featuring Thomas Schnaubelt, Executive Director, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University Dr. Schnaubelt will draw from his professional experience in three different parts of the United States (the Deep South, the Upper Midwest, and California) over the past two decades to share some reflections and observations. He will share thoughts about why context matters: how our work has evolved in general, how local/regional cultures shape the relationship between campuses and communities, and how our work with students changes over time and place. He will also consider what these deep connections might look like in the future.

1. Weaving Deep Connections Between
Campuses and Communities:
Reflections and Projections
Across Time and Place
Loras College
May 29, 2013
2013 UPPER MIDWEST
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT SUMMIT

2. One sentence: What is the
most important thing
that higher education institutions
must do?
One sentence: What is your role in
accomplishing that important thing?

3. - Photo by George Steinmetz, National Geographic (2008)

4. “I‟ve never been able to
disassociate people or
stories from their settings,
the „background‟. If
character is destiny, so
too, I believe, is terrain.”
David McCullough,
Brave Companions

5. University of Michigan – Alternative Spring Break
Saguaro National Monument (1994)

6. University of Southern Mississippi
Office of Community Service Learning
(1997)

8. Mission: inspire Stanford to
realize a just and sustainable
world through service,
scholarship, and
community partnerships.

9. Civic Engagement Infrastructure at Stanford
 Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
 Center on Ethics in Society
 Center for Innovation in Global Health
 Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society
 Center for Social Innovation
 Design School (d.School)
 John Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
 Haas Center for Public Service
 Levin Center for Public Interest Law
 Office of Community Health
 Office of Religious Life
 Office of Science Outreach
 Program on Urban Studies
 Stanford Alumni Association (Beyond the Farm)
 Stanford Athletics (Cardinal For Community)
 Vice Provost for Graduate Education
 Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
 ~130 Student Service Organizations/Clubs

10. Public
Service
Pathways
Activism/Communi
ty Organizing
Community-
Engaged
Scholarship
Direct Service
Philanthropy
Public
Policy/Politics
Social
Entrepreneurism
Principles of Ethical and
Effective Service
1. Reciprocity through Partnership
2. Humility
3. Respect for Diversity
4. Commitment
5. Ongoing Communication/Clear Expectations
6. Preparation
7. Context
8. Participatory Pedagogy
Civic Leadership Competencies
1. Knowledge
2. Skills
3. Values and Self Awareness
4. Community and Cultural Awareness
5. Public Action
Haas Center Basics

11. Civic Engagement in Postsecondary Education
AACU Bringing Theory to Practice
AASCU American Democracy Project
American Commonwealth Partnership
Ashoka U
Bonner Foundation
Campus Community Partnership Foundation
Campus Compact
Campus Kitchens Project
CIRCLE
CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Constitution Day
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
Democracy U
Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)
Federal Work Study
Higher Education for Development
Imagining America
Interfaith Youth Core
Intl Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy
Kiva U
Mobilize.org
NAACP Civic Engagement Initiative
NASPA Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement
National Service Learning Partnership
President‟s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge
Project Kaleidoscope
Project Pericles
Public Achievement
Public Conversations Project
The Democracy Commitment: An American Community College Initiative
The Democracy Imperative
The Research University Civic Engagement Network
Voter Mobilization Efforts: UVote, Headcount, Rock the Vote,
Countmore.org, Generation Engage, etc.

12. Institutional Matrices
• Ashoka U 360 Scan
• Campus Compact Indicators
• Carnegie Foundation
• CCPH – “Gelman Rubric”
• Committee on institutional Cooperation
• Crucible Moment
• “Furco Rubric”
• HE Network for Community Engagement
• Kellogg Forum

13. Concern for Civil Society
• The US ranked 139th in voter participation of 172 world democracies in 2007.
• Less than one-half of US 12th graders reported studying international topics
as part of civics education.
• Among 14,000 college seniors surveyed in 2006 and 2007, the average score
on a civic literacy exam was just over 50 percent, an “F”.
• Just over one-third of college faculty surveyed in 2007 strongly agreed that
their campus actively promotes awareness of US or global social, political,
and economic issues.
• In 1971 college students ranked the importance of being very well off
financially number 8 in their life goals; but since 1989, they have consistently
placed it at the top of the list.

14. Managing Polarities
Student Development Community Development
Student Affairs Academic Affairs
Institutional Isomorphism Institutional Distinction
Centralized Support Distributed Support
Local Global
Field Movement

15. One sentence: What is the
most important thing
that higher education institutions
must do?
One sentence: What is your role in
accomplishing that important thing?

16. “Education, especially at the higher levels, is based
around powerful models of community. We choose
colleges, if we have a choice, in order to be formed by
them and supported by them in the identities we have or
aspire to. If the graft takes, we consider ourselves ever
after to be members of that community.”
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
WHEN I WAS A CHILD I READ BOOKS

17. Contact Information
Thomas.Schnaubelt@stanford.edu
haas.stanford.edu
www.facebook.com/haascenter
twitter.com/haascenter