愿景 and 任务
愿景
The CCE seeks to advance the public purpose of liberal arts education.
任务
In collaboration with faculty, 工作人员, and communities beyond the campus, we co-create community-engaged learning experiences to develop students into engaged citizens who invest their liberal arts education in the public good.
核心定义
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Community Engagement: Collaborative efforts to invest in the common good, contributing to the quality of life and shared 民主 futures of communities within and beyond campus.
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Community-Engaged Learning (CEL): Education that simultaneously and equitably promotes student learning and addresses community needs.
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Community-Engaged Re搜索 (CER): Re搜索 that invests the pursuit of knowledge in the public good. Co-created by academics and communities impacted by the issue or practitioners, this re搜索 aims to produce actionable knowledge - that which leads to desired social change.
核心价值观
公民身份
We work to cultivate a sense of shared responsibility for addressing collective problems and realizing collective visions, recognizing that we each have a stake in one another's futures.
实体
We seek to root students' knowledge and community-engaged experiences in the communities, 环境, and contexts that we inhabit.
只是
We commit to equitable and inclusive practices in our work that embody the diverse, 民主 societies we aspire to build.
共同创造的
We use a co-creative political approach to build partnerships with communities impacted by the issues on which we work - sharing voice, 权力, 决策, and meaning-making in every phase.
关系
We build and strengthen communities by centering relationship-building rooted in a framework of trust, 真实性, 和诚实.
Collective Impact
We believe that collective action of diverse stakeholders is the most sustainable, 民主, and impactful form of engagement.
基于资产的
We believe all stakeholders in campus/community partnerships bring assets and strengths to bear on shared goals, and we honor knowledge, 技术, and perspectives both in and outside of academia.
有意的
We cultivate informed, purposeful community engagement in which all people understand the assumptions and consequences of their actions
整体
We engage with students as whole people to impact their intellectual, 个人, and moral development, cultivating life-long commitments and actions
