New Website & Toolkit: History, Civics, and Service

Posted by on February 28, 2004

Campus Compact
History, Civics, and Service
On-Line Toolkit and Civic Scholars

Campus Compact is pleased to announce a new resource, an On-Line Toolkit on History, Civics, and Service. (http://www.compact.org/history-civics-service)

As an initiative of the current administration, implemented through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Archives and Records Administration, US Freedom Corps, and the Corporation for National and Community Service, the goal of the work on History, Civics, and Service is to advance students’ understanding of history by connecting it to service experiences and at the same time improve understanding of the context for community service by connecting it to a deeper historical context.

The Toolkit currently serves as a central location for resources related to this initiative.

The Toolkit will be enhanced during the coming year through the work of five regional Civic Scholars appointed by Campus Compact to contribute their knowledge and expertise. The Civic Scholars are Jose Calderon (Pitzer College), Mary Coleman (Jackson State University), Gary Daynes (Brigham Young University), Melissa Gilbert (Otterbein College), and Lorrayne Carroll (University of Southern Maine).

This project is supported through a generous grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve American, Higher Education.