About Us

Center Mission

We create equal opportunity communities that are healthy, safe, and active.

Center Vision

The Center serves as a model university/city partnership that cultivates community, student, and faculty collaborations to drive systemic change until all communities have equitable opportunities to thrive in a healthy, safe, and active environment.

Center Values

Student Success

We adopt a holistic and inclusive approach through service-learning opportunities to help prepare students to address workforce demands, community needs, and social justice challenges.

Faculty Success

We cultivate faculty working collaboratively with community residents to address the challenges communities served by the Center face through innovative research, scholarship, and creative activities.

Civic and Community Engagement

We inspire students, faculty, and staff to be informed, responsible, and engaged community members and advocates who promote social justice and strengthen the communities we serve.

Building resident capacity is central to improving community conditions; issues confronting communities can only be solved when residents are actively involved in identifying the needs and helping to make changes