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