Section 4: C2C Program Evaluation
Section 4, Program Evaluation, provides resources for conducting a C2C evaluation, including information on measuring program impact and the C2C Evaluation Report from the C2C pilot program. While program evaluation is included near the end of the Resource Guide, it’s important to note that evaluation is not an event that occurs at the end of a project; rather, it’s an ongoing process that should start at the outset, with systems put in place to support evaluation in the early stages of program planning. /wp-content/uploads/2015/04/C2C_resourcebook-section4.3.19.15.pdf
Section 3: C2C Program Administration
Section 3, Program Administration, includes resources for planning and managing a C2C program. While this section addresses faculty and peer advocate roles, it focuses more closely on the administrator’s role. This section offers resources for planning and launching a C2C program on campus, including information on assessing readiness, staffing, structuring, and budgeting for such a program. It also provides resources for recruiting and supporting faculty as well as for recruiting, screening, training, and supporting peer advocates. /wp-content/uploads/2015/04/C2C_resourcebook-section3.3.19.15.pdf
Section 2: Implementing C2C in the Classroom
Section 2, Implementing C2C in the Classroom, presents a comprehensive view of what C2C looks like in the classroom. It begins with two documents that explore considerations for faculty implementing the C2C strategy in their developmental education and college success courses: how to implement service-learning with a particularly vulnerable population, and approaches for integrating the C2C strategy into redesigned developmental education courses. The section also offers sample materials for supporting faculty and peer advocates in integrating C2C into the classroom, including faculty-created descriptions of peer-assisted service-learning coursework and activities. /wp-content/uploads/2015/04/C2C_resourcebook-section2.3.19.15.pdf
Section 1: The C2C Model
Section 1, The C2C Model, provides readers with a high-level understanding of the C2C strategy. It begins with an overview that paints a picture of what the program looks like on the ground. A review of the theory and assumptions underlying C2C connects theory with outcomes for participants. Discussions of service-learning and peer advocacy summarize research on the positive impact of these approaches on student success, review the integrated C2C approach in depth, and lay the foundation for C2C implementation (explored in later sections).
Service-Learning at the American Community College
This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning – combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction – can best be employed at community colleges. It discusses outcomes and best practices for all involved, covers both theory and practice, and draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/servicelearning-at-the-american-community-college-amy-e-traver/?K=9781137361707
C2C in Tallahassee Community College
Tallahassee Community College (TCC) is one of nine community colleges nationwide selected for Campus Compact’s Connect2Complete (C2C) pilot program. Through two distinct strategies—course-based peer-to peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning—C2C supports vulnerable students in achieving academic success and credential completion while they actively engage with their peers, their college, and their broader community. These strategies encourage academic development, social integration, personal development, and civic consciousness—all key factors for student persistence. At TCC, C2C has inspired a college-wide culture of change, and the program has proved to be the catalyst for including service-learning and civic engagement in the College’s strategic plan. C2C…
Foreword: Lessons from C2C Pilots
The Foreword, titled “Weaving Service-Learning and Peer Advocacy into Developmental Education Courses” demonstrates how Connect2Complete (C2C) is a program for community college students, which encourages academic development, social integration, personal development, and civic consciousness—all key factors for student success. Through two distinct strategies—course-based peer-to-peer advocacy and peer-assisted service-learning—C2C supports vulnerable students in achieving academic success and credential completion while they actively engage with their peers, their college, and their broader community. To implement ambitious C2C pilot projects, Campus Compact, through the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, funded nine community colleges in Florida, Ohio, and Washington, along with…
Mentor Guide Booklet from College Initiative
This Mentor Guide Booklet is a resource for mentors working with at-risk youth. It’s main usage is to troubleshoot by recording issues the student is willing to share and suggesting ways to tackle these issues. College Initiative (CI) is a reentry education non-profit that provides postsecondary access and support services for formerly incarcerated and court‐involved New York City residents. CI’ʹs peer mentoring program, matches senior students with incoming students for two consecutive semesters. Mentors offer support and referral services as well as regular assessments of student progress. /wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MentorGuideBooklet-CI.pdf
Academic College Shock Video
A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on ways that students experience academic college shock as they adjust to the differing demands between high school and college. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/AcademicCultureShock/index.html
Balancing Work and College Video
A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on ways that students can manage work and financial pressures while in college. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/Balancing_Work_Studies/index.html
Balancing School and Family Responsibilities Video
A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on ways that students can balance family responsibilities with college. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/FamilyResponsibilities/index.html
Peer Support Video
A video produced by firstinthefamily.org focused on the role that peer support can play in supporting student success. http://www.firstinthefamily.org/collegeyears/soundslides/PeerSupport/index.html
C2C Peer Advocate Training Webinar 2
This webinar video is the second part of a 2-part webinar series, serving as a companion to C2C Resource Guide Appendix 3-2. This appendix includes sample lessons for improving student success: motivation & self-regulation. This webinar provides strategies for peer advocates and faculty to support C2C students with reflection on and developing positive motivational beliefs and self-regulation skills.
College Student Philanthropy
When we think about the educational tools that colleges and universities employ to develop active and engaged citizens, we may first think about service-learning courses, organized days of service, and other academic and non-curricular programming to involve students in reflective service opportunities. Most civic engagement activities invite students to learn by giving of their “time and talent,” but rarely provide opportunities for students to learn by giving “treasure.” Many schools across the country have begun to implement both course-based and non-curricular opportunities for students to develop civic competencies by awarding grants. These experiential philanthropy courses engage students in the development…
Students As Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership
This seminal volume takes service-learning to a new level by demonstrating how it can meet its academic and community goals while developing student leaders. Models from campuses across the country offer successful practices for recruiting and training student leaders in service-learning, using students to staff key administrative positions, and establishing student-faculty partnerships to design and run community-based courses. According to Campus Compact’s member survey, nearly three-quarters of colleges and universities cite both student leadership development and student civic engagement as key outcomes in their strategic plans. Students as Colleagues is a must for anyone on campus seeking to achieve these…
Raise Your Voice: A Student Guide to Making Positive Social Change
This hands-on guide speaks directly to student leaders seeking to improve the effectiveness of their engaged work while enhancing their academic and civic learning. Based on three years of activity in Campus Compact’s hugely successful Raise Your Voice civic action campaign, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of students across the country, this book is full of targeted strategies, tools, and activities for organizing change on campus. From holding civic dialogues to meeting with elected officials, from mapping assets and allies on campus to organizing alternative breaks, this book offers tips and step-by-step advice — from students, for students — for…
Campus Election Engagement Project
Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) is a national nonpartisan project that helps America’s colleges and universities motivate their 20 million students to register, volunteer in campaigns, educate themselves, and turn out at the polls. We focus on how administrators, faculty, staff, and student leaders can help engage students, and we just finished up our biggest year yet in 2014, working directly with 280 campuses in 21 states and having partner organizations distribute our materials to 680 more. In 2015, we’re continuing our personalized approach — working with campuses around the country to deepen their engagement efforts and prepare for 2016….
Student Government Resource Center
The Student Government Resource Center provides student government and state student association leaders with the training and resources to succeed, from how to run productive meetings to how to win changes in campus policies. For thirty years, we’ve been teaching student governments the skills and know-how to accomplish their goals and be effective advocates for students.
Grant Making Resources
Resources for the technical aspects of grant making, including samples of RFPs, developed by classes, rubrics for evaluating proposals, and teaching assignments relating to the process.
Research and Evaluation Efforts
Data on demographics and on the impact of courses on philanthropic knowledge, skills, and behavior.
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