Initiatives
Engaged Colleges / Departments: The Center supports substantial curricular transformation, partnership development, faculty development, and scholarship at the College and Department level through intensive multi-year efforts to institutionalize community-engaged teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Curricular transformation: The Center works with faculty cohorts to integrate service-learning developmentally across course sequences and to develop a variety of community-engaged curricular pathways.
Civically Engaged Scholars: The Center facilitates collaborative scholarship, leadership, and mentoring opportunities within a learning community of experienced service-learning faculty.
Engaged Graduate Education: The Center collaborates with the Graduate School and with faculty and graduate students across the university to enhance graduate education with professional development opportunities for community-engaged teaching, learning, and scholarship.
Engaged Undergraduate Scholarship: The Center brings experienced students and faculty mentors together with community members locally, across the state, and internationally to develop customized integrative engagement projects, with accompanying curricula and reflection strategies. Collaboration with the University Honors Program; the Office of Undergraduate Research; and the Shelton Leadership Center facilitates developmentally-structured scholarship and leadership opportunities and generates new models for use across campus.
International service-learning: The Center collaborates with the Office of International Affairs; the Study Abroad Office; the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service; and other programs and individual faculty and students to develop enhanced opportunities for community-engaged international education.
K-20 collaboration: The Center supports the integration of service-learning into K-12 curricula through professional development for in-service and pre-service teachers and adaptation of models for use with youth, in collaboration with local schools, the College of Education, the Shelton Leadership Center, and the Kenan Fellows Program.
Research: The Center generates collaborative scholarship related to teaching and learning, curricular transformation, critical thinking, and partnership development through a multi-pronged research agenda that involves students and faculty from a range of disciplines and an inter-institutional network of campuses.