OUR MISSION
Service-Learning is a teaching and learning method that integrates critical reflection and meaningful service in the community with academic learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility.
Civic responsibility means active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good (American Association of Community Colleges [AACC]).
Community engagement is the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Community engagement: Enhances curriculum, teaching and learning, prepares educated, engaged citizens, strengthens democratic values and civic responsibility, addresses critical societal issues, and contributes to the public good. (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.)
Civic engagement: Active citizens seek to build, sustain, reform, and improve the communities to which they belong, which range from small voluntary associations to the world. Active citizens deliberate with peers to define public problems and then collaborate with peers to address those problems. In doing so, they honor certain virtues, such as equal respect for others and a degree of loyalty to their communities that does not preclude critical thinking and dissent.
Collaboration—actual work—is just as important as deliberation. (Peter Levine, 2013)
Public Service includes activities which normally occur outside the college and are related to the faculty member’s professional status.
These activities include:
Civic responsibility means active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good (American Association of Community Colleges [AACC]).
Community engagement is the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Community engagement: Enhances curriculum, teaching and learning, prepares educated, engaged citizens, strengthens democratic values and civic responsibility, addresses critical societal issues, and contributes to the public good. (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.)
Civic engagement: Active citizens seek to build, sustain, reform, and improve the communities to which they belong, which range from small voluntary associations to the world. Active citizens deliberate with peers to define public problems and then collaborate with peers to address those problems. In doing so, they honor certain virtues, such as equal respect for others and a degree of loyalty to their communities that does not preclude critical thinking and dissent.
Collaboration—actual work—is just as important as deliberation. (Peter Levine, 2013)
Public Service includes activities which normally occur outside the college and are related to the faculty member’s professional status.
These activities include:
- Consulting
- Making speeches to public groups
- Playing a leadership role in public organizations
- Conducting on-campus conferences and workshops for the benefit of the community at-large
- Writing for non-academic publications
- Providing expert testimony
- Providing expert technical assistance to Federal, State, or county agencies
- Other related activities that serve the public.
THE VISION
"To transcend the traditional walls of higher education to strengthen academic learning and the communities we serve."
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