This session will explore the known research about the connection between civic engagement activities and college access and success and share best practices, data and evaluations two successful programs that have used service and service-learning as a strategy to increase college access and success.
2. Campus Compact: Who we are? A national coalition of 1,100 college and university presidents representing six million students. Committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. Public, private, two-year, four-year Founded 1985 35 state affiliate Campus Compacts
3. Presenters Maggie Stevens, EdD Indiana Campus Compact Executive Director Jacob Vennie-Vollrath Wisconsin Campus Compact M3C Fellows Program Director Michelle Snitgen Michigan Campus Compact Assistant Director for Grant Programs Renee Zientek Michigan Campus Compact Executive Director
8. Civic Engagement: A Call to Action “I call on all Americans to stand up and do what they can to serve their communities, shape our history, and enrich both their own lives and the lives of others across the country.” -President Barack Obama
9. Civic Engagement: A Promising Connection Civic engagement increases student access and success H.S. Student: “Service-learning motivates me to keep on going.” College Student: “I applied my chemistry skills to water quality problems. I can use this knowledge anywhere in the world.”
10. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed Increased attendance rates and decreased suspensions (Laird & Black, 2002; Ohlson, 2009) Improved grade point averages and academic engagement (Billig, 2007; Kraft, 2003) Enhanced sense of self (McGuire, 2006) Enhanced social consciousness (Furco, 2002; Lakin, 2006)
11. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed Facilitation of the transition to adulthood (Nela, Kielsmeier, & Crossley, 2006) Greater impact on lower-income, ethnic minority, and at-risk youth (Cress, Stokamer, & Drummond Hays, 2010; Melchior & Bailis,1999; Scales,2005) “Civic engagement is one way to insure that no child is left behind.” (Gent, 2007) 11
12. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed In a national study-- 65% of all high school students: motivation increases if classes connect learning with serving. (Bridgeland, Dilulio, & Wulsin, 2008) 77% S-L students indicated that service learning encourages them to work hard Only 8% of low performing schools offer service-learning Youth from disadvantaged school districts less likely to have college access resources (College Access, 2004; Darling-Hammond & Bransford, 2005; Evans, 2004) and are less likely to have cultural knowledge about college procedures (Bourdieu, 1977; Zeldin, 2004).
13. Getting through K12 to Higher Ed 90% of college mentors earn college degree 90% of mentees better understand how a college degree can help their future 75% of mentees better understand which classes will best prepare them for college 79% African American & 2/3 of American Indian and Hispanic youth Strongly Agreed California Campus Compact Youth-to-College Initiative
15. What Would You Do with a Million Dollars? $ 1,000,000 Individuals with bachelor’s degrees earn about $1 million more in a lifetime than a high school graduate 1 - $ 23,000 Average Student Loans for a 4 year degree 2 -------------------------------- $ 977,000 after paying student loans 1 U.S Department of Labor, 2006 2 National Center for Education Statistics at the US Department of Education, 2008
16. What could you do with a Million Dollars? 2000 water wells1 25 Habitat for Humanity Homes2 11,108 Tickets to Disney World 3 14 Hummers 4 400 Gucci Handbags 5 Sponsor 140 children for 20 years 6 1 Wine to Water 2 Habitat for Humanity 3.Disney 4 Hummer 5 Gucci 6 Save the Children
17. Learn and Serve Grant Program2006 – 2009Youth Outcomes Participating youth reported: Increased success in school (49.1%) Increased interest in going to college (64.5%)
19. What is a College Positive Volunteer? A college student who encourages and serves as a resource for youth, helping them to consider, plan for and pursue higher education. CPV MOTTO: Where are you going to college? And How can I help you get there?
20. CPV Training Goals Understand what it means to be an ambassador of higher education Comfortable having conversations with youth about college Understand that CPVs are RESOURCES Comfortable using the CPV Toolkit
21. CPV Toolkit 1. Before you Volunteer 2. Elementary School 3. Middle School 4. High School 5. Ways to Pay for College 6. Additional Resources 7. Glossary of Terms
37. Partneringbetween campus and communityPerforming Advocacy Community Health Transnational Management Basic Chemistry Colleges of Education Spanish Language Courses College Positive Campus College Readiness Tours Math & Science Summer Institute Residential Programs Scholarship Essay Writing Workshop Student Panels @ K-12 Youth Mentoring Kalamazoo Hispanic American Council K-12 Youth Tutoring Programs
49. College Persistence and Completion American Association of Community Colleges Critical thinking Academic development Communications Leadership and teamwork Community College National Center for Community Engagement Academic learning; degree aspirations Discipline knowledge; pedagogical strategies Homeland Security, emergency preparedness
50. College Persistence and Completion Campus Compacts of Northern New England Retention, academic challenge and engagement, interpersonal and community engagement Midwest Campus Compact Citizen-Scholar Fellowship Program Retention, academic success Higher Education Research Institute Academic success, interpersonal growth Faculty engagement, engaged scholarship
57. 98% of members agree or strongly agree that they can make their community a better place to live.
58.
59. Civic Engagement: A Promising Connection Contact your State Campus Compact Office to see what is planned. Share A Promising Connection with partners and use it as a catalyst for conversations and new ideas. Look for partnerships across your community and state with campuses, K-12 schools, youth serving agencies, and college access networks. 10/10/10
61. Presenters Maggie Stevens, EdD Indiana Campus Compact Executive Director magsteve@iupui.edu Jacob Vennie-Vollrath Wisconsin Campus Compact M3C Fellows Program Director jacob.vennie-vollrath@uwex.edu Michelle Snitgen Michigan Campus Compact Assistant Director for Grant Programs msnitgen@micampuscompact.org Renee Zientek Michigan Campus Compact Executive Director rzientek@micampuscompact.org
Notes de l'éditeur
I will expand upon this, but this is the gist of what I will say.Answer number 1—Campus Compact is a president’s organization, it is important to convene presidential leadership and engage them in the conversations that we are having with faculty and staff on their campuses?Answer number 2-Brief history about Campus Compact work groups; 92% of our member campuses report that they are interacting with K12 students, schools or school districts and 70% of those colleges indicate that those partnerships are working toward increasing college access and success. Let’s make those interactions intentional and purposeful. The president’s goal of 60% post-secondary credentials by 2020.
We can help connect people/programs with their state CCs.