About Us

Connecticut Campus Compact is a consortium of private and public institutions which have banded together in the common purpose of providing impact-full and unique experiential learning encounters that will significantly broaden the education of the students and at the same time make meaningful contributions to correcting some of the social decay that exists in the state and nation.

Features and Benefits

The colleges and universities of Connecticut are one of the richest recourses of talent knowledge, ideas and human energy available to the people of the state. Strategically located in urban centers and bucolic environs, these institutions have the potential to be a major impetus for positive change. The state’s urban centers and rural areas, although uniquely different, share many of the challenges that are indicative of the high standard of the American way of life, and most of the state’s residents continue to make good things even better.

The pressing question for higher education is how it can partner with and collaborate with the communities in the state that want to continue to improve the quality of life for the residents. The institutions must identify and catalog its available resources, make them readily accessible to the communities and deliver them on a consistent basis to the sites determined by the community where the resources can provide maximum benefit. The communities have visions for tomorrow and the institutions must partner with them to make dreams for tomorrow a reality today.

Higher education must aggressively devise innovative methods to expand its expertise beyond the boundaries of the campus and continuously demonstrate to the residents of the community that they are wellsprings of recourses that can be used in assisting the communities to achieve their identified objectives. 

Features 

• Provide the support of a national network of over 740 institutions in 46 states with a common purpose.
• Consortium provides small grants for experimental programs.
• Create opportunities for faculty/staff to share ideas.
• Forum for students to interact with those from other campuses doing similar things.
• Resource for information exchange.
• Assist institutions in expanding the frontiers of learning.
• Proven track record, expertise and skills in working with institutions to develop viable models for community