Mission
The
WVU Center for Community Engagement (CCE) supports effective partnerships
with communities that enhance discovery through community-engaged teaching,
scholarship, and action. The Center focuses on supporting faculty, staff, and
students in working with external partners on meeting reciprocal and mutually
beneficial needs and advancing WVU’s land grant mission.
Guiding Vision
Students, staff, and faculty will be involved in multifaceted activities and experiences
that enhance learning through service. A stronger infrastructure for engagement
will support teaching principles of democracy, compassion, and cultural diversity.
WVU will have a campus culture of service, supporting sustainable partnerships
with local, regional, and statewide communities that help students realize
their strengths, become engaged across campus and pursue lifelong learning.
WVU Native American Studies Land Acknowledgement
WVU, with its statewide institutional presence, resides on land that includes ancestral
territories of the Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga,
Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora), Cherokee, and many other Indigenous peoples.
In acknowledging this, we recognize and appreciate those Indigenous nations whose
territories we are living on and working in. Indigenous peoples have been in
the land currently known as West Virginia since time immemorial. It is important
that we understand both the context that has brought our university community
to reside on this land, and our place within this long history.
We also recognize that colonialism is a current ongoing process, and as scholars
seeking truth and understanding, we need to be mindful of our present participation
in this process.
(developed in Fall 2019 with input from NAS Committee members, after consultation
with tribes, to be read at NAS public events and included in NAS syllabi,
and shared with others, including WVU Humanities Center, Morgantown Human
Rights Commission, et al.)