In partnership with the National Museum and Center for Service, the Campus Museums of Service Initiative offers tools for colleges and universities to create exhibitions recognizing and honoring community engagement and service on campuses and in communities.

Students, faculty, and staff from academic institutions across the U.S. are partnering with local and global communities to address today’s most pressing social concerns in various ways. The Campus Museums of Service Design Project aims to recognize, elevate, and celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and alums engaging in and with their community—and inspire more people to get involved. By providing campuses with necessary tools and inspiration to create exhibitions, we aspire to a future where every college and university hosts an exhibition that honors and inspires action in service to the public good in local, national, and global communities.

Campus Exhibitions Toolkit

This toolkit offers resources and inspiration to support colleges and universities in creating exhibits and experiences that help students gain awareness of community needs, develop positive mindsets and dispositions, and be motivated to social innovation.

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Campus Exhibiton Toolkit

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Developing an Exhibition

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Case Study 1: A mobile, low-budget exhibition

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Case study 2: Community-engaged course exhibition and sustained community partnership

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Case study 3: A multi-year project with permanent exhibition, website & companion booklet

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Case study 4: A traveling exhibition to celebrate individual commitments to service

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Case study 5: A student-driven exhibition honoring & inspiring future mentors

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Campus Exhibitions Worksheet

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Join us for our Toolkit launch event

Register to attend the Toolkit Launch event on Tuesday, November 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Eastern.

Campus Museums of Service Design Team

Alexandra Byrum

Director of Communications and Community Relations, Equity & Community, University of Richmond
Campus Compact Campus Exhibitions Fellow

Urkovia Andrews

Assistant Director for Service Learning, Office of Leadership and Community Engagement, Georgia Southern University

Leslie Lombre

Director, External Relations, Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, University of San Francisco

Shelley Errington Nicholson

Director, Brewer Center for Civic Learning & Community Engagement, Mount Wachusett Community College

Gina Lee-Olukoya

Director of Civic Life, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign