The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)’s American Democracy Project (ADP) and
Collaboratory are pleased to invite senior leaders to participate in Enacting the Vision:
Institutionalizing Civic and Community Engagement on Campus.
This cohort is designed for campus leaders who are serious about operationalizing civic and community engagement across their institutions and who are actively working to identify the most sustainable path forward to support this work. Senior leaders who are committed to
prioritizing community engagement as a foundational aspect of their institutional mission, strategy, and infrastructure are invited to join.
Cohort members are invited to participate in quarterly meetings to connect with other leaders to form a community of practice that will discuss how to:
- Define community engagement, sharing effective strategies and approaches
- Ensure we create more equitable and responsive relationships with community partners
- Build infrastructure to support and sustain deep, pervasive, and integrated partnerships
- Use data to deepen work with community partners and identify the most effective partnerships and models to address pressing issues in the community
- Better tell their institution’s engagement story qualitatively and quantitatively
Call for Participation
The initiative will begin in fall 2022 and participation is open to an AASCU ADP member campus. We encourage senior leaders to invite others on your campuses (perhaps a small team of one to two additional individuals) who would benefit from these conversations. All identified team
members are expected to participate in quarterly cohort calls. Cohort calls are scheduled from 3–4 p.m. ET on Oct. 12, 2022, Jan. 25, 2023, April 26, 2023, and July 26, 2023. To apply for this initiative, please
complete an interest form by 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Contact
Cathy Copeland, ADP director, with questions.
Interest Form
Outcomes
Explore the
slide deck that explains data gleaned from the 2020-2021 cohort. Some highlights include:
- 24 participating institutions
- 2,324 published activities
- 2,834 community partners
- 637 course sections
- 57,586 involved students
- 8,117,574 hours contributed by those students
- Total funding for engagement and service: $844,008,740
- Total Funding for Engagement and Service: $844,008,740
These institutions have created Collaboratory activities that have a focus on civic engagement:
2021-2022 Cohort Members for Re-Imagining
Campus-Community Partnerships
2020-2021 Cohort Members for Understanding
Engagement in Times of Crisis