These provocative essays from more then 40 presidents, faculty, CAOs, community service staff, students, community partners, and funders provide a challenging analysis of key issues and questions related to the three themes of the Visioning Summit (embedding civic and community engagement into higher education at all levels, bridging the opportunity gap by improving educational access and success, and educating students for global citizenship).

Student leaders in Campus Compact's Raise Your Voice campaign mobilized more than 400,000 students on 500 campuses to take part in service, advocacy, and other forms of civic engagement. This article distills their experience into valuable lessons on how to create a culture of engagement on campus.

The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) promotes research on civic engagement by Americans between the ages of 15 and 25.

This book was created from the "Campus in Community Online Civic Dialogues" series. Campus in Community was a series of Web forums organized by the Upper Midwest Campus Compact Consortium. Topics included: Reflection, Power Dynamics in Campus-Community Collaboration, Assessment and Evaluation of Civic Engagement Initiatives and Risk Management. This document compiles some highlights from the forums and provides lists of resources for more information on each topic. The series was made possible by a grant from the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

A web-based resource created in a collaborative effort by the Project On Civic Reflection at Valparaiso University, and the Maine Humanities Council.

Community mapping evaluates your campus in regard to student voice and student civic engagement. It will also help you locate assets for getting involved and making democratic change on your campus.

Learn how to plan, host, and follow-up with a dialogue on your own campus.

This book fills an important niche in the literature on institutional engagement.

A resource for faculty and staff working with engaged students.

For A Better America asks a question that every person in this country has at least one answer for ("What would you do to make America better?") and challenges users to think about the problems in this country and work collectively — both online and in their communities — to find solutions to those problems.

College students in the United States are hungry for political conversation that is authentic, involves diverse views and is free of manipulation and "spin," according to a report by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) and The Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

A new network of research universities formed to promote civic engagement has issued a landmark report, New Times Demand New Scholarship: Research Universities and Civic Engagement.

Tools and tips to help ordinary citizens bring about change from the bottom up, including resources designed to help you meet others with similar concerns, raise awareness of your cause, and take meaningful action.

Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants exposes the systemic barriers that prevent immigrants from entering college and/or completing bachelor's degrees education.

The purpose of this statement is to articulate the commitment of higher education to its civic purposes. The statement was reviewed, refined, and endorsed at a Presidents' Leadership Colloquium convened by Campus Compact and the American Council on Education in July 1999.

Ways in which presidents can support student civic engagement on their campus.

Provides academic leaders with a resource to increase their fluency with and ability to lead service-learning and civic engagement efforts on their campuses, with their peers, and throughout higher education.

Quotes about public service and community engagement, for use in speeches and articles.