on creating an engaged campus, The Community’s College will explore institutional culture, organizational structures, enabling mechanisms, curricular issues, and partnering strategies as avenues to community and civic engagement.
Year Two—Engagement at Minority-Serving Institutions
Project staff are currently preparing for the second year of the IOEP, which focuses on engagement at minority-serving institutions, defined for the purposes of this project as Tribal, Hispanic-serving, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Campus Compact has hired Rosalyn Jones, Dean at Johnson C. Smith University, and Margarita Lenk, Assistant Professor of Business at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, to serve as engaged scholars for the second year of the project. In August 2003 the Compact began an online survey of civic engagement at minority-serving institutions. Data from this survey will be used to identify campuses with promising approaches to engagement. Project staff will conduct telephone interviews with these campuses to gather additional information to select the thirteen campuses to visit. Site visits will be conducted from January to April of 2004.
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