Past Programs

Teach to Change
Since 2001, Rhode Island Campus Compact has been working with our partners to offer Teach to Change, a national service program designed to engage K-12 teachers and students in service-learning project development throughout the state. To date, over 300 Rhode Island teachers (representing 12 school districts and more than 65 elementary, middle and high schools) have completed at least one year of professional development coursework in service-learning and successfully integrated service-learning into their classroom teaching. Teach to Change Resource Guide

 

"Service-learning has had a tremendous impact on the way I teach and how my students learn. By allowing my students a voice in their curriculum, I have witnessed increased participation, higher academic achievement, and true accommodation of multiple intelligences." Alison Curry Wallace, 7th grade Social Studies, Aldrich Junior High School, Warwick

Philanthropic Foundations Course

Rhode Island Campus Compact was delighted to partner with the Rhode Island Foundation for an innovative inter-campus course on philanthropy.

The Philanthropic Foundations course, successfully piloted during the 2004-2005 academic year, is a rigorous study of philanthropy with a specific focus on Rhode Island based philanthropic practice. Throughout the year students and faculty from colleges throughout Rhode Island come together to create a depth and breadth of knowledge through collaborative teaching and learning unavailable at any one institution.

The course began as a group independent study project at Brown University in the spring of 2002. Its success led Rhode Island Campus Compact and the Rhode Island Foundation to expand the course to include colleges throughout the state. Through an intensive planning process, faculty from seven Rhode Island colleges, together with Rhode Island Campus Compact and Rhode Island Foundation staff, jointly crafted the syllabus and developed the year long course. To date, it is the only course in Rhode Island providing an opportunity for students from a variety of institutions to learn together, and one of the only undergraduate courses in the nation to study the philanthropic process.

Philanthropic Foundations is a year-long course which includes a common monthly seminar, group community-based research projects, optional internships with RI grant makers, and related campus-based coursework. The primary goals of the effort are to:

  1. Bring a diverse group of students from colleges and universities in Rhode Island together for community-based experiential education.
  2. Support the development of campus infrastructure related to public sector workforce development through the provision of "value-added" education.
  3. Provide college students in Rhode Island with education about philanthropy and grant making.