Sharing Power To Achieve True Collaboration: The Community Role In Embedding Engagement
Sharing Power To Achieve True Collaboration: The Community Role In Embedding Engagement Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Byron P. White Title: Executive Director Institution: Community Building Institute, Xavier, OH Constituent Group: Community Partners I had no idea what the meeting was to be about. All I knew from my colleague was that three community leaders from the Evanston neighborhood, which borders Xavier University in Cincinnati, wanted to talk to us — and it was urgent. Our offices had become a convenient space for gatherings to discuss various community revitalization efforts between Xavier and Evanston, a proud African-American community trying…
Service Learning at CSUMB: Civic Learning Across the Curriculum
Service Learning at CSUMB: Civic Learning Across the Curriculum Theme: Embedding Engagement Authors: Name: Diane Cordero de Noriega Title: Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Institution: California State University at Monterey Bay, CA Constituent Group: Presidents Name: Seth Pollack Title: Associate Professor & Director Institution: California State University at Monterey Bay, CA Constituent Group: CSDs / SLDs The campus will be distinctive in serving the diverse people of California, especially the working class and historically undereducated and low-income populations…The identity of the university will be framed by a substantive commitment to multilingual, multicultural, gender-equitable learning…Our graduates will have…
Service and Civic Engagement as a Common Expectation in Higher Education
Service and Civic Engagement as a Common Expectation in Higher Education Theme: Embedding Engagement Authors: Name: David Eisner Title: CEO Institution: Corporation for National and Community Service, DC Constituent Group: Funders Name: Amy Cohen Title: Director Institution: Learn and Serve America, DC Constituent Group: Funders The mission of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency, is to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering. Through a family of service programs ? primarily SeniorCorps, AmeriCorps, VISTA, NCCC and Learn and Serve America ? the Corporation provides opportunities for Americans of all…
Reflecting on Why We Choose to Take the Path of Service-Learning
Reflecting on Why We Choose to Take the Path of Service-Learning Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Marshall Welch Title: Professor & Director Institution: University of Utah, UT Constituent Group: CSDs / SLDs Campus Compact’s celebration of its 20th anniversary provides an opportunity to envision ways to embed engagement across institutions. This ambitious charge will facilitate institutionalization of service-learning and other forms of civic engagement while enhancing students’ educational experience to prepare them to be good citizens as well as competent professionals in a career. I would like suggest that there is an important concomitant step. This time for celebration…
New Communication Tools and Building Global Citizenship
New Communication Tools and Building Global Citizenship Theme: Global Citizenship Authors: Name: Joshua Goldstein Title: Associate Director Institution: Youth Partnership for America, DC Constituent Group: Students / Recent Graduates Name: Jeremy Goldberg Title: Executive Director Institution: Youth Partnership for America, DC Constituent Group: Friends New communication tools are fundamentally altering the way our society reads the news, expresses creativity, socializes and shops. Just as with the development of every new technology, these same communication tools can be used for enhancing community understanding, citizenship and service-learning. If the campus is the microcosm that prepares students for citizenship in diverse and…
Measuring Higher Education’s Commitment to Civic Engagement: The Importance of Attention to Quality, Not Just Quantity
Measuring Higher Education’s Commitment to Civic Engagement: The Importance of Attention to Quality, Not Just Quantity Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Michael McPherson Title: President Institution: Spencer, IL Constituent Group: Funders It is natural for those scholars and practitioners who are interested in the effectiveness of civic engagement programs in colleges to think about results in quantitative, “head count” terms. We talk about how many people vote, or participate in political parties, or join in community improvement campaigns. There is, I find, less attention to the quality of those engagements. I think this is unfortunate. There are at least…
Making Use Of All Our Faculties: Public Scholarship And The Future Of Campus Compact
Making Use Of All Our Faculties: Public Scholarship And The Future Of Campus Compact Theme: Embedding Engagement By David Scobey, Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships and Director, Harward Center For Community Partnerships Bates College, ME Constituent Group:Faculty Last week — it is early July as I write? — I found myself in one of the textile mills that once formed the economic heart of Lewiston, Maine. The mills began closing in the 1970s, but now, after two decades of abandonment, the long brick buildings are being reclaimed by businesses and non-profits. I was visiting Museum L-A,…
Integrating Engagement with Research Ethics in Graduate Education
Integrating Engagement with Research Ethics in Graduate Education Theme: Embedding Engagement Authors: Name: Victor Bloomfield Title: Associate Vice President for Public Engagement University of Minnesota Institution: University of Minnesota, MN Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators Name: Gail Dubrow Title: Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Institution: University of Minnesota, MN Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators Educating students about the ideas and methods of public engagement has largely focused on undergraduates. With progress on that front well underway, we propose that the ambitions of the public engagement movement should be extended to graduate students. This is a challenging…
Institutionalizing University Engagement: Building a Committed University in Seven Not-so-Easy Steps
Institutionalizing University Engagement: Building a Committed University in Seven Not-so-Easy Steps Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Ana M. López Title: Senior Associate Provost Institution: Tulane University, LA Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators No major research university in the 21st century can continue to ignore engagement as a major component of the academy’s work. Doing so would prevent the institution from fully meeting its mission, goals or aspirations. Just take a look at the mission statements of major research universities, and you will see what I mean. Depending on the institution and its local context, “engagement” can take many forms….
Higher Education, Democratic Capacity, and Public Scholarship
Higher Education, Democratic Capacity, and Public Scholarship Theme: Embedding Engagement Authors: Name: Jeremy Cohen Title: Associate Vice President & Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Professor of Communication Institution: Penn State University, PA Constituent Group: Faculty Name: Rosa A. Eberly Title: Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, Institution: Penn State University, PA Constituent Group: Faculty Princeton historian Sean Wilentz prefaces his 2005 book The Rise of American Democracy with a timely and chilling reminder: “Democracy is never a gift bestowed by benevolent, farseeing rulers who seek to reinforce their own legitimacy. It must always be…
Global Citizenship is not a Spectator Sport
Global Citizenship is not a Spectator Sport Theme: Global Citizenship Author: Name: John M. Sirek Title: Citizenship Program Director Institution: McCormick Tribune Foundation, IL Constituent Group: Funders Twenty-eight years ago a young man from a small dairy farm in Minnesota boarded a plane for Sweden. He had never been outside the boarders of the United States and had only been out of his home state a number of times. His only language was English and the community in which he grew up was overwhelmingly White and Catholic. He rarely let anything other than meat and potatoes cross his lips….
Global citizenship in the making: The process of putting pieces together
Global citizenship in the making: The process of putting pieces together Theme: Global Citizenship Author: Name: Diane Tran Title: The Center for Just Living, Coordinator Institution: College of St. Scholastica, MN Constituent Group: Students / Recent Graduates Global citizenship in the making I went to college considering my time in activities outside of the classroom to be the more practical and useful education I received, but with every intention to sync my studies with parallel practical application in order to continue engaging in what I now learned was referred to as “service-learning.” Already a student of the Humanities, I…
From Solos to Symphonies: Orchestrating Learning through Collaboration
From Solos to Symphonies: Orchestrating Learning through Collaboration Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Regina Hughes Title: Director, Center for Scholarly & Civic Engagement Institution: Collin County Community College, TX Constituent Group: CSDs / SLDs Boyer (1997) stated “the most fundamental challenge confronting American higher learning is to move from fragmentation to coherence. He spoke of the need for connection, “connections between teaching and research, connections between students, faculty, and staff, connections across the disciplines, and connections from the campus to the larger world.” Like the pause between symphonic movements, higher education appears to be signaling a critical turning point….
Ensuring Higher Education Access for All: A New Deal for Equalizing Opportunity and Enabling Hopes and Dreams
Ensuring Higher Education Access for All: A New Deal for Equalizing Opportunity and Enabling Hopes and Dreams Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Bob Giannino-Racine Title: Executive Director Institution: ACCESS: The Action Center for Educational Services and Scholarships, MA Constituent Group: Community Partners Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. President John F. Kennedy Many of us have heard the phrase, “Education is the great equalizer”….
Engagement and Global Citizenship: Local Roots and Global Reach
Engagement and Global Citizenship: Local Roots and Global Reach Theme: Global Citizenship Authors: Name: Leon Richards Title: Chancellor Institution: Kapi’olani Community College, HI Constituent Group: Presidents Name: Robert Franco Title: Professor of Anthropology, Director of Planning Institution: Kapi’olani Community College, HI Constituent Group: Presidents Sustaining Institutional Focus In 1988, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) published a report entitled, Building Community which identified new imperatives, including the accelerated development of international education, for America’s two-year colleges. The report provided a powerful, sustainable definition of “community as both a region to be served and a climate to be created.”…
Embedding Engagement into the University: Lessons Learned From a Case Study of One Public Research University
Embedding Engagement into the University: Lessons Learned From a Case Study of One Public Research University Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Jodi Anderson Title: Special Projects, Office of the Chancellor Institution: University of California, CA Constituent Group: Students / Recent Graduates In recent years, practitioners, faculty, administrators and students have called for institutions of higher education to undergo change in order to more fully embrace their civic roles. However, little research on this topic has examined how universities might undertake institutional change efforts for these purposes. In particular, scant attention has been given to understanding the rationale for developing…
Embedding Engagement In Higher Education: Preparing Global Citizens Through International Service-Learning
Embedding Engagement In Higher Education: Preparing Global Citizens Through International Service-Learning Theme: Global Citizenship Author: Name: Nevin Brown Title: President Institution: International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership, NY Constituent Group: Friends In their framing essay for this collection of articles celebrating the 20th anniversary of Campus Compact, Barbara Holland and Liz Hollander list three crucial challenges for the engaged university in the next twenty years; it is the third of these, educating students for global citizenship, which I will address briefly in this essay. At the same time that U.S. colleges and universities are emphasizing their engagement with domestic…
Embedded Engagement: Communities Magnify the Value of Engaged Practices
Embedded Engagement: Communities Magnify the Value of Engaged Practices Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Zoe Freeman Title: Activity Coordinator / Volunteer Coordinator Institution: Pike Market Senior Center, WA Constituent Group: Community Partners The occasion of the Campus Compact 20th anniversary celebration, and the challenge of being included in the group of authors invited to share a personal vision of “embedded engagement” offers the opportunity to look forward — to speak in the language of possibility — and to do so to a large, diverse audience. This paper is written from a community partner perspective and will reflect my convictions,…
Elevating Global Citizenship By Building The International Civic Engagement Movement Of Higher Education
Elevating Global Citizenship By Building The International Civic Engagement Movement Of Higher Education Theme: Global Citizenship Author: Name: Robert M. Hollister Title: Dean and Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Professor Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service Institution: Tufts University, MA Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators Campus Compact’s next twenty years hold extraordinary opportunities to elevate education for global citizenship. Daily newscasts are a painful reminder that active, effective global citizens are in short supply — both in the U.S. and around the world. U.S. colleges and universities have developed an impressive array of programs that are strengthening the international…
Educational Access and Academic Success
Educational Access and Academic Success Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Amelia Ross-Hammond Title: Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement / Office of Academic Affairs Institution: Norfolk State University, VA Constituent Group: CSDs / SLDs Power is only important as an instrument of service to the powerless. Lech Walesa Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Accountability and articulation of students’ capability to perform in a knowledge-based, technology driven global society has increased. Employees are demanding a workforce with excellent critical reasoning skills that are grounded in democratic principles, with practical experience…
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