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Tracking Systems
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Tracking campus-wide community service and civic engagement helps campuses tell a clear story about participation, impact, and learning. It also supports consistent operations and strengthens the case for resources.
Why track campus-wide engagement?
- Understand student engagement
- Who is participating, and how often
- Depth of engagement (roles, responsibilities, time, continuity)
- Understand faculty and departmental engagement
- Which faculty, departments, and programs are involved
- Where engagement is concentrated and where it is missing
- Demonstrate value and significance
- Hours served
- Projects completed
- Service-learning courses, community-based research (CBR), and academic projects
- Community capacity building (for example: grants written, resources leveraged)
- Estimate the monetary value of engagement
- Value of volunteer/service hours and other contributed resources
- Connect engagement to student learning and institutional goals
- Evidence of learning outcomes and alignment with priorities
- Make the case for resources
- Data to support staffing, budgets, and institutional infrastructure
- Strengthen operations
- A more professional, well-managed, and well-organized center
How this section is used
This section introduces tools and approaches, drawing on experiences from campuses in the Bonner Network that have integrated campus-wide tracking systems.
National Assessment option (NASCE)
If you want a point-in-time snapshot of the breadth and depth of student engagement, consider the National Assessment of Service and Community Engagement (NASCE) from Siena Research Institute.
