This session will explore the known research about the connection between civic engagement activities and college access and success and share best practices, data and evaluations two successful programs that have used service and service-learning as a strategy to increase college access and success.

1. A Promising Connection: Increasing College Access and Success through Civic Engagement

2. Campus Compact: Who we are? A national coalition of 1,100 college and university presidents representing six million students. Committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. Public, private, two-year, four-year Founded 1985 35 state affiliate Campus Compacts

3. Presenters Maggie Stevens, EdD Indiana Campus Compact Executive Director Jacob Vennie-Vollrath Wisconsin Campus Compact M3C Fellows Program Director Michelle Snitgen Michigan Campus Compact Assistant Director for Grant Programs Renee Zientek Michigan Campus Compact Executive Director

4. How did you get to college?

5. THE RESEARCH: ACCESS

6. Presidents Leadership Summit Why a Presidents Leadership Summit? Why look at Access and Success and its connection to Civic Engagement?

7. Global College Completion Rates

8. Civic Engagement: A Call to Action “I call on all Americans to stand up and do what they can to serve their communities, shape our history, and enrich both their own lives and the lives of others across the country.” -President Barack Obama

9. Civic Engagement: A Promising Connection Civic engagement increases student access and success H.S. Student: “Service-learning motivates me to keep on going.” College Student: “I applied my chemistry skills to water quality problems. I can use this knowledge anywhere in the world.”

10. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed Increased attendance rates and decreased suspensions (Laird & Black, 2002; Ohlson, 2009) Improved grade point averages and academic engagement (Billig, 2007; Kraft, 2003) Enhanced sense of self (McGuire, 2006) Enhanced social consciousness (Furco, 2002; Lakin, 2006)

11. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed Facilitation of the transition to adulthood (Nela, Kielsmeier, & Crossley, 2006) Greater impact on lower-income, ethnic minority, and at-risk youth (Cress, Stokamer, & Drummond Hays, 2010; Melchior & Bailis,1999; Scales,2005) “Civic engagement is one way to insure that no child is left behind.” (Gent, 2007) 11

12. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed In a national study-- 65% of all high school students: motivation increases if classes connect learning with serving. (Bridgeland, Dilulio, & Wulsin, 2008) 77% S-L students indicated that service learning encourages them to work hard Only 8% of low performing schools offer service-learning Youth from disadvantaged school districts less likely to have college access resources (College Access, 2004; Darling-Hammond & Bransford, 2005; Evans, 2004) and are less likely to have cultural knowledge about college procedures (Bourdieu, 1977; Zeldin, 2004).

13. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed 90% of college mentors earn college degree 90% of mentees better understand how a college degree can help their future 75% of mentees better understand which classes will best prepare them for college 79% African American & 2/3 of American Indian and Hispanic youth Strongly Agreed California Campus Compact Youth-to-College Initiative

14. Michigan Campus Compact: College Positive Volunteerism Curriculum

15. What Would You Do with a Million Dollars? $ 1,000,000 Individuals with bachelor’s degrees earn about $1 million more in a lifetime than a high school graduate 1 - $ 23,000 Average Student Loans for a 4 year degree 2 -------------------------------- $ 977,000 after paying student loans 1 U.S Department of Labor, 2006 2 National Center for Education Statistics at the US Department of Education, 2008

16. What could you do with a Million Dollars? 2000 water wells1 25 Habitat for Humanity Homes2 11,108 Tickets to Disney World 3 14 Hummers 4 400 Gucci Handbags 5 Sponsor 140 children for 20 years 6 1 Wine to Water 2 Habitat for Humanity 3.Disney 4 Hummer 5 Gucci 6 Save the Children

17. Learn and Serve Grant Program2006 – 2009Youth Outcomes Participating youth reported: Increased success in school (49.1%) Increased interest in going to college (64.5%)

18. COLLEGE POSITIVE VOLUNTEERISMHELPING K-12 YOUTH TAKE STEPS TOWARD POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION © 2010, Michigan Campus Compact. All rights reserved

19. What is a College Positive Volunteer? A college student who encourages and serves as a resource for youth, helping them to consider, plan for and pursue higher education. CPV MOTTO: Where are you going to college? And How can I help you get there?

20. CPV Training Goals Understand what it means to be an ambassador of higher education Comfortable having conversations with youth about college Understand that CPVs are RESOURCES Comfortable using the CPV Toolkit

21. CPV Toolkit 1. Before you Volunteer 2. Elementary School 3. Middle School 4. High School 5. Ways to Pay for College 6. Additional Resources 7. Glossary of Terms

23. Middle School Students

25. Short Term

28. College Positive Mentoring

29. Online Training Module

30. CPV Spanish Translation

31. Adapting the Toolkit for Adult Learners

32. College Positive Activities for Youth with Disabilities

33. College Positive Activities to do Without a Computer

34. College Access Resources for Youth in Foster Care

37. Partneringbetween campus and communityPerforming Advocacy Community Health Transnational Management Basic Chemistry Colleges of Education Spanish Language Courses College Positive Campus College Readiness Tours Math & Science Summer Institute Residential Programs Scholarship Essay Writing Workshop Student Panels @ K-12 Youth Mentoring Kalamazoo Hispanic American Council K-12 Youth Tutoring Programs

40. Funders Department of Education College Access Challenge Grant Program

41. What helped you stay in college?

42. THE RESEARCH: SUCCESS

44. Degree Aspirations

45. H.S. Graduation

46. College Enrollment

47. College Degree

49. College Persistence and Completion American Association of Community Colleges Critical thinking Academic development Communications Leadership and teamwork Community College National Center for Community Engagement Academic learning; degree aspirations Discipline knowledge; pedagogical strategies Homeland Security, emergency preparedness

50. College Persistence and Completion Campus Compacts of Northern New England Retention, academic challenge and engagement, interpersonal and community engagement Midwest Campus Compact Citizen-Scholar Fellowship Program Retention, academic success Higher Education Research Institute Academic success, interpersonal growth Faculty engagement, engaged scholarship

51. MIDWEST CAMPUS COMPACT CITIZEN – SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

53. 7 state program on 47 campuses serving 600 students.

54. Focused on first generation, low-income students.

57. 98% of members agree or strongly agree that they can make their community a better place to live.

59. Civic Engagement: A Promising Connection Contact your State Campus Compact Office to see what is planned. Share A Promising Connection with partners and use it as a catalyst for conversations and new ideas. Look for partnerships across your community and state with campuses, K-12 schools, youth serving agencies, and college access networks. 10/10/10

60. Questions??

61. Presenters Maggie Stevens, EdD Indiana Campus Compact Executive Director magsteve@iupui.edu Jacob Vennie-Vollrath Wisconsin Campus Compact M3C Fellows Program Director jacob.vennie-vollrath@uwex.edu Michelle Snitgen Michigan Campus Compact Assistant Director for Grant Programs msnitgen@micampuscompact.org Renee Zientek Michigan Campus Compact Executive Director rzientek@micampuscompact.org