The Collaborative for Community Engagement (CCE) launched a strategic planning process in January of 2018 with one core goal - to forge a strengthened vision for how the CCE could cultivate and deepen community-engaged teaching, 研究, and action in ways that advance the mission and strategic plan of the college.

To determine our focus areas and strategies, we sought to co-create our strategic plan democratically with communities on and off-campus. 这样做, the CCE coordinated a Semester of Listening to gather input from stakeholders through town halls, 焦点小组, 面试, collective visioning sessions, 调查数据. We engaged the ideas and visions of around 500 people: faculty, 学生, 工作人员, 社区合作伙伴, 和居民.

Our strategic planning steering committee crafted the core outcomes of this semester, including the CCE's new vision and mission, as well as six aspirational questions that reflect central themes from input sessions. CCE 工作人员 then participated in a Summer of Planning to strategize how our office would realize this shared vision. The following pages elaborate this vision and how we plan to turn ideas into reality. Our vision for crafting a campus-wide community engagement strategic plan was rooted in the national "市民行动计划ning" initiative launched by Campus Compact, a national coalition of over 1,000 colleges and universities committed to the public purpose of higher education. In 2015, the Compact charged member institutions with reinvigorating their public missions by engaging in community work more deliberately, 深思熟虑, 和前后一致地. As a first step, the Compact suggested creating a 市民行动计划 that set goals and identified approaches for how to best leverage campus assets to invest in public goods. We join over 100 colleges and universities across the nation who have responded by writing and implementing such strategic plans.

We invite you to explore our plan and initiatives, and to share with us your feedback and questions as we implement this vision.