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The Center for Community & Learning Partnerships
About Us
Our Mission
We facilitate and strengthen partnerships that yield transformative educational experiences for students while addressing community interests.
Our Philosophy
The Center is the result of years of faculty, staff, student and community efforts to create partnerships that address neighborhood concerns while enhancing the educational and professional environment at Wentworth. The Center focuses on formalizing these grassroots initiatives and enhancing their impact on students and the community.
Central to the CLP’s operation is the philosophy of focusing on assets and relationships as a means to producing reciprocal and transformative partnerships. While the CLP exists to promote volunteerism and civic engagement, our philosophy is not focused on altruism, rather, the focus of our activities and programs is to create rewarding academic and professional experiences that matter in the real world, and especially in our community. To that end, the CLP brings together students, faculty, and community members as a think tank where energetic ideas meet established principles and practice. The result is a focused environment that produces transformative student experiences alongside extraordinary community outcomes.
Founded in 2005, the office enables students to participate in community service through a range of outlets from nonprofit work with community partners to rebuilding efforts in New Orleans during Alternative Spring Break trips. Faculty members participate as well by running community-based design studios, Service Learning, or their own direct participation in the community. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classified the CLP in 2008 for Community Engagement in both Curricular Engagement as well as Outreach and Partnerships.
ATTENTION FACULTY AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: If you are a Wentworth Faculty member or Community Partner and have worked with the CLP or are interested in working with the CLP in the future, please fill out this INTAKE FORM and send it to Jessica Schwartz (Email: schwartzj1@wit.edu; Phone: 617-989-4983)
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Facts and Figures
- Community Work Study: In 2009-2010, 67 students have worked with 13 community partners for 2300 hours to earn $20,125
- Alternative Spring Break in New Orleans: 2009-2010, 27 students completed 2300 hours of service and have fundraised $15,317.33
- Over the past 5 years, 105 students have participated in Alternative Spring Break to perform over 6000 hours of service and fundraise $70,000
- Student Leaders In Service: 2009-2010, 17 slots awarded, $23,250 in scholarship available for WIT students
- Service Day: 2009-2010: 100 students worked 2400 hours at 7 sites
- Certificate in Community Learning: 15 certificates have been conferred to date, 7 student portfolios are slated for review for 2010
- Community Co-op Corps: 2008-09, 38 co-op students performed 20,900 hours of service and in 2009-2010, 12 (projected) co-op students are expected to provide 6,600 hours of service
- Service Learning: 2008-09, 29 faculty taught over 600 students in 38 courses (59 sections) yielding approximately 90,000 hours of service
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