Center for Community Engagement

"Student learning through community impact"

We serve as the central connecting, training, organizing, and educating unit for community-engaged students, faculty, and partners.

We build reciprocal relationships with community partner organizations that leverage institutional and community resources to solve pressing challenges in our community through capacity-building efforts.

We prepare students to lead lives of significance by aligning their academic and career interests with community needs.

We instill the value of informed and engaged citizenship that prepares our students to be lifelong agents of social change in their local and global communities.

We recognize that our mission cannot be realized without an unapologetic and consistent focus on the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice.

Community Engagement – Any collaborative activities between University faculty, staff, and students and partners in our larger communities that promote the reciprocal and mutually-beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources.

Community-Engaged Learning – An educational approach that equally supports student learning while meeting the needs of the community.

Community-Engaged Research – The collaborative pursuit of knowledge between academics and community partners that advances the public good by generating actionable findings that drive meaningful social change.