The Office of Connected Learning

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About Community-Engaged Learning & Research

Mission

Community-Engaged Learning and Research (CELR) holds as its mission the advancement of mutually beneficial relationships between the university and the extra-campus community through community-engaged learning and research for the purposes of education and growth among all involved parties. CELR supports the University of Washington Bothell in its mission to be a “transformational learning community,” and to “serve as a catalyst to enhance quality of life throughout our region” while fostering a “dynamic community of multicultural learning.”

Community-Engaged Learning & Research definition

A credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized activity (direct service, research, creative process, advocacy, consulting) in collaboration with a community entity (organization, industry, business, K-12 schools, local government) for the purpose of mutual beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
– adapted from Bringle and Hatcher (1996) & the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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