Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement

Objectives

Guided by the theme, Journey Towards Democracy: Power, Voice, and the Public Good, the Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement will focus its attention on:

• promoting research through sponsoring scholars whose research is applied to community needs and/or focused on ways to measure civic engagement and social capital;
• linking campuses to communities to advance reciprocal understanding, productive partnerships, and collective civic action;
• providing and supporting leadership to cultivate a new generation of faculty and graduates who are committed to democracy, diversity, and social responsibility;
• providing training and sharing knowledge to expand and deepen commitment to civic engagement in disciplines and departments, and develop interdisciplinary inquiry, active learning, and research,
• creating venues for dialogue to share best practices and learn across differences;
• advocating for liberal education and civic engagement to build public support for education for a world lived in common;
• establishing standards for assessment to measure the impact on students and on community partners of civic engagement activities;
• connecting scholarship to campus practices to improve the outcomes of civic engagement initiatives and enhance connections between curricular and co-curricular experiences.