Resource news from Campus Compact

The Engaged Department Toolkit 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. It acts as both a resource and a curriculum, assisting others in replicating the Engaged Department Institutes offered nationwide by Campus Compact. The toolkit comes with a CD-ROM with key information from the text as well as PowerPoint slides and sample documents that can be adapted to meet the needs of individual departments. Edited by Rick Battistoni, Sherril Gelmon, John Saltmarsh, Jon Wergin, and Edward Zlotkowski. Nonmembers $70.00, members $55.00.

Up and Running: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organizing an Introductory Service-Learning Institute is an essential tool for building service-learning across disciplines on campuses that do not have established practices and procedures in place for incorporating civic engagement into the curriculum. Drawn from the experience of Introductory Service-Learning Institutes held around the country, this handbook offers detailed, hands-on information on hosting an institute, from budget preparation to sample agendas to publicity materials. This is an essential resource for institutions or state Compacts seeking to introduce or revitalize service-learning on campus. Nonmembers $25.00, members $20.00.

Compact Current. The Winter 2003 issue of Campus Compact's quarterly newsletter features the Campus Compact 2002 National Summit held in November 2002. Highlights include articles from students, 2002 Swearer Student Humanitarian Award winners, a Community Service Director Track article, photos from the Summit, upcoming publications, and legislative update. Free.

NEW: This issue includes a new online supplement featuring articles from the Faculty Track, Community Partner Track, Chief Academic Officer Track, and the Presidential Leadership Colloquium. Order your copy of the newsletter and view the online supplement at http://www.compact.org/newscc/Compact_Current/.

Campus Compact Reader. The Winter 2003 edition of the Campus Compact Reader is the largest issue we have produced yet, numbering forty pages and including one more article than normal. This edition will undoubtedly prove to be widely popular. It features articles from Joel Westhimer and Josheph Kahn, Ej Dionne and Kayla Metzer Drogosz, as well as Michael Schudson and Michael McPherson, president of Macalaster College. Finally, the Reader also features a fantastic article that appeared in the New York Times magazine in 2000, entitled the Vanity of Volunteerism. Future editions of the Campus Compact Reader are already being planned around topics and themes such as Community Based Research, International Service-Learning, Community Partnerships, and Democratic Education. Free.

4) Indicators of Engagement Project - In May 2002 Campus Compact received a three-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation to combine documentation and dissemination of best practices of the engaged campus with an organizing effort to help campuses achieve broader institutionalization of civic engagement. Using the thirteen "Indicators of Engagement" developed by Liz Hollander, Ed Zlotkowski, and John Saltmarsh, Campus Compact will research practices that highlight each of the indicators at different institutional types in order to document best practices and promising approaches at these institutions and disseminate models for the field. The grant will focus on community colleges in year one (May 2002 - May 2003), minority-serving institutions in year two, and comprehensive universities in year three.

This page has been updated for easier navigation. You can now search by category or topic. New categories include 'Bestsellers', 'New' items, 'Coming soon', 'Sale' items, 'Free Resources', and 'State Compact Publications'.

This page highlights the National Summit and includes sections on 'Featured Forums', 'Workshops by Track', and 'Keynote Speakers'. You can also view photos from the Summit and view and order 2002 National Summit t-shirts ($7) and tote bags ($5).

Resource news from Campus Compact

by Pamela Mutascio

11 March 2003 20:46 UTC