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For Senior Engagement Officers

Justify the investment

You hold the budget line for community engagement, along with several other portfolios. The NASCE gives you a defensible number for the one that is hardest to quantify, at a price you can see before you call us, and with a demand on your staff measured in days rather than months.

The ask on your office

Four things from you

The reason this is worth your attention is that it does not become a project for your team. Across an eleven-week administration, your office supplies four things.

An agreement

Your enrollment size and the modules you choose. That sets the price.

A customization form

Your majors, your engagement opportunities, and any student incentive you want to offer.

A student email list

Addresses and preferred first names. We send every invitation and reminder.

The fourth is your sign-off on the finished survey. SPARC builds the instrument, fields it, cleans the data, scores it, benchmarks it, and presents the results to your team.

What the money buys

A number you can put in front of anyone

Community engagement is usually argued with anecdotes and hour counts. The NASCE returns a single institutional POP score, placed against a national dataset built since 2009, plus the eight areas beneath it that show you exactly where the work is thin.

91,792Student responses nationally
91Institutions
28States
8Areas of need scored
Where it earns its keep

The uses that pay for it

Carnegie classification
Institutions have used NASCE data to support Carnegie Elective Classification applications and to build Campus Compact civic action plans. The evidence requirement is the part most applications struggle with.
Accreditation and reporting
A scored, externally benchmarked measure of a mission commitment, rather than a narrative account of it.
Strategic planning
A baseline you can set goals against, then re-measure on a cycle to show movement over time.
Resource allocation
Area-level scores show which of the eight areas are strong and which are thin, so investment goes where it changes the number.
Board and cabinet reporting
One figure, one national comparison, and a tier your board understands without a methodology briefing.
Budget certainty

The price is published

You can build next year's budget without a discovery call. Pricing is set by undergraduate enrollment and the number of modules, and every tier includes the full reporting package and the national benchmark.

From $2,500  per administration
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Defending the decision

What to hand your president

Most of our conversations at this level end with a version of the same question: what do I show the person above me? The reporting package is built for that.

  • A presentation of your data, delivered and walked through with your team.
  • Your institutional POP score and its tier, with the national comparison beside it.
  • An infographic that can go into a board packet without redesign.
  • The full report with appendices for anyone who wants the detail.
  • Frequencies and crosstabulations for your institutional research office.
See the reporting package
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Tell us your enrollment and your academic calendar, and we will map an administration to it.

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