Civic Engagement

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**NEW Resources** (Added 5/1/2013)

The Civic Spectrum

Featured Books

• Why Community Matters Connecting Education with Civic Life by Nick Longo
• Living Sociology: Social Problems, Service Learning, Learning, and Civic Engagement by Corey Dolgon
• Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time (2010)
• Civic Engagement in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices (2009)
• To Serve a Larger Purpose
• One with the Community: Indicators of Engagement at Minority-Serving Institutions (2005)
• Partnerships that Work: The Stories and Lessons from Campus/Community Collaborations
• The Community’s College: Indicators of Engagement at Two-Year Institutions
• The New Student Politics: The Wingspread Statement on Student Civic Engagement (2002)

Programs and Partnerships

• Talloires Global Project Handbook (2008)
• Active Citizenship: School to College to Public Leadership (2010
• Volunteering 61 Million Strong; Need and Momentum Grow (2008)
• Selected Articles on challenges of community development
• Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

Retention, Access & Success

• Research Brief: How Can Engaged Campuses Improve Student Success in College? (2008)
• A Promising Connection: Increasing College Access and Success through Civic Engagement (2010)
• Campus Compact Summit of College Presidents Links Civic Engagement to College Access and Success (2010)
• How Can Engaged Campuses Improve Student Success in College? (2008)
• Improving Student Learning Outcomes with Service Learning (2010)
• Service-Learning and Academic Success: The Links to Retention Research (2008)

Advancing/Developing Civic Engagement

• Advance Service-Learning Toolkit for Academic Leaders: Strategies for Creating an Engaged Campus
• Civic Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Power, Evaluation, Risk Management (2007)
• Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
• Spring 2010 Professional Development Institutes on Community Engaged Scholarship
  • Part I: Community Engaged Scholarship: The Beginner’s Guide (January 21, 2010)
  • Part II: Supporting Community Engaged Scholarship (February 17, 2010)
• Reinventing Citizenship: The Practice of Public Work (excerpt), Center for Democracy and Citizenship (1995)
• How Young People Develop Long-Lasting Habits of Civic Engagement: A Conversation on Building a Research Agenda (2009)
• Funding and Fostering Local Democracy
• Engaged Times: Social Justice: At the Core (2010)
• The Consensus Organizing Model

Research

• Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
• Civic Engagement, a publication from The School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers
• CivicReflection.org
• Civic Engagement Magazine

Statistics and Fact Sheets

• Campus Compact Service Statistics
• 2009 Massachusetts Service Statistics
• CIRCLE Releases 2006 Civic and Political Health of the Nation Report
• Four New CIRCLE Fact Sheets on Civic Engagement and Higher Education

Promotion and Tenure

• Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University-A Resource on Promotion and Tenure in the Arts, Humanities, and Design (2008)

Future

• A More Perfect Vision: The Future of Campus Engagement (2006)
• Reclaiming the democratic purposes of American higher education (2009)
• Presidents’ Declaration on the Civic Responsibility of Higher Education (2007)

Economic

• Civic Health and Unemployment: Can Engagement Strengthen the Economy? (2011)
• Connecting Workforce Development and Civic Engagement: Higher Education as Public Good and Private Gain

Research Universities

• Trucen Identification of Service-Learning (2011)
• Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
• Introduction to the Research University Engaged Scholarship Toolkit
• New Times Demand New Scholarship I (2005)
• New Times Demand New Scholarship II (2007)
• New Times Demand New Scholarship (2005)

Please visit the National Campus Compact’s website for more resources related to these issues.