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The mission of
the Center for Community Partnerships is to foster mutually
beneficial exchanges among community members, students,
faculty, and staff in order to support educational
outreach initiatives, community-based research and
learning, and other community engagement activities.
On campus,
the experiences, ideas, and new perspectives that emerge
from college-community connections can expand the
classroom; enhance critical thinking; encourage students
to view themselves as change agents; develop student
leadership; support the recruitment and retention of
diverse students, faculty, and staff; establish
mentoring networks among diverse individuals; and help
students refine the values and skills that will support
lifelong practices of social responsibility.
Off campus,
these activities will support the College’s
responsibility and commitment to contribute to the
surrounding communities in which we live and from which
we receive intellectual, academic, and staffing
resources. The Center will
reinforce existing ties and forge new ones between the
College and other community organizations ensuring
dynamic, mutually educational and constructive
partnerships. In doing so, the Center will contribute
to a wider trend to view all people as legitimate
contributors to new knowledge that fosters social
improvement.
“They only are loyal to this college who, departing, bear
their added riches in trust for mankind.” James A. Blaisdell,
4th President, Pomona College
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