Session Purpose and Objectives: - Expand knowledge and understanding of alternate forms of community engagement and student empowerment including evidence-based assessment processes. - Build student, organization, and community capacity by offering democratically-centered learning strategies for change. - Explore power, privilege, and positionality inherent in college and community engagement and identify approaches for rectifying challenges. - Inspire and mobilize action on multiple campuses by highlighting easily adaptable next steps. Abstract: College students at 30 colleges who participated in a semester-long Community Engagement Student Fellowship indicate as a result of the experience enriched academic and professional competencies including expanded knowledge, empathetic understanding, psycho-motor abilities, and leadership skills. Easy to replicate and low-budget activities, assessment, and effectiveness strategies will be presented.

 

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