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The Civic Engagement Center educates students on issues related to global citizenship, assisting them with their personal discernment of values, ethics, and commitments towards contributing to the public good in meaningful ways. The Center works with the community in a spirit of respectful reciprocity and partnership. We connect the resources of the college with community needs and strengths from a commitment to institutional citizenship and to reinforce the capacity of local communities.
We believe that civic engagement enhances students' understanding of issues of public concern, as well as their academic and civic development for a life of public contribution. Service to society is part of the mission of Macalester College and thus part of an institutional goal to educate thoughtful and contributing global citizens.
- promotes the
ethic and practice of civic engagement
throughout campus
- fosters mutually
beneficial campus and community
partnerships in such areas as direct service, social action, research,
political engagement and community organizing
- provides
opportunities to learn about issues of
social concern through service, trainings, speakers and discussion
- supports faculty
in academic civic engagement,
including action research, service-learning and community based projects
- offers
assistance in locating community
service opportunities and
connecting with local organizations
- facilitates
leadership development programs (Leaders in
Service, Lives
of
Commitment, Off-Campus Student
Employment Program and Bonner Scholars)
- maintains
information on more than 300 local and
national organizations and on the Twin Cities
- employs 14 students
who initiate educational programming on issues of social concern and
facilitate community relationships
- is a member of Minnesota
Campus Compact
and the college is a charter member of Project
Pericles.
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