Academic Engagement and Community Partnerships is both an old and now new resource for you and your students.
Experiential Learning at Radford University has undergone a metamorphosis this summer to be able deliver a stronger developmental focus on:
Internships/Community Based Research & Projects/Service & Learning
We are meeting expectations from society for higher education with the new office:
Academic Engagement and Community Partnerships
- Engagement is a comprehensive term that encompasses nearly any purposeful activity or experience (curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular), on or off campus, with faculty, other students, staff, and members of their local and global communities.
- The Carnegie Foundation defines community engagement as follows, “Community engagement describes the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.”
- The current definition used by the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement says it is: “scholarship in the areas of teaching, research, and/or service. It engages faculty in academically relevant work that simultaneously meets campus mission and goals as well as community needs. In essence, it is a broad scholarly agenda that integrates community issues. In this definition, community is broadly defined to include audiences external to the campus that are part of a collaborative process to contribute to the public good.”
Our goal is to stimulate internships and community based learning opportunities for
Radford University faculty and students. If you want to have your students
become
actively engaged in their learning by creating