Programs like AmeriCorps, which provide students with community-service fellowships linked to financial assistance, offer a welcoming environment in which low-income students can explore their civic identity, find mentors, and build community with others from similar...
AMP Grants are offered to previous BT2P awardees to amplify, disseminate, and extend the public reach of their earlier, grant-supported work. This project, which drew on a 2014 BT2P seminar grant, involved the creation of briefs for the Scholars Strategy Network...
The core curriculum at Rhodes College exposes students to a course sequence that explores history and culture through an interdisciplinary lens. Rhodes also has a tradition of engaging students in the community in order to connect their academics with civic and...
With support from a BT2P Psychosocial Well-Being Grant, this project examined the impact of participation in a (science-oriented) Living-Learning Community on students’ well-being and college adjustment throughout their first year of college. Surveying students, the...
With support from a BT2P Program Start-Up Grant, Towson University undertook a small-scale study of the effect of service-learning on students’ personal, academic, and civic development. In a single service-learning course, it documented outcomes in civic...
With a grant from Bringing Theory to Practice, Otterbein University institutionalized “The Five Cardinal Experiences,” a suite of learning opportunities that provide innovative, integrated, and community-based education for students and support their civic and...
The University of Nebraska, the state’s flagship university, has used multiple grants from Bringing Theory to Practice to deepen its commitment to both civic engagement and equity and inclusion. In 2008, it launched a Center for Civic Engagement, building on UNL’s...
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College (CSTCC) received a BT2P Campus Dialogue grant in 2016 in support of efforts to grow a more inclusive and safe community. The grant proposal highlighted regional disturbances, particularly racist and ethnophobic...
Funded by a Multi-Institutional Innovation Grant, this project represents an innovative effort to institutionalize civic engagement pathways between California community colleges and California State University campuses. It builds on existing connections between two...
Bay Path University–whose undergraduate programs serve traditional and adult women students—launched a new curricular program, the Women as Empowered Learners and Leaders (WELL) Program with support from a BT2P Program Development Grant. WELL recast the core...
