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Mission Statement
CCERP is the primary vehicle at Millersville University to foster, focus and coordinate civic and community engagement and research. As such, CCERP engages in a variety of activities, such as the following:
- Foster collaborations and approaches across disciplines and sectors (e.g., education, business, social service and government agencies, faith communities, and grass root organizations);
- Provide opportunities for faculty, students and staff to engage in and contribute their expertise in searching for solutions to challenges in local and global communities;
- Develop new models, provide expertise, and create linkages to address relevant issues;
- Conduct, publish and disseminate results of sponsored research, polling, open-ended interviewing, mass media educational communication, teleconferencing, online and print, cross-cultural consulting, and training, conferences and other media.
Vision Statement
Our vision is to help raise the level of public awareness about and responsiveness to the persistent and widening economic and social disparities across class, ethnic and racial lines by engaging our students, faculty, staff and others in the search for creative and pragmatic solutions that translate sound theory into effective action.
The Civic and Community Engagement and Research Project (CCERP) at Millersville University approaches community engagement by enlisting meaningful participation across the political spectrum to form consensus about the identification of, if not always the solutions to, important educational, social and economic problems. Moreover, CCERP works to build upon these mutual obligations of university and community by enabling students, faculty and staff to participate fully and thoughtfully in their communities and by offering its services to communities in order to work hand-in-hand with communities to develop solutions to problems that face us all.
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CCERP activities and research projects occur on the regional level, with special efforts to form collaborative efforts with similarly concerned regional partners. However, because the causes of intractable educational, economic and social disparities are rarely just regional, there are necessarily linkages with national and international organizations and agencies with respect to matters of overlapping and/or common concerns.
CCERP sponsors forums, studies, projects and services related to the core mission of promoting community and civic engagement and research. The foci of these activities may include but not be limited to the following:
- the educational achievement gap, including the lags in mathematics, science and technology among American students generally;
- the political and social consequences of declining community engagement and political participation;
- the diminution of economic security for the average worker, including the impact of workforce globalization;
- urban decline;
- the energy problem;
- threats to or the loss of natural resources vital to the economic well being of communities;
- basic health and nutrition imperatives, especially for children;
- the study of the social and economic consequences of immigration;
- the effects of the intolerance of cultural differences.
Contact Us
Civic and Community Engagement and Research Project
P.O. Box 1002
8 South George Street
Millersville, PA 17551-0302
Office: 717-872-3049
Email: Melvin.Allen@millersville.edu
