4abb Southwestern University: OCE: For Community Leaders

Office of Civic Engagement

Campus Connections

The Office of Civic Engagement welcomes partnerships with the outside community. Our goal is to support Southwestern students, staff and faculty in developing meaningful and sustainable partnerships with community nonprofits. 

 
If your organization would like to initiate a partnership with Southwestern University’s Office of Civic Engagement, please complete this form.

 

Southwestern University’s Office of Civic Engagement has a strong history of partnering with a variety of local nonprofit and public agencies; we strive to maintain and improve those collaborations, while also developing new partnerships.

Our students are equally interested in engaging with the community. Over 70% of the student population participates in civic engagement, including community-engaged learning, community-based research, activism, and community service. During the 2011-2012 academic year, 1,042 students spent nearly 48,000 hours performing co-curricular outreach as volunteers and activists.

Southwestern University has earned national acclaim for its civic engagement activities from the Carnegie Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

 

GUIDES TO LOCAL NON-PROFITS & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES

 

Non-Profits and Social Service Agencies: Georgetown Identify Georgetown’s agencies and nonprofits that address key issues. Updated May 2013.

Non-Profits and Social Service Agencies: Greater Austin Area Identify agencies and nonprofits that address key issues in Central Texas. Updated May 2013.

 

SU-COMMUNITY PARTNER RESOURCES

 

Please use the following resources to develop a familiarity with the OCE’s understanding of quality partnerships between SU and community organizations.

Community Partners Lunch & Learn Presentation - Part 1

Community Partners Lunch & Learn Presentation - Part 2

Community Partners Lunch & Learn Presentation - Part 3

Characteristics of Good Partnerships

 

SU-COMMUNITY PARTNER SURVEY 

 

If you have partnered with Southwestern University student volunteers in the past year, please complete this brief evaluation.  We appreciate your feedback and remain dedicated to improving SU-Community partnerships.  

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