The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected 119 U.S. colleges and universities for its 2008 Community Engagement Classification. Daemen College was one of six institutions in New York State to receive this elective classification. Daemen's application documented both Curricular Engagement describing teaching, learning and scholarship which engage faculty, students and community in mutually beneficial and respectful collaboration, and Outreach and Partnerships describing two different but related approaches to community engagement: one focusing on the application of institutional resources for community use with benefits to campus and community; the second focusing on collaborative interactions with communities and related scholarship.
This is a resource page that accompanied Daemen College's application to be classified as a Community Engaged institution.
View the full narrative application
A 4. Is community engagement emphasized in the marketing materials (website, brochures, etc.) of the institution?
Daemen Today Fall/Winter 2007 “Daemen Team travels to Laos, PDF, with Interdisciplinary Consortium for Global Health to Begin ‘Silk Homes Project” View PDF of article
Daemen Today Fall/Winter 2006 “Daemen Social Work Department Stays Connected with Genuine Community Needs."View PDF of article
The College has ten primary marketing pieces that are exclusively about Service Learning, the Center for Sustainable Communities and the Thomas Reynolds Center which are sent to prospective students who show a particular interest in this area. View example PDF
The CSCCE prints a tri-yearly newsletter which is distributed to members of the Daemen community as well as community partners and prospective students.
CSCCE Newsletter
Community engagement is emphasized throughout the website, for example:
http://www.daemen.edu/offices/academicservicelearning/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.daemen.edu/academics/servicelearning/Pages/default.aspx
Home page featured President’s Honor Roll Recognition 2007
U-CAN website Daemen Profile
Daemen News Release Archives
In Spring 2008, Daemen was featured in The Independent Sector, the CICU newsletter, for our outreach with refugees.
A 5. Does the executive leadership of the institution (President, Provost, Chancellor, Trustees, etc.) explicitly promote community engagement as a priority?
President Anisman’s Welcome Statement
Daemen College Student-Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Think Tank (SRT)
The Western New York Service-Learning Coalition
B 1. Does the institution have a campus-wide coordinating infrastructure (center, office, etc.) to support and advance community engagement?
The Office of Academic Service Learning
The Center for Sustainable Communities & Civic Engagement (CSCCE)
The Thomas Reynolds Center for Special Education and After-School Programs (The Reynolds Center)
B 3 c. Are there systematic campus-wide assessment mechanisms to measure the impact of institutional engagement?
B 3 d. If yes, indicate the focus
Faculty: “Integrating ecology and sustainable design education through an interdisciplinary undergraduate course” Poster by Brenda Young and Kevin Kegler, presented at the Ecological Society of America 2008 National Meeting. 
View Poster jpg
Impact on community: The Daemen CSCCE and Fruit Belt residents worked collaboratively with a range of organizations to procure a grant from KaBoom and build a community playground.
View photos of playground (please scroll down)
B 5. Does the institution provide professional development support for faculty and/or staff who engage with community?
The Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning
B 6. Does the community have a “voice” or role for input into institutional or departmental planning for community engagement?
Western New York Service-Learning Coalition Committees
CSCCE Advisory Board
Reynolds Center Advisory Board
II A 1 a. Does the institution have a definition and a process for identifying Service Learning courses?
List of current service-learning courses at Daemen College
II A 2. Are there institutional or departmental (disciplinary) learning outcomes for students' curricular engagement? Yes
II A 2 a. Provide specific learning outcome examples:
Core Curriculum with Civic Responsibility as core competency (includes civic responsibility learning outcome and service-learning requirement learning outcome).
II A 2 c. Are those outcomes systematically assessed?
The Daemen College Core Curriculum Assessment Plan
Draft rubric for the Civic Responsibility competency
II A3. a. Is community engagement integrated into the following curricular activities?
Describe with examples:
Select research papers posted on the SRT website
Daemen Academic Festival presentations examples
Dean's Undergraduate Research Fellows (DURF) program for first-year students
B 1. Indicate which outreach programs are developed for community:
X Professional Development Centers
Teacher/Leader Quality Partnership
B. 2. Which institutional resources are provided as outreach to the community?
7. Faculty consultation:
The Aloma D. Johnson Fruit Belt Community Charter School (FBCCS)
2. (Optional) Is there any information that was not requested that you consider significant evidence of your institution’s community engagement? If so, please provide the information in this space.
Recognition:
Honors and Awards
Daemen College Named to President’s 2007 Higher Education Service Learning Honor Roll
Eight U.S. Colleges Win National Award for Their Innovations in Reversing Global Warming
Daemen College Students Campus Environmental Efforts Recognized by National Wildlife Federation for Second Straight Year
Daemen College Community Engagement Classification Application
Daemen Full Narrative Application
Daemen Partnership Grid Excel
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