Community-Engaged Alliance
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Pen to Paper: A Writing Retreat Focused on Writing With, For, and About Service and Engagement
Pen to Paper is an academic writing retreat designed to provide time, space, and resources to guide faculty, professional staff, graduate students, and community partners working on manuscripts related to service-learning and community engagement.
The two and a half-day retreat provides participants with time to discuss ideas with and receive feedback from editors, receive mentoring from retreat facilitators, share ideas with peers, and write.
Each year attendance is intentionally kept to a minimum in order to foster personal connections between participants, editors, and senior faculty coaches. The small group also provides the space participants need to focus on engaged scholarship.
Service Engagement Summit
The Summit is our signature event and provides our members the opportunity to hear the brightest speakers, participate in the most thought-provoking and useful workshops, and create programming that will have a lasting impact on our society for years to come.
Customized Training
Indiana Campus Compact staff members are available to speak at events and lead workshops at your institution. We can work with you and others on your campus to deliver workshops and training designed for beginning practitioners to experienced engaged-scholars.
Indiana Campus Compact provides professional development for faculty, staff, and students on your campus. Together, our staff has over 80 years of experience in the field of service engagement in higher education.
High-Impact Community Engagement Practices
The Indiana Campus Compact High-Impact Community Engagement Practices funding opportunity will support the development and implementation of a high-impact community engagement learning practice (Hoy & Johnson, 2013). These types of activities can include both curricular (first-year seminars, capstone courses, global learning, internships, service-learning courses, undergraduate research course, and writing intensive courses) and co-curricular (common intellectual experiences, learning communities) experiences (Longo & Gibson, 2016) that also incorporate an intentional emphasis community-engagement practices—e.g., place, humility, integration, depth, development, reflection, teams, capacity building, impact orientation, evidence, learning, mentors, and sequence (Hoy & Johnson, 2013). Funded projects will support strong reciprocal community-campus partnerships that strengthen student learning, and further support a culture of community engagement within the institution.
Faculty Fellows program
The Indiana Campus Compact Faculty Fellows program is a year-long learning community experience. Selected individuals will serve a one-year term as part of a cohort with other engaged scholars from Indiana Campus Compact member campuses. The program serves as a faculty professional development model to support the integration of service learning and community engagement into the three components of faculty development: teaching, research, and service.
Social Innovation Microlending Program
The Social Innovation Microlending Program (formerly the College Student Social Entrepreneurs Microloan Program) provides an opportunity for college student and alum social entrepreneurs to obtain a loan to start a social venture.
Colloquium on High-Impact Community Engagement Practices
A week long, two part program:
The Service-Learning Institute focuses on the basics of curricular course design and co-curricular program design, as well as introduce participants to the concept of high-impact community engaged practices as conceptualized by Hoy and Johnson (2013). The Institute offers tracks allowing for individuals focused on curricular course design or co-curricular program design to dive deeply into those principles, while participants who are responsible for supporting others who are implementing community-engaged work to think about how to best design programs that can nurture a supportive culture for community engagement.
The Critically-Engaged Teaching Seminar will focus on the intersection between community engagement, high-impact practices, and critical theory and practice. Sessions will cover the work of scholars such as Tania Mitchell (2008), Adrian Hoy and Matthew Johnson (2013), and Margaret Post, Elaine Ward, Nicholas Longo, and John Saltmarsh (2016). The has been designed for those who have been implementing either curricular or co-curricular community engagement teaching and learning practices and are now looking to further develop these experiences by applying a more critical lens in partnership with their community partner. Sessions will allow faculty, community engagement professions, institutional chief engagement officers, graduate students, and community partners to discuss topics of power and privilege, race, gender, and ethnic inequities, and community-university relationships in a space of open dialogue.
Strengthening Communities
The Indiana Campus Compact Strengthening Communities grant supports a wide range of community engagement experiences from episodic place-based projects to regional Indiana-based plunge experiences, to short-term on-going co-curricular community engagement activities, to training and advocacy initiatives addressing systemic community issues. Projects are to be designed in such a way that participants are able to further develop a deeper understanding of civic learning and democratic engagement, including the skills and concepts necessary to implement such activities and develop into future civic leaders and civic minded professionals. Additionally, projects should seek to further the development of high-quality community-campus partnerships where all partners are able to transcend self-interest as a means of seeking mutual benefit and embracing, what Enos and Morton (2003) describe as a “larger definition of community” (p. 25).
Where we work
External reviews
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Overview of Goals, 2015-2020 Strategic Plan
1. Advance service engagement through advocacy and best practices
2. Align programs, services, and resources to meet member campus needs
3. Promote Indiana Campus Compact capabilities to stakeholders to garner additional membership and
support
4. Develop and implement a fundraising and revenue generation strategy
5. Leverage the Indiana Campus Compact network for the mutual benefit of its members
6. Increase Indiana higher education’s collective impact through service engagement
7. Support and influence national Campus Compact strategy while preserving Indiana’s unique needs and
context
View all of Indiana Campus Compact's goals, objectives, and metrics at www.indianacampuscompact.org.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Goal 1:Advance service engagement through advocacy and best practices
Educate stakeholders on the philosophy, strategies, and impact of service engagement for individuals,
campuses, and communities
Identify and promote exemplars in service engagement through rewards and recognition to individuals, departments, campuses, and communities
Goal 2:Align programs, services, and resources to meet member campus needs
Develop, revise, and implement programs, services, and resources to serve the range of
professionals, from the emerging to the advanced practitioner, and other stakeholders, including
students
Provide guidance to assist individual campuses in defining, promoting, and measuring the impact of
their own service engagement activities
Goal 6:Increase Indiana higher education’s collective impact through service engagement
Measure service engagement’s collective impact from Indiana’s colleges and universities by identifying
and monitoring relevant, direct, indirect, quantitative, and qualitative performance indicators
Develop a plan for data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation on collective impact
information from Indiana’s colleges and universities
Evaluate effectiveness of the collective impact of service engagement from Indiana’s colleges and
universities
View all of Indiana Campus Compact's strategies at www.indianacampuscompact.org.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Collecting feedback from stakeholders
Developing and implementing inventories/repositories of resources
Recognizing service engagement exemplars
Develop, revise, and create programming, services, and resources
Measure collective impact through feedback
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Share widely, information on the impact of service engagement
Promote service engagement through recognition
Developed new programming and resources to meet partner needs
Assist partners in defining, promoting, and measuring the impact of service engagement activities
View all of Indiana Campus Compact's strategies at www.indianacampuscompact.org.
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Community-Engaged Alliance
Board of directorsas of 05/31/2023
Mr. Nasser Paydar
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Term: 2018 - 2020
Nasser Payder
IUPUI
David Bathe
Ivy Tech Community College
Alexa Deaton
Indiana Commission for Higher Education
Robby Slaughter
Accelawork
Geoffery Mearns
Ball State University
Steven Combs
Ivy Tech Community College
Marie Morris
Anderson University
Deborah Curtis
Indiana State University