| Initiatives | Goal | Means of Achieving | Outcome | Methods of Assessment | Results | Result Use |
| Community | Complete rollout of GivePulse for CCEL's constituencies. | Create "how-tos" for specific users (CEL students, faculty, etc.). Continue on-boarding community partners and thereby increase options for students to select from. | Civic Engagement, Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence | Track number of CEL classes using GivePulse. Track use of GivePulse by community partners. | We'll gather feedback from pilot groups this spring before launching this summer. | We did not intentionally gather feedback from the CE Team regarding their use of GivePulse. However, we did add a question in their team end-of-year evaluation about their experience with GivePulse. |
| Access | Increase access to CE opportunities through virtual offerings and thereby further diversify our student demographic and better prepare students for community engagement participation. | Publish the updated training modules and disseminate them to CEL faculty and students in fall 2021. Continue to offer virtual opportunities that reduce barriers for students when work, health and/or life situations (like COVID-19) might otherwise prevent them from participating in traditional CEL. | Civic Engagement, Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence | Pilot the updated training modules with students in fall of 2021. Once implemented, conduct retrospective surveys of students who complete modules. | We will pilot the modules with students in the fall semester. Once the modules are implemented, we'll conduct retrospective surveys of students who complete them. | We did not intentionally organize virtual opportunities because the feedback we got from students (in person meetings with student leaders) was that they were tired of virtual. The virtual opportunities we did organize got canceled. |
| Diversity | Increase access to CE opportunities through virtual offerings and thereby further diversify our student demographic and better prepare students for community engagement participation. | Publish the updated training modules and disseminate them to CEL faculty and students in fall 2021. Continue to offer virtual opportunities that reduce barriers for students when work, health and/or life situations (like COVID-19) might otherwise prevent them from participating in traditional CEL. | Civic Engagement, Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence | Pilot the updated training modules with students in fall of 2021. Once implemented, conduct retrospective surveys of students who complete modules. | We will pilot the modules with students in the fall semester. Once the modules are implemented, we'll conduct retrospective surveys of students who complete them. | We did not intentionally organize virtual opportunities because the feedback we got from students (in person meetings with student leaders) was that they were tired of virtual. The virtual opportunities we did organize got canceled. |
| Learning | Identify high-impact projects and foundational projects on and off campus for the 2021-2022 academic year. | The Community Engagement Team has appointed all of its positions and has a new vice president for Community Engagement. This team will have each member sign up for AmeriCorps to log their engagement throughout the summer semester and begin their team position in fall 2021. Community partners will be connected with the new team members who will provide support throughout the academic year for events and programs. The Social Issues Team will identify a research project in the summer and begin training to start the project come fall 2021. The new team will also receive training throughout the second half of the summer semester to learn about the structure of the new team as it relates to high-impact educational opportunities and community engagement. They will also receive training around necessary skills, GivePulse, volunteer management, etc. | Civic Engagement, Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence | Use data from the annual CCEL student and community partner assessments. Check in periodically with community partners about the success of the restructure and selected projects. | The restructured Service Team is now renamed to Community Engagement Team and has been approved by the WSUSA. The Research Extension team has joined the Community Engagement Team and will be known as the Social Issues Team. Community partners fully support the restructure with the understanding that their organization will receive the same or more support throughout the academic year. | The Community Engagement Team has appointed all of its positions and has a new vice president for Community Engagement. This team will have each member sign up for AmeriCorps to log their engagement throughout the summer semester and begin their team position in fall 2022.Community partners will be connected with the new team members who will provide support throughout the academic year for events and programs. The Social Issues Team will identify a research project in the summer and begin training to start the project come fall 2022. The new team will also receive training throughout the second half of the summer semester to learn about the structure of the new team as it relates to high-impact educational opportunities and community engagement. They will also receive training around necessary skills, Weber Connect powered by GivePulse, volunteer management, etc. |