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We take a comprehensive approach to support the whole institution. Our events, programs, opportunities, and resources are created to support senior leaders, faculty, staff, and students as they build the knowledge, skills, and capacity needed for effective community and civic engagement.
Responsive Programming & Capacity Building
We focus on supporting members when they need it most. From student community engagement and engaged pedagogy strategies to re-imagining partnerships with a focus on equity, we build capacity for positive impact on students and communities.
- Customized technical assistance—access expert staff and learn from the experience of similar institutions nationwide
- Institutional planning support—align institutional and community assets to achieve shared goals for positive change
- Mini-grants—funding to pilot new and emerging programs and initiatives
- Workshops and Coalition Conversations—collaborative learning and action on topics that meet the needs of the moment
- In-person events and conferences—access opportunities for in-person learning and networking
AmeriCorps at Campus Compact Learn more about AmeriCorps
Campus Compact members can harness the power of national service to address critical needs both on and off campus with Campus Compact AmeriCorps programs. AmeriCorps members engage in capacity building and direct service work that mobilizes students, faculty, and staff to tackle pressing challenges.
Our AmeriCorps members advance education attainment and social cohesion, health equity, economic mobility, and environmental stewardship in a variety of organizational settings.
Campus Compact has something for everyone
Resources you can count on
For decades, we’ve offered practical tools for community-based teaching, campus-community partnership development, and more with ways to exchange resources and ideas. We lift up new voices to bring leading-edge resources to drive your work.
Online Resource Library
Hundreds of current and archival materials that can assist in a wide variety of your civic and community engagement work. Find recorded trainings, syllabi, curated collections on key topics, and much more.
Publications
Discounts on everything from foundational knowledge to of–the-moment topics published by Campus Compact.
Civic Action Planning
Establish goals for aligning institutional practices and values.
Communities and networks
We intentionally convene and build member communities and networks that create deep connections and capacity for impact. Campus Compact Affinity Networks bring together member campus faculty and staff from across the country to advance common priorities through sustained collegial networks:
Community Colleges Network
Dedicated to preparing community college students to be informed, active, and mobilized leaders in our democracy.
The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN)
Established in 2008, members are R1 institutions working to advance civic engagement and engaged scholarship among research universities.
Rural Serving Institutions
Connect, collaborate, and share insights with faculty, staff, students, and community partners passionate about serving rural communities.
Campus CoGenerate Affinity Network
A new ongoing collegial network of institutions focusing on the power generated when older and younger people come together to solve problems and build a better future.
Affordable Housing Network
A community of higher education professionals that explores how higher education anchor institutions can positively contribute to addressing the affordable housing crisis in the U.S.
We are always excited to welcome new members to our affinity networks. If there's a group that meets your needs, you can sign up anytime.
Relationship-centered professional development
For decades, we’ve offered practical tools for community-based teaching, campus-community partnership development, and more with ways to exchange resources and ideas. We lift up new voices to bring leading-edge resources to drive your work.
Online Resource Library
Hundreds of current and archival materials that can assist in a wide variety of your civic and community engagement work. Find recorded trainings, syllabi, curated collections on key topics, and much more.
Publications
Discounts on everything from foundational knowledge to of–the-moment topics published by Campus Compact.
Civic Action Planning
Establish goals for aligning institutional practices and values.
Transformational student experiences
Educating students to be active and informed community members is central to all of our programming. We support students as they develop leadership skills, strategies for engagement, public applications of academic knowledge, and increased civic participation.
Newman Civic Fellowship
A year-long program that recognizes and supports student public problem solvers at Campus Compact member institutions. Fellows are nominated by their president or chancellor based on their potential for public leadership and their work with communities.
Student Design Fellows
A commitment to a two-year, student-led design process. Student Design Fellows will collaborate closely with Campus Compact staff, member campuses, and national partners to shape student civic leadership development.
Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement
This framework and survey aim to advance our understanding of students’ interests and predispositions regarding approaches to social change, helping improve the quality of student programming, understand their needs and desires over time.
AmeriCorps VISTA
Placing AmeriCorps members for year-long terms of service at colleges and universities and with their community partners. Members build capacity for their host sites, expand and improve programming, and ultimately help fulfill the public purposes of higher education.
Campus Compact EnviroCorps
A nationwide AmeriCorps program dedicated to campus-based environmental stewardship by building the capacity of campuses and their community partners to create meaningful change.
Recognition and visibility
We are a professional home for community-engaged institutions, professionals, and faculty. We recognize excellence and advocate for the critical role of higher education in building democracy, the economy, and society.
Annual Campus Compact Impact Awards
Recognizing and uplifting outstanding community engagement work done by university presidents, engaged faculty, community engagement professionals, early career practitioners, partnerships, programs, and students.
Higher Education Democracy Exchange (HEDEX)
A multi-functional, virtual platform that aims to unite colleges and universities in advancing the civic mission(s) of higher education while connecting civic learning to public problem-solving across campuses nationwide.
HUD + Higher Ed Engagement Network
Exploring the ways colleges and universities can engage with and advance U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development initiatives to create inclusive, sustainable, and thriving communities.
Democracy Inventory Project
A new joint planning effort led by the American Association of Colleges & Universities and Campus Compact to organize collective democratic engagement efforts nationally.
Campus Museums of Service
Offering tools for colleges and universities to create exhibitions recognizing and honoring community engagement and service on campuses and in communities.