ADP offers institutions the unique opportunity to collaborate and deepen their understanding of community engagement. Together, Collaboratory and ADP will provide the tools and resources for participating institutions to build a community of practitioners to help define community engagement and
share effective strategies and approaches, use data to deepen work with community partners and identify the most effective community partnerships and models to address pressing issues in the community, better tell their story qualitatively and quantitatively, provide individual campus and aggregate
evidence of how civic community engagement is operationalized against learning outcomes, identify concrete engagement trends and patterns, be prepared for accreditation and Carnegie applications, and have access to centralized engagement data and reports. Collaboratory is a one-of-a-kind
software that helps higher education understand the landscape of their
engagement - The who, what, where, when, and why of activities designed
with and for their community.
Outcomes
Explore the
slide deck that explains data gleaned from the 2020-2021 cohort. Some highlights include:
- 24 institutions participated
- 2,324 published activities
- 1,808 community engagement / 516 public service
- 412 connected to research / 1,379 connected to teaching
- 2,834 community partners
- 637 course sections
- 57,586 students involved
- 8,117,574 hours contributed by those students
- Total Funding for Engagement and Service: $844,008,740
These institutions have created Collaboratory activities that have a focus on civic engagement:
2021-2022 Cohort Members for Re-Imagining
Campus-Community Partnerships
2020-2021 Cohort Members for Understanding
Engagement in Times of Crisis