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Policy and Advocacy

Our public policy work originates from both our national office and our 35 state offices on behalf of our more than 1,100 member presidents and their campus communities. Campus Compact advocates and educates through direct contacts with elected officials and through involvement with state and national educational organizations.

Our goals are to:

  • Advocate for higher education’s role educating students for responsible citizenship in ways that both deepen their education and improve the quality of community life.
  • Educate and reach out to policy makers to share the work of Campus Compact and its impact at the state and national level.
  • Seek financial support for service-learning and civic engagement in higher education from leaders in government, business, and philanthropy.

Read the latest policy update: Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2009 

Read the White House Agenda on Service.

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“National policy toward higher education can play a critical role. National policy is not a result of some vast impersonal forces beyond our control. It is the sum of conscious decisions by policymakers, by institutional leaders, and by students. It is a matter of will. Both in terms of the formation of national policy and the education of the individual, what is needed is the belief that one can make a difference.”

Frank Newman, president of the Education Commission of the States and Campus Compact co-founder, in Higher Education and the American Resurgence,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985

I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism — that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC."

-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader

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