An overview of strategies for campus-wide community engagement staffing and programming.

1. Campus-Wide Engagement

2. What We’ll Cover
• Collaborating Across Campus
• Operations
• Community-Engaged Learning & Faculty
• Strategic Planning
Campus-Wide Centers...

3. Campus-Wide Center
Opportunities to
Collaborate

4. Campus-Wide Center Collaboration
Academic
Departments
Faith & Interfaith
Centers
Alumni Of
fi
ce,
Advancement &
Public Relations
Student Life/
Affairs/Success
Career Services
Diversity Equity
Inclusion &
Belonging
Global
Programs/
Study Abroad
Admissions
Campus-
Wide Center

5. Student Affairs:
Mobilize Students Campus-Wide
• Campus-wide training
• Integrated calendar
• Clubs & organizations
• Learning communities
• Academic Advising • Career discernment
• Building sectors
• Employment links
• Post-graduate opportunities
Career Services:
Promote Post-Graduate
Success

6. • Self and community care
• Advising
• Tools for spiritual exploration
Interfaith Centers:
Values & Wellness
• Recruitment, hiring, training
• Community relations
• Racial reckoning
• Courses
• Place-based projects
Diversity Equity Inclusion:
Build an Inclusive Campus

7. • Study abroad
• International service trips
• Internships
• Training & courses
International Of
fi
ces:
Foster Global Engagement
Academic Departments:
Link to the Curriculum
• Faculty advisors
• CBR & research
• Course designator
• Pathways
• Minor/majors

8. Admissions:
Civic Engagement Yields Students
• Marketing
• Programs
• “Make the Case”
• Reputation
• Civic mission front and center
• Campus news
• Stories of Impact
• Teaching, Learning, & Research
• Funding, Grants, Sustainability
PR/IT/Advancement:
Institutionalization

9. Institutional Research:
Data and Evidence
• Studies of
Retention,
Completion,
GPA
• Making the
Case Guide
• Reports
• Rhetoric
• Budget
• Senior Level Support
• Centralizing Processes
• Incentives to Deans and Faculty
President & VPs
Shared Vision

10. Sta
ff
Colleague(s)

11. In small groups, discuss key
divisions and departments you need to
meet with next. Use the Campus
Collaboration worksheet
to identify key colleagues.
Planning Activity

12. Campus-Wide Center
Operations

13. The Bonner
Program Can Help
• Build your center
• Create and spread a culture
• Develop infrastructure for
sustained partnerships and
projects that result in impact
• Engage others, including faculty,
in effective teaching and
learning

14. The Evolution of Formal Centers
• In 1985, Campus Compact was founded by a group of seven Presidents. In1986, 33
institutions were members, and half of them indicated they had some kind of
central coordinating of
fi
ce to promote student community service.
• In 2014, 423 of just over 1,100 member campuses responded, and nearly 100%
reported having an established coordinating of
fi
ce or center.
• Additionally, 57% reported that more than one of
fi
ce supports these efforts.
• Nationally, centers remain diverse in their institutional reporting lines:
• 40% report to Academic Affairs;
• 37% to Student Affairs;
• 8% to both Academic and Student Affairs; and
• 6% to the President’s Of
fi
ce.

15. • Budgets were increasing (2015). In a national
survey in 2012, 49% of of
fi
ces reported budgets of
less than $50,000, and 38% had budgets over
$100,000;
• In 2014, only 21% reported budgets below
$50,000, with the majority—59%—reporting budgets
over $100,000.
• Benchmark center against peer / aspirant
institutions.
• Plan for renewable, sustainable sources
including: (1) institutional dollars (hard money), (2)
grants; (3) fees; (4) business; (5) donors; (6) earned
income.
• Collaborate with Advancement/Development.
Pursue fundraising. Ask for training.
Funding

16. • A campus-wide system is critical to build and
scale community engagement.
• Systems are leveraged to plan, manage, and
scale:
> Community partnerships and partner
requests
> Faculty coursework, teaching, research,
and volunteer activity
> Student community and civic
engagement, capacity building projects,
research, and products
> Consider system providers including
GivePulse and others (see Wiki)
Tracking

17. • Evidence of campus-wide integration
include:
• Awards and recognition: Recognition
of students’ and community members’
civic work
• Visibility: Civic engagement in website,
news, research articles, speeches, etc.
• Assessment: Data backs this up.
Consider a “Making the Case” report.
• Investment of Leadership and Funds:
Community engagement moves from
the margin to center.
Communications

18. Institutionalization
• 83% of these centers reported to
Academic Affairs or were in the
process of moving so as to do so.
This reporting structure also
emerged as #7 of Top 10 essential
components
• More than half of lead
administrators also had a Master’s
or Advanced degree
Welch & Saltmarsh (2013) found that
centers at institutions with Carnegie
Classi
fi
cation:

19. • Community-Engaged Learning Initiative
• Racial Justice Community Fund
Two Initiatives

20. Student-Led Team Projects
Schools Issue Areas
Averett University Campus: Commitment to DEI
Bates College Campus: Commitment to DEI
Capital University College Access
Christopher Newport University
(Year 2)
Voter Education / College Access
College of Charleston Community: Commitment to DEI
Macalester College Campus: Commitment to DEI
Mars Hill University (Year 2) Town Policies and Campus Equity
Rutgers University-Camden (Year 2) Place & History: Trauma Recovery
Spelman College Homelessness
Stetson University Place & History: Education
Stockton University (Year 2) Voter Engagement
Sewanee: University of the South
(Year 2)
Place & History (Reckoning)
Ursinus College (Year 2) Youth Education Access
Widener University (Year 2) Health Equity

21. Create and discuss 2-3 SMART
goals for yourself and/or center
infrastructure.
Planning Activity

22. Community-Engaged
Learning & Faculty

23. • Extend your team working with partners on
projects
• Mentor students on capacity-building projects and
engaged capstones
• Develop courses, especially Community-Based
Research, Social Action, Policy Research, FYE and
Capstone courses
• Develop integrative pathways
Why Engage Faculty?

24. Tap into funding, networking, and training
support for...
• Course Development
• Faculty Fellows
• Center and Campus Infrastructure
• Scaling and institutionalizing this work
Bonner CEL Initiative

25. Find faculty who want to teach:
• Community-Based Research: driven by partner
requests for knowledge and/or action
• Policy Research: engaging people in
fi
nding
systemic solutions and proven models
• Social Action: teaching and empowering students
to carry out policy change campaigns
• Lead In (FYE) or Capstone courses
Course Types

26. An Aspirational Vision for Pathways

27. Three Publications

28. – Allegheny College Graduate
Katie Beck
Theater major wrote and
produced play about history of
church connected with
Underground Railroad
Student Voice &
Leadership
Many students
are making these
connections, even
without
support and
structures

29. The LEAP Challenge calls on
colleges and universities to
build pathways where all
undergraduates to
complete a substantial
“cross-disciplinary project
in a topic signi
fi
cant to the
student and society, as part
of the expected pathway to
a degree” (AAC&U, 2016).
Our Response to the LEAP Challenge

30. Bonner as a Series of HIPs
First Year Experience
Learning Community
Internship
Project-Based Learning
Capstone
Diversity/Global

32. •Do a survey and appraisal of how faculty are
engaged
•Engage Bonner student leaders in meeting with
faculty
•Invest time in a transformational strategy, such as
a Faculty Cohort
•Join a learning community with the Bonner
Foundation and Network
Some Recommended Steps

33. Planning Activity
Consider how you might engage with
Bonner CEL Initiative.

34. Campus-Wide Center
Strategic Planning

35. •Engage broad-based
stakeholders
•Forge a 3-5 year vision for
the institution
•Link CE with institutional
mission and priorities
•Foundation staff can
facilitate
Strategic Planning

36. Link with Institutional Plan

37. Foundation Facilitation

38. Written Plan
•Aspirational goals
•Year by year strategies
•Clear objectives and
measures
•Appropriate staf
fi
ng and
resource allocation
•Institutional decision
making

39. Refer back to your current center
chart and discuss where you want
to be in 3 years. What strategic
opportunities might you leverage?
Planning Activity