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 Summary of Campus Issue Profiles 

 Types of Service  |  Academic Work  |  Education & Training  |  Capacity Building  |  Deliberative Democracy 

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Specific Issue Areas

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• College Bound Populations/Post Secondary Support and College Access
• Digital Divide and Technology Access
• Fitness and Health
• Graduation Rates and Retention Rates
• Literacy and Reading Success 
• Vocational Education and Preparation
• Youth Empowerment

 

Types of Service   short-term  |  ongoing school year  |  summer

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One-time and short-term

• Into the Streets or one day projects
• Sports Clinics or work with athletes (football, lacrosse, etc.)
• One-time teacher/volunteer training
• College tours or visits 

 

Ongoing school year and site-based teams

•  After School Programs (like Citizen Schools)
• America Counts
•  America Reads
• Big Brothers, Big Sisters
• Book clubs, library clubs, and local literacy programs
• Gear Up (national initiative)
• Leadership development programs (like Geneva Heroes)
• Mentoring programs (often 1-to-1, tied to coursework, tied to clubs and programs) (examples include Students Encouraging Further Education, CAUSE, Upward Bound, etc.)
• Parents Associations and Groups
• Youth Empower Programs or models (like CAUSE at Stetson)  

   

Summer

• Camp Internships
• Summer School Programs
• Upward Bound and other national mentoring /college preparation programs

   

Academic Work   courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes

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Courses and Programs of Study

• Humane Economics in High School (Stetson)
• Non-Violence or Violence Prevention courses
• Education major (School Leadership program - Carson-Newman)
• Gender-based special programs (Stetson's single gender schools project)
• Human Services major
• Social Issues series (University of Richmond) 

 

Departments and Institutes

• Anthropology
• Economics
• Education
• Sociology

   

CBR and Other Service-Learning Projects

• Studies of social norms
• Research on best practices for youth programs and empowerment (Stetson) 

 

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

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Curriculum and resources

• Curriculum and workshops from organizations like:
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters (regional and national)
  • Boys and Girls Clubs (regional and national)
  • Citizen Schools
  • First Book
  • Gear Up (national grant program)
  • 21st Century Schools
  • Upward Bound (nationally funded initiative)

 

Workshops:  many campuses have established training programs, perhaps tied to ongoing initiatives such as through America Reads, that address topics like:

• Civic engagement
  • University of New Mexico sponsors a summer civic engagement program that teaches youth to shape statewide policy
  • Campuses may host workshops for middle/high school students on youth engagement and leadership
• Tutoring workshops
• Mentoring workshops
• Violence Prevention workshops (such as through Increase the Peace, Peace Games) 

 

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building   training  |  fundraising  |  resource development

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• Some campuses have created fundraising and philanthropic efforts involving many clubs and organizations, providing resources to the community partners
• Some campuses have created Social Entrepreneurship or other non-profit oriented education programs, aimed to prepare students (and sometimes community residents) for roles in building organizations
• Some campuses have hosted series of discussions (such as brown bag luncheons) with community partners and students as an ongoing mechanism for training and enrichment 

 

 

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy

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Evaluations and Studies

• Campus accreditation bodies can help create processes for definition and evaluation of program outcomes
• Campuses have or can partner with America Reads, AmeriCorps, Campus Compact or other organizations to participate in broader evaluation and studies on related topics (like best practices for mentoring programs)
• Hobart & William Smith Colleges has worked with Geneva Reads on a Success for Geneva's Children Data Report
• Carson-Newman has worked with Knoxville to produce data about graduation rates, examining differences by race and income in the local area

 

Deliberative Democracy or Forums

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Policy Research and Analysis

• Please identify examples on this issue here

 

Contacts   staff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)

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• Add names and emails (BWBRS search for key partners)