Faculty Collaboration Brochure

At the Center for Social Concerns, we seek to encourage civic participation through pedagogy and scholarship.

The faculty is central to this endeavor. We aim to assist faculty members in applying their expertise to fulfill the University's civic mission through both teaching and research. And we invite them to assist us in helping students develop a complex understanding of social issues.

The Center offers faculty an award and mini-grants to support community-based research and course development grants to put toward the creation of community-based learning classes. Consultations, workshops, and modest funds for conference attendance and resources related to community engagement are also available.

The Faculty Fellows program gives selected faculty members the opportunity to conduct a project of interest to them that also serves the Center's mission. Occasionally the Center sponsors faculty immersion experiences in the U.S. or in a developing country.

Faculty offer the Center expertise in many ways, including reflection sessions with students who have participated in semester break and summer immersion seminars, consultations with students traveling overseas for summer service, and advising about Center research.