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Action Mapping Project
The Action Mapping Project (AMP) is a youth-oriented and community-based project in Tacoma, Washington that fosters neighborhood change through data production, education, and direct action. AMP conducts annual activities that include 1) mapping and data collection with thousands of middle-school and high-school aged youth in Tacoma Public Middle and High Schools, 2) GIS instruction and professional development at AMP Centers in Tacoma High Schools, and 3) neighborhood scale planning and action activities (AMP Camps) in Tacoma neighborhoods.
Faculty Fellows
The Office of Community Partnerships (OCP) seeks applications for Faculty Fellows to develop and integrate publicly-engaged activities with teaching or scholarship for the public good. OCP will fund and support up to four faculty member collaborator groups (1 lead faculty member with 2 or more faculty collaborators and at least one community partner). We are particularly interested in establishing communities of practice that focus on existing and new partnerships and actively include community partners in their ongoing co-learning and co-production processes.
Legal Pathways
Legal Pathways at UW Tacoma is a new initiative, funded by the Washington State Legislature, to build and support law-related opportunities and curriculum on campus and to promote the success of students interested in pursuing law school, other graduate and professional studies related to law, and law-related careers. Learn more about our mission and history.
Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Course Development Grant
The Community Engaged Learning (CEL) Course Development Grant supports faculty across all disciplines in designing CEL courses that foster sustainable, mutually beneficial partnerships with community organizations while enhancing student learning using experiential and applied teaching methods. Grantees will receive individual administrative support and CEL guidance from OCP staff, while building community and learning with other grantees in workshop settings. The first year of the program is dedicated to understanding knowledge about CEL and developing community partner relationship(s) with co-created goals that inform a new CEL course. The second year is dedicated to the planning and implementation of the course, with the option of continuing as mentor in a community of practice for new grantees in the third year.
Community Engaged Pedagogy
The Office of Community Partnerships (OCP) supports faculty in developing and implementing community-engaged courses, assignments, and assessments. Organized around a community of practice (CoP), OCP brings together faculty with varying degrees of expertise and experience multiple times a year to discuss and workshop course and assignment design, as well as other matters related to community-engaged learning, from the theoretical to the practice.
