Mission: The Center for Civic Advancement is
dedicated to effecting positive change by
promoting social responsibility, social justice,
and equity through civic engagement and service
learning partnerships involving students,
campus, and the community.
The Center also
provides faculty with resources
to incorporate service-learning into their classes.
The CCA participates in the
Bonner Leaders Program, which works to build students'
civic and leadership skills, knowledge, and values
through their roles in service-learning projects
with the local community.
The CCA has developed the Stepping
Stone Program, which uses local data collected
by Tusculum students and integrates them into
GIS maps for the community to use. Go to our
Community Mapping page for more information
and to view our maps.
Look What We're
Doing!
STEPPING STONE MAINSTREET:
GREENEVILLE PROJECT
Students in Dr. Taimi
Olsen’s Block 7 Service-Learning
class conducted surveys, researched
local history, and considered ideas
of sustainable development for historic
downtown Greeneville. Working in conjunction
with MainStreet: Greeneville and Rediscover
Greeneville, the redevelopment project
introduced last fall, the class developed
websites and produced data to link
to the online map of historic Greeneville.
You can check it out by going to the
CCA’s Community Mapping page. You can also explore
other maps and community-based research
projects conducted by Tusculum’s
students on this page.
CCA
- Support
academic service, including action research, service-learning, and
public scholarship and initiate dialogue about issues of social concern
through trainings, lectures, and forums.
Students - Provide
students with a variety of community-based service and learning courses
and project opportunities that emphasize the virtue competencies, build
moral character, encourage compassion, promote social justice, and
civic
engagement.
Faculty - Provide
faculty with
training, resources and project opportunities that promote the values
and principles of engaged pedagogy and community action based on the
Civic Arts mission.
Campus - Enhance the
developing culture
of service on the Tusculum College campus through programs that foster
Civility, Self Knowledge, and Ethics of Social Responsibility.
Community - Develop
authentic,
reciprocal partnerships, in which all partners are engaged in the work
toward a Just Society.
A College of
Promise
Tusculum College is a College of
Promise. This means that we as a campus have joined America's Promise in taking
on the responsibility and pleasure of offering our Greeneville community
youth the
5
Promises.
CCA
- Support
academic service, including action research, service-learning, and
public scholarship and initiate dialogue about issues of social concern
through trainings, lectures, and forums.