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Shared Gold: Mapping Of Community Engagement, Brian Gogan, Jennifer Harrison
Shared Gold: Mapping Of Community Engagement, Brian Gogan, Jennifer Harrison
Academic Leadership Academy
Engaged universities and communities are a key focus for meaningful social transformation and addressing complex educational issues including access, research ethics, and business development (Cherrington et al., 2018).
Universities throughout the nation are called not only to serve their academic community, but also the communities in which they are situated. In fact, ongoing revisions to the Higher Learning Commission’s accreditation criteria suggest that community engagement will serve as a primary means by which institutions of higher education will demonstrate their publicly oriented missions and fulfill accreditation criterion number one (Higher Learning Commission, 2018).
Community engagement can be defined as “the …
Community Encounter, Linda C. Reeser
Community Encounter, Linda C. Reeser
Academic Leadership Academy
The purpose of this project is to inform more students about the baccalaureate social work degree and the possibility of a career in social work and also to provide students with an educational opportunity before they decide on or embark upon a career, to get a greater appreciation of the realities and hardships some people face in living and surviving (e.g. poverty, homelessness, immigration). This project will potentially increase student interest in a social work/human service career. The methods used will be discussion with students in their classes and at a reception and offering students a community experience for two …