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NC campuses work to monitor, measure community engagement

Dr. Holland was made an "honorary Tarheel" at PACE 2014 for her work with NC colleges.

Dr. Holland was made an “honorary Tarheel” at PACE 2014 for her work with NC colleges.

This week our Compact kicked off the second year of the Monitoring and Measuring Initiative (MMI), a professional development series that helps campuses develop strategies and systems to assess community engagement. Available to all member campuses at no cost, the series includes an online learning community, two or three web-based seminars, one-on-one expert consultation, and an invitation-only workshop held as part of the annual PACE Conference. Seventeen campuses participated in the first year of the MMI; 21 schools will participate this year.

Dr. Barbara Holland, a national expert on higher education community engagement and former director of the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, led the series last year and returns again as a presenter and consultant. Joining Holland in leading the initiative will be Dr. Robert Bringle, the Kulynych/Cline Visiting Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Appalachian State University, and Dr. Patti Clayton, a Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a Senior Scholar at UNCG.

The MMI series addresses topics ranging from how to develop a campus-wide engagement assessment strategy, to building institutional support among diverse stakeholders to preparing for the Carnegie Foundation’s elective community engagement classification. This year, the initiative will focus on assessing student learning outcomes in the community engagement context.

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