FY 2015 - 2016 Quarter 2 Report to Governor’s Office of Planning & Budgeting for information please contact Executive Director, DeeDee Rasmussen at 850.488.7782
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Adventist University of Health Sciences Barry University Bethune-Cookman University Broward College College of Central Florida Daytona State College Eastern Florida State College Eckerd College Everglades University Flagler College Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Florida Atlantic University Florida Gateway College Florida Gulf Coast University Florida Institute of Technology Florida International University Florida Southern College Florida State College at Jacksonville Florida State University Gulf Coast State College Hillsborough Community College Hodges University Indian River State College Jacksonville University Lake-Sumter State College Lynn University Miami Dade College New College of Florida North Florida Community College Nova Southeastern University Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach State College Pasco-Hernando State College Pensacola State College Polk State College Ringling College of Art and Design Rollins College Saint Leo University Saint Thomas University Santa Fe College Seminole State College of Florida South Florida State College St. Petersburg College Stetson University Tallahassee Community College University of Central Florida University of Florida University of Miami University of North Florida University of South Florida The University of Tampa University of West Florida Valencia College
Executive Committee
William Abare, Ed.D. President, Flagler College Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, Ph.D. President, Barry University Wilson G. Bradshaw, Ph.D. President, Florida Gulf Coast University Anthony James Catanese, Ph.D., FAICP Co-Chair, Florida Campus Compact President, Florida Institute of Technology John Delaney, J.D. President, University of North Florida Eileen Holden, Ed.D. President, Polk State College Edwin Massey, Ph.D. President, Indian River State College Mark Rosenberg, Ph.D. President, Florida International University Steven J. Uhlfelder, J.D. Co-Chair, Florida Campus Compact
Background Florida Campus Compact is a coalition of over 50 college and university presidents, and their institutions.1 Collectively, we seek to prepare college graduates with skills employers need (workforce development) through high-impact pedagogies that improve teaching, learning & student retention while building stronger communities through campus-community collaboration. The FY 2015-16 appropriation to Florida Campus Compact in the amount of $225,000 was dedicated to the purpose of expanding our capacity to facilitate Community Engaged Scholarship among Florida’s colleges and universities.
For Q2 (October 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015): Meeting or Event Annual Conference, November 4 - 6 , 2015: Forward Together: Strengthening Florida’s Higher Education Engagement Network
Participants rated all sessions an average of 4.7 out of 5 stars.
Feedback From Polk State College: “A great session with ideas to institutionalize service learning. Presenters provided innovative ideas that work no matter where you are in developing your service learning initiatives.” And “This session provided opportunities to learn and exchange ideas related to E-Service Learning. The presenters engaged participants by sharing their successes and failures with integrating service learning into their online courses.” From Ringling College of Art & Design: “It was SUPER informative and I have a lot of ideas to bring back.”
Notes Over 100 participants from 30 institutions: Adventist, Barry, College of Central Florida, Eastern Florida State College, Eckerd College, FAU, FGCU, FSCJ, FSU, IRSC, JU, Lake-Sumter State College, Lynn University, MDC, New College, Nova, PBA, Pensacola State, Polk State, Ringling School of Art & Design, Rollins College, St. Leo university, St. Petersburg College, Stetson, TCC, UCF, UM, UNF, USF, Valencia.
From Adventist: “Outstanding! Very helpful. I want to talk to them about advisement of Community Scholars …” Faculty Development Lake-Sumter State College Workshop
34 faculty members examined how their current courses might incorporate more community engagement activity to boost student performance.
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The Florida State University serves as the fiscal and administrative agent for Florida Campus Compact.
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“Raising the Bar, the Florida College System and the Civics Literacy Gap,” held at St. Petersburg College, October 29 – 30, 2015.
FL|CC co-hosted this conference and participated in a panel discussion emphasizing the importance of engagement pedagogies as high-impact strategies to meet state performance metrics.
This event included 17 state colleges and 7 other partner organizations, including UF, USF, and UCF.
On-going staff activity: • Preparation and planning for two Institutes to be conducted in February, 2016. • Continued planning for our 25th anniversary celebration and conference; fall, 2016
Annual Conference After a year of planning, Florida Campus Compact held its Annual Conference November 4-6 in Boca Raton. Our engaged campuses gathered together with esteemed scholars and innovators to explore the theme Forward Together: Strengthening Florida’s Higher Education Engagement Network. The conference also included: • •
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the annual Community Service Directors’ planning retreat; A keynote address by Scholar in Residence, Dr. Tim Eatman, co-director of Imagining America and a professor at Syracuse University. Dr. Eatman is a publicly engaged scholar who employs interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral approaches within his life and work; a plenary session with Dr. Andrew Seligsohn, President of national Campus Compact; productive regional meetings; 2
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the 2015 Florida Campus Compact Awards Gala on the campus of Lynn University; sessions about engagement work, including a two productive panels about the development of a state-wide research agenda; a closing session entitled Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons presented by Dr. Bruce Fraser and Dr. Michelle Carrigan of Indian River State College
The goals of the conference were to highlight the best practices in community engaged learning and/or student affairs-academic affairs collaboration, advance an understanding of how engaged scholarship and the collective impact model can be mutually beneficial to create healthy communities, and create a statewide research agenda and action plan to support engaged scholarship in Florida. Evidence that these goals were met resides in the feedback we received from participants and in the artifacts produced by the attendees. FL|CC also employed a new measuring tool that captures attendee engagement at the conference and collects survey and polling feedback as well. The data captured by the mobile application exceeded the expectations of the application developers who coach their users to aim for only 50% of the engagement numbers FL|CC realized. Research demonstrates the value of participant engagement to knowledge retention, and FL|CC was pleased with both the qualitative and quantitative data the use of the conference application yielded. Final report data shows 128 active users, but this snapshot of activity from the content management system gives an overview of both the action-prompt from FL|CC (represented by a dot, color-coded by action type), and the attendee response (indicated by the peaks and valleys of the plotted series data). Chart 1 shows the aggregate activity in response to promoted messages, push messages, and polls.
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Chart 1
Using a mobile app allowed FL|CC to realize a substantial cost savings in program printing costs. Additionally, presenters uploaded their materials to the app, making them instantly available to attendees and saving paper and printing expense. An additional important feature of this mobile application data is the baseline data that will help FL|CC measure future event engagement and strategize for growth. Florida Campus Compact Awards Program On Thursday evening, November 5, Lynn University hosted the presentation of the 2015 Florida Campus Compact Awards. These awards are designed to recognize outstanding achievement in the areas of engaged scholarship, service, leadership, campus-community partnerships, student affairs-academic affairs collaboration, and pervasive campus engagement by college and university faculty, staff, students, and administrators. During the 2015 awards cycle, forty-four applications were received in nine competitive categories. These applications were peer-reviewed and scored by a team of engaged scholarship professionals from outside the state of Florida. The team included 32 people representing 18 states and Canada, 14 of the reviewers are faculty members with terminal degrees in their field. Other out-ofstate reviewers included Campus Compact and partner organization staff. Competitive award categories included: • Engaged Scholarship Faculty • Engaged Scholarship Research • Community Engagement Educator • Civic Educator • Student Excellence in Service • AmeriCorps VISTA • Student Affairs – Academic Affairs Collaboration 4
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Campus – Community Partnerships Engaged Campus(es) of the Year
Newman Civic Fellows In addition to these institutional awards, nine Florida students were awarded the prestigious national Newman Civic Fellows honor for 2015. The Newman Civic Fellows program honors inspiring college student leaders who have demonstrated an investment in finding solutions for challenges facing communities throughout the country. These students represent the next generation of public problem solvers and civic leaders. They serve as national examples of the role that higher education can—and does—play in building a better world. AmeriCorps / Volunteers in Service to America Cost Share
Florida Campus Compact hosts an AmeriCorps VISTA program, which is federally funded through a grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS). A portion of our state appropriation is used as a cost-share to support VISTA members placed with colleges, universities, and community-based organizations, in order to recruit and train college students to serve in their communities. FL|CC AmeriCorps VISTA members are successfully building bridges between the classrooms and communities by connecting educators, students, and community partners to improve education and strengthen communities through campus-community partnerships. AmeriCorps VISTA members provide an additional human resource and capacity that is invaluable in seeking to expand the scholarship of engagement while strengthening communities in Florida. FL|CC currently has 21 VISTA members on campuses and communities across the state. At the conclusion of the February, 2016 recruitment cycle, we anticipate that nearly 30 members will be serving as FL|CC VISTAs.
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Current FL|CC VISTA Project Host Sites: Adventist University of Health Sciences America’s Second Harvest of the Big Bend Barry University Chain Reaction Community Tampa Bay Eckerd College Florida State College at Jacksonville
Florida State University Florida International University Hope CommUnity Center Miami Dade College New College of Florida Palm Beach Atlantic University Pensacola State College
Ringling College of Art & Design St. Thomas University Stetson University Tallahassee Community College University of Central Florida University of Florida University of Miami
2015 Summarized Data (through 9/30/15) Number of student and community volunteers recruited: 2,827 Number of college student mentors recruited: 416 Number of youth mentored by college student mentors: 783 Number of service hours performed by volunteers: 19,090 Number of student and community volunteers recruited for National Days of Service: 1,041 Recent VISTA Program Highlights & Plans Most recently we held our second In Service Training (IST) of the year, in partnership with our Florida Campus Compact Annual Conference in Boca Raton, Florida from November 3 – 4, 2015. FL|CC VISTA Members gathered together for professional development, team-building and networking. We also welcomed eight new VISTA members who began year-long service terms with our program in early November. Members were welcomed with an Orientation Webinar as well as an online meet and greet so they could get to know one another. We are currently gearing up for our first bi-monthly peer webinar early this coming year which will be hosted by VISTA members and will be a great platform for learning and sharing ideas and resources. Lastly, FL|CC’s renewal application to continue as an AmeriCorps VISTA Project Sponsor for 2016 was approved by the Corporation for National & Community Service in early December.
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Efficiency In keeping with Governor Scott's call for greater government efficiency though renegotiated contracts and leases, FL|CC recently renegotiated its lease for office space, which resulted in a savings of $1,500 in the 2016 contract agreement.
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