Our Vision

The Department of Community Partnership strives to create an equal and mutually beneficial
collaboration between the school, the students, and the community partners with a balanced
focus on service and learning in order to increase everyone’s propensity to be more civically
engaged and social justice minded through action-oriented scholarship.

What Do We Do?

The Department of Community Partnerships connects students with community partner
organizations through Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) opportunities. Through the mutual partnership,the Chicago School work together with the community organizations
to meet current and future community needs.

Community Engaged Scholarship is a co-learning process that facilitates the reciprocal transfer
of knowledge, skills, capacity, and power. The Chicago School helps community organizations
build capacity and improve the quality of their services by providing direct service, training,
supervision, and research. The community organizations in turn provide meaningful service
experiences set in a “real-life” context through which students can acquire civic understanding
and career-related skills.

	COMMUNITY ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP Learn about our community service, service learning, and community-based research projects.
	COMMUNITY PARTNERS See a list of our community partner organizations.
	AVAILABLE POSITIONS Find federal work study or volunteer positions
	HOW TO APPLY Read step-by-step instructions to apply for a FWS/volunteer position with the Community Partnerships.
	FAQS AND FORMS Questions? Need any forms? You may find them in FAQs.

The Chicago School has been named to the 2007 & 2008 President’s Higher Education
Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service
for exemplary service efforts and commitment to civic engagement.

Click here to read results from the 2009 Community-Engaged Scholarship student survey.