Campus Compact

Educating citizens • building communities

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Bringing faculty together to discuss and/or advise

Montclair State University - NJ, New Jersey
President: Susan A. Cole

Academic departments have been described as glass silos: faculty from different departments may see each other, but they don t interact. At Montclair State University, in New Jersey, faculty from different departments come together around service-learning. Teams of three to five faculty members from different disciplines teaching on the same theme or with the same community site come together to discuss the different approaches their classes take, share syllabi, and advise one another.


From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy

Website: http://www.montclair.edu/pages/ccbl/index.htm

Through Campus Compact, we can help students learn the value of building communities. The benefit to our campus is not merely that our civic community is improved. It is that our students graduate with habits of good citizenship they will carry through life."

-Michael J. Sheeran, S.J., President, Regis University

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