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Our aim in strategic planning is to deepen the CCE's effectiveness in advancing 科罗拉多大学's strategic plan, titled "Building on the Block." We sought to determine 如何 the CCE can support the community engagement and engaged 学习 that best advances core goals of the college.
科罗拉多大学's commitment to developing our students into lifelong engaged citizens is nothing new, 反映在我们的 任务 to "develop habits of 智力 and imagination that will prepare students for 学习 and leadership throughout their lives,而核心 制度价值 to "encourage engagement and social responsibility at local, national, and global levels." Through supporting place-based action, 学习, 以及研究机会, the CCE embodies this commitment by challenging students to apply the spirit, 智力, and imagination developed through a liberal arts education toward solving public problems. 然而, 如何 we as a college realize that commitment - and more specifically 如何 the CCE builds capacity and coherency to that commitment - calls for renewed investment and strategic direction.
Community-engaged学习, 研究, and practice can powerfully support the recommendations of CC's strategic plan to "realize the potential of our ground-breaking Block Plan," "enhance our distinctive place of 学习," and "connect the CC experience."
By educating the CC community about the challenges for and priorities of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region, community engagement develops a "sense of place" and understanding not only of the physical world in which CC is situated, but the communities in which we are embedded. Through programming that helps connect "students' 学习 experience across coursework, and across curricular and co-curricular experiences," community-based 学习 helps students discern the intersections between their engaged experiences and their 智力ual and moral development as college students. Such experiences bridge students' college years and their post-CC lives and allow exploration in career pathways in public good fields. Re搜索 also s如何s that community-based 学习 develops skills in students to more effectively navigate diversity and build inclusive spaces. Community-based 研究 contributes to CC's overarching strategic aim to develop a spirit of innovation in our students, cultivating knowledge and skills that enable students to "produce real-world answers to complex questions" and become "change-makers" in social and environmental realms. By promoting the use and best practices of community-based 学习 and 研究 among faculty, the CCE builds on the assets of the block: immersive, 经验, 以及应用学习.
The CCE's planning processes aimed to deepen the intentionality and outcomes of community-engaged work at 科罗拉多大学 toward realizing these components of the CC educational 任务 and strategic plan. Conceptualizing our work as supporting the central 任务 and priorities of the college, and remaining true to our work as a "collaborative," we sought to democratically form this plan by soliciting input from communities on and off campus.
This plan reflects the core concerns and priorities of the campus community, is rooted in the core concerns and priorities of 科罗拉多大学 as an institution, and will be realized through our support of work across the campus.