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Welcome!
First and foremost, thank you to all community leaders who have mentored our students
during this past year and all CASE faculty engaged in public scholarship, teaching, and research who have
helped in connecting the campuses with the broader communities.
As part of its renewed commitment to build faculty capacity to engage in public scholarship
and strengthen student learning through civic participation, Rutgers is reconfiguring the
CASE Program. Effective this semester, the Citizenship and Service Education program is being
transitioned and renamed the Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships (CESEP) program
under the academic leadership of Dr. Maurice Elias.
He is a prominent psychologist and Rutgers professor whose scholarship focuses on social-learning skills and emotional intelligence models.
Our purpose in making
this change is to strengthen the program'ss connection to faculty and better define
the university's mission of service that will benefit all sectors of society.
CESEP will continue to report directly to the Office of the Associate
Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities.
The Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships Program ( CESEP ) will build upon the proud
history of the Citizenship and Service Education program while striving to reach the following goals:
- To make civic partnerships, engaged teaching and service learning,
a distinctive aspect of educational culture university-wide that is both,
recognized and rewarded.
- To create a support and assessment structure that will further Rutgers's
public purpose and connect on-campus learning with real community needs.
- To partner effectively with community organizations, civic leaders, and alumni;
and involve these constituencies as co-educators and mentors.
In 2006, as part of the overall restructuring of undergraduate education at
Rutgers, the Committee on Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship
was convened by Dean Jerry Kukor and Associate Vice President Isabel Nazario to examine best practices for an organizational
structure that would facilitate service learning university-wide. On June 8, 2007, a report
was issued to Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Philip Furmanski outlining
recommendation to advance Rutgers commitment to civic engagement and service learning.
(Click here to read the Executive Summary.) As the recommendations of the report are
implemented, the Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships program will continue
to administer service learning courses for faculty including placing and monitoring students
in their community placements. We look forward to seeing increasing numbers of students and faculty participating in service
learning and kindly thank you for your patience while we transition into CESEP.
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