Dear Faculty Colleagues:

Welcome to the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service.  We want to provide you with a very brief introduction to the Center, connecting your interests to various pedagogical, curricular, and research programs that we sponsor.

Office of Research

"The faculty?s research . . . not only obeys the canons of each discipline, but ultimately embraces human reality in order to help make the world a more fitting place for six billion of us to inhabit. I want to affirm that university knowledge is valuable for its own sake and at the same time is knowledge that must ask itself, 'For whom? For what?'"

Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.
Jesuit Superior General
http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/1000/kolvenbach_speech.html

The Office of Research of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service undertakes and promotes collaborative, community-based research, engaging university faculty, students and staff with diverse partners and community members in D.C.  The principles that guide our practice of community based research include:

• CBR is a collaborative enterprise between researchers (professors and/or students) and community members.
• CBR validates multiple sources of knowledge and promotes the use of multiple methods of discovery and of dissemination of the knowledge produced.
• CBR has as its goal social action and social change.

For more specific opportunities for collaborative research, click here.
Various research initiatives of the Center include:

• Community Research and Learning (CoRAL) Network
• Community-based research courses
• Georgetown Community Outreach Partnership Center (GCOPC)
• Youth Action Research Group (YARG)
• Partners in Urban Research and Service-learning (PURS)

Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy

In 1973, Fr. Arrupe laid the groundwork for a deeper challenge. He called on educators to undertake rigorous self-evaluation and 'above all make sure that in the future the education imparted in Jesuit schools will be equal to the demands of justice in the world.?"

John J. DeGioia Inaugural Address, October 13, 2001

Through the Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the Center for Social Justice sponsors and coordinates community-based teaching and curricular projects developed in the undergraduate and graduate schools of the Main Campus in partnership with the community.  We seek to build a curriculum and support pedagogies that integrate rigorous disciplinary and interdisciplinary study with community-based intellectual work, ultimately to enhance students' engagement with fundamental questions of social justice.

• For more information about how your courses might integrate community-based work of various kinds, click here.
• To see what your colleagues have done in the past, please click here.
• For more information about University-wide faculty-development initiatives, contact CNDLS

Office of Volunteer and Public Service

"Tomorrow's "whole person" cannot be whole without an educated awareness of society and culture with which to contribute socially, generously, in the real world."

Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J.
Jesuit Superior General
http://www.scu.edu/news/releases/1000/kolvenbach_speech.html

Faculty members can also find through the Center for Social Justice opportunities for themselves and their students to engage in important community outreach.  The Office of Volunteer and Public Service upholds the Jesuit mission to educate men and women for others by engaging Georgetown students, staff, and faculty in community-based work in order to deepen their understanding of community and social justice and to explore the link between service and academic theory.

For a listing of particular programs of interest, click here.

For a thorough listing of DC-based volunteering and service opportunities, click here.