Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost

Strategic Initiatives

Community Engaged Scholarship at USF

Office of Community Engagement

Dr. Susan Greenbaum, professor of anthropology, has been appointed as the founding director of the newly established Office of Community Engagement at USF.

Service-Learning Resources

On October 30th, 2009 USF sponsored a Day Institute on Engaged Scholarship and Community Redevelopment in cooperation with Florida Campus Compact. Here are copies of the presentations:

• Engaged Universities, Service-Learning and Distressed Urban Communities
• Connecting Academic Service-Learning and Public School Reform to Neighborhood Regeneration
• Integrating Service-Learning into your Syllabus
• Building Reciprocal University-Community Relationships
• Creating Reflections and Final Presentations

Reports

• Community Engagement Task Force Final Report - Executive Summary

Steering Committee

The Steering Committee member list and Community Engagement Portal are now online.

Carnegie University-Community Engagement Classification

On August 31, 2006, USF submitted its application for the elective classification in Community Engagement by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For the full history, please visit the USF Carnegie University-Community Engagement Classification website.

News

• USF Receives Honor Roll with Distinction in the 2007 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

Other Engagement Resources at USF

• In the College of Education, Community Engagement initiatives are an important part of who we are and what we do.
• The USF Collaborative brings together University faculty and students, nationally known researchers, community service organizations and professionals, youth, neighborhood activists, government officials and ordinary moms and dads to build a better Tampa Bay community.