PURPOSEFUL PARTNERSHIPS: COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, & COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY
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2017
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McCunney, W. Dennis
Kermiet, Tara
Howard, Lauren
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The call for civic engagement has awakened renewed interest in promoting institutional
citizenship, building new campus-community initiatives, and promoting a broad sense of civic
responsibility in higher education. The relationship between the campus and the community is
foundational to civic engagement, and all collaborative activities or projects stem from that
relationship. The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement (https://www.ecu.edu/csstudentaffairs/volunteer/)
(CLCE) at East Carolina University (ECU) partners with nonprofits,
schools or programs in the regional area that provides both services to community members and
also provides service and learning opportunities for ECU students, faculty, and staff. Recently,
the CLCE team made efforts to improve our partnership development process to ensure that
these partnerships are sustainable, strategically focused, and nourished through consistent
communication.