Faculty and Staff Project Support

The Lindy Center for Civic Engagement is happy to support campus-wide civic engagement activities, ensuring this work is well-resourced around the University and that it aligns with the University's and Lindy Center's values. We invite campus partners, including faculty, staff, and fellow campus offices, to let us know about your civic engagement activities and to ask us what we can offer to enhance your work, even if it is not initiated through our office. We can support in the following ways, and are also open to other ideas:

• Advising in best practices for civic engagement, including combining elements of learning, responsible engagement, and reflection into service activities and other projects. For example, if your campus office is planning a group volunteer activity for staff engagement, we may suggest and help with designing a pre-service workshop to put the activity into context and a post-service reflection to make meaning from the experience. This kind of support depends on our capacity and your group's needs.  
• For faculty, our expertise in Community-Based and Engaged Learning (CB/EL) pedagogy makes us an ideal partner for course development. We offer trainings, workshops, and resources to faculty looking to use this pedagogy, assistance with community partnerships, logistical support for courses, help with development of research, scholarship and publishing, and more.
• Creating opportunities to highlight your work by collaborating with us on events, news stories, social media posts, and more
• Allowing use of our office space for events, workshops, service activities, etc.
• Assisting you in connecting with fellow faculty, staff, and students who can build your project capacity, community organizations, and/or our colleagues in University & Community Partnerships, including the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships and Writers Room.  
• Presenting to your staff or student groups about civic engagement in general, specific topics related to civic engagement, and/or the Lindy Center's resources and support 

If you're interested in anything described above and/or you have other ideas of how Lindy Center could help you, please reach out to us at LindyCenter@drexel.edu with more information about what you're working on!