ACCE Experience


Is your campus ready to Actualize its Culture for Community Engagement (ACCE)? Are you looking for custom assistance to identify how to get your campus there? If so, then the ACCE Experience is what you’ve been looking for!

Designed to fit your schedule, and open to Indiana Campus Compact partner institutions, this unique cross-campus experience provides participating institutions with the opportunity to begin the process of examining their community engagement efforts across campus, and to identify focus areas where they will work to shift their campus culture for community engagement.

For more information, contact Laura Weaver, Director of Professional Development and Engaged Learning at laura@ incampuscompact.org or schedule a time to connect.

What does the ACCE Experience Include?

The ACCE Experience Includes

  • engaging a cross-campus team in strategic planning
  • multiple planning calls with Indiana Campus Compact staff
  • a day-long (in person) or multiple 2 to 3 hour (virtual) facilitated strategic planning sessions
  • multiple post-retreat consultations
  • resources designed to guide participants through the planning process and into implementation

Which topics does the ACCE Experience help me explore?

Community Engagement Self-Assessment Topics

  • the campus’ internal culture and external identity
  • the campus’ overall fiscal operation, administrative structure, and operational policies
  • the campus’ identified goals and outcomes
  • campus’ academic curriculum
  • campus’ student life and development
  • collaboration across academic and non-academic units
  • the campus’ research and scholarship pursuits
  • the campus’ stakeholder activities
  • campus personnel decision making policies
  • the campus’ development of authentic and reciprocal community partnerships efforts to track, monitor, and assess the campus’ initiatives

What do I do next?

If this sounds like something your institution would be interested in, simply complete the ACCE Experience Interest Form in our secure Engagement Portal. In order to complete the form, you must first create a profile in the Engagement Portal.

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