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| | The Civic Engagement Leadership Institute is designed to promote civic responsibility and civic engagement between the college and the community. Through Forums on Civic Responsibility, the Pew Partnership for Civic Change (LeadershipPlenty) and other exercises as outlined in AACC’s “A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility into the Curriculum” students, faculty, staff and community representatives will develop an ethic of civic responsibility in their communities and college. |
The leadership training is sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges and Pew Partnership for Civic Change, known as LeadershipPlenty, along with Central New Mexico Community College. It is administered through the Center for Community Programs and Partnerships (C2P2) and is facilitated by licensed LeadershipPlenty trainers:
- Rudy M. Garcia, Ed.D., Dean of Students
- Art Cordova, Director, South Valley Campus
- Nancy Valenzuela, Outreach Specialist, C2P2
- Sharon Gordon, Director, C2P2
In July 2003, CNM was selected by the American Association of Community Colleges and Pew Partnership for Civic Change (LeadershipPlenty Program) to become a training site for the leadership institute. CNM was one of five community colleges in the United States selected for this endeavor. In April of 2004, the institute graduated 11 participants. In April of 2005, the institute graduated 27 participants. In July of 2005, the institute conducted the first ever Spanish training for parents in the ENLACE (Engaging Latino Community for Education) Program. Twenty parents started the institute and twenty graduated. To date, there have been more than ten institutes with more than one hundred graduates. The graduates are CNM students and employees and community representatives.
Through CNM’s Civic Engagement Leadership Institute participants develop their leadership skills as active students/citizens within our communities. The training program is intended to equip people from all walks of life to participate more effectively in community problem solving. We want to live in communities where there are plenty of leaders to make things run smoothly. It’s frustrating that no one seems to step forward who is equal to the task. The good news is that this lament for lack of leaders is unjustified. We live in communities of leadership plenty – that is, with plenty of people with untapped talents to make their communities better places to live and work and raise families (LeadershipPlenty, 2003).
Deadline to submit application for the Fall 2007 is 3:00 pm, Wednesday, September 5, 2007.
For more information please contact Donna Trujillo, Administrative Support Specialist in the Center for Community Programs and Partnerships at 224-3265 and dtrujillo39@cnm.edu.
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The Service Learning Program is a proud recipient of a Corporation for National and Community Service Grant. The program is also the 1999 National Bellwether award winner and the 2004 Community College National Center for Community Engagement Service Learning and Civic Engagement award winner. |
