HIPICC MISSION

The Hawaii Pacific Campus Compact, a member of National Campus Compact, is an organization of college and university presidents in the state established to enhance the links between their respective colleges and universities and their local communities. The members of the compact are dedicated to enhancing students' sense of personal and social responsibility, citizenship and awareness of the unique communities and peoples of Hawaii, American Samoa and the Pacific basin, while reinvigorating higher educations concern for improving the quality of life in our society.

INTRODUCTION

Hawai‘i Pacific Islands Campus Compact is a national coalition of college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support this civic mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages collaborative partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research.

INTERGENERATIONAL SOLUTIONS IN ISLAND SOCIETIES - ISIS

Through the Intergenerational Solutions in Island Societies program, HIPICC is pleased to announce that approximately $220,000 is available for campus-based subgrants to support civic engagement and service learning programs in schools and communities in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas for 2006-2007.

The Intergenerational Solutions in Islands Societies program objectives are to:

• Create a P-20 service learning pipeline that will enhance students’ academic learning, their sense of social responsibility, and their civic skills through service-learning;
• Increase the number, quality, and sustainability of opportunities for students to serve by strengthening infrastructure and building capacity within and across the nation’s institutions of higher education;
• Strengthen leadership and instructional capacity of teachers at the elementary, secondary, and post secondary levels, with respect to service learning; and
• To engage participants in meeting the unmet educational, public safety, human, and environmental needs of communities.

Sub-grant funds may be used for the following activities in accordance with the programs approved application and budget:

• To enable institutions of higher education to create or expand service-learning activities for students attending that institution.
• To facilitate the integration of community service into academic curricula, so that students can earn credit for service learning.
• To encourage student-initiated and student-designed community service-learning projects.
• To encourage students to participate in community service activities that will engender a sense of social responsibility and commitment to the community.
• To supplement the funds available to carry out work-study programs to support service-learning and community service through the community service program.
• To strengthen the service infrastructure within institutions of higher education in the United States.
• To provide for the training of teachers, prospective teachers, related education personnel and community leaders in the skills necessary to develop, supervise and organize community service activities. This training will be designed to ensure that the proposed community service activities:
  • Take into consideration the particular needs of a community;
  • Actively involve a major part of the community: and
  • Substantially benefit the community by the proposed community service activities.

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