About
The Center for Compassionate & Sustainable Communities seeks to engage in basic and applied research, engaged teaching, and translational activities. Our work centers compassionate, just, and sustainable policy, planning, and other community-level action. We aspire to solve grand challenges facing society, including climate change, inequality, and justice.
Mission and Culture
The Center for Compassionate & Sustainable Communities engages in basic and applied research, engaged teaching, and translational activities around compassionate, just and sustainable policy, planning, and other community-level action that seeks to solve grand challenges facing society, including climate change, inequality, and injustice.
We are a group of engaging, collaborative faculty, staff, and students with intersecting research interests who get together regularly to enjoy each other’s company and see what new ideas and projects might arise from actually practicing the open curiosity an academic life can allow.
Core Values
- Compassion: Awareness of, and motivation to, reduce the suffering of oneself and others.
- Sustainability: Meeting the needs of future generations without encumbering the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
- Justice: Fairness, truth, and action to promote equity.
- Place-based: Values and leadership arise from and represent the local community.
Partners
- The Commons
- Center for Service Learning
- School of Public Affairs & Administration
- Office of Faculty Affairs
- Office of the Provost
- School of Social Welfare
- Watkins Health Services
- Counseling and Psychological Services
- Ombuds Office
- Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity
- Department of Theatre & Dance
- Spencer Museum of Art
- Douglas County Sustainability Office