Actualizing a Culture for Community Engagement
The Actualizing a Culture for Community Engagement grant provided our partner institutions with the opportunity to deepen their community engagement efforts by intentionally developing a campus-wide ethos for community engagement. By intentionally designing and implementing holistic community engagement strategies intended to shift the culture, selected institutions were enabled to create authentic reciprocal community-campus partnerships, and leverage their role as a place-based institutions to accelerate systematic change.
The overall goals of the program included:
- Support institutions in the implementation of community engagement strategies intended to shift campus-wide culture.
- Increase the number of authentic (Mitchell, 2008) reciprocal community-campus partnerships designed to further support a culture of community engagement within the institution.
- Support the dissemination of examples of high-quality campus-wide community engagement practices as a means of broadening the field.
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After 2021, the ACCE grant was split into two new grants: Developing an Infrastructure for Critical Comm. Engagement (DICCE), and Expanding Campus-Wide Community Engagement (ECWCE). Visit our current funding page to learn more about each grant.