Campus Compact Annual Membership Survey - 2006
- A. Purpose and Methodology
- B. Institutional Information
- C. Community Service/Service-learning/Civic Engagement on Campus
- D. Faculty Roles and Rewards
- E. Infrastructure
Highlights
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A. Purpose and Methodology
Since 1987, Campus Compact has conducted an annual member survey for the purpose of assessing community service and service-learning characteristics as well as identifying issue areas and trends. The results presented in this report come from a survey of Campus Compact members conducted in the fall of 2006 and represent data collected from the 2005/2006 academic year.
Campus Compact member institutions were asked to participate in the online annual membership survey from October 10, 2006 to December 15, 2006. Respondents were able to create a unique username and password so that they could log on and return to the survey as many times as needed over the data collection phase. A series of follow-up emails were sent to member institutions reminding them to complete the survey. State offices were also supplied with weekly updates for their states. Of the 1045 member institutions that were active during the previous academic year, 633 responded, which yielded a response rate of 60%. However, 53 respondents were removed from the analyses due to insufficient or incomplete data, resulting in a total of 580 respondents that were included in the final analyses, a response rate of 55.5%. This is higher than the 50% response rate achieved in 2004-05.
Author Information
Loren Puffer is a consultant specializing in program evaluation, survey design and analysis. She received a Master's degree in Public Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree from Tufts University. She previously worked as a Research Associate at the Wellesley College Centers for Research on Women on a longitudinal evaluation of a comprehensive after-school program model. She also worked as a Research and Evaluation Manager at the Jacksonville Children's Commission designing and conducting evaluation protocols for funded programs, including after-school, mental health, and early intervention services.
About Campus Compact
Campus Compact is a national coalition of college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages collaborative partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research.
In 1985, the presidents of Brown, Georgetown, and Stanford Universities and the president of the Education Commission of the States founded Campus Compact to support the growing number of college students involved in community service and to issue a call for more students to serve. Twenty-one years later, Campus Compact has a rapidly growing membership of more than 1000 public and private, two-and four-year colleges and universities. The national office is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, and network offices are located in 31 states: CA, CO, CT, FL, HI, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NH, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, and WV.
Being a part of Campus Compact has let us touch the heart and soul of building better communities while improving teaching and learning for faculty and students. James A. Drake, President, Brevard Community College