Engaging Communities and Campuses:
Effective Practices Exchange
The Effective Practices Exchange is comprised of a collection of brief
descriptions of successful initiatives that promote student learning beyond
the campus and also serve community interests. Included practices have
been drawn from service-learning programs, internships, community-based
research, and other forms of off-campus experiential learning, as well
as partnerships with community organizations or businesses that support
student learning. A distinctive feature of the Exchange is its focus on
discrete aspects of institutional initiatives and capacity building, rather
than presenting general descriptions of entire programs.
The Exchange caps a decade of CIC work on these issues and highlights
the abundance of excellent practices on private college and university
campuses. It has been developed as a part of CIC’s Engaging
Communities and Campuses program, with support from The Atlantic
Philanthropies.
The circular model below reflects the organization of the Exchange. It
presents four broad areas of institutional capacity to engage with communities,
and contains subsections that identify specific topics within each of
those quadrants.
Clicking on one of the four quadrant headings will lead to a
general description of that area. Clicking on a specific topic provides
links to a series of descriptions of effective practices on that particular
topic. Additional resources are listed below the circle.
Two conceptual papers developed in conjunction with the Exchange are
also available. The first, a paper on
“Building College and University Capacity to Engage with Communities,”
summarizes and provides background information from the perspective of
institutional leaders for the Exchange’s organization. The second,
“Building Partnerships with College Campuses: Community Perspectives,”
available as both a monograph
and a brochure,
is a companion piece written from the vantage point of cooperating community
organizations. A complete list of institutions
contributing to the Exchange is also available. A summary of the several
different CIC initiatives over the past decade that created the foundation
for this work can be found here.
Additional Resources. Other web-based resources provide
helpful information on these topics.
Campus
Compact Program Models
National
Service-Learning Clearinghouse: Epicenter
Campus
Cares: Census of Service
Association
of American Colleges
and Universities: Resources on Civic Engagement
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Effective
Practices Exchange
