Boyers New American College

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Boyers New American College

• A new model of excellence
• Undergraduates involved in social issues
• Application of theory to practice
• Integrated view of knowledge
• Classrooms extended into communities

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Boyers New American College

• Faculty partnerships with practitioners
• Cross-disciplinary courses
• New dignity and status to the scholarship of
  engagement
• Reflective practitioners

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Boyers Civic Engagement

• What is needed is not just more programs, but a
  larger purpose, a larger sense of mission, a
  larger clarity of direction.
• Ultimately, the scholarship of engagement also
  means creating a special climate in which the
  academic and civic cultures communicate more
  continuously and more creatively with each other.

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Engagement, Outreach, and Public Service

• Civic Education
• Civic Engagement
• Community engagement
• Community-based Learning
• Community Service
• Engaged Scholarship
• Experiential Learning
• Outreach
• Participatory Action Research
• Service Engagement

• Partnerships
• Professional Service
• Public Scholar
• Public Service
• Scholarship of Engagement
• Scholarship on Engagement
• Service
• Service Learning
• Student Engagement
• Voluntary Service

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Faculty and Student Activities In the Community
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Mission
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Service Learning as a Subversive Activity

• Develop the public purposes of higher education
• Change the traditional assumptions about faculty
  work
• Change the way faculty teach
• Increase interdisciplinary work
• Contribute to the nature of first-year, honors,
  scholarships, capstones
• Bridge Student Affairs and Academic Affairs
• Promote democratic values in the academy and with
  the community
• Broaden assessment
• Broaden promotion and tenure
• Increase the salience of service in the campus
  culture
• Change campus/community relationships
• Change institutional accreditation and quality
  assurance

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Reflection as Cognitive Activity

• Intentional consideration of experiences in light
  of particular objectives
• Is both retrospective and prospective
• Begins in perplexity
• Involves the Education of Attention

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Guidelines for Reflection

• Clearly links experience to objectives
• Is structured in terms of expectations,
  assessment criteria
• Occurs regularly
• Provides feedback
• Includes opportunity to explore, clarify, and
  alter values

(Bringle Hatcher, 1999)
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Models for Assessing CE

• Kellogg Forum
• Campus Compact Indicators
• CIC and NASULGC
• S. African Quality Assurance
• Higher Learning Commission NCA
• Carnegie Elective Classification

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Two Types of Engagement
Institutionalization of Service Learning
Low High

• Institutionalization
• Of Other Types
• Of Engagement

High Low
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Comprehensive Action Plan for Service Learning
(CAPSL)
Bringle, R.G., Hatcher, J.A. (1996).
Implementing service learning in higher
education. Journal of Higher Education, 67,
221-239. Bringle, R. G., Hatcher, J. A.
(2000). Institutionalization of service learning
in higher education. Journal of Higher
Education, 71(3), 273-290. Bringle, R. G.,
Hatcher, J. A., Hamilton, S., Young, P.
(2001). Planning and assessing campus/community
engagement. Metropolitan Universities, 12(3),
89-99.
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Levels of Aggregation

• Individual (examples)
• Program or other unit (reports)
• Institution (performance indicators)

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Organized Around

• Mission
• Goals
• Performance indicators
• Evidence (from individual, unit, and
  institutional levels)

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Purposes

• Internal Objectives (e.g., strategic planning,
  reports, exemplars)
• External Representations
• Accreditation
• Carnegie Pilot Project
• Quality Assessment
• Research

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Benefits

• Can foster ongoing conversation about learning,
  improvement, and assessment
• Catalyst for making improvement efforts more
  continuous, coordinated, collaborative, and
  complete
• Promotes faculty development in ways compatible
  with institutional needs
• Enhances stakeholder understanding of
  institutions special mission, roles. and
  accomplishments
• Demonstrates accountability and credibility

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Tips from Participants

• Identify leadership for project
• Customize to advance campus goals
• Build upon institutional research/processes
• Identify multiple purposes
• Use as excuse for new work
• Conduct interviews scan websites
• Block out time