Our Goals
- Support student success, now and in the future, by providing high-impact, experiential learning opportunities.
- Advance civic engagement through:
- Developing and sustaining community partnerships.
- Training and supporting faculty and staff as they implement pedagogies related to experiential learning.
- Determining common interests and/or questions to connect community partners with members of the Kenyon community.
- Engage faculty, students and community representatives as equal partners in developing research assignments connected with everyday life.
- Ensure diversity, equity and inclusion for experiential learning so that all students have access.
- Create a shared sense of place and build environmental literacy through the Rural Life Initiative.
An Introduction to the OCP
Learn more about our initiatives including community-engaged learning, research, internships and service. We partner with many local organizations and coalitions and also take part in programs designed to support and sustain the area's rural character, agricultural practices and public spaces.
Our Values
- Trust
- Reciprocity
- Curricular Enrichment
- Promotion of Civic Responsibility
- High-Impact Practices
Through these core values, the Office for Community Partnerships commits to reinforcing civic responsibility within the context of a liberal arts education. We endeavor to enrich curriculum by exposure and collaborative exchange with community resources and utilization of local knowledge.
The Office for Community Partnerships assists in brokering relationships with community partners, training faculty and students to participate in community-engaged pedagogies, and reporting community impact.
Our Work in Community Outreach
Community-Engaged Learning: Course work designed to address specific community needs and/or access community knowledge while providing opportunities for reflection on real-world, hands-on experiences. Independent or course-related research designed to address specific community questions posed by community partners.
Community-Based Experiential Learning: The accomplishment of tasks that meet genuine human needs in concert with conscious educational growth. These interactions are connected to a course, internships or paid employment opportunities.
Community Service: Volunteer activities carried out by individuals, of their own free will, that benefit others and that are not compensated. Individuals are students, faculty and staff who represent the college.
Suite 100
400 S. Main Street
Mount Vernon, Ohio
43050