This page is a place for administrators to find helpful tools for more broadly conceptualizing and articulating the development and stages of civic engagement at your institution, and within higher education. Included are rubrics and other self-study or assessment tools for civic engagement and service-learning. In addition, posted are helpful articles.
Finally, we invite people to share ideas and documents about how they have used these types of tools to make the case for civic engagement at their institutions, garner support and resources, and strategize about next steps.
Here's a copy of the Faculty Engagement presentation shared at the 2009 IMPACT Conference, during the Administrators' Forum: FacultyEngagement.pdf
Institution-Focused Rubrics and Self-Study Tools
Analyzing Institutional Commitment to Service: A Model of Key Organizational Factors (paper by Barbara Holland, Portland State University, which contains a matrix)
Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Higher Education (developed by Andrew Furco, UC Berkeley)
Campus Compact's Indicators of Engagement (developed by Liz Hollander, Ed Zlotkowski, and John Saltmarsh) (Also, there is a version revised for community colleges).
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Classification in Community Engagement (developed in 2008, with 119 institutions classified)
Bonner Foundation's Self-Assessment Tool for Bonner Programs (which focuses on the intensive, multi-year civic engagement program, but also addresses other aspects of campus-wide engagement)
Community Partner-Focused Rubrics and Self-Study Tools
Methods and Strategies for Community Partner Assessment (developed by Community-Campus Partnership for Health)
Core Principles and Values for Successful Community Partnerships (developed by Barbara Holland)
Student-Focused Rubrics and Self-Study Tools
Rubric from AACU (new-VALUE Project) for Portfolio and other assessment of students in civic engagement outcome
CIRCLE Civic Engagement Quiz (excellent way to introduce and help students understand other forms of civic engagement)
Rubric to Assess Service-Learning Reflection Papers:
Websites and Online Sources for More Information
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) represents and advocates for over 1,200 community colleges nationwide. Their website features a page on service-learning and civic engagement resources directed towards the community college sector.
American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) is the leading national association (1,100+ institutions) concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Civic, diversity, and global engagement are one of its key goals.
The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) runs the American Democracy Project, which is a multi-campus initiative focused on higher education's role in preparing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens for our democracy.
Campus Compact (member organization of institutions of higher education committed to educating college students to become active citizens who are well-equipped to develop creative solutions to society's most pressing issues.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center whose charge is "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher."
CIRCLE (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement) conducts and publishes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25.
Community College National Center for Civic Engagement fosters active participation of institutions in community engagement.
The Corporation for National and Community Service (www.cns.gov) is a federal agency that runs Learn & Serve, AmeriCorps, and Senior Corps. CNCS offers a Resource Center where you can search for models and best practices on a range of topics, including service-learning.
Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design.
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is Learn & Serve America's comprehensive resource for finding definitions, written materials, examples, models, and programs.
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) focuses on the scholarship of engagement, which addresses higher education's responsibility to the public realm through faculty work that is relational, localized, and contextual.
SLICE (Service Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples) is a searchable database of service-learning course syllabi and lesson plans hosted and vetted by the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.
Articles and Literature
Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: Principles and Techniques (a Campus Compact publication, 2001):
This definitive volume offers a broad overview of issues related to assessment in higher education, with specific application for measuring the impact of service-learning and civic engagement initiatives on students, faculty, the institution, and the community.
Benchmarks for Campus-Community Partnerships (a Campus Compact publication, 2000):
This seminal work outlines the key features of successful campus/community partnerships, with guidelines for designing, building, and sustaining collaborative partnerships that benefit all parties. Includes specific strategies and processes drawn from case studies of strong partnerships.
Civic Engagement at the Center: Building Democracy Through Integrated Cocurricular and Curricular Experiences (AACU publication, 2008):
Informed by the work of the Bonner Foundation, Civic Engagement at the Center highlights developmental models for students’ civic learning and socially responsible leadership implemented at 77 campuses. The monograph describes key elements of the co-curricular model, research on its impact on students, and emerging civic engagement minors created to complement decades of work in student affairs.
The Engaged Department Toolkit (a Campus Compact publication):
This handbook is designed to help departments develop strategies for including community-based work in their teaching and scholarship, making community-based experiences a standard expectation for majors, and encouraging civic engagement and progressive change at the departmental level.
The Faculty Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education (by Serena Seifer and Kara Connors, 2007):
This handbook can be used by faculty or staff to introduce colleagues to service-learning, walk them through the process of creating campus-community-partnerships and designing service-learning courses using best-practices. This resource includes case studies and sample handouts ooutcome surveys, MOUs, and other useful resources.
Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University (by Julie Ellison & Timothy Eatman, 2008):
This report is the product of Imagining America's Tenure Team Initiative which evaluates the state of current promotion and tenure processes and how public scholarship can (or should) be recognized.
Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership (By Edward Zlotkowski, Nicholas V. Longo, James R. Williams, a Campus Compact publication, 2006):
This publication 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.
Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter (by George Kuh, Jillian Kinzie, John Schuh, Elizabeth Whitt, and Associates, 2005):
This book explores policies, practices, and programs at 20 colleges and universities that stand out as high-performing institutions. These institutions have higher-than-predicted six-year college graduation rates and scored higher than predicted on five clusters of effective educational practice identified in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). These clusters include: level of academic challenge; active and collaborative learning; student interaction with faculty members; enriching educational experiences; and supportive campus
environment. Short Book Review can be found here.
SPOTLIGHT ON CURRICULAR PATHWAYS: Article about Mission-Driven Core for social justice, looking at Cabrini College
"A 'Mission-Driven' Core"
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/06/cabrini
Examples from Campuses (Stories and Documents)
We invite Bonner Network Wiki users to summarize their own examples of how they have utilized these and other rubrics to strategically plan and make the case for civic engagement. You can upload and link documents also.
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