Case Volunteers Garden during
Case for Community Day
About Us
The Center for Community Partnerships contributes to Case Western Reserve University's goal of becoming the world's most powerful learning environment through the creation of mutually beneficial, academically focused partnerships--on and off campus--that will enhance the university and the community.
This academically focused community engagement strategy aligns our core mission--the production of knowledge and the creation of a transformational educational experience for our students--with our desire to remain a significant community resource.
The Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) will utilize the strategy of "Academically Centered Community Engagement" (ACCE) as a central focus of our outreach and community relations activities. Academically focused community engagement requires all of our community relations efforts to align with our core mission as a premier research educational institution--the production of knowledge and the creation of a transformational educational experience for our students. This enables the Center to become a significant resource to the campus and to the broader community by linking our community relations efforts to the achievement of the University's vision of becoming the "most powerful learning environment in the world."
ACCE supports the three vision areas of Institutional Culture and Values, Campus Environment, and Resources by:
- Supporting new areas of emphasis, e.g., developing partnerships in Cleveland, empowering our faculty, staff, students and alumni to take a more active role in Greater Cleveland, promoting diversity through our community engagement efforts, and creating efficiency through the sharing of University resources among our community outreach programs, etc;
- Forging new partnerships with University Circle institutions and participating in or assisting in the development of new programs in conjunction with Circle institutions; and
- Drawing upon the Greater Cleveland community and its resources to enhance our curricular offerings, and promoting our community engagement efforts locally to enable greater access to our programs by the broader community.
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