Your gift helps Campus + Community connect the university with community organizations to conduct research, forge partnerships, and communicate the impact of community-engaged scholarship.
Embedded within the Institute for Social Transformation, we are a hub for action-oriented research on campus and focus on creating institutional changes to support the work of community-based scholars. Our work supports ethical, mutually beneficial research and teaching that results in transformational experiences for faculty, students, and community partners. Through community engagement, UC Santa Cruz promotes social justice for underrepresented students and communities.
Donations to our center’s unrestricted fund help us facilitate collaborations and create working groups, presentations, workshops, and consultations to further community-engaged research at UC Santa Cruz. They also strengthen our connection with units on campus, including the Sociology and Psychology Departments and the Community Studies Program. Donations will also support institutional change efforts to help university systems to adapt in ways that better support the community engagement process.