Office for Community Engagement

Welcome

 

The Office for Community Engagement fosters partnerships through which direction, alignment, and commitment emerge. Our community and university collaborations cultivate mutually beneficial opportunities that employ assets, promote collective ownership and action, generate new knowledge, and resolve community challenges. Through these partnerships, we enhance our capacity to prepare students to shape their lives, their professions, and their societies.

                                         

 

What We're Reading

      

 

What We're Hearing


“I felt like we were a collective group of human persons somehow enriching one another in a way that sort of breaks down the barriers and the distance between prisoner/nonprisoner and student/teacher.” -GVSU Student

“And that’s the goal of college, right? It’s not to just fill you with knowledge and push you out in the world and tell you, ‘Go.’ They gave me the right skills and the right knowledge, helped me to work my schedule, work my experience, and so I just went right into [the world of work].” -GVSU Student

“I knew exactly what I wanted to do. It just clicked. It became ‘not work’ anymore. You go home and at night you are still working on it even when you don’t have to be. It’s not being a workaholic because it’s your passion. You happen to work doing what you’re passionate about.” -GVSU Student 

"As we re-envision education, it's important to be involved in our communities. We can't stand alone. We must be active agents of change in our communities. Our wisdom must take action, be manifest. It benefits all of us. Theory is wonderful, but theory into practice and practice into theory is needed." -GVSU Tenured Faculty Member

"We are already making an impact. But, we have to ramp it up and start doing more together and across disciplines." -GVSU Tenured Faculty Member

 

Page last modified March 21, 2013