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Committee on Community-Engaged Learning at Brandeis University

CEL Committee Mission Statement

The Committee on Community-Engaged Learning supports and helps coordinate curricular and co-curricular efforts to link Brandeis University and diverse community, governmental, educational, cultural and social service agencies beyond the campus. The committee seeks to:

1. integrate the university's teaching and social justice missions, with an emphasis on serving and collaborating with the communities of Waltham and the Greater Boston region;

2. increase awareness among the university's students, faculty, and staff of opportunities for academic and volunteer service work in communities;

3. serve as a welcoming gateway for community and civic organizations seeking to develop collaborative and beneficial relationships with university classes and co-curricular initiatives;

4. ensure that university-community partnerships, in and out of the classroom, are sustainable, founded on mutual respect, support community needs, and are consistent with the university's commitments to social justice and intellectual honesty;

5. develop students' capacity to serve as leaders in curricular and co-curricular projects with community partners;

6. document and evaluate the effectiveness of university-community partnerships in meeting community needs, deepening the quality of civic participation, and serving the educational needs of Brandeis students;

7. advise the Dean of Arts and Sciences and Provost on matters related to community-engaged learning and the university's partnerships with the diverse communities of our region.

The committee is comprised of faculty, staff, students and representatives of several local community organizations.

Committee Members for 2007-08 (tentative list)

Faculty:
Mark Auslander, Academic Director of Community-Engaged Learning & chair of the CEL committee (Anthropology; Cultural Production)
Maura Jane Farrelly (Journalism)
Laura Goldin (Environmental Studies)
Jane Hale (Romance Studies)
Carmen Sirianni (Sociology)
Lawrence Bailis (Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School)
Marya Levenson (Education) and Dirck Roosevelt (Education) (alternate years)
Tom Shields

Staff:
Walter Cuenin (Chaplaincy)
Thara Fuller (Academic Coordinator for Experiential Learning)
Rajashree Ghosh ( Women's Studies Research Center)
Diane Hannan (Director, Department of Community Service)
Jessica Paquin (Academic Internships Administrator)
Leigh Swigart (International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life)
Sue Wawrzaszk (Library and Technology Services representative)
Elaine Wong (Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences)

Community Representatives:

• WATCH representative
• Breaking Barriers representative
• Waltham Public Schools representative
• REACH representative
• Middlesex Human Services.
• Others: tba

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