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With continued growth, strengthened partnerships and new opportunities for faculty and students to connect with the community, the past academic year has certainly been a productive one. We ask for your patience as we prepare to create a new website. Over the next several weeks throughout August the APP office will be updating our website to include the latest on our exciting new initiatives and programs including among others:
• The Transition of the old CASE program into the Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships Program (CESEP) now headed by Dr. Maurice Elias, Rutgers Professor of Psychology.
• The SAS Curriculum Committee approved three new 1-credit courses for the CESEP Program that will allow any department in the university the opportunity to add a credit bearing service learning experiences to any existing three credit course.
• Faculty Curriculum Development Grants provided with support from Phil Furmanski the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. The grants provide faculty with support to do research to create new service learning courses and advances opportunities to share scholarship, network across disciplines and learn best practices in campus community partnerships.
• New Community Council comprised of 18 civic organizations advising the APP Office and the CESEP program.
• The Institute for Women in Art co-directed by Dr. Ferris Olin and Judy Brodsky reports to the Associate VP Office. Dr. Olin was Founder and Co-director of The Feminist Art Project, and Project Co-director for WAAND: Women Artists Archives National Directory and Dr. Brodsky is Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts, she is founder of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper.
• “Learning to End Hunger” Statewide Initiative is a partnership with the NJ Higher Education Consortium of Colleges and University. Rutgers is the lead institution working with the membership to bring together the student volunteer and service learning resources of New Jersey colleges and universities to support the efforts of the New Jersey Anti-Hunger Coalition’s “Campaign to End Childhood Hunger by 2015 through increased participation in federally-funded nutrition programs and access to healthy foods.
• New Jersey Leaders of Tomorrow Presidential Internship Program places specially chosen juniors and seniors to serve in the district offices of New Jersey state legislators to learn first-hand how public policy decisions are made by answering constituent concerns, conducting research, and learning the legislative process.
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... Knowledge Serving Communities
The Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public
Partnerships provides university-wide leadership for the development
of university-community partnerships, opportunities for civic
engagement, and increased capacity for engaged scholarship in
the arts and humanities. As NJ’s premier public research
university, we support public scholarship by applying the intellectual,
creative, technical and social resources of Rutgers to benefit
state residents through university-community partnerships.
Reporting to Dr. Phil Furmanski, the Executive
Vice President for Academic Affairs, the office oversees
the Citizenship and Service Education Program, the Institute
for Women and Art, the Bildner Faculty Fellows Diversity Initiative,
the Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artist Shaping Culture
and Communities Initiative, and the Transcultural NJ Public
Service Arts Program. We coordinate a broad range of programs
with local, national and international partners including: The
Institute for Art and Humanities Education, the National Women’s
Caucus for Art, and New Jersey Network Public Television.
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