About Us
Mission
- Engaged Scholarship
- Community-based research
- Co-curricular service-learning (volunteerism with an education component)
- Sustainable campus-community partnership
Goals
- Enriching the quality of academic instruction through a broader, more engaged collegiate learning experience
- Strengthening academics and civic engagement through reciprocal campus-community partnerships
- Supporting communities in Florida through symbiotic campus-community collaboration
- Inspiring civic responsibility and leadership for conscientious citizenship in a participatory democracy
About Us
Florida Campus Compact (FL|CC) is a membership organization of over 50 college and university presidents committed to helping students develop the values and skills of active citizenship through participation in public and community service. FL|CC works with these presidents and their campuses to integrate service with academic study and to provide a collegial experience for intercampus and community collaborations.
FL|CC achieves its mission through site visits, conferences, workshops, technical assistance/resources, and awards. The ultimate goal of Florida Campus Compact is to develop educated and active citizens to sustain our participatory democracy.
Member Benefits
Florida Campus Compact...
- Cultivates supportive academic environments that nurture strong and reciprocal links between campuses and communities.
- Offers professional development, technical training, consultative assistance, and funding opportunities to member campuses to promote curriculum development, innovative programming initiatives, and fellowships for faculty, students, and community partners.
- Promotes public policy that supports community-based research, engaged scholarship, service-learning and civic engagement.
- Convenes conferences and workshops to support symbiotic interaction and professional development for presidents, administrators, faculty, program directors, students, and community partners.
- Develops and disseminates timely information in the form of bulletins, internet resources, and other publications.
- Rewards and promotes outstanding work in the field of engaged scholarship and civic engagement.
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