Resources and Internet Links

Print Resources

Comments made by President Rik Warch (Lawrence University) at the launch of the Wisconsin Campus Compact.
"At a Glance" (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) A paper summarizing the findings of service-learning research in higher education over the past few years, including an annotated bibliography. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
A Student's Perspective on Civic Engagement (PowerPoint by Bryan D. Gadow)
Campus Mapping Guide (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Campus Mapping Report (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Morgridge Center for Public Service Community Partner Manual (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
NCA Accreditation Standard - Engagement & Service
Back To Basics: A Guide for College Students to Understand and Participate in Politics (by Sarah Seames, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Wisconsin Campus Voter Registration Guide (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin 2005-2006 Annual Report

Campus Compact has two valuable new resources available for student leaders and those who work with them:

Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership
This volume takes service-learning to a new level by demonstrating how it can meet academic and community goals while developing student leaders. Filled with student voice, including student coauthors, Students as Colleagues highlights ways for students to take on real leadership roles in connecting their studies with community change. Sections on identifying and recruiting student leaders, training (including peer mentoring), using students as staff, student-faculty partnerships, and students as academic entrepreneurs offer numerous models and best practices from institutions across the country.

Raise Your Voice: A Student Guide to Making Positive Social Change
This hands-on guide speaks directly to student leaders seeking to improve the effectiveness of their engaged work while enhancing their academic and civic learning. Based on three years of activity in Campus Compact's hugely successful Raise Your Voice campaign, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of students across the country, this volume is full of targeted strategies, tools, and activities for organizing change on campus. From holding civic dialogues to meeting with elected officials, from mapping assets and allies on campus to organizing alternative breaks, this book offers tips and step-by step advice--from students, for students--for getting the most out of campus activity. See these and other books to help campuses forge effective partnerships, build community work into the curriculum, and launch or improve engaged practices.

New Times Demand New Scholarship: Research Universities and Civic Engagement
A new network of research universities formed to promote civic engagement has issued a landmark report, “New Times Demand New Scholarship: Research Universities and Civic Engagement.” The report includes a rationale for engaged scholarship as well as recommendations for what research universities can do to advance civic engagement at their institutions and across higher education. Campus Compact is serving in a coordinating role for this new network. The report grew out of a 2005 conference that was co-convened by Campus Compact and the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. It has been endorsed by all who attended as well as a broad cross-section of other higher education leaders.

Preparing Youth for Careers, Lifelong Learning and Civic Participation
This report is an overview of youth development and youth employment programs in the United States. It is intended for practitioners in both the public and non-governmental sectors who design and implement youth employment and youth development programs, the policymakers who support them, and others who would like to identify components or entire programs which may be transferable or applicable to non-American societies and additional communities in the United States.

Campus Based Programs and Resources

The following list includes a variety of links to service-learning, community service, outreach, and civic engagement programs operating at WiCC affiliates.

Alverno College Abilities-Based Curriculum includes "Effective Citizenship
Cardinal Stritch University Leadership Center
Carthage College A. W. Clausen Center for World Business and the Community
Edgewood College Human Issues Program
Gateway Technical College Business and Industry Services
Lawrence University Outreach and Community Programs
Lawrence University Volunteer and Community Service Center
Madison Area Technical College Volunteer Center
Marian College Community Services
Marquette University Center for Community Service
Marquette University Service-Learning Program
Milwaukee School of Arts & Design After School Arts Program
Mount Mary College Service-Learning Program
Northland College Center for Outreach & Innovation
Ripon College Collaborative Leadership Network
Ripon College Office of Community Engagement
St. Norbert College Department of Leadership, Service & Involvement
UW-Colleges/UW-Extension Student Life Opportunities
UW-Colleges/UW-Extension List of Divisions
UW-Eau Claire Center for Service-Learning
UW-Green Bay Community Service Departments
UW-LaCrosse Community Programs
UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service
UW-Madison University Health Services - Community Service
UW-Madison Wisconsin Union Directorate (Community Services Committee and Alternative Breaks)
UW-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiatives and Research
UW-Milwaukee Center for Volunteerism and Student Leadership
UW-Milwaukee Cultures & Communities Program
UW-Milwaukee Institute for Service-Learning
UW-Milwaukee The Milwaukee Idea
UW-Oshkosh Academics (see Special Programs)
UW-Parkside Career Center Volunteer Programs
UW-Parkside Center for Community Partnerships
UW-River Falls Honors Program (Honors 371)
UW-River Falls Outreach and Graduate Studies
UW-Stevens Point Student Involvement and Employment Office
UW-Stout Student Involvement and Leadership Center
UW-Superior Community Outreach Programs
Viterbo University D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership
Viterbo University Volunteer Opportunities (Campus Ministry office)
Waukesha County Technical College Business and Industry Services
Wisconsin Lutheran College Volunteer Opportunities

Campus Leadership Programs

Cardinal Stritch University
St. Norbert College

Campus Alternative Break Programs

St. Norbert College - TRIPS Program
UW-Eau Claire - Students Building Community Through Service
UW-Madison - Alt Breaks Committee

mtvU Grants

Apply today for $1000 to support your community service project. On mtvU it pays to be good. Every week throughout the school year, mtvU will help fund a new student run community service organization, or a new project being undertaken by an existing organization. For more information, visit mtvU Grants

YSA Youth Venture Now Accepting Applications

The Youth Service America/Youth Venture Program is a unique partnership between Youth Service America and Youth Venture that helps youth engage in community service and develop as young social entrepreneurs. YSA Youth Venture provides funding and support to young people (ages 12-20) who want to create new, sustainable, civic-minded organizations, clubs or businesses called Ventures. See an application, applications tools, and more information at YSA Youth Venture Partnership Program

More information about funding for community service directors, faculty, institutions, or groups can be found on the National Campus Compact Web site

This list is by no means comprehensive and is continually updated. If you know of others, please email Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry.

Positions Available

For a list of jobs across the country in the field please visit the National Campus Compact Web site

(You will need Acrobat Reader Reader to view files that end in ".pdf" and can download it for FREE by clicking on the link above.)

For more information, contact Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry
Wisconsin Campus Compact • University of Wisconsin - Parkside
900 Wood Road, P.O. Box 2000 • Kenosha, WI 53141-2000
262-595-2002