Educating Successful Students
Educating Successful Students Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Lori J. Vogelgesang Title: Director, Center for Service-Learning Research & Dissemination Institution: Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA, CA Constituent Group: Friends Educational access and success are typically framed as ‘getting into’ and ‘staying in’ college; getting good grades and graduating. When one is facing significant barriers to accessing and completing a college education, framing access and success in this way is necessary and right. But if one stops there, most of us would agree that we are not serving the interests of students as individuals or as part of a…
Educating for a Global Citizenship
Educating for a Global Citizenship Theme: Global Citizenship Authors: Name: Debra Blanke Title: Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Programs Institution: Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, OK Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators Name: Kyle Dahlem Title: Director of Teacher Education and the Minority Teacher Recruitment Center Institution: Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, OK Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators In 1807, nearly 200 years ago, William Wordsworth wrote, “The world is too much with us, late and soon getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” Has much changed in the last 200 years? The answer to this age-old…
Defining a Service-Learning Pedagogy of Access and Success
Defining a Service-Learning Pedagogy of Access and Success Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Christine M. Cress Title: Associate Professor Institution: Portland State University, OR Constituent Group: Faculty Ask most college administrators how they define access and they would probably reply “inclusive opportunity.” Ask most college faculty how they would identify a benchmark of success and they would probably reply “critical thinking skills.” Indeed, our traditional notions of educational access and success tend to be either numerically delineated, “the number of entering or graduating students” or characterized as producing rationally oriented “leaders” and “citizens”. Certainly, expanding the educational participation…
Dare American Higher Education Build a New Social Order? In the Service of Whom and the Promotion of What in the Education
Dare American Higher Education Build a New Social Order? In the Service of Whom and the Promotion of What in the Education Theme: Global Citizenship Author: Name: Mark Falbo Title: Director for Community Service Institution: John Carroll University, OH Constituent Group: CSDs / SLDs Introduction Anniversaries are special events. They are foremost opportunities to celebrate our collective achievements. They are opportunities to reflect critically on who, what, and how we arrived at this point. Anniversaries are also opportunities to scan the signs of the times, the horizon before us, in an effort to discern what lies ahead. My task…
Context Diversity: Reframing Higher Education In The 21st Century
Context Diversity: Reframing Higher Education In The 21st Century Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Roberto Ibarra Title: Assistant Vice Chancellor Emeritus University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Associate Professor Sociology, University of New Institution: University of New Mexico, NC Constituent Group: Faculty One of the enduring challenges for higher education during the 20th century was learning how to accommodate the increasing demand for education from populations that had been excluded from pursuing a college degree in the past. Social movements and legal mandates such as the GI Bill, Civil Rights, and Affirmative Action pressured institutions to incorporate educational equity for…
Collaboration: A Key to America’s Future
Collaboration: A Key to America’s Future Theme: Access & Success Authors: Name: Phillip L. Davis Title: President Institution: Minneapolis Community and Technical College, MN Constituent Group: Presidents Name: Wilson G. Bradshaw Title: President Institution: Metropolitan State University, MN Constituent Group: Presidents Introduction Our country is facing an unprecedented challenge as it prepares for the future. It must succeed in a global marketplace and an increasingly hostile and divided world. In the past, our successes have been founded on a wealth of innovation and ideas, coupled with an educated and skilled workforce and a commitment to the common good. Our…
Civic Life in the Information Age: Policy, Technology and Generational Change
Civic Life in the Information Age: Policy, Technology and Generational Change Theme: Global Citizenship Author: Name: Stephanie Sanford Title: Deputy Director, Education Institution: Gates Foundation, WA Constituent Group: Funders In today’s rapidly changing world, the skills and sensibilities of “citizenship” are evolving along with technological and economic advance. Communication technologies enable communication across the globe at the speed of light. This reality means that ideas of democracy, theocracy, compassion, and hate can all find instant audiences. This profound freedom and speed of information dramatically increases the demands associated with contemporary citizenship and raises the stakes for the schools and…
Blending Local and Global Experiences in Service of Civic Engagement
Blending Local and Global Experiences in Service of Civic Engagement Theme: Global Citizenship Authors: Name: Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran Title: President Institution: Kalamazoo College, MI Constituent Group: Presidents Name: Alison Geist Title: Director, Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service Learning Institution: Kalamazoo College, MI Constituent Group: CSDs / SLDs In Trustworthy Leadership: Can we be the leaders we need our students to become?, Diana Chapman Walsh, President of Wellesley College, argues that we need “our graduates to become active participants in the world, potent advocates for human rights, confident leaders willing to take risks in pursuit of intellectual honesty, of…
Acting Locally in a Flat World: Global Citizenship and the Democratic Practice of Service-Learning
Acting Locally in a Flat World: Global Citizenship and the Democratic Practice of Service-Learning Theme: Global Citizenship Authors: Name: Richard Battistoni Title: Professor Institution: Providence College, RI Constituent Group: Faculty Name: Nicholas Longo Title: Director, Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute & Associate Institution: Miami University of Ohio and the Kettering Foundation, OH Constituent Group: Funders Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community. John Dewey The world is being flattened. I didn’t start it and you can’t stop it, except at a great cost to human development and your own future. Thomas Friedman This paper…
Achieving Higher Levels of Access and Success in Postsecondary Education
Achieving Higher Levels of Access and Success in Postsecondary Education Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Charlie Nelms Title: Vice President Institution: Indiana University, IN Constituent Group: CAO / Administrators Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. Horace Mann Growing up in the Delta Region of Arkansas in the 1950s and 60s, in an area rife with racial segregation, poverty and political disenfranchisement, I experienced the profound and unrelenting effects of legalized discrimination. One of 11 children born to subsistence farmers,…
A Vision of Community Engagement for Higher Education
A Vision of Community Engagement for Higher Education Theme: Embedding Engagement Authors: Name: Dennis Holtschneider Title: President Institution: DePaul University, IL Constituent Group: Presidents Name: Laurie Worrall Title: Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs Institution: DePaul University, IL Constituent Group: Presidents Motivated by the imminence of our centennial anniversary, when DePaul Universityi launched its community-based service-learning program in 1998, it was a result of a two-year institutional strategic planning process. This milestone prompted us to turn to our mission and history in an effort to answer the question of what kind of institution we wanted to be in the future….
A look at 20 years of Campus Compact from a “20 something” student perspective
A look at 20 years of Campus Compact from a “20 something” student perspective Theme: Embedding Engagement Author: Name: Leah Orwig Title: Recent Graduate Institution: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL Constituent Group: Students / Recent Graduates As Campus Compact celebrates its 20th birthday this year, I find similar patterns of growth when comparing its history with my own twenty-something years. During the late 1980s my civic life and the life of Campus Compact began our development in close timing. By the early 1990s, Campus Compact and I were learning the importance of combining service in the classroom and…
20-20: Building Access, Engaged Learning and Excellence
20-20: Building Access, Engaged Learning and Excellence Theme: Access & Success Author: Name: Diana Natalicio Title: President Institution: UTEP, TX Constituent Group: Presidents I am honored to have been asked to write an essay for inclusion in the collection recognizing the 20th Anniversary of Campus Compact. I am also very pleased to have this opportunity to share with you how the University of Texas at El Paso, the institution that I have been privileged to serve as president for nearly 20 years, has become a model for higher education engagement with its surrounding community. UTEP’s community is El Paso,…
To Keep Students, Colleges Cut Anything but Aid
With the economy forcing budget cuts and layoffs in higher education, colleges and universities might be expected to be cutting financial aid. But no. Students considering a wide range of private schools, as well as those who are already enrolled, can expect to get more aid this year, not less… » Read the full article from New York Times.
Initiating Effective Community Relationships: Guidelines from Campus Compact
Levels of Partnership to Consider Different types of community projects require different levels of commitment and collaboration from members at first; but as they succeed and endure, the levels will increase over time, perhaps developing into fully-funded service-learning programs. Traditional service like volunteerism and short-term co-curricular projects are typically ones where a community service opportunity is matched with available volunteers prepared to provide the service. Community agencies define the problem and volunteers work to alleviate it, with little discussion among participants of a shared vision or mutual benefits. Transformational service projects include service-learning courses and long-term co-curricular projects in which…
Best Practices in Campus-Based Mentoring
Information on campus-based mentoring from Campus Compact including why and how to implement programs. What is mentoring? Why campus-based? Who benefits from mentoring programs? Steps to planning, implementing, and managing a mentoring program What we have learned from research Campus partners in learning What is Mentoring? If the role model’s message is “Be like me,” the mentor’s implicit message says: “I will help you be whoever you want to be.” Young people need to hear and believe both messages. The Forgotten Half: Pathways to Success for America’s Youth and Young Families. The William T. Grant Foundation Commission on Work, Family,…
Wingspread Declaration on the Civic Responsibilities of Research Universities
Written by Harry Boyte and Elizabeth Hollander on behalf of participants in a Wingspread conference on civic education. Wingspread Declaration 108K Prelude This document is the result of collaboration by participants at a Wingspread conference involving university presidents, provosts, deans, and faculty members with extensive experience in higher education as well as representatives of professional associations, private foundations, and civic organizations. The purpose of the conference was to formulate strategies for renewing the civic mission of the research university, both by preparing students for responsible citizenship in a diverse democracy, and also by engaging faculty members to develop and utilize…
Community’s Colleges: Indicators of Engagement for Community Colleges- Revised
A. Mission and Purpose ’¢ The institution’s mission statement explicitly articulates its commitment to the public purposes of higher education and is deliberate about educating students for lifelong participation in their communities. ’¢ This aspect of the mission is openly valued and is explicitly used to promote and to explain the civic engagement and community building activities on and off campus. ’¢ The institution demonstrates a genuine willingness to review, discuss, and strengthen its commitment to civic engagement and community building. ’¢ All members of the campus community demonstrate their familiarity with and ownership of the institution’s mission. B. Academic…
Civic Engagement in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices
Numerous studies have chronicled students lack of trust in large social institutions, declining interest in politics, and decreasing civic skills. This book is a comprehensive guide to developing high-quality civic engagement experiences for college students. The book defines civic engagement and explains why it is central to a college education. It describes the state of the art of education for civic engagement and provides guidelines for designing programs that encourage desired learning outcomes. In addition, the book guides leaders in organizing their institutions to create a campus-wide culture of civic engagement.
2008 Presidential race raised student political involvement
The 2008 presidential election helped catapult today’s college freshmen to a level of political involvement not seen in decades, a survey released today suggests. A record 35.6% of first-year students said they frequently discussed politics in the past year; the previous high was 33.6% in 1968. The annual survey began in 1966.
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