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volunteers, raised support money and intends to Profiles in Public Service ■ help establish a daytime "Survival Center," to provide shower facilities, a silting room, tutoring I services and job counseling for the homeless. ■ Recently, the annual Robinson Student For additional information about Campus

Humanitarian Achievement Award, honoring Compact: The Project for Public and Community ■ college students who perform outstanding commu­ Service contact: Susan Stroud, director, or Saphira EDUCATION nity service, went to four individuals nominated by • Baker, assistant director, at Box 1975, Brown COMMISSION college and university presidents participating in the University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912; Campus Compact. The award, established last year telephone 401-863-1119. OF THESTATES by auomey Gerald J. Robinson as an outgrowth of • a recognition program he initiated with friends at Yale University, Cornell University and Vennont Law School, this year recognizes: • George Cuevas, of San Jose, California. A senior at Stanford University, Cuevas is a tutor and coordinator of the Barrio Assistance Pro­ gram, a student-run tutorial and skills develop­ '<41.. ■ ment program for economically and educationally ■ disadvantaged children in East Palo Aho. He is ■ responsible for seeking support and maintaining a yearly budget of more than $13,000 and for ... developing educational curriculum for the ■ program. • Joseph O'Brien, of Worcester, Massachuseus. A senior at Fordham University, the Bronx, - O'Brien recruited student volunteers as a member ■ of"Part of the Solution" (P.O.T.S.), a commu­ I nity volunteer organization, and helped raise more than $7,000 as well as having worked as a I 'lo■ cook and a counselor to help establish a soup kitchen and emergency shelter for the hungry and ■-I ~ - ■ homeless in the Bronx. • Diane Koucky, of Decatur, Illinois. A senior at ■ the University of Illinois, Urbana, Koucky is Editor's Note: ■ founderof"HOPE FOR TI-IECHfLDREN ," the This anicle is a reprint of an anic/e appearing university's first all-campus philanthophy, which in the '·Forum" section of Education Week. has raised more than $7,00010 support Mau hew The "Forum" page replaces ECS's Stute . Campus House, a community house in Champaign­ Education Rel'iew ~nd gives ECS an opponunity Urbana serving some 250 underprivileged to reach larger audiences with more analytical ~ - children. In addition, Koucky has worked as a approaches to stale education activities. ■ Compact tutor, tutor coordinator and counselor. ECS commissioners receive f n:e reprints of the • Eileen Doyle, of Demarest, New Jersey. A '·Forum" page. senior at the University of Pennsylvania, Doyle, f ■ as coordinator for Universal City Hospitality Education Commission of the States .. ■ Coalition - a volunteer organization that hosts 1860 Lincoln Street, Suite 300 five dinners weekly for the homeless- recruited ) Denver, Colorado 80295 ■

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through hands-on experience. Since then their ■ ■ - A Survey orCampus Activity ■• numbers have grown exponentially. ■ Campus Compact aims to promote public Earlier this year, Campus Compact released ■-­ service as a strong component of a well-structured results ofa poll taken at 67 colleges and universities - higher education. ECS President Frank Newman, a indicating that among all surveyed institutions, ■ former university president who coordinated the student public service activities were at least establishment of this project, suggests that colleges nominally supported through programs either ■ r. could establish campus centers for volunteer ■ coordinated or sponsored by the university. Campus Compact ■ progrnms with paid staff coordinators or provide ■-■ ■ • 76% offer voluntary programs with some institu­ more adequate information about public service tional support. careers through existing career counseling and even • 66% have an information clearinghouse or offer fellowships for students proposing public ■ Critics charge that an entire generation of college coordinating office. students has lost any notion of public service as an service projects during their summer vacation - • 78% offer public service internships through integral pan of their private lives and that colleges all of which are examples of programs now under­ academic departments. and universities are doing little if anything to way at some colleges and universities in the Campus • 84% allow students to receive academic credit counter this disturbing social drift. Compact. for service work. Students, faculty and executives at more than Newman also observes that overall, few students • Almost ha/fhave actually established publi 120 campuses across the country are proving them are aware of service opportunities in their own service centers. wrong through their participation in a highly spirited communities. As most un.iversities do not have The survey also reveals that students on these ■ venture called Campus Compact: The Project for co-curricular service organizations on campus and campuses are engaged in a wide range of activity, Public and Community Service. few actively encourage public service, the very some receiving institutional support and others that Affording youth the opportunity to serve their notion of community service suffers a lack of status. students are designing and conducting indepen­ community is an idea with generational staying­ Campus Compact: The Project for Public and dently. The following data is culled from the survey. p<>wer.Consider the Civilian Conservation Corp, Community Service is chaired by Father Timothy 34% of the surveyed institutions estimate that established 1933, and later the Peace Corps, each S. Healey, S.J., president of Georgetown Univer­ slightly more than 20% of their student body is of which served two preceding generations as well sity; Howard Swearer, president of Brown Univer­ involved in public service activity. as the call by several White House hopefuls for a sity; and Donald Kennedy, president of Stanford • 21% of the institutions estimate that between federally sponsored youth service program. In University. The Compact has earned the financial 10-20% of the students are involved in public addition, no less than five national service bills have support of the private sector. Foundation funds from service. been introduced in the 100th Congress and a Ford, Johnson and Atlantic Richfield are being used • 9%ofthe institutions estimate that less than 10% growing coalition of leaders from education, social to: of their students are involved in public service. services, government and religion are giving • Establish a public service network to match • /6%ofthe institutions estimate that less than 5% impetus to the idea. students seeking service opportunities with local of their students are involved. While the vision grows and gathers the momen­ and regional service agencies • 18% of the institutions are unable to determine tum of public a11ention, college and university • Assist the establishment of on-campus public the estimate of their students involved in public presidents who have signed on with the Campus ■ service cemers service. Compact have been directing their energies to • Consolidate and improve access to public service One problem with tracking public service increasing student participation in public service for information through a national information ■ student activity is the fact that nonresidential and the past three years. .. clearinghouse ■ older students may be participating on their own Headquartered at Brown University, Campus • Sponsor regional meetings with legislators and and actually would be counted if the institution had Compact is under the administrative direction of the ■ representatives from business, higher education belier information about them. Education Commission of the States. Growing out and philanthropy of the perception that college students are exposed • Develop creative proposals for federal assistance to programs that overemphasize vocational pursuits through student-aid-for-service work at the expense of responsible civic involvement in ■ • Put the issue of youth service on the national democratic society, about three dozen college ■ agenda by promoting public awareness of the leaders met in April 1985 to discuss efforts they need for a revitalized commitment to service and could take to encourage the ethic of public service .. by stressing workable solutions ..

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- ,.::.';· -~, '"', 1"1 ~ .. I"·-·- · JI 1-; • .. t .·• ·..: Colleges 'Encourage Student Volunteers._.:; \ Georgetown Unl--'ty. Dr. Newman Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, 'Bryn college stlldents 1n return IIJ NADINE IROZAN 61 ol the Eduaukln ror~. · president Com. Mawr, Mount Holyoke and Radcltfte munity or military service. , miSSlOIIof lhe States and a former - held their snnual meeung at Bar­ • In C.lifomla, the State Legisla- HEN lhe Campus Corn­ pNSident of the Umverstty of Rhode narcl In November. the sole toptc 1111 pacc. an organi.zation ol llland. , ture adopted a resolull0n In Augu,t lhe agenda was "Publle Servk:e: A calling on the University of C.lifomla Other barometers of lhe In~ In UNverstty Pf'N:ldellts New Look at an Old Tradition." and the California State Universny to and chllncelk11·s,.wu u­ enlisltng 1lUdents in social ~ iD­ W • In Washlngl011 Senator Claiborne submit plans to require communlly tabhwd in NowmbeT 1185 to stimu­ clude &a-: ~11, Democrat of Rhode Island, hu service by all students who attend late ltudenl pank1P11tlon ill ¥Vh11t- • WIien the prendenu of tbe announced hlS Intention· 10 Introduce 11ry community .. mce. sorne of Its "'seven Slsten" coHeges- Barnard, fwr-year public colleges o,- who re­ a bJUIO pnwkle Wilton~ 10 ceive II.ale financial aid at private In­ loundert wondeffii how much en~ stitutions. some 1.2 million Sludentl st,,smthere -Id be for Its rMffllge. would be affected, according to the One of lhe founders, Frank New­ man. akl recenlly, "Wewere11roup author of the resolulion, A~mbly­ JClhn of colW'ge P~IOlll'tts .. )'ml that 11 man V ■ -concellos, a Dem0en1 who 15 CM.irman of the Ways and was 1mporu.mfor our students to be­ come Involved In publk servttt, but Means Committee. Mr. V1sconce11c11 Aki: · enoJ'fflClUS that WH sWI an ldH trying to get out "'Jbere sre unmet~ needs that we gel to of the wilderness, and It WH nol clear cannot because that anyone would lcsten In lhe p,lilt­ of lnsufficimt l111.resoun;es. Students c-, or ecademflCwwlda or In lhe pub­ are given a substantial subsidy and ll lic." is appropriate thal llley learn early to Founem. me.dis liter, It ha be­ live U well IS lake." • cotM clear lhat educators and Jaw­ •The Camegie FClUndaUoaf11r lhe maken in a variety of buitiwtlons Advancement of Teaehing, In Its a1- wre listfflin&. "We Id the pa) for aessmt11t of higher educatlan II• . membership ln the C..mpus Compact yar, included recommend1uions that at 100 campuset, and with DO recnalt• eYeTY lilUd9!t complete a servke inti dforts 11 all we now have 111 projeel sncl that coll~ offer de­ pruwents rrJll"'Sffllln& 259 cam• lernd adminion to students who de- puws;• said Dr. N-maa. who wa, vote a year 1o volunteer worL JOIIW'dIn flllll!ldlnl the c::Dllhlion by Asked what had msde this is­ thrtt un.ivenity prulClenls: Howard Umely now, Ernest L Boyer, pres., R. Swearer, prnldenl of Brown un;. dent of the camegle Foundation 1111' y,er,uy; Doftald Kennedy, presidenl the AdvlnOl!mtnt of Teaehing. Aki,, of Sfanfonl University, and the Rev. "It Js not oventaung the case 1o uy Timothy S. ~. presideln. ul· that a-, many young people .,e IClUIICIa climate th.at focused m-nl- '.'.!-h ·. Jy, that seemed_ unrelated to la >·•·-;1 IOdal and ethaeal concerns.." R►i-.,_-- .-.•~ Ellen Shaw, Barnard '89, sean:hen fo,- the foundalion who ~f. ·:-!~; preparing to: feed a baby Rt lted 29 coueaes In late 19&4found,,_.-}- ,,:;. • Aki, "that a pn!OCCUpalronWith per-,.,--~.:;·. the Broadway Presbyterian IOnal Intents seemed to dominate,~.;;-· ..:, Church soup kitchen. and that there was a narrowniea (I-....-_•:,.,;. I - ·. anc1 _tac1tof concern'! ~~'.;(';f 1 I· 1 C'Oluuwedon Page a.~, ....;·;:\}:·:• 1 l---·-· ---~---.~----··- -- ) -. , -' ~:r- '1':::'i ' .. - -·- •• ~." ... ,-;.'.,1.-:_·:s.. " ~ .. :.._...... ~ ...... ~-~ .--~-~~-.i·..:.: ...... ~_.iM;; ------~--i;;,~~~;.~~-=-£:

·/ / .,.-k~+1:.-;-~ n•------•------.;,,------:: - . More Students Offering;!:Jelp9r~¢-~~P:t,is wtllch -the youna listen had not been students wort In a soup kitchen. At ·communtty aervtce. -Ellen FUner; Conltnueci'From Page Cl · encouraging the deVelopment -of in- Harvard, Derek Bok, the president. president of Barnard. explaining Iha terest in public service, either II a set aside SI mllion four years ago IO meeting of the Seven Slsten Pr-ea-: commltlDenl to aodal tssuea." volunteer or u a professional."' In lnc:reaM the 'opportwuty for com- denta, said: "We talked about helpln&._ "'Thal PIOOd."Dr. Boyer added. 11183he recniiled Catherine MIiton lo munlty service, and now students in stuclenU 10 understand that you do ""nl., puvulve that me had to uk aness the effons tbat were being ooe program aerve aa advocatea tor lhinga at different tlmes of your life, _ aboul the purpose of edUcabon... made to encourage lludent ~ the homeieaa. . , ... but that coJJq,e ii the Ume when yad Bia the l'eleal'dleni abo f!Mld an- m:'!MIiton ~Id: "We found that: At Mkhialn SI.ate Untverstty. 111to !::,~~~::~.:i!: odltf' tl'ffld. he Aid: "We aw a lllr• while there was enthusiasm 011 the =~~ i:':i.:'r1uj menL we~~ cultlvate hablU or.· ~c:i.,iin~ part of students, there wa1 not a· the costumes, • university ofllcial the heart." =1:=: 5 Inathat there i.mn altniiam and the airong ln 11tuUonalsupport networit. ·~ained help break down barriers. Jean Kayser, a 22-year-olcl SI.a• desire to be engaged. U II unfair to Students need that, they need Slalf to And at Hunter COUeae,sludents wor1l ford Rnku' from Far HIiis, N.J.,• say Ulal this generalloll la Wlduly help them develop proJecta, • nd they. In olfl

■1 ELIZABETH GRl!ENE premise that plrticipalion.·.in c:cimmunity If the people who make up Campus ~)( "aentfal to a. aood)Cdacalion Compact could have as mu.ch suc:ccsa mo- . en}~.,- October23, ••~- Mr. livating students as they have had inspiring Kennedyaya "we have a aucc..-onour ·• - ..another, student apathy would IOOII bands" in.tennaor membenbip. ·.• lade into obsolescence. But be asks: "How do you inalillllional­ Tbe college and univenity presidents ize public serviceand begin lo relate.11 lo 111dchancellon who compose the group, · lhecurrlculumand really makeit Uiorgan­ DOW DWDberinaabout 120 and sn,wing, ic part or thewlitutions that belong to bave been meeting for more than a year to Compact? devise ways or strengthening students' ~ doesn't rally know bow that is commitment to public service. Each time, .aoinllo Ill•" lbe presidents return lo their campuses re­ invigorated and with a plethora orideas. Promodng Ciric-Mindedneu Now, they say, they are ready for the Tbe group, a project orthe Educalion ·nal wortc:turning the talk into aclion. Commissionof the States and its presi­ DonaldKennedy, president orStanford dent, Fnolt Newman, believes that higher­

01-NMICYU'Q University, founded the group with the educationinslitulions have a responsibility , Paul U..-, a Bnnna Uaiftftity Rev. Timothy S. Healy and Howard R. .for promoting civic-mindedness among ltUdent Tohmteer, helpedcreate : Swearer, presidents of Georgetown and their students, and that the apathy or10- a pnlea ill tbe Souda B..a. Brown Univeniliea, respectively, on the Con1inllcdon Page J2, Column l

32 • IBE CHRONICLEOF HIGHEREDUCATION • January21, 1987 'CampusCompact' Project Stresses Public Service Continu~dfrom Pag~ I also building up a clearinghouse of ceive $1,500 -b to facilitate their day's generation is in part the fault of public-service information. doing public-service work. Nomina­ educators who have not placed The college presidents' plans in­ tions will be accepted from every enough emphasis on public-service clude: member. values. ► Examiningmeans oftying more ► A push by the Rev. Theodore "No one has been out saying to service components 10 the curricu• M. Hesburgh, president of the Uni­ them, 'Look, this is imponant­ lum. versity of Notre Dame, for federal lhere are things you can do for this ► A push for television programs ftands for a program ·modeled after country,••• says Mr. Newman. and newspaper and magazine ~cles the Reserve0fllcer Training Corps, The most important thin&Campus featuring student volunteers. '. in which the IID\'Ol'DIIICDIwould pay Compact can do, he says, is help cre­ ► Looking at ways of linlcing fi­ for students' collcaeed{ocation ia re­ ate a national atmosphere that sup.. nancial aid lo public service. turn for four years of service in the ports the poop's call for service. ► Encounging co~ public-,e. Peace Corps. The corps bas ap­ Daily, liom an office at Brown lations olllcers to alott newspapers proved the idea. . University, Campus Compact'• stair nationwide lo the civic activities of of six provides college sllldcnts and students from their towns. $1.5-Million Appropriated olllc:ials with assistance in starting ► Selecting four students every The group claims some responsi­ service II is pn,arams nationwide. year, beginnina· this March, to re- bility for creating the climate that al­ lowed for certain changes in the Higher Education Act of 1965 last fall. 1'he Chronicle of Higher Education, Its leaders pushed for and won an January,21. 1987 amendment requiring that, in cases of students working in community- . service pn,arams, -the federal -- . emment contnlluteaa,eater share of Collqc Work-Study money.In addi­ tion, $ I .$-million tof comrm•nily• serviceprojects WU·~ to the Fund for the ~~ of Posts~ Education.' '"The compli;t,!ias,~p oa :r:~...=r#~. ',"' . ''Mr:Florida.,i•• :ir,,ei, ~ .. v•--··' .. · _· ,. ' ...,_ Qi!'.••oe:.,,. 'r,.!lit5:~..~~~~r ;;~~:;~a,·!r;'aontinue~_t Severalof die i,oup's memben believe it is crucial that institutions bqin buiklinaservice clements into · the-curriculum, cilbcr by requirins YOluntccr work in some classes or by 1cachin, about social action and civ­ ic-mindedness. In addition IO show­ .,::,- Caini,u. c,.,,•• , - int lhal public service is central 10 , be says, CllllpUo afflclals Chemission of higher education,do­ didn't !'

EDUCA110N Critics charge that an entire generation of college establishment of thi1 projccl, suggests lhat colleges A Survey ol Campus AdMty COMMISSIONOF 5tudcnts hu lost any notion of public seJVicc as an could cstabliJh campus cenlcn for volunteer programs wi1h paid Slaff coordinators or provide Earlier this )'ca', Campus Compact released THESWES imegral part of their private lives and 1h11colleges and univenities are doing little ir anything 10 more adcqualc information about public service results of a poll taken at 67 colleges and universit9CS counter this disturbina social drift. careers through existing career counseling and even Indicating that among all surveyed insti1u1ions, Studenls, £acuity and execu1ives at fTICKe 1han offer fellowships foe s1udents proposing public student public ICfVice activities were at least 120 campuses across the country are proving them service projects during their summer vaca1ion - nominally supponcd through programs either wrong through their participation in a highly spirited all or which are examples or programs now under­ coordinated or sponsored by lhc university .. venture called Campus Compact: The Project for way 11some colleges and univcn.itics in lhc Campus • 7611ofTer voluntary programs wi1hsomc ins1itu­ Public and Community Service. Compact. tional support. Affording youth ~ oppor1uni1y 10 serve their Newman also observes that overall. rew students • 6611 have an infoona1ion clcuinghousc or community is an idea with generational si.aying­ arc aware or service opportunilies in 1hcir own coordinating office. power. Consider the Civilian Cooservation Corp, communities. As most universities do not have • 1811offer public service internships 1hrough established 1933, and lateT the Peace Corps, each co-curricular service organi1.ations on campus and academic departments. of whk:h KrVcd two p,c,ccding generations u well few actively encourage public service, the very • IU96 allow students to receive academic crcdil u lhe call by 11evcral White House hopduls for a notion of community service suffers a lack of Slatus. for seJVice wurk. federally sponsoml youth service program. In Campus Compact: The Project for Public and • Almost halfhave actually established public addition, no less than five national SCfVicebills have Community Service is chaired by FalhCT Timothy service centers. been introduced in the 100th Congl'e$1 and a S. Healey, S.J., presidenl of Georgetown Univcr• crowing coalition of leaden from education. social sity; Howard Swearer, president or Brown Univer­ The IVrYCf also reveals 1ha1 studcnls on these sefVk:eS, govanment and religion are giving sity; and Donald Kcnocdy. president of Stanford campuses are engaged in a wide range of activity, impetus 10 thc idea. Univenity. Thc Compact has earned the financial sosncreceiving institutional suPJ-1 and oihers 1hat While the vision grows and gathers the momen­ support of the priva1e sector. Foundation fonds from students are designing and conducting indepen­ tum of public attention, college and university Ford, Johnson and Atlantic Richfield arc being used dently. 1bc following data is culled rrom the survey. presidents who have signed on with the Campus to: Compact have been directing their energies to • 34'.li of the surveyed instilutions cs1imatc !hat incJeasing studcnl participation in public service for • Eslablish a public SC1Vicenetwork 10 match slightly more than 20'l, or their studcnl body is the put three years. students seeking service opportunhies with local involved in public SCf'Yiccactivity. Headquartered at Brown University, Campus and regional service agencies • 2111 of the ins1i1u1ions cstimale that between Compact is under the administrative direction of 1he • Assist the establishment of on-campus public 10-~ of lhc students arc involved in public EducattOII Commission of the States. Growing out service ccnlcn service. of the perception that college sludents are e11.p05ed • Consolidate and improve access 1oputilic JICT-Yicc • 9960( the institutions estimate that less lhan I O'l, to programs that ovcn::mphasizc vocational pumiits iorormatton through a national infonna1ion of 1heir 1tudcn1s arc involved in public 5Cf'Yit:C. at the expcnM: of responsible civic involvement in clcwinghousc • l6So£the institulionscstimatc that less than S'l, democratic society, about three doz.en college • Sponsor regional mcc1ings with legislators and of their students are involved. leaders met in April 1985 to discuss efforts they rcprcsen1a1ivcs from businc5s, higher education • 1811of lhc inslitutions are unable lo dclcnninc could take 10 encourage lhc ethic or public SC1Vice and philanthropy lhc estimate of their students involved in public through hands-on experience. Since then their • Develop creative proposals forfedenl assistance service. numbers have grown e11.poncntially. through student-aid-for-service worlt One problem with tracking public SCl">'ice Campus Compact aims to promote public • Put the issue of youth service on the national student activity is 1hc fact that noarcsidcn1ial and service as a slrong component of a wcll-struclurcd agenda by promoting public awareness or the older lhldcnts may be participating on their own higher education. ECS President Frank Newman, a need for a revitalized commitment to service and and actually would be counled if the insli1ution had former university president wbo ~inalcd lhc by stressing worbble solutions better information about them.

Profiles in Public Service

Recently, the annual RotiinliOfl Student: kitchen and erncrgcncy sheller ror !he hun,:ry and Hum:milarian Achicvcmcnl Award, honoring homeless in 1he Bronx. college students who r,erform oumanding commu­ • Diane Koucky, of Decatur, Illinois. A senior ill nity SCT'Yice,wen! lo four individuals nominated by the University of Illinois. Urbana. Koucky is college and univcni1y prcsidcnl5 r,uticirllling in the founder of"HOPE f-OR Tl IE a llll>REN. M the CampusComract. l'hc award. e1tahli1hcd las1 year university's first all-campus (lbilalllhophy, which by attorney Gerald J. Robinson as III ou1grow1h of tiu raised mun: 1han S7,000 10 suppKI Matthew a recognition rrogram he initialed with friends al House, a community hou5C in Champai,:n­ Yale University. Cornell UnivcBity and Vennont Urbana serving some 250 underprivileged Law School. lhi1 year rccogni1.e1: children. In addition, Koucky has worked as a • Geor,;e Cueva.•, or San Ju~, California. A lutor, tutor coordinator and C(IUnsclor. senior at Stanford UnivcBity. Cuevas is a IUlor • FJlffa Doyle, of Dcmarr11, New lmc)·· A and coordinator of 1he llanio A ...~isla.ncc Pro­ senior at the University of l'enn.,ylvania. Doyle. gram. a s1u1lcnt-run 1u1orial and d:ill1 dcvclt1f1- u coordinator for Universal Ci1y ll05pitali1y mcnt program foreconomically and cducation•lly Coalitinn - a volunteer oriani7.llion that hosts diJadvantnp;cd children in East Palo Allo. lie is five dinners weekly for the hnnw!lcss - rc,;ruiled responsible for seeking 1urport and mainllinin,: voluntceB, raised 5Uf'PO"muney and intends IO a yearly bw~ of more than SIJ,000 and for help ntahlish a day1imc ..Survival Center:· IO developing educational curriculum for the p,ovKlcshower facililic•, a sillingroum, tutoring program. services and job counseling for the homeless. • Joseph ()'Orlen, of Worccs1er, Massachusclls. For addicioftalinfonnation about Campus A senior Ill FOfdham Univenily, the Bron,:, Compact: The Prnjcct for Public and Comn,unity O'Brien recruited student voluntccn asa member Service conlact: S-n Stroud, director. (If Saphlra or··pan of the Soiution:· (P .0. T .S. ), a commu­ Baker, auistlftl director, at Hnx 1975, Dm­ nity volunlCC'r 0r1anization. and helped raise Univeraity, ProYidcnce, Rhode Island 02912; morethan S7,000 u wcll u having w«kcd as a ldcphone 401-863-1119. . COM and a counselor to help establish a soup :;. ~t'···" June 1987

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STATE INSTITUTION PRESIDENT/CHANCELLOR

Arizona Maricopa County Community Paul A. Elsner, Ch. College District Office

California Calif. State Univ. System W. Ann Reynolds, Ch. Los Angeles Comm. College Leslie Koltai, Ch. Mills College MaiyS. Metz Mount St. Mary's College Sr. Magdalen Coughlin San Francisco C.C. District HilaryHsu, Ch. Stanford University Donald Kennedy Univ. of California System DavidGardner U. of Calffomia/Ber1

Colorado Colorado College Gresham Riley

Connecticut Connecticut College Oakes Ames Trinity College James F. English, Jr. Universttyof Connecticut John T. Casteen Ill Wesleyan University Colin G. Campbell Yale University Benno Schmidt

Florida Brevard Community College Maxwell C. King Eckerd College Peter H. Armacost Miami-Dade Community College Robert McCabe State Univ. System of Florida Charles 8. Reed, Ch. Universityof Central Florida Trevor Colbourn University of Florida MarshallM. Criser University of North Florida Curtis L. McCray Univeristy of West Florida James A. Robinson

Georgia Morehouse College Hugh M.Gloster Spelman College Barbara Carter

Illinois Knox College John P. McCall Lewis University Br. David Delahanty Roosevelt University Rolf A. Weil University of Chicago Hanna H. Gray Univ. of lllinois,Urbana-Champaign Thomas E. Everhart, Ch.

Indiana *DePauw University Robert Bottoms Earlham College Richard J. Wood University of Notre Dame Fr. Edward Malloy, CSC

Iowa ' Grinnell Col!ege George A. Drake •University of Iowa James 0. Freedman

Kansas Bethany College Peter J. Ristuben 1 _., June 1987 -··:.,;.

Kentucky Berea College John Stephenson Centre College Richard L. Morrill University of Kentucky Otis A. Singletary

Louisiana Xavier Univ. of Louisiana Norman C. Francis

Maine Bates College Thomas H. Reynolds Universityof Maine at Orono Arthur M. Johnson

Maryland Hood College Martha E. Church Johns Hopkins Steven Muller U. of Maryland, Baltimore County Michael Hooker, Ch.

Massachusetts Brandeis University Evelyn E. Handler Hampshire College Adele Simmons Harvard University Derek Bok M.I.T. David Saxon, Ch.of Bd. • Radcliffe Malina S. Homer Suffolk University Daniel H. Perlman UMass/Amherst Joseph Duffey,Ch. Wellesley Nannerl Keohane Wheaton College Alice Emerson

Michigan •Alma College Oscar E. Remick Kalamazoo College David W. Breneman Michigan State University John A. DiBiaggio •university of Michigan Harold Shapiro

Minnesota· •carleton College David Porter Mankato State University Margaret R. Preska Metropolitan State University Reatha Clark King U. of Minn., Minn/St. Paul Kenneth H. Keller

Mississippi *Tougaloo College J. Herman Blake

Missouri •u. of Missouri, Columbia Duane Stucky. Ch. U. of Missouri, Kansas Ctty George A. Russell William Jewell College J. Gordon Kingsley

Nebraska Universityof Nebraska Ronald W. Roskens

New Hampshire •Dartmouth College David T. McLaughlin •Keene State College Richard Cunningham

New Jersey •Princeton University William G. Bowen

New York Bank Street College Richard Ruopp Bard College Leon Botstein Barnard College Ellen Futter City Universttyof NY Joseph F. Murphy Colgate University George D. Langdon, Jr. College for Human Services Audrey C. Cohen Cornell University Frank Rhodes Fordham University Fr. Joseph O'Hare, S.J. Hobart and William Smith Colleges Carrol Brewster 'Hunter College Donna E. Shalala 2 June 1987

New York {cont'd) Nazareth College of Rochester Rose Marie Beston New York University John Brademas Rockland Community College F.Thomas Clark Rochester Institute of Technology M. Richard Rose •state Universityof NY Jerome B. Komisar,Ch. Vassar College Frances Fergussen ·wells College Patti McGill Peterson

North Carolina Davidson College John W. Kuykendall Johnson Cay Smith University Robert Albright St. Andrews Presbyterian Coll. A.P. Perkinson, Jr. Univ. of North Carolina-Asheville David G. Brown, Ch.

Ohio Case Western Reserve University David V. Ragone Oberlin College S. FrederickStarr Ohio Wesleyan David Warren Wittenberg University William A. Kinnison

Oregon Reed College Paul E. Bragdon

Pennsylvania Lafayette College DavidW. Ellis Susquehanna University Joel L. Cunningham Universityof Pennsylvania Sheldon Hackney

Rhode Island Brown University Howard R. Swearer

South Carolina U. of South Carolina at Columbia James B. Holderman Wofford College Joab M. Lesesne

Tennessee· Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville Jack E. Reese, Ch. Vanderbilt University Joe 8. Wyatt, Ch.

Texas Austin College Harry E. Smith Rice University George Rupp Southwestern University Roy B. Shilling, Jr. Trinity University RonaldCalgaard

Vermont Trinity College Sr. Janice Ryan Universityof Vermont Lallie F. Coor

Virginia Hollins College Paula P. Brownlee Universityof Virginia Robert O'Neil

Washington EvergreenState College Joseph D. Olander "Seattle University Fr. Gregory F. Lucey, S.J. Universityof Puget Sound Philip M. Phibbs

Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J.

West Virginia Concord College Jerry L. Beasley

Wisconsin Alverno College Sr. Joel Read Beloit College Roger H. Hull Lawrance University RichardWarch

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SUMMARY OF THE EFFORTS OF CAMPUS COMPACT IN '85-'86 TO INCREASE COLLEGE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE

The mission of Campus Compact is to involve more students in public service activities while in college so that students leam the importance and effectiveness of their individual efforts 1o address social problems, In rts first year, Campus Compact established an office at Brown University, organized an active coalition of 121 university presidents, and inrtiated some exciting projects aimed al encouraging public service and civic responsibility among college students. Operating funds were secured from the Ford Foundation , the Exxon Education Foundation, and the Atlantic Richfield Foundation. The first meeting of the coalition, including 40 presidents and chancellors and 9 foundation officers, was held in January, 1986 and sponsored by the Johnson Foundation. Since that lime, we have convened meetings of university presidents and policy makers in conjunction with a number of major educational organizations. As Campus Compact moves into its second year, we are faced increasingly with the need to set priorrties and make policy decisions for 1he project. For that reason, we have established a 14-member Execu1ive Committee of presidents who are representative of a geographically and structurally diverse group of higher education instrtutions. This committee includes the Chairs of the following three task forces: Media Relations, Federal lnrtiatives, and State Initiatives. During 1985-86, Campus Compact concentrated on five areas in rts efforts to foster community ser.-ica:

1)To provide information and technical assistance to on

•We have available a ~resource book" for students to promote community service activities.

•We are in Iha process of collecting resource materials to facilitate the development of public service programs across the country. It is our intention to draw attention to the material that is already available, not to create repetitive materials .

. • The information we collect about campus and communrty programs, from all of our sources, is being used to develop a compu1erized clearinghouse of college and university campus public service programs and policies.

2)To strengtherl the links between the campuses and off-campus service organizations: •The project staff responds to all requests for information and links off-<:ampus communrty service agencies to coalrtion instrtutions in their area.

•In all of our literature we stress the importance of working with a community not ·acting upon it.•

•We are working with cur coalition institutions and the ABC/PBS Project Lrteracy United States to strengthen <'Xisling literacy training programs on campuses, to initiative new efforts to combat illiteracy, and to link campuses with local lrteracy training centers and task forces.

3)T o develop public policy that rewards and encourages student public service: •There has been a lot of promising activity at the Federal level aimed at encouraging students' involvement in public service. Our initial discussions in the Fall of 1985 wtth Senate staff on the labor and Human Resources Committee resulted in action. In the Higher Education Act of 1965 Reau1horization, legislation passed that strengthens the links between financial aid and public service and sets up new sources of funding for community service-learning projects.

•We have initiated discussions on state policy that would encourage collegiate public service. 11.436

•In July 1986 we presented models of state policy that support student public service at the Education Commission of the State's annual meeting.

4)To placethe 1.- of public service on the national agenda: •The press coverage that the project received after the October, 1985 press conference in Washington D.C. was tremendous. People who read about Campus Compact in that press coverage are still contacting us. We have a mailing list of approxmately 275 associations and individuals who are interested in the project, not including contacts in the Campus Compact Coalition which includes another 250 people.

•The support and attention we have been given by other associations has been helpful. Through the various newsletters and networks of these associations we have reached a significant number of people.

-One of the most important areas of our promotional efforts is the local media coverage about individual campuses and students' public service activities.

•We participated in the American Association of Higher Education's (AAHE) national conference in March 1986 which brought us in touch with more people who were interested in working with the project. We also participated in the 86-'87 meetings of the American Council on Education, the Independent Sector, and the National Society for Internships and Experiential Education. In March of 1987, we willhold an "action workshop" at AAHE's annual meeting.

•We participated in the National Conference of Service and Conservation Corps in March as a way of fostering links between campus service programs and state-run programs and we are representing Campus Compact at national conferences of community service associations such as VOLUNTEER.

S)To identify sources of financial support for campus public service programs and to recognize student Involvement In public and community service. •We are researching corporate programs that support student public service activities in order to identify and develop sources of regional support for collegiate public service involvement.

•We are working with several foundations and private donors to develop incentive grants that would aid campuses in establishing public service programs and that could then attract sources of more permanent funding.

•We sponsor the Robinson Student Humanitarian Achievement Award to recognize college students among the coalition institutions who have performed an outstanding public service. In March of 1987, four students will receive awards of $1500 to further a humanitarian service that they have proposed.

For more Information, contact: Campus Compact: The Project for Public and Community Service, Box G, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, (401)863-1119.