Getting Started with ADP

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Getting Started with ADP

• American Democracy Project Meeting
• Preconference Workshop
• Baltimore, Maryland
• June 2009

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Advice from an ex-Provost on Institutionalizing,
Prioritizing, and Valorizing Civic Engagement

• John Presley
• Vice President and Provost Emeritus
• Professor of English and Higher Education
  Administration
• Illinois State University

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Seven Rules for Provosts and other Campus Leaders
new to the ADP

• Hold a campus-wide conversation about Civic
  Engagement
• Audit CE on your campus and create a "Big Tent"
  for ADP participants
• Partner with Student Affairs
• Use your Faculty Development Center and other
  existing "motivators"

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Seven rules (continued)

• 5. Diffuse reallocated internal funding for ADP
  throughout Academic Affairs and the campus
• 6. Use mission statements, strategic plans,
  budget processes, program review, accreditation
  visits to ensure priority for ADP
• 7. Align personnel policies and faculty
  evaluation criteria with ADP and CE

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How AASCU provosts have fostered ADP on their
campuses

• Structural changes in Academic Affairs
• Curricular changes
• New majors and programs
• Changes across campus

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Campus Leadership

• How a provost or campus leader might model civic
  engagement
• Rewarding civic engagement
• Protecting civic engagement

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Strengthening Engagement through an Alignment
Analysis

• Carole Beere, Ph.D.
• Associate Provost for Outreach (retired)
• Senior Director, Special Projects (part-time)
• Northern Kentucky University

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What is Alignment?

• What is an alignment grid?
• What is an alignment analysis?

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INSTITUTIONAL ALIGNMENT to SUPPORT PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYDevelop
ed by James C. Vortuba, President, Northern
Kentucky University
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Implementing the alignment analysis

• Appointing the committee
• Establishing a time line
• Assigning background reading

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The Finished Product

• The completed grid
• Creating a time line
• Determining impact

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Campus Coordinators Roles and Resources

• Richard Dunfee, Director
• Grants Resource Center
• American Association of State Colleges and
  Universities

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After the audit

• Deal with campus politics.
• Establish (or re-assert) the mission in
  action-oriented term.

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Pulling the program together

• Offer evidence that the impact is enhanced with a
  collective, targeted effort rather than a
  dispersed, de-centralized effort.
• Set long-term (5 yr) and short-term (1 yr)
  program goals that establish and focus momentum.
• Plan to assess impact -- essential.

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Envisioning the future

• Disseminate information on impact/outcomes/success
  es.
• Co-opt (in the case of CE, cooptation is not a
  dirty word) those people and programs essential
  to your success.
• Align resources around the goals in a transparent
  fashion.
• Stay focused on the mission.
• Apply for external and internal support.

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The Role of Centers for Faculty Development

• Margaret W. Cohen
• Director, Center for Teaching and Learning and
• Associate Provost for Professional Development
• University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Partnerships, Levers, Resources

• On campus
• Academic deans and center directors
• Division of Student Affairs
• Continuing Education
• Off campus
• IHEs in the metropolitan region
• AASCU and New York Times
• ADP meetings
• State Campus Compact
• Grants for institutions and faculty
• AmeriCorps VISTA campus placements

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Provosts Civic Engagement Steering Committee

• Appointed Fall 2007
• All divisions represented
• Co-chairs
• Subcommittees provide oversight, feedback, energy
• Audit and inventory
• Programs and events
• Long-range planning

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Sample programs

• Lunch and Learns
• Partnering with Student Affairs
• Designed to increase enriching learning
  opportunities and
• Faculty and student volunteerism in community
• Showcasing faculty engaged in service-learning
• Volunteer Resource Fair of community
  organizations
• Constitution Day (fall)
• Partners Student Government, Associated Students
  of UM, Graduate Poli Sci Assn., key faculty,
  Public Affairs
• Designed to meet federal mandate, support
  citizenship, explore principles of democracy
• Lunch with legislators or candidates
• Distribute hip-pocket Constitutions

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More programs

• News at Noon
• Sponsored by student newspaper and New York
  Times
• 4-5 Wednesdays each semester
• Designed to increase student and faculty
  interactions
• Planned by student and faculty committee
• Topics highlight current events, faculty
  expertise
• CTL leadership insures continuity
• Complements Student Affairs programming
• Civic Engagement Day (spring)
• Speakers
• Lunch with the Legislators
• Faculty, staff, students poster presentations
• Volunteer Resource Fair
• Survey faculty, staff, students for inventory
  (ongoing)

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Creating an Agenda for Civic Engagement

• Use the language and tie to mission
• Combine with other mission goals
• Focus on student learning, retention
• Partner with multiple offices
• Program strategically and seize opportunities
• Leadership matters
• keep it informed
• seek its support
• Remember change is slow

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Creating an Effective Partnership with Your
Campus University Relations Office

• Susan Chilcott
• Vice President for Communications
• American Association of State Colleges and
  Universities