CETR Evaluation Plan

CETR facilitates engaged research where faculty, community partners and students collaboratively pursue projects related directly to the impact and practice of service and community engagement or research questions that are co-identified with broader social implications. CETR does this through multiple mechanisms including strategic recognition of community-engaged teaching as a form of experiential learning, student leadership programs, informal and formal partnership processes, and multiple stakeholder professional development opportunities. CETR requested an evaluation on assessing on two considerations: the effectiveness of the service-learning program in its effort to impart quality experiential learning to students, improve faculty satisfaction and improve community social impact, and how to better allocate resources to different components of the service-learning program like student leader program, collaboration with community partners, etc; according to the returns they yield.