Who Benefits

Institutional Leadership

Promote your institution’s profile as an engaged institution
Develop and deliver key strategic messages that reinforce institutional priorities
Build an environment that contributes to the success of students and faculty
Create and maintain rigorous and innovative academic programs that attract strong students and faculty

Maintain accurate and comprehensive data on community engagement and public service activities across the institution
Provide evidence of community engagement as a high-impact practice
Publicly promote your college or university’s profile as an engaged institution
Build an environment that contributes to the success of students and faculty
Strengthen and support grant requests, annual reports, accreditations, and recognitions (e.g., Carnegie Community Engagement Classification)

Faculty Members

Utilize a simple, straightforward process to document and present scholarly artifacts of community-engaged teaching and research
Easily collect and share all of your community engagement and public service activities in one place
Increase the visibility of your community-focused activities and courses
Connect with and learn from faculty doing similar work — on your own campus, in your community, and across the globe

Community Members

Find higher education faculty and staff, experienced in specific disciplines and impact areas
Be identified with the institution for collaborative projects, sharing related data with your funders, board and clients
Contribute to conversations that develop community-campus partnerships

Students

Unit Administrators

Document the full scope of service-learning and other community-based courses (practica, clinical placements, teacher placements, etc.) across your College/School
Quickly review and run aggregate reports on the public service and community engagement activities of your faculty and staff
Promote community engagement as a legitimate and valued form of academic work
Be prepared to pursue funding requests to grow and sustain academic and scholarship programs
Use data to promote the reputation/ranking of your College/School amongst prospective students and faculty/staff as well as academic colleagues

Trustees and Regents

Showcase your institution’s impact by sharing examples of community-university activities through multiple communication channels
Build awareness of, and affinity and support for, your institution
Leverage data for strategic messaging and communication to reinforce key institutional messages

Create a sustained, systematic process for reporting data that supports institutional accreditation
Respond to requests for reports using reliable, current data
Contribute quality data to strategic decision-making

Advancement/Development

Use data to match internal initiatives with interests of donors
Leverage data for strategic messaging and communications to reinforce key institutional messages

Alumni Relations

Connect your alumni with institutional initiatives directly related to their interests
Demonstrate the growing value of the institution and its alignment with alumni goals, values, and interests
Encourage your alumni to invest in the institution

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