社区参与学者计划概述
The Community Engaged Scholar (CES) program develops and supports students' commitment to and capacity for sustained, 通知, 有意识的社区参与. 通过报名参加这个项目，学生们承诺
- Consistently engage in community work throughout their undergraduate careers
- Take an effort to learn from, and apply learning to, those experiences.
All students are eligible to join the Engaged Scholars program through the end of their third semester.
如果你是大三学生, you can petition to be a late addition to the program if you can demonstrate a significant amount of community engagement during your first and second year at CC. This requires a meeting with the Student Engagement Coordinator to map out a plan to finish the 300hr program and learning experiences.
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程序组成概述
成功完成程序, students engage in (and document) the following activities over the course of their time at 科罗拉多大学. Please click on the links to review each program component in more detail.
核心的期望
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- Attend an orientation session to learn more about the program and your definition of community engagement. 提供一次block，在Summit注册.
- Complete roughly 10 hours of community engagement each block. 学生 should enroll in the program in their first year and work towards completion of the 300-hour requirement over the course of their four years at 科罗拉多大学.
- Document engagement activities in a journal-like reflective portfolio in which students respond to brief critical thinking questions when they log experiences.
- 参加由中心举办的8个“变革者”工作坊.
- Attend 1 campus event or talk per year in the program that connects with issues you are passionate about.
- Attend the CCE Senior Symposium in which graduating CCE engaged students gather to share what they've done, 他们学到了什么, 以及他们未来的目标.
- 应用 to graduate with CES distinction (in Summit, spring semester of senior year)
如果履行了这些承诺, graduating students will be eligible to apply for the distinction of "Community Engaged Scholar,以毕业招待会来庆祝 & 毕业偷走了.
社区参与式学习集中
对选修课感兴趣 社区参与学习(CEL)集中? In addition to the core expectations above, students would also complete:
- Attend 4 junior focused capstone Changemaker workshops
- 提交你在CC学习期间的三节课的反思
- Submit a capstone proposal at the end of your junior year
- Attend 4 senior focused capstone Changemaker workshops
- 在CCE高级研讨会上展示你的顶峰
联系Sarah Elsey， selsey@dh865.com，带着问题.
项目的好处
对学生的好处
- Supporting opportunities for engagement experiences to contribute to, 并了解到, what students are learning in and outside of the classroom at CC. 这样做的时候, the program helps community engagement develop into community-based learning experiences.
- Challenging students to deepen their critical understanding of why and how they engage, and aspire to approach the community in increasingly thoughtful and deliberate ways.
- Promoting career preparation through helping students integrate a diverse range of co-curricular experiences into one story, and developing students' ability to articulate their personal commitments, 目标, 和能力.
- CES students looking to further develop their community-engaged learning skills can move into the CEL concentration their spring semester of junior year.
对社会的好处
- Encouraging students to commit to sustained, ongoing engagement.
- Challenging students to deepen their understanding of why and how they engage, and aspire to approach the community in increasingly thoughtful and deliberate ways.
- Developing students' capacity to engage in their communities in meaningful ways.
- Help direct student engagement to meet community-driven needs by providing opportunities to educate students on identified community needs.
书院的利益
- Strengthening the culture of community-engaged learning.
- Complementing and building on the block plan by encouraging a continuous commitment to the community, but allowing for this commitment to take the form of sequential experiences - in which the form of community engagement students participate in may change from block to block.
- Through encouraging students to engage with diverse communities, students develop skills to develop inclusive and equitable communities on and off campus.
- Because this program works to provide a framework to existing campus programming, 它促进和支持其他办事处的工作, facilitating interoffice collaboration and building on a heavily programmed campus.
- The Engagement Portfolio captures student experiences, providing data useful for institutional reporting on: trends in student engagement (including inequities and barriers to engagement), 项目评估, 社区合作伙伴, and other types of data that help us to improve access to and outcomes of engagement experiences.