Weaving Deep Connections Between Campuses and Communities: Reflections and Projections

Across Time and Place

Loras College

May 29, 2013

2013 UPPER M IDWEST

C IV IC ENGAGEMENT SUMMIT

One sentence: What is the most important thing

that higher education institutions must do?

One sentence: What is your role in

accomplishing that important thing?

- Photo by George Steinmetz, National Geographic (2008)

“I‟ve never been able to

disassociate people or

stories from their settings,

the „background‟. If

character is destiny, so

too, I believe, is terrain.”

David McCullough,

Brave Companions

University of Michigan – Alternative Spring BreakSaguaro National Monument (1994)

University of Southern MississippiOffice of Community Service Learning

(1997)

Mission: inspire Stanford to

realize a just and sustainable

world through service,

scholarship, and

community partnerships.

Civic Engagement Infrastructure at Stanford

Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity

Center on Ethics in Society

Center for Innovation in Global Health

Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society

Center for Social Innovation

Design School (d.School)

John Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities

Haas Center for Public Service

Levin Center for Public Interest Law

Office of Community Health

Office of Religious Life

Office of Science Outreach

Program on Urban Studies

Stanford Alumni Association (Beyond the Farm)

Stanford Athletics (Cardinal For Community)

Vice Provost for Graduate Education

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

~130 Student Service Organizations/Clubs

Public Service

Pathways

Activism/Community Organizing

Community-Engaged

Scholarship

Direct Service

Philanthropy

Public Policy/Politics

Social Entrepreneurism

Principles of Ethical and

Effective Service1. Reciprocity through Partnership

2. Humility

3. Respect for Diversity

4. Commitment

5. Ongoing Communication/Clear Expectations

6. Preparation

7. Context

8. Participatory Pedagogy

Civic Leadership Competencies1. Knowledge

2. Skills

3. Values and Self Awareness

4. Community and Cultural Awareness

5. Public Action

Haas Center Basics

Civic Engagement in Postsecondary Education

AACU Bringing Theory to Practice

AASCU American Democracy Project

American Commonwealth Partnership

Ashoka U

Bonner Foundation

Campus Community Partnership Foundation

Campus Compact

Campus Kitchens Project

CIRCLE

CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Constitution Day

Council for Adult and Experiential Learning

Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

Democracy U

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)

Federal Work Study

Higher Education for Development

Imagining America

Interfaith Youth Core

Intl Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy

Kiva U

Mobilize.org

NAACP Civic Engagement Initiative

NASPA Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement

National Service Learning Partnership

President‟s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge

Project Kaleidoscope

Project Pericles

Public Achievement

Public Conversations Project

The Democracy Commitment: An American Community College Initiative

The Democracy Imperative

The Research University Civic Engagement Network

Voter Mobilization Efforts: UVote, Headcount, Rock the Vote,

Countmore.org, Generation Engage, etc.

Institutional Matrices

• Ashoka U 360 Scan

• Campus Compact Indicators

• Carnegie Foundation

• CCPH – “Gelman Rubric”

• Committee on institutional Cooperation

• Crucible Moment

• “Furco Rubric”

• HE Network for Community Engagement

• Kellogg Forum

Concern for Civil Society

• The US ranked 139th in voter participation of 172 world democracies in 2007.

• Less than one-half of US 12th graders reported studying international topics

as part of civics education.

• Among 14,000 college seniors surveyed in 2006 and 2007, the average score

on a civic literacy exam was just over 50 percent, an “F”.

• Just over one-third of college faculty surveyed in 2007 strongly agreed that

their campus actively promotes awareness of US or global social, political,

and economic issues.

• In 1971 college students ranked the importance of being very well off

financially number 8 in their life goals; but since 1989, they have consistently

placed it at the top of the list.

Managing Polarities

Student Development Community Development

Student Affairs Academic Affairs

Institutional Isomorphism Institutional Distinction

Centralized Support Distributed Support

Local Global

Field Movement

One sentence: What is the most important thing

that higher education institutions must do?

One sentence: What is your role in

accomplishing that important thing?

“Education, especially at the higher levels, is based

around powerful models of community. We choose

colleges, if we have a choice, in order to be formed by

them and supported by them in the identities we have or

aspire to. If the graft takes, we consider ourselves ever

after to be members of that community.”

MARILYNNE ROBINSON

WHEN I WAS A CHILD I READ BOOKS

Contact Information

Thomas.Schnaubelt@stanford.edu

haas.stanford.edu

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