Edward Zlotkowski

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.

Millennia1 Expectations: Creating a New Service Agenda in Higher Education

In his 1995 NAPEHE keynote address, the late Ernest Boyer laid out a new vision of scholarship—one that allows for a much more powerful and effective academic-civic dialogue. Since then, the service movement that began gathering momentum in the early 1990s has only continued to grow. Sponsoring both faculty professional service and student-mediated efforts, academic institutions across the country are finding new value in community engagement. That engagement, in turn, has highlighted many important questions about the way in which academics go about their work. Nowhere would the fit between the emerging service agenda and disciplinary interests seem to be more natural than in the area of physical educatio