Our Goals
- Support student success, now and in the future, by providing high-impact, experiential learning and civic engagement opportunities.
- Developing and sustaining community partnerships.
- Training and supporting faculty and staff as they implement pedagogies related to experiential learning.
- Determining common interests and/or questions to connect community partners with members of the Kenyon community.
- Engage faculty, students and community representatives as equal partners in developing research assignments connected with everyday life.
- Ensure diversity, equity and inclusion for experiential learning so that all students have access.
- Create a shared sense of place and build environmental literacy through the Rural Life Initiative.
- Report community impact.
Our Values
- Trust
- Reciprocity
- Curricular Enrichment
- Promotion of Civic Responsibility
- High-Impact Practices
Through these core values, the Office for Community Partnerships commits to reinforcing civic responsibility within the context of a liberal arts education. We endeavor to enrich curriculum by exposure and collaborative exchange with community resources and utilization of local knowledge.
Our Work in Community Outreach
Community-Engaged Learning: Course work designed to address specific community needs and/or access community knowledge while providing opportunities for reflection on real-world, hands-on experiences. Independent or course-related research designed to address specific community questions posed by community partners.
Experiential Learning in the Community: The accomplishment of tasks that meet genuine human needs in concert with conscious educational growth. These interactions are connected to a course, research projects, internships or paid employment opportunities.
Civic Engagement: Volunteer activities carried out by individuals, of their own free will, that benefit others and that are not compensated. Individuals are students, faculty and staff who represent the college.