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National Women’s Studies Association
http://www.nwsa.org
Established in 1977, the National Women’s Studies
Association (NWSA) is a professional organization
dedicated to leading the fields of women’s studies
and gender studies, as well as their teaching, learning,
research, and service wherever they be may found.
NWSA members actively pursue a just world in which
all persons can develop to their fullest potential—one
free from ideologies, structures, or systems of privilege
that oppress or exploit some for the advantage of others.
NWSA is committed to a vision of education and
scholarship that includes faculty, students, centers, other
campus organizations, and community scholars, and the
association serves its members through publications,
meetings, professional development activities, and
support for scholarship that transforms knowledge of
women and puts that knowledge into practice.
Offce of Civic Engagement, Rutgers University–
Camden
http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/about-us/
community-outreach
The goal of the Offce of Civic Engagement at Rutgers–
Camden is to develop strategies for integrating civic
engagement into every aspect of Rutgers–Camden
campus life—teaching, research, and the student
experience—by building effective partnerships with
public and private entities working to improve Camden
and the region. The Offce of Civic Engagement supports
faculty and curricular development, student learning
through engagement, and the creation and improvement
of sustained partnerships to advance Rutgers–Camden’s
mission to serve the public interest.
Offce of Intercultural Education, Wellesley College
http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanStudent/Diversity/
intercultural.html
The Offce of Intercultural Education (OIC) is charged
with educating students for national and global citizenship
through an integrated cocurricular program of intercultural
education that equips students with the awareness,
knowledge and skills they will need for leadership and
life in a diverse and interdependent world. OIC works in
partnership with the associate provost, academic director
of diversity and inclusion, the director of employment,
faculty, staff, and students on intercultural programming.
The Offce has responsibility for the development
and leadership of intercultural activities, trainings,
and programs that educate and promote awareness,
understanding, and appreciation of diversity and
inclusion on campus as well as for increasing multicultural
competency throughout the campus community.
Offce for Public Engagement, University of
Minnesota
http://engagement.umn.edu
Public engagement at the University of Minnesota is
the partnership of university knowledge and resources
with those of the public and private sectors in order
to enrich scholarship, research, and creative activity;
enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepare
educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values
and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues;
and contribute to the public good. The university’s
engagement work is facilitated across more than two
hundred public engagement units and centers across
the system’s five campuses. Along with addressing
important and challenging societal issues (domestically
and internationally), public engagement enhances the
university’s capacity to conduct rigorous, significant
research that benefits society and to offer its students
a broad array of meaningful and transformational
community-based learning experiences. The offce
is home to the International Center for Research
on Community Engagement, which is composed of
international research collaboratives that examine a broad
range of issues pertaining to community engagement in
primary, secondary, and higher education.
Offce of Service-Learning, Duquesne University
http://www.duq.edu/service-learning
Duquesne University’s Offce of Service-Learning (OSL)
supports faculty, students, and partners involved in
community-based learning. It also supports academic
facets of community-university partnerships. Because of
its emphasis on students’ civic development; promotion of
critical reflection; and sustained, reciprocal partnerships,
the OSL is recognized as a significant organizer of the
university’s community engagement mission. The OSL
is responsible for the administration of the community
engagement scholars program and the Gaultier Faculty
Fellowship. At Duquesne, service learning is embedded
in existing courses throughout degree programs. It is a
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