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Transformative Community Engagement at the Christian University

Explore the imperative of integrating community as partners in learning, teaching, and research at a Christian university, fostering academic maturity, leadership development, and citizenship. Discover how engagement leads to innovation, benefits the university, and uplifts society.

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Transformative Community Engagement at the Christian University

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  1. Community Engagement and the Christian University Carolyn Yauyan Woo Catholic Relief Services CEO and President

  2. Community Engagement • Engaging and integrating community as genuine partners in learning, teaching and research • Three Imperatives • Academic • Community • Spiritual formation

  3. Community Engagement: Academic • More effective learning: • Seeing  knowing; doing learning (Benjamin Franklin: Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn) • Academic Maturity: systems thinking; problem solving • Leadership Development: ownership for problems, social and communication skills, stakeholder engagement • Citizenship Development • Research: Theory  Practice • Innovation: triggered by real problems • University benefits from a healthy eco-system (recruitment of student/faculty, quality of life, talent pool)

  4. Academic Engagement: Campus Compact

  5. Community Engagement: Community • Large pool of talented volunteers • Transfer of knowledge: capacity building • Increased social performance • School performance, youth development, health of children, services for the aged, rural job development, environment • Spawns new business and job development • Retention of talent in local community • Neighborhood transformation • Civil society development: advocacy

  6. Community engagement 2008-12Top ten issues addressed through campus programs

  7. Community Engagement: the spiritual imperative • “Go” (Pope Francis: Go out and engage the world) • Proclaim the GOOD NEWS (BOUNTY and LOVE of God) • See with different eyes: education of HEART and mind • From people to NEIGHBORS; from transactions to relations (I/They We) • CO-CREATION: Our work as participation in God’s creation • “FAITH without WORKS is dead.” • GIVING as an act of THANKSGIVING • WITNESS: they will know that we are Christians by our love • From SERVICE  SOLIDARITY • From SOLIDARITY  SUBSIDIARITY SERVICE  SACRAMENT (God is in the Neighbor; when we give, we give to God)

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