History
Mission
The mission of the New York Campus Compact is to promote active citizenship as an aim of higher education. In a statewide leadership role, NYCC will strengthen the capacity of member institutions to partner with their communities; increase student involvement in academic and co-curricular public service; advance engaged scholarship; and cultivate the knowledge, values, and skills of civic responsibility and democratic participation.
Values
The values of the New York Campus Compact:
Goals
The goals of NYCC programs and member services are to:
- The New York Campus Compact was chartered on October 16, 2001, by a task force of college and university presidents working together for two years to launch a membership organization “to advance the public mission of higher education” and establish a NY State network office.
- NYCC has been hosted by Cornell University since its inception.
- The charter membership of 39 institutions has grown to 79 in 2008.
- We are currently the largest of the 34 Campus Compacts in the national network which now numbers over 1,100 institutions in 49 states.
- In 2005, NYCC received Legislative Resolutions from both the NYS Assembly and the NYS Senate for “Advancing Campus/Community Partnerships and Civic Engagement.”
Mission
The mission of the New York Campus Compact is to promote active citizenship as an aim of higher education. In a statewide leadership role, NYCC will strengthen the capacity of member institutions to partner with their communities; increase student involvement in academic and co-curricular public service; advance engaged scholarship; and cultivate the knowledge, values, and skills of civic responsibility and democratic participation.
Values
The values of the New York Campus Compact:
- Civic engagement in America's participatory democracy is a fundamental responsibility of higher education.
- Reflective service and community engagement foster the development of individual and institutional citizenship.
- Full and genuine reciprocity between campuses and communities results in mutually beneficial relationships
- The diverse individual student, institutional, and community voices all contribute to a participatory democracy.
Goals
The goals of NYCC programs and member services are to:
- Provide resources to aid institutional members in the achievement of their public service goals
- Facilitate collaboration within and among New York higher education institutions and to promote partnerships across communities
- Encourage the integration of community service with academic study
- Strengthen institutional public service efforts in responding to specific local and state needs
- Foster the development and dissemination of innovative curricula, theories, research and best practices in public service among member institutions
- Recognize accomplishments of institutions, faculty, and students in the area of public service
- Promote research and evaluation on the value of public service programs in both enhancing student learning and meeting community needs
- Serve as a clearinghouse of information on higher education institutions' public service programs in New York, in the US, and globally.
- Leverage funding from state, federal, and corporate sources and provide subgrants to member institutions
- Foster a culture of engagement and civic responsibility among affiliated higher education institutions
