Campus Compact Compact Current

Campus Compact Survey: Student Service Valued at $5.6 Billion

Students on member campuses provided $5.6 billion in service during the 2004-2005 academic year, according to Campus Compact's latest annual member survey.

At an average of 5 hours per week, students are increasingly committed to community work. This is one of many findings pointing to strong campus commitment to service and civic engagement.

Alternative spring breaks are also increasingly popular. Nearly two-thirds of campuses (64%) report offering a program that allows students to spend their spring breaks volunteering in the community — locally, nationally, and internationally. We expect this number to rise as the interest in week-long service projects, particularly in the Gulf region, increases.

Other highlights of the 2005 survey include:

• Nearly all member campuses (98%) offer courses that incorporate a service component
• Campuses offer an average of 35 service-learning courses each, compared with 27 in 2001
• Some 83% of member campuses include service or civic engagement in their strategic plan
• Among respondents, 85% reward community-based research or servicelearning in faculty review, tenure, and/or promotions
• More campuses than ever — 86% — have an office or center dedicated to coordinating service, service-learning, and/or civic engagement activities

Campus Compact surveys its members each fall to assess the current state of campus-based community engagement and to identify emerging trends affecting the public purposes of higher education.

Join National Leaders to Celebrate Succeesses of Schools, Students, and Communities and Plan for the Future

This fall, Campus Compact will celebrate its growth over the past 20 years, honor the achievements of its member campuses and envision our work for the next two decades. Illiniois Campus Compact and the national Compact office will host to a two-day celebration on October 16-17, 2006, in which this work will be highlighted among national higher education, foundation, government, business and community leaders.

An Evening of Celebration

On October 16, an evening Gala will highlight the remarkable progress that our member campuses have made in renewing their civic mission. Award presentations will include Campus Compact's Frank Newman Leadership Award and Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award; the Illinois Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus- Community Collaboration; and President George W. Bush's Community Service Honor Roll. Campus Compact's executive director, Elizabeth L. Hollander, will be honored as she retires after ten successful and growth-filled years of service to the organization.

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter will present the Illinois Carter Partnership Award to members of Illinois Campus Compact. The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation seeks to strengthen ties between campuses and communities by recognizing exemplary partnerships and disseminating best practices.

President George W. Bush's Higher Education Community Service Commission has chosen Campus Compact's 20th Anniversary event as the venue for presenting the Community Service Honor Roll inaugural awards. These awards will recognize the exemplary achievements of campuses that have contributed to disaster relief. More information about these awards will be available on Learn and Serve's website.

During the evening, participants will learn about significant community and social change undertaken by inspired students and their member presidents and come away with an appreciation of the tremendous impact Campus Compact has made on college and university campuses.

The evening Gala is sponsored by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, which supports Illinois Campus Compact through the McCormick Presidential Fellows program. McCormick executives will be joined by a host of other national leaders, including Michael McPherson, president of The Spencer Foundation; John Morgridge, chairman of Cisco Systems; Laura Washington, editorial columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times; and Harris Wofford, former U.S. Senator and Campus Compact board member.

20/20 Visioning Summit

On the following day, a 20/20 Visioning Summit will focus on the future of the field and Campus Compact's role in turning this vision into a reality. It will feature plenary sessions, a special presidents' track, presentation of the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, and both constituent-based and thematic roundtable discussions of Campus Compact's key work moving forward.

Discussions will center on three themes:

• Embedding engagement more deeply across all institutions,
• Bridging the opportunity gap by improving educational access and success, and
• Educating students for global citizenship.

To prepare for these conversations, Campus Compact has solicited papers that address these issues from presidents, faculty, chief academic officers, community service staff, students, community partners, and foundation leaders from across the country. Barbara Holland, executive director of the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse and a Campus Compact Engaged Scholar, is leading this process. A framing paper by Holland and Hollander is now available on the special 20th anniversary section of our website. Resulting papers will be available before the event. The issues papers and Visioning discussions will form the basis of a culminating publication on the future of the field.

Mary Robinson will deliver the luncheon keynote speech on global citizenship, drawing on her experience as former president of Ireland, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. Thomas Ehrlich, former Campus Compact board chair and president emeritus of Indiana University, will present the faculty award named in his honor.

Other invited guests include David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a major supporter of campus-based service and service-learning efforts. Joining in these discussions will be leaders from many of Campus Compact's 31 state offices, who coordinate state and regional campus engagement efforts. Everyone is invited to attend one or both events. Member presidents are encouraged to buy tables for the Gala celebration on Monday, October 16.

Two new resources for developing student leaders

Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership

This collection gives powerful examples of institutional support for student leadership in the academic curriculum that can help catalyze engagement on campuses around the country.

Eduardo J. Padrón, President Miami Dade College

This seminal volume takes service-learning to a new level by highlighting ways students can take on real leadership roles in connecting their studies with community change. Filled with student voice, including student co-authors, Students as Colleagues offers models and best practices from institutions around the country. Included are successful strategies for recruiting and training student leaders, using students as staff, developing student-faculty partnerships, and empowering students as academic entrepreneurs.

2006, 279 pages
$37 members,
$49 nonmembers

Raise Your Voice: A Student Guide to Making Positive Social Change

This hands-on guide speaks directly to student leaders seeking to improve the effectiveness of their engaged work while enhancing their academic and civic learning. Based on three years of activity in Campus Compact's hugely successful Raise Your Voice civic action campaign, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of students across the country, this book is full of targeted strategies, tools, and activities for organizing change on campus. From holding civic dialogues to meeting with elected officials, from mapping assets and allies on campus to organizing alternative breaks, this book offers tips and step-by-step advice — from students, for students — on getting the most out of campus activity.

2006, 148 pages
$28 members,
$37 nonmembers

Compact Current is the newsletter of Campus Compact, a national nonprofit organization based at Brown University. Compact Current is distributed three times a year to all Campus Compact member institutions. Editorial Correspondence: Address all correspondence to Pamela Mutascio, Editor, Compact Current, Campus Compact, Box 1975, Providence, RI 02912.

Campus Compact receives substantial support from Learn and Serve America, which supports service-learning programs across the country by providing funding and training. Campus Compact also receives financial support from: Ariel Capital Management, LLC, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Ford Foundation, KPMG Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, TIAA-CREFF, TOSA Foundation, and the UN Foundation.