Civic Capacity for Community and Social Change
Increase Number of Engaged Learning Sections Across Disciplines
Improve awareness and support for engaged learning classes ('E' designated) in order to increase the number of faculty teaching engaged learning sections. Through integration with the Action Plan: Increase Capacity for Community and Civic Focused Curriculum Across Disciplines, utilize the community of practice model to increase awareness of and resources for E designated courses. Add internships, campus opportunities and community partnerships that can be used for E designated courses to the newly developed repository in Action Plan: Develop and Expand Relationships With Community-Based Organizations and Maintain a Repository.
Plan Lead: Cynthia Kaufman
Plan Timeline
Winter 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2024
Identify resources that can be added to the repository under the Action Plan: Develop and Expand Relationships With Community-Based Organizations
Develop talking points and presentation materials that clearly define what an E designated course is and why the work is connected to community and civic work.
Identify faculty already teaching E designated courses and invite them to be a part of the community of practice.
Work with administration to have E classes transcriptable with "Community Engaged Scholar" designation for students who do 3 or more E classes, and work on "De Anza Certificate" that included the requirement of an E class.
Winter 2025
Add resources for Engaged learning to the Canvas Module developed under Action Plan: Increase Capacity for Community and Civic Focused Curriculum Across Disciplines
Work with Admissions and Records to develop a mechanism for "Community Engaged Scholar" designation to be on student transcripts, possibly as a badge.
Train faculty in the community of practice on how to make their classes eligible for the Environmental Sustainability and Global Citizenship requirement.
Have the campus assess how it is meeting its core competency in Civic Capacity by doing a survey
Build support with deans for faculty to do Engaged Learning Classes
Develop community of practice
Spring 2025
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Continue to work with Admissions and Records to develop a mechanism for "Community Engaged Scholar" designation to be on student transcripts, possibly as a badge.
Fall 2025
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Continue to work with Admissions and Records to develop a mechanism for "Community Engaged Scholar" designation to be on student transcripts, possibly as a badge.
Winter 2026
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Spring 2026
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Fall 2026
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Winter 2027
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Spring 2027
Continue to offer training through the communities of practice and add to the existing repositories.
Fall 2027
Evaluate the number of E designated courses offered across campus, if there is any change as a result of the action plan.