To promote the development and enactment of policies that maximize community voice and leadership in all the University’s public engagement efforts.
An engaged institution is one that interacts in a collaborative and equitable way with the community at large. Policies and structures that support community participation and leadership, and facilitate the common mission between the University and the broader society need to be enhanced in order for institutional efforts to be denoted as truly “publicly engaged”. The University has a myriad of individual programs, outreach opportunities, and departments/units that support community partnership and leadership. A systemic culture change and new opportunities, while being individualized for each campus, needs to be created and institutionalized.
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