Wingspread Preconference Survey - Additional Comments From Each Category

Publications

  • American Association of Community Colleges - Documents and publications on website
  • Michigan State University - Electronic communication networks
  • The Higher Learning Commission - Evaluation and Consultation
  • Florida Atlantic Univ, Dept of Ed. Leadership - Book chapters
  • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - We don't publish our own peer-reviewed journal
  • Clearinghouse & National Review Board for SOE - Website
  • Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Pub.Life - refereed book series on new public scholarship
  • University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) - Website with resources
  • Messiah College, Faith Based Colleges and Universities - Biennial conference
  • New England Resource Center for Higher Education - NERCHE Briefs
  • National Service-Learning Clearinghouse - Collect and distribute publications

Policy/Advocacy Activities

  • Extension Comitt. on Organiz. and Policy, NASULGC - Primary focus in on Congress, Exec. branch/OMB, Congress. and state legisl. members, county govt.
  • Michigan State University - New legislators: training programs in government process; k-12 issues and latest knowledge in educational practices; state of the state survey done annually for dissemination to the legislature and to the public, and I could probably list many more.
  • NASULGC (CECEPS) - senior university administrators: summer and fall conference programs on topical areas which frequently call for engaging with publics outside higher education
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy - State and federal policy makers in legislative branches and agencies; other health professions organizations; the public
  • The Higher Learning Commission - Member institutions seeking to show evidence of fulfilling the criterion on Engagement and Service
  • Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education - State policy leaders and leaders in the academic discipline of communica-tion
  • Campus Compact - Federal and state legislatures, government Funding for Learn and Serve, Federal Work Study, Higher Ed. contribution to public good
  • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - Institutional policies (ie, promotion and tenure, accreditation requirements) Federal policies (ie, funding, community participation on peer review panels)
  • Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Pub.Life - focus on tenure and promotion policies, not public policy
  • Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola Chicago - We regularly produce policy reports (with community partners) in a variety of areas, e.g. impact of gentrification/displacement; affordable housing development; domestic violence pre-vention; improving quality of early childhood ed in low-income communities.
  • Assoc for Community-Higher Education Partnerships - ACHEP's principal focus has been on sustaining and expanding the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's support for community-higher education partnerships and fel-lowships. ACHEP has also convened national foundations for the purpose of informing them of the potential of the partnerships to advance foundation goals and to address questions foundations have about the purposes and efficacy of those partnerships.
  • Outreach Scholarship Conference - These efforts are targeted toward other higher education institutions in our state-wide system, members of the legislative and executive branches of state government including state agencies. Our goals in these efforts are to convey the value-added nature of engagement and to enlist their support for and participation in such activities.
  • Learn and Serve America - Federal agency — focus is through budget documents; we have a PSA and video; Higher Ed Honor Roll; work through our grantees

Media/visibility/publicity efforts for engagement

  • American Association of Community Colleges - Audience: Administrators (CEOs, CAOs) and faculty. Efforts: dissemination of model programs in print, online, and at conferences/workshops/meetings.
  • Extension Comitt. on Organiz. and Policy, NASULGC - to date only limited cooperative endeavors on focused progs.(e.g. 3 yr. natl. ad campaign on 4-H with Natl. 4-H Council)
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy - Consumer (health and science) and trade (pharmacy and health) media; traditional PR tools (releases, news briefings, radio media tours); in 2005 a 1-hour documentary was completed by PBS with significant sponsorship from AACP and members
  • Campus Compact - Higher education, community, philanthropic, corporate, and government leaders - publications, press releases, annual member survey
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - broad-based community, specific stakeholder groups (e.g., corporate community)
  • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - Targeted publicity that reaches leaders within academic institutions and com-munity-based organizations
  • University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) - We reach our members through a website and listserv.
  • Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola Chicago - Community, regional, or national audiences. It is an effective way to get policy reports/policy ideas "in play."
  • Assoc for Community-Higher Education Partnerships - A principle ACHEP visibility effort to-date has been to organize con-gressional contact trees to advocate for Federal support for the partnerships.
  • New England Resource Center fro Higher Education - Higher Education Community. Publicizing the Lynton Award
  • Institute of Higher Education, U- Governor's Teaching Fellows Program, Faculty Development in Georgia Program, Franklin Fellows Program, Annual conference on Higher Education and the Law, annual lectures, IHE Newsletter
  • Outreach Scholarship Conference - We use a range of publicity and media efforts including print, broadcasting, direct media releases, interviews, etc.
  • National Service-Learning Clearinghouse - NSLC offers ideas, templates and resources for those seeking to make their en-gagement work visible.

Research Studies

  • Michigan journal of community service learning - any research area related to academic service-learning in higher education
  • American Association of Community Colleges - Faculty motivations for using service learning; national trends in community college service learning and community engagement practices; long-term engagement outcomes of student service learning; institutionalization strategies.
  • Extension Comitt. on Organiz. and Policy, NASULGC - in the sense that the primary function of the natl. CES is to use re-search based knowledge to solve real problems of people and orgs and communities ... not much on "engagement" by name, though quite a bit of research on successful partnerships — internal and external to LGU, across all levels of govt., internationally, and parts of CES conducts research as well as applying it
  • Michigan State University - This is impossible to answer because nearly 2000 faculty are involved in community-based re-search with community partners, so the questions are exhaustive
  • NASULGC (CECEPS) - what is the scholarship of engagement with CIC institutions?
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy - Not the organization itself but our members certainly do as faculty scholars *Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education - Are Kentucky's communities benefiting from the research and teaching of postsecondary institutions?
  • Campus Compact - Annual member survey, research and documentation of promising practice
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - action research projects, service learning
  • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - Depends on the specific research project and is ties to practical application. For example, we just concluded a CDC-funded study of factors that contribute to and hinder success of community-based research partnerships that has been translated into an evidence-based training curriculum
  • Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Pub.Life - We are just beginning to go down this road.
  • California Campus Compact - What are the primary characteristics of strong campus-community partnerships?
  • Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola Chicago - All areas as long as research development is collaborative univer-sity-community process (at all stages of research from conceptualization/research design to analy-sis/writing/publication).
  • Assoc for Community-Higher Education Partnerships - What are the key characteristics of reciprocal sustainable effective partnerships between economically distressed communities and higher education institutions? *Institute of Higher Education, U- Educational Policy Series, Federal grants, annual seminars
  • Outreach Scholarship Conference -Primary research agendas in this area are driven by a combination of institutional and in-dividual interests.
  • National Service-Learning Clearinghouse - NSLC collects and disseminates research on CE; the Director conducts research on CE.
  • Learn and Serve America - effectiveness of SL to improve academic, civic, prosocial behavior; institutionalization

Offering Funding

  • American Association of Community Colleges - Audience: faculty, CAOs, CEOs. Focus: training them in integrating service learning and civic responsibility into the curriculum and college culture.
  • Extension Comitt. on Organiz. and Policy, NASULGC - generating, obtaining building expertise throughout the CES in building resources is a major focus: public, private, all sources
  • Michigan State University - The Families and Communities Together program provides about 500,000 annually to support seed grants that require faculty-community partnership to be eligible for having proposals reviewed.
  • Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education - Direct support for programs at universities and the Kentucky Campus Com-pact. In the National Communication Association providing convention presentation and publication opportunities for faculty/students involved in engaged teaching/research
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Have used minigrants to encourage curriculum development and university investment to support collaboration.
  • California Campus Compact - The primary audiences for our funding are our member institutions, which focus on student, faculty, staff, or community partner service learning and civic engagement initiatives.
  • Center for Urban Research & Learning, Loyola Chicago - Faculty Fellowships, Student Fellowships (undergraduate & graduate), Community Fellowships drawn from part of our $9,000,000 endowment income. (We also apply for and receive foundation/govt. agency grants.)
  • Outreach Scholarship Conference -Engagement funding efforts include innovation competitive grants, more routine program specific funding, and providing administrative support. Audiences include faculty, staff, students and communities.
  • Learn and Serve America - We will provide 37.1 million in funding for SL this year — 9.5 of which is for HE

Other strategies to achieve engagement-related goals

  • Michigan journal of community service learning - publication of theme-based journal issues such as service-learning and anthropology, strategic research directions, community-based research, course design workbook
  • American Association of Community Colleges - Standardized half-day trainings for faculty, administrators, and partners in how to integrate civic responsibility into the curriculum using AACC's "Civic Responsibility Guide."
  • Extension Comitt. on Organiz. and Policy, NASULGC - involving clients in advocacy at all levels; cross U, multi LGU, and multi state, international. partnerships
  • Center for Civic Engagement & HBCU Faculty Dev Netwrk - The HBCU Faculty Development Network hosts the annual HBCU Faculty Development Symposium to display faculty initiatives in several areas, including service-learning. The Center for Civic Engagement and the HBCU Faculty Development Network work together to host a summer institute that focuses on service-learning and civic engagement and actively involves community representatives. This summer, they will be co-sponsoring "Response to Community Crisis: Lessons from Recent Hurricanes" (June 6-9 in Jackson, Mississippi). These organizations network with other community outreach organizations, which serve as co-sponsors of the summer institute.
  • Michigan State University - The institution's mission is frequently, publicly, and enthusiastically championed by the Presi-dent.
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy - Community engagement has been the focus of several standing committees; we also have launched an engagement learning community
  • The Higher Learning Commission - The Commission encourages institutions to link its engagement activities with its mis-sion, vision, and goals.
  • Campus Compact - Convenings: annual regional conferences organized by states, presidential leadership gatherings, and training institutes for community service directors. State Compact offices
  • Community-Campus Partnerships for Health - *Convening and coordinating national multi-site change initiatives *Collaborating with like-minded organizations to achieve shared goals *Being a funded partner in the National Serv-ice-Learning Clearinghouse. Providing training/technical assistance to other's grantee networks
  • Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Pub.Life - Working with other organizations (ICFAD, APAP, ASA, Community Arts Networks, Federation of Hum Councils, AASCU's ADP, Animating Democracy Initiative, etc.)
  • University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) - We hold professional development sessions at the annual UCEA conference.
  • California Campus Compact - Strategic planning resources; we sponsor consultants and speakers for our campuses; conduct campus visits.
  • Institute of Higher Education, U- The Institute has had a historic commitment to the service and outreach mission, so for us it is deciding how to operationalize this in the current environment, not deciding whether or not to do it.