Summary Comments from Campus Compact "Advanced Institute" on Civic Engagement

As higher education faces a declining value proposition and stalled progress in university–community engagement, this book offers a bold alternative to the customer-focused strategies many colleges seek to regain stability.

Guidance for colleges & universities in inventorying democratic engagement efforts

Learn more about the Chester-Swarthmore Fellows Council, a group of Chester resident-leaders with wide and deep local roots in the city, comprises an advisory body that informs and contextualizes Swarthmore College’s place-based engagements in Chester, PA. Through this innovative approach, Swarthmore College was awarded Campus Compact’s new Excellence in Community-Engaged Partnerships Award, which recognizes the many forms that effective on-campus civic and community engagement can take to address areas of need and make deep and long-lasting positive change.

Learn more about the Community Engaged Learning Index, developed by the Center for Community Engaged Learning at Michigan State University. Through this innovative approach, MSU was awarded Campus Compact’s new Excellence in Civic & Community Engagement Programming Award, which recognizes the many forms that effective on-campus civic and community engagement can take to address areas of need and make deep and long-lasting positive change.