a person observing colorful sticky notes on a white poster on the wall Core Tenets

As an Einhorn Engaged College at Cornell, AAP is furthering our collective commitment to imagine and build a better world for all. Engagement programming at AAP expands opportunities to advance rigorous community-engaged instruction, research, creative work, and discourse across our disciplines.

Goals


Core Tenets


  • Exposure / Rigor

    Identify relevant theories and research methodologies to develop informed research.

    Expose students and participants to cutting-edge disciplinary and cross-disciplinary creative work relevant to engaged activities and develop ways of working that challenge traditional and conventional pedagogy.

    Develop structured critical reflection to articulate desired, actual, and unexpected outcomes as well as situated observations on personal growth.

  • Creativity / Innovation / Experimentation

    Strengthen expertise by actively articulating and challenging conventional modes of working within a given discipline.

    Develop a cross-disciplinary diversity of critical thinking including the visual representation of ideas as well as forensic and analytical skills.

    Deepen cross-disciplinary expertise by effectively articulating new opportunities for addressing community issues and topics through a wide lens that synthesizes multiple methods, theories, or ways of constructing knowledge and deconstructing knowledge hierarchies.

  • Collaboration / Partnership

    Address a specific interest, problem, or public concern in conversation with the community it impacts.

    Consider community participants in course development and implementation.

    Share relevant outcomes, such as research findings, resources, and critical reflections with community participants to create opportunities for feedback from students and community partners.

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