The Scholarship of Engagement: Faculty Grant Dollars to Support Your Engaged

Teaching, Research, and Service

J.R Jamison, M.A. Associate Director

Indiana Campus Compact

OverviewFirst Quarter:

• History/Mission

• Organizational Structure

• What do we do?

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Last 75%:

• ICC Faculty Funding Opportunities

Campus Compact History

• Established in 1985 by four university presidents in Rhode Island

• The 35th state Compact office was recently established.

• Currently more than 1,100 member colleges and universities

Indiana Campus Compact History

• Founded in 1993 by students with presidential support

• Initially six institutions, ICC has grown to 42 member colleges and universities

• 69% of institutions in Indiana

• All Indiana public institutions are currently part of ICC

Indiana Campus Compact Mission

Indiana Campus Compact (ICC) is a network of 42 college campuses that supports higher education’s efforts to develop students into well-informed, engaged citizens. Providing programs, services, and resources, ICC serves as a catalyst for campuses and communities to improve people’s lives through service-learning and civic engagement initiatives.

…advancing citizenship and service as critical components of Indiana higher education.

Clarification of Terms:

At Indiana Campus Compact, we function

under the two following terms –

Service Engagement

&

Service-Learning

Service Engagement

Service Engagement is any endeavor that brings the

community into the campus and the campus into the

Community, reciprocally, often addressing a

social concern. –It could include service-learning, co-curricular community

service, and volunteerism. –It could also include some internships and field experiences. –Ultimately, the sum of these activities leads to a campus that is

fully engaged with the community. –Service engagement is also referred to as “civic engagement”

by many national organizations. (Adapted from the definition of “Civic Engagement” provided by National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

by Indiana Campus Compact)

Service-Learning

Service-learning is a credit-bearing, educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility.

- Bringle & Hatcher (1996)

Some of our Programs• Funding

– Community Service Mini-Grants for Students – Scholarship of Engagement Grants for Faculty– Community Service Director Engagement Grants– Enhancing Service Engagement Collaboration Grants – AmeriCorps – Service Engagement Corps & M3C

• Fellowships & Scholarship – Faculty Fellows– Sponsored Research for Service Engagement– Alternative Beak Institutional Program

• Networking & Fun– Awards– Alternative Breaks– Networking Council Meetings– Governor’s Conferences & Annual Summit

Support for your work through ICC

• Staff

• Books, publications

• Network of people

• Ideas

• Sounding board

• Energy

ICC Organizational StructurePresidents and Chancellors Board

Maggie Stevens Executive Director

J.R. Jamison Associate Director

Summer Sharp Office Manager

Liza Newman

Program Director for Marketing & Member

Relations

Emily Sellers

Program Director for Student Devlp.

IU Center on Philanthropy

Applying for an Indiana Campus Compact

Faculty Grant

Scholarship of Engagement

• One semester of funding.

• Choose 1 of 3 areas:

- teach a service-learning course;

-research; or

-professional service.

• $2,250 award on a reimbursement basis only – institution must cash match $750.

Scholarship of Engagement

Past IPFW recipients (last two years):

• 08-09 – Suzanne Rumsey, English & Linguistics

- Literacy & Family History

-also involved History, Gero, & communication students

• 09-10 – Wei (Kitty) Luo, Intercultural Communication

- Incorporating Service-Learning into the Intercultural Communication Curriculum

• 10-11 – Talia Bugel, Language & Culture

- Looking in the Multilingual/Multicultural Mirror

Faculty Fellows

• One year commitment

• Recipients will:

- teach a service-learning course

- provide a professional service

- participate as an active member of the faculty fellows to

develop a research article or a creative project.

• $3,750 award paid in two installments – institution must

cash match $1,250.

Faculty Fellows

Examples of Past Fellows’ Projects:• Quick Hits for Service-Learning

- IU Press, 2010

-Contributions of how to develop a service-learning course from all over the globe (non-theoretical)

• Serve at your Own Risk: An Indiana Study on Service-Learning in the Promotion and Tenure Process

- Journal of Community Engagement & Higher Education, 2010

• Statewide Service-Learning Conference

- Started in 2000 – overtime has grown into the Governor’s

Conference & the Service-Engagement Summit

Indiana Campus Compact

317-274-6500

www.indianacampuscompact.org