The Evergreen State College Civic Action Plan
September 25, 2018
Action items to implement Campus Civic Action and Community Based Learning:
- Collect information to promote existing civic action community partnerships
- Investigate how to position College to apply for Carnegie Engaged Campus Classification
- Support curricular commitments to community partnerships, CCBLA and public service in the Academic division
- Align Campus Civic Action Plan with Equity and Inclusion commitments
- Integrate Community Based Learning into the Learning and Teaching Commons (LTC) and faculty training, highlighting Gateways and SOS:CCBLA models
- Monitor and support consistent student preparation to participate in the community
- Adopt a common vocabulary for Community Based Learning (CBL) and unified vision among various College entities and community partners
- Create training and support for student reflection at community organizations
- Increase college level support for community partners that host student participants in community-based learning/internships
- Design and implement internship field supervisor training with CCBLA, faculty, and Internship Office
- Develop mutually respectful criteria for campus-community partnerships
- Obtain periodic feedback from community members educating Evergreen students