MU Receives Higher Education Award

October 5, 2016

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, an independent nonprofit educational organization, proudly celebrates the recipients of the 2016 Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards. The award recognizes institutions that are achieving breadth and depth of civic engagement through sustained and mutually transformational partnerships that define and address issues of public concern at any level from the local to the global.

This year’s honorees are Buffalo State, SUNY; Marquette University; the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Purdue University; and the University of San Diego. The awards were presented on Monday, September 26,  2016, at The Washington Center’s annual Awards Luncheon at the National Press Club. Each of the five winners of the 2016 Higher Education Civic Engagement Awards receives one scholarship for a student to participate in The Washington Center’s 2017 Presidential Inauguration Academic Seminar in Washington, DC, January 8–21, 2017, on the theme “Can We Elevate Political Discourse?”

As a Jesuit institution, Marquette University recognizes that deep community partnerships are critical to building a more just world. Marquette University helped launch and continues to serve as an anchor institution for the Near West Side Partners, a nonprofit organization with the mission to revitalize and sustain the seven-neighborhood district that makes up Milwaukee’s Near West Side. Marquette’s engaged leadership in this effort includes the involvement of hundreds of students and more than a dozen faculty in researching and evaluating project impacts, designing campaigns to attract new businesses, and other direct service efforts in the district.

Community engaged activities are those in which you have significant and direct interaction with the community (local, regional/state, national, global). Resources are applied to address and solve challenges facing communities. These activities allow for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in the context of collaboration. Activities are conducted in an intentional manner and both parties must benefit from the outcome. Examples include research, instruction, clinic services, board membership, service learning, and other activities.

Learn more about Marquette University’s Office of Community Engagement

Read the press release at Urban Milwaukee