February 2023:

Prof. Jason Leggett was asked by Provost Joanne Russell to provide leadership and to work closely with Helen Margaret Nasser, Director of the Student Union and Intercultural Center, to develop the Center for Civic Engagement. These centers will be integrated to ensure that we extend the focus of civic engagement to cocurricular activities and experiences that meet the needs of our diverse communities.

They are participating in a Campus Compact Community of Practice: Program Administration: Evaluating best practices to support student-initiated community projects and understanding administrative approaches to student activism. An action plan will be shared in the fall of 2023.

May 2023:

Kingsborough Community College has been accepted to participate in AAC&U’s 2023 Virtual Institute on Engaged and Integrative Learning.

The Institute on Engaged and Integrative Learning (IEIL) provides institutions with time, resources, and support to develop and advance institutional-level efforts for integrative and engaged learning. Teams will explore ways to help students make connections among their experiences on campus and in the community, and to their future lives and careers. Experiential learning can be integrated into all disciplines, across curricular and co-curricular experiences, and should be embedded in the learning experiences for all students. The Institute curriculum and format provide teams with opportunities to reexamine and refresh current practices and learn about new strategies to develop an action plan for integrative and engaged learning.

During the Institute, teams will explore strategies and creative ways to build students’ capacities to integrate disciplinary and practical knowledge and skills across their education, transfer learning to new, complex experiences within and beyond campus, and embed learning into signature work and other culminating activities. Teams will have opportunities to create or reinvent initiatives to support equity, active student learning, and prepare students for full civic lives and careers in local and global contexts. IEIL sessions, led by national experts, will emphasize the value of leveraging general education, the majors, interdisciplinary, integrative and experiential approaches, and cocurricular experiences to achieve campus goals to expand integrative learning and community engagement.