Transcript Academic Council 30 November 2006 Role of Provosts in promoting Civic & Community Engagement Season Eckardt Administrative Director, CSU Office of Community Service Learning Gerald Eisman CSU, Service-Learning Faculty.

Academic Council
30 November 2006
Role of Provosts
in promoting
Civic & Community Engagement
Season Eckardt
Administrative Director, CSU Office of
Community Service Learning
Gerald Eisman
CSU, Service-Learning Faculty Scholar
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Definition of Civic Engagement :
(personal)
“Civic engagement means working to make a
difference in the civic life of our communities
and developing the combination of knowledge,
skills, values and motivation to make that
difference. It means promoting the quality of
life in a community, through both political and
non-political processes.”
- (Thomas Ehrlich, 2000)
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SL Defined
Service learning is the combination of
community service with academic learning so
that each is enhanced by the other. Central to
the pedagogy is the practice of structured
reflection to bring the two components
together.
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SL Venn Diagram
internship
civics
class
Academic
SL
Civic
Experiential
volunteer
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SL Venn Diagram Academic
Academic
SL
Civic
Experiential
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SL Venn Diagram Civic
Academic
SL
Civic
Experiential
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Service Learning for Civic
Engagement
“Service learning is the most potent method
for achieving civic learning if civic learning
outcomes are a part of the curricular goals”
- J. Saltmarsh, 2004
Campus Compact White Paper
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Definition of Civic Engagement
(institutional)
“Civic engagement refers to the many ways an
academic institution demonstrates through
mutually-beneficial partnerships the alignment
between the teaching, research, [and service]
agenda of the university and the self-identified
interests of the communities of its region.”
- (B. Holland, 2004)
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Save the Date
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Civic Mission of Education
• In June 2002, Learn and Serve America awarded the
CSU a $1.2 M three-year grant for “Realizing the Civic
Mission of Education in the California State University”
(CME).
• The central objective of the CME program was to
advance academic culture and civic engagement on
each campus as measured by 14 indicators.
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Campus Compact Indicators of
Engagement and CME Areas
Indicator
Cluster
Characteristics
CME Area(s)
Institutional
Culture (IC)
Mission Statement
Leadership
Strategic Plan
Accreditation
Documents
Curriculum and
Pedagogy (CP)
Community-based
learning
Engaged
Departments
Curricular
Sequences
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Campus Compact Indicators of Engagement and CME Areas[2]
Indicator
Cluster
Faculty Roles and
Rewards (FR)
Mechanisms and
Resources (MR)
Community
Campus
Exchange (CC)
Characteristics
CME Area(s)
Recognize
community
scholarship
RTP policies
Workload
Adequate
Visible centers
internal resource
allocation
Community voice
Community
partnerships
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Self-Assessment
For each indicator, campuses were asked to
assess their current status as either:
undeveloped (0)
emerging (1)
transforming (2)
in each of 14 categories
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Self-assessment table
Total Self-Assessment
Ratings
- CME Indicators
28
21
14
7
23
21
19
17
15
13
11
9
7
5
3
1
0
Total ratings
(descending)
Campuses
Ratings
in Descending
Order
mean
= 8.65
mean
= 8.65
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Analysis
• The Curriculum and Pedagogy (CP) Cluster and the
Institutional Culture (IC) Cluster were highly correlated
with each other at the 99% confidence level. Thus, in an
environment where institutional leadership supports
engagement, curriculum development in service learning
tends to flourish.
• On the other hand, Faculty Roles and Rewards (FR),
Mechanisms and Resources (MR) and Community
Campus Exchange (CC) produced no significant
correlation with Institutional Culture.
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Carnegie Classification
Community Engagement describes the
collaboration between higher education
institutions and their larger communities (local,
regional/state, national, global) for the mutually
beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources
in a context of partnership and reciprocity
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Carnegie Criteria for
Community Engaged Institution
I.
Foundational Indicators
A. Institutional Identity and Culture
B. Institutional Commitment
II. Categories of Community Engagement
C. Curricular Engagement
D. Outreach and Partnership
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