New Book: Colleges with a Conscience

Posted by on April 22, 2005

[ed note: Congrats to Swarthmore and Penn which are featured in this book.]

New Book from Campus Compact and The Princeton Review Features Colleges with a Conscience

Contact:
Campus Compact
Devon Bates
401-867-3950
dbates@compact.org

Princeton Review Books
Jeanne Krier
212-539-1350
jeannek@aol.com

Many colleges and universities today are making it a priority to foster social responsibility and public service their campuses. Some of the nation’s best are featured in a new book by Campus Compact and The Princeton Review titled Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement (Random House), available in bookstores on June 21.

“This book highlights the exceptional work of our member campuses and the wonderful opportunities that exist for students to improve community life and demonstrate social responsibility,” said Campus Compact executive director Elizabeth Hollander. “These schools epitomize higher education in service to the public good.”

The Princeton Review partnered with Campus Compact to select colleges and universities for the book, limiting their scope to four-year institutions. Criteria included: admissions practices and scholarships that reward community service; support for service-learning programs, student activism, and student voice in school governance; and level of social engagement of the student body.

The editors collected extensive data about these schools? service programs and policies, as well as surveys from students, faculty, and staff. The schools chosen for Colleges with a Conscience represent a diverse range of institutions by geographic region, campus size, setting (urban/rural), and type (public/private), selected from Campus Compact?s more than 950 members.

Colleges with a Conscience contains two-page profiles on each college, providing detailed information about civic engagement and service-learning programs on campus, in the classroom, and in the community. The book also includes advice for applicants, a section on researching colleges with service-learning programs, information on how to obtain financial support for service projects, and a complete list of Campus Compact member campuses. Students share perceptions and feedback in profiles that describe their civic engagement activities, advice, and experience.

This book is one of many resources that Campus Compact has developed to provide support and training for those seeking to advance service, service-learning and civic engagement activities on campuses nationwide.

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