At the conclusion of our Semester of Listening, our steering committee synthesized the input we received from 500 stakeholders into six high-level themes. We framed these themes not only as goals, but as questions that would serve to inspire and direct the work of the CCE moving forward. The questions, below, organized staff brainstorming sessions during our Summer of Planning in which we generated answers to these questions based on best practices and models in the field -- answers which ultimately formed our initiatives and strategies for the future.
How might we mobilize our campus community to embrace individual and institutional citizenship in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region?
How might we build the capacity of our faculty and students to meaningfully integrate community-based work into teaching, learning, and scholarship?
How might we better prepare our campus community to engage in intentional ways that attend to individual and institutional positionality, and promote equity, inclusion and empowerment?
How might we facilitate intracampus collaboration toward more strategic, impactful, community-engaged goals?
How might we centralize, institutionalize, and communicate resources to stakeholders both on and off campus in order to affirm and deepen partnerships?
