Community Engaged Learning

Community Engaged Learning can be defined as a theoretical and practice-based perspective that is community-centered in its’ approach. Through course concepts and community-engaged service, students will be able to recognize that respect for community knowledge, experience, voices, and perspectives play a major part of putting the power in the hands of the community. The goal of Community Engaged Learning is to foster equitable and reciprocal relationships with a focus on supporting specific communities while enhancing the learning experience of the students involved, and better supporting our community partners. Students and faculty will work with communities in order to provide the support they need, while also developing a deeper understanding of that specific community.

As a Catholic, Vincentian, Metropolitan, and Global university, our students serve our communities in a specific way: the Vincentian way. We put the communities at the center, while always entering conversations with the notion that our focus is on the greater good and overall support of the community's goals. As a Vincentian university we focus our support on the communities that are in dire need: the poor, the sick, the hungry, the homeless. Through grace, compassion, and collaboration, our students and faculty will better serve our community partners' needs.