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at Urbana-Champaign
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University of Puerto Rico, Humacao
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University of Washington, Seattle
University of Washington, Tacoma
Virginia Tech
Wagner College
Wesleyan University
Winona State University

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Miami UniversityMiami University

President David C. Hodge

Consortium Representative:
Robert Benson
Interim Dean, School of Fine Arts
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
bensonra@muohio.edu

Featured Program

Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
The Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine is a collaboration between Miami University and community groups within the Cincinnati inner-city neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine. Through its relationship with the Over-the-Rhine People’s Movement and other organizations that address issues of racial rights and social justice, the Center serves as a unique site for learning and for producing knowledge that intersects with the needs and demands of a social movement.

Two significant programs are the product of the Center. First is the Over-the-Rhine Residency Program, begun Fall 2006. In that semester, students chose to integrate academics, offered at the Center, with a full immersion experience to live and work together in inner-city Cincinnati. Architecture majors spent most of their time designing and building an apartment unit for an affordable housing development corporation. Other students engaged in service-learning in various institutions that serve the under-served.

Students are transformed by this program in powerful ways (link). By placing students in the “school of social life” they experience the spectrum of “community service” from charity to social change. They come to see their privilege as a kind of barrier that must be overcome in order to open their hearts and minds to the experiences swirling around them. They learn the skills to analyze current reality, welcome complexity, and to engage in productive conversations, all of which are vital to a theory of citizenship that fronts the questions: citizenship for what? Whose interests matter? And what value-laden theories of society do forms of community engagement presuppose?