About Engaged Institutions


American colleges and universities are major assets for cities and regions and hold enormous potential to help solve society’s most pressing challenges. Over the past 20 years, there has been a great push for these institutions to be more responsive and engaged in what happens outside their institutional walls. This means being better neighbors by more thoroughly integrating civic engagement within their organizational structures and practices, and their research, teaching, and outreach activities. A key question for advocates for the “engaged institution” is: how can we produce this sort of deep organizational transformation?
 
Funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Engaged Institutions project seeks to provide answers to this question. PolicyLink, a national research and action institute based in Oakland, California, is the national evaluator of the project and the developer and maintainer of this website. Read More

 

 

 

Latest News

  • A recently published book, Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship, edited by three Park University faculty brings together a collection of work focusing on combining service-learning and Online learning as a teaching method. Read More. (added 7.30.08)
  • The 9th National Outreach Scholarship Conference will take place at Penn State on October 7-9, 2008 to provide an opportunity for critical reflection on the public mission and work of an academic institution—along with the scholarship that underpins this work—and to strengthen institutional support for engagement and public scholarship. (added 7.10.08)
  • California State University, Fresno provided 667,836 hours of community service during the 2007-08 academic year. Totals released today by the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning at Fresno State set the economic impact of the University’s service efforts at an estimated $15.9 million. Read More. (added 7.7.08)
  • For many schools, an increased commitment to community service fits the student body, curriculum, and neighborhood. At colleges and universities across the country, community-based service programs, curricula, and research have grown to titanic proportions over the past decade. Read More. (added 7.1.08)

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