• Promoting Research through sponsoring scholars whose research is applied to community needs and/or focused on ways to measure civic engagement and social capital.
• Linking Campuses to communities to advance reciprocal understanding, productive partnerships, and collective civic action.
• Providing and Supporting Leadership to cultivate a new generation of faculty and graduates who are committed to democracy, diversity, and social responsibility.
• Providing Training and Knowledge sharing to expand and deepen commitment to civic engagement in disciplines and departments, and develop interdisciplinary inquiry, active learning, and research.
• Creating Venues for Dialogue to share best practices and learn across differences.
• Establishing Standards for Assessment to measure the impact on students and on community partners of civic engagement activities.
• Connecting Scholarship to campus practices to improve the outcomes of civic engagement initiatives and enhance connections between curricular and co-curricular experiences.

Possible Indicators and Strategies

• Mission and purpose
• Administrative and academic leadership
• External resource allocation
• Disciplines, departments, and interdisciplinary work
• Faculty roles and rewards
• Internal resource allocation
• Community voice enabling mechanisms
• Faculty development
• Integrated and complementary community service activities
• Forums for fostering public dialogue
• Student voice

 Adapted from Hollander, Saltmarsh, & Zlotkowski.
"Indicators of Engagement," in Simon, Kenny, Brabeck, & Lerner, eds. Learning to Serve:
Promoting Civil Society Through Service-Learning. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.