Indicators of Engagement

As institutions of higher education reshape their organizational and administrative structures and functions in alignment with community-based education and civic renewal, there has emerged a framework for the “engaged campus.” This essay traces the emergence of the engaged campus in the late 20th century as the developments in service-learning converged with widespread recognition of a national crisis defined by civic disintegration. Working from the conceptual framework of an engaged campus, the authors identify and provide current examples of ten critical “indicators” of community and civic engagement that indicate that an institution is establishing the essential foundations for engagement.

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