Nicole Springer serves as the director of institutional capacity building at Campus Compact. In her role, she provides leadership for member campuses around tracking and assessing the impact of community-engaged scholarship, strategic implementation of community/civic engagement to foster development of an “engaged institution”, and facilitating a national community of scholars and leaders committed to this work. Before starting at Campus Compact in 2018, Nicole was the associate director for the Center for Community Engaged Learning at Michigan State University. During her time in the field of community-engaged scholarship, she has focused her efforts on practitioner-scholar professional development, curriculum creation, and equity-based assessment/evaluation. Most recently, Nicole accepted the role of Editor-In-Chief for the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning. In connection with her work in community-engaged scholarship, she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education program through the College of Education at Michigan State University. Her dissertation focuses on how the lived experiences of students of color influences their civic learning in service-learning courses. The institutionalization of service-learning brought a focus on diversity education by using the community as a laboratory. Most community engaged learning was and often continues to be white students going out into communities of color to do service. Many civic learning outcomes were built on this model of charity. She uses both survey responses and focus groups to critique an assessment instrument by employing a Critical Race Theory lens.