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Sample Campus Profiles 

This section will provide a profile of each of the campus’s Civic Engagement Minor/Certificate program, including its unique or innovative elements, structure, placement in the institution’s governance, program objectives, courses, and relationships to the institution’s core mission and other programs.

• Colorado College:  Offers a course called, "In Our Backyard: Social Justice in the Southwest" where students enroll in a yearlong extended format course where they live together. As a group, they acquire civic skills, develop methods of self-governance, and engage in their local and regional communities through service learning projects...(more)
• Concord University:  The academic liberal arts foundation makes the certificate program attainable by all students who have a commitment to community service. At the completion of the curriculum requirements, the student’s transcript will be noted with their accomplishment...(more)
• Lynchburg College:  Significant emphasis on developing community-based research skills and knowledge of public policy is woven into the required courses...(more)
• Mars Hill College:  Is a small private college serving 1,177 undergraduates in Mars Hill, a town near Asheville, NC which is working on a co-curricular certificate program in civic engagement. LifeWorks facilitates is a six-semester civic leadership program, with each semester having particular desired outcomes related to a knowledge base, skill set, and core values commitment. The leadership program is for any student interested in strengthening leadership...(more)
• Portland State University:  Is a large public university serving 21,000 students in Portland, OR, which has approved a Minor in Civic Leadership. PSU’s Minor in Civic Leadership is an example of an academic option that provides students who are already involved in service-learning based institutions specific programmatic elements that specialize in civic leadership. The minor is intended to create a curricular focus for students who have a broad general interest...(more)
• Rutgers University:  Explores women's leadership and contributions to social change in contexts that range from the New Jersey Legislature to domestic violence shelters; from medical research labs to human rights organizations; from corporate boardrooms to the urban classroom; and from family dining tables to legal clinics...(more)
• The College of New Jersey:  Is a medium-sized private institution serving 5,700 undergraduates in Ewing, close to Trenton, NJ, which is working to develop a Leadership Minor with a significant civic component...(more)
• University of Alaska Anchorage:  The Certificate in Civic Engagement prepares undergraduates to become active, effective, ethical citizens in their professional and personal lives. Baccalaureate students from any major degree program develop the reflective, analytic, and practical skills to link curricular and co-curricular learning to civic engagement outside the academy through service-learning classes, internships, and community-engaged scholarship and creative activity...(more)
• University of California Los Angeles: Is a large public university serving 36,000 students in Los Angeles, CA, which has approved a Minor in Civic Engagement in which students take one lower-division course, an upper-division core course in Political Science, and then have the option of being civically engaged at the local, state or national level...(more)
• Washington & Lee University:  Is a private liberal arts institution serving 1,755 undergraduates, which has approved a Minor in the Study of Poverty and Human Capability. The program is unique in its curricular and co-curricular focus. Program components include: transcript recognition, interdisciplinary academic instruction; discipline-based courses; academic focus complemented by co curricular opportunities; student run organizational support; student leadership opportunities & focus on vocation; directed by a senior tenured faculty member; full-time summer internships for student to work with non-profits and...(more)
• West Chester University: The central element of the Honors Program is its curricular focus on personal leadership development and community service that appears on students’ transcripts and allows them to be recognized at commencement. The core of cross-disciplinary writing intensive courses that are reflective of a liberal arts education and often team taught, fulfills the general education requirements for this distinctive cohort of academically gifted students...(more)

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