The Civic Engagement Cluster:
A Case Study of Building Interorganizational Collaboration

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Please respond to the following questions. Feel free to append additional evidence or information to amplify or support your narrative.

1. Commitment to Civic Learning

What does your institution mean by "civic learning"?

What evidence can you supply which demonstrates the institution's commitment to civic learning?

2. Pertinent Cognitive and Affective Outcomes

What outcomes pertinent to civic learning are articulated and pursued for undergraduate learning and personal development?

What aspects of the educational program or of student experience currently aim to strengthen civic learning?

How do you assess the outcomes from these programs?

3. Institutional Change

What does your institution mean by "transformation?"

What institutional changes to strengthen civic learning are envisioned? In what sequence?

What change strategies might be employed to develop and institutionalize the changes? Have you used these strategies before? With what results?

4. Leadership

What relationships do you have with other institutions and organizations that could help us create additional Civic Engagement Clusters?

What experiences, expertise and resources do you have that might position your institution to provide leadership for an additional cluster?

5. Evaluation

How will you evaluate the degree to which these changes improve civic learning?

How will you evaluate the effectiveness of the change processes you employ?

Do you currently participate in the UCLA Cooperative Institutional Research Program? If yes, what kind of prior data do you have? If not, are you willing to participate?

6. Leadership Team

Who are the members of the leadership team?

What is the rationale for this membership?

7. Support

What support will be provided for the team and for the activities called for by cluster participation? (Please indicate the types and amounts of support which will be budgeted for this project.)

8. Institutional commitment

Please close with a statement of commitment and signatures of the President and team members.

Managing Institutional Change and Transformation

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