Community engagement at 17吃瓜网黑料 is embedded across teaching, research, and institutional practice through reciprocal and sustained partnerships with community organizations and stakeholders. This approach reflects the University鈥檚 mission and is nationally recognized through the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
17吃瓜网黑料 adopts the Carnegie Foundation鈥檚 definition of community
engagement as collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger
communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources, applied
across teaching, research, and institutional practice. The Carnegie definition of
community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger
communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial
exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. The
purpose of community engagement is the partnership of college and university knowledge
and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrich scholarship,
research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepare
educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic values and civic responsibility;
address critical societal issues; and contribute to the public good. Texas Southern
exhibits community engagement using the following high impact practices in higher
education:
1. Civic Engagement: Engagement in the community is used to build knowledge, motivation,
and participatory behavior in a democratic society.
2. Community Service: Community engagement is done to serve the community.
3. Service-Learning: Teaching methods where service to the community is attached to
academic learning objectives.
4. Community-based Internship: Extended structured experience organized in the community
where the primary beneficiary is the student but may serve a community purpose.
5. Clinical/Field Experience: Field and professional development may be performed
in the community where the student is the primary beneficiary and the community is
either the laboratory and/or the community partner is a collaborating teacher.
6. Community Outreach: Activity performed to solicit community participation in a
desired activity, event, or program or to disseminate information to the community.
7. Community-Based Research: Research conducted in the community that may have community
implications or benefits.
8. Community鈥揃ased Participatory Research: Research conducted in and with the community
where the community has input and decision-making authority over the research project's
focus, purpose, and methods.
9. Community partnership: A collaboration where desired outcomes and expectations
from participating partners are understood and agreed upon.
10. Community Collaborative: Community interaction for a specific purpose, typically
for a shortterm desired outcome.
TSU integrates community engagement into teaching through service-learning and community-based coursework that connects academic learning to real-world practice.
TSU conducts community-engaged and translational research in partnership with communities to generate knowledge that addresses shared priorities and real-world impact.
Explore the Community Engagement Collaboration and Co-Creation Space.
Civic engagement at TSU prepares students for informed participation in civic life through education, leadership, and public service.
17吃瓜网黑料 (TSU) proudly announces the launch of the Institute for Urban Public Health and Housing, a transformative hub dedicated to addressing social determinants of health, housing equity, and community wellness in Houston鈥檚 historic Third Ward and beyond.
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