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Campus Compact
As indicated by the mission statement below, Campus Compact is an organization that provides support to faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community partners interested in service-learning. Many states have Campus Compact offices. Information about the state Campus Compacts can be found through links on the national Campus Compact website.
Mission Statement
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 900 college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this civic mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students’ citizenship skills and values, encourages collaborative partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research.
To achieve this mission, Campus Compact:
- Creates supportive academic environments for community service, including service-learning;
- Assists in establishing and helping to pass federal and national legislation promoting public and community service;
- Forms partnerships with business, community, and government leaders;
- Provides information to members through publications;
- Awards grants to member schools and state affiliates;
- Provides funding and awards for outstanding service work; and
- Organizes conferences, forums, and meetings.
Service-Learning Events
Campus Compact and the American Association for Higher Education provide extensive on-line calendar listings of service-learning conferences, workshops, meetings, and other events. Both calendars provide links to organizations sponsoring the events or to the events’ webpages.
Service-Learning Handbooks
Several institutions have developed in-depth, handbooks to guide faculty as they design and implement service-learning courses. These step-by-step guides are highly recommended, especially for faculty who are new to service-learning.
Online handbooks
Faculty Development Resources
- Disciplinary Pathways to Service-learning
An on-line monograph that includes suggestions for getting started in service-learning and autobiographical essays of community college professors who have incorporated service-leaning into their courses.
- The UCLA Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project
Provides a list of faculty rewards, promotion, and tenure resources. (select Faculty Rewards, Promotion and Tenure (RPT) Resources)
Clearinghouses
Clearinghouses are comprehensive collections of service-learning resources available on the worldwide web. Clearinghouses can be useful to anyone interested in service-learning regardless of experience level.
The UCLA Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project focuses primarily on service-learning in higher education.
The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse provides information on service-learning covering K-12, higher education, and community-based initiatives.
Bibliographies
Organizations
American Association of Community
Association for Experiential Education
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Campus Compact
Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)
Corporation for National and Community Service
International Partnership for Service-Learning
Educator for Community Engagement
National Society for Experiential Education
Points of Light Foundation
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