Campus and Community Engagement
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Support
Education Access and Success
Campus and Community Engagement administers numerous programs - and works in partnership with various UAB programs - to support collegiate access, academic development, and ultimately the success of students and other lifelong learners along all stages of the educational pathway. Some initiatives offer incentives and support for academic success, while others provide dual high school and college credit, tutoring, mentoring, and interactive conversations with families about what it takes to prepare students for college, graduate school or professional school.
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Improve
Climate and Intergroup Relations
While numerical diversity serves as the foundation for diversity, interaction from different cultural backgrounds promotes an enriched understanding to better prepare our students to lead as global citizens. CACE works to cultivate an inclusive culture that actively and intentionally engages diverse people, ideas, and perspectives to create a vibrant learning and working environment by breaking down barriers and challenging injustices.
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Promote
Research and Scholarship
Campus and Community Engagement works to advance the university's excellence in research by collecting and disseminating vast knowledge about the value of community engagement and diversity, equity and inclusion CACE also supports engaged scholarship with community roots, encourage research in campus and community learning and working environments, and implements best practices toward achieving academic and campus diversity In sharing this knowledge-whether by publishing in journals and books, engaging in policy discussions, or presenting findings to local groups or audiences far and wide-CACE provides solutions to critical issues in higher education and exerts a positive impact on students, faculty, staff, policymakers, and surrounding communities.
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Advocate
Community Building
We seek to capitalize off of UAB's rich history of engagement, community service, and service learning. These programs continue to play an important role in helping our students learn from and about communities that may be different from their own. CACE works to accomplish this goal by leveraging the university's intellectual resources to cultivate collaborations that address significant issues in surrounding communities as students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to consider their agency.
