CIVIC ENGAGEMENT RESOURCES FOR FACULTY
Organizations That Support Academic Civic Engagement
Campus Compact
Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 1,100 college and university presidents — representing some 6 million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education.
Minnesota Campus Compact
Minnesota Campus Compact and its 50 member colleges and universities are committed to developing leadership, citizenship and academic success for all Minnesotans.
Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Imagining America is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Since 1994, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) has been the premiere national, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues related to academic (curriculum-based) service-learning in higher education.
Project Pericles
Project Pericles is a not-for-profit organization that encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community.
Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER)
Building civic capacity by connecting the science of learning to the learning of science.
International Association for Research on Service-Learning & Community Engagement (IARSLCE)
International nonprofit membership organization devoted to promoting research and discussion about service-learning and community engagement.
Bonner Foundation: National Community-Based Research Networking Initiative
Searchable database of approximately 300 Course Profiles
International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership (IPSL)
The IPSL, founded in 1982, is a not-for-profit educational organization serving students, colleges, universities, service agencies, and related organizations around the world by fostering programs that link volunteer service to the community and academic study.
Downloadable Articles
“Educating for Citizenship”
Caryn McTighe Musil (Peer Review, Spring 2003)
“Principles of Good Practice for Service-Learning Pedagogy”
Jeffery Howard (Excerpted from Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning: Service-Learning Course Design Workbook, University of Michigan: OCSL Press, 2001)
“Putting the Academy in its Place”
David Scobey (Places, June 1, 2002)
Other Articles
“The Irony of Service: Charity, Project and Social Change in Service-Learning”
Keith Morton (Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Fall 1995)
“Origins and Principles of Community-Based Research”
Kerry Strand, Sam Marullo, Nick Cutforth, Randy Stoecker, and Patrick Donohue (In Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003)
“Engagement in Public Life”
Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Molly Andolina, Krista Jenkins, and Michael X. Delli Carpini (In A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen, Oxford Press, 2006)