Grant Summary
$270,000 over 49 months to the Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) as a follow-up to its work under an earlier Teagle planning grant. Specifically, this grant will support partnering institutions, Delgado in Louisiana, Kapi’olani in Hawai’i, Kingsborough in New York, Mesa in Arizona, Queensborough in New York, and Raritan Valley in New Jersey, in their efforts to achieve the following objectives: (1) develop 70 courses in the humanities and other fields that build students’ current and future commitment to civic and moral responsibility; (2) develop strategies for students’ continual building of this commitment across curricular and co-curricular programs to degrees and transfer; (3) develop, review, and refine a qualitative rubric-based assessment methodology for campus use and national dissemination; (4) develop, review, implement, and refine a quantitative pre- and post-test methodology for campus use and national dissemination; (5) create communities of faculty, staff, students, and administrators on each of the seven campuses to build program and institutional commitment to civic and moral responsibility; (6) engage in campus, statewide, and national dialogues on curricular and pedagogical reform promoting civic and moral responsibility; (7) leverage additional resources from campus, state, federal, and foundation sources. This project is administered by the Community College National Center for Community Engagement and led by Kapi’olani Community College.