This handbook is designed to help departments develop strategies for including community-based work in their teaching and scholarship, making community-based experiences a standard expectation for majors, and encouraging civic engagement and progressive change at the departmental level. It acts as both a resource and a curriculum, assisting others in replicating the Engaged Department Institutes offered nationwide by Campus Compact. The toolkit comes with a CD-ROM with key information from the text as well as PowerPoint slides and sample documents that can be adapted to meet the needs of individual departments.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Why an Engaged Department
- Chapter 2: Creating an Engaged Department
- Chapter 3: Departmental Planning: What Works and What Gets in the Way
- Chapter 4: Defining Civic Engagement
- Chapter 5: Community Partnerships
- Chapter 6: Evolving Faculty Roles and Rewards
- Chapter 7: Assessment Principles and Strategies
- Chapter 8: Creating an Action Plan
- Appendix I: Sample Application for Participation in an Engaged Department Institute
- Appendix II: Sample Engaged Department Institute Agenda
Authors: Richard M. Battistoni, Sherril B. Gelmon, John Saltmarsh, Jon Wegin, Edward Zlotkowski