Civic and Community engagement (CCE) is emerging as a policy priority in European higher education. This presentation focuses on how University College Cork, located in Ireland’s second city, has initiated a whole institution strategic and coordinated approach, to raise the profile of its CCE activities, to ingrain a culture of engagement across the institution, and to deepen its presence in the community, across a broad range of external stakeholders, including NGOs, citizens, government and business. UCC is a 1st Place Winner of the MacJannet Award for Global Citizenship from the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities and is ranked 8th in the world for impact, as measured by the Times Higher Education World University Impact Rankings.
The presentation will also share how UCC and Irish HEI’s have collaborated to develop an Irish higher education policy landscape for CCE. On June 16, 2014, leaders of all Irish Universities across Ireland came together in Dublin to sign the Campus Engage Charter for Civic and Community Engagement. The signing of the Charter marked a watershed moment, for the first time committing national higher education to a set of common principles. Subsequently, the Irish National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030 established societal engagement as one of the three core pillars of the Irish higher education system.
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Dr Martin Galvin is Head of Civic & Community Engagement at University College Cork, Ireland. He is UCC’s university representative to the Irish Universities Association (IUA) Campus Engage initiative. He is a member of the Irish Government’s National Volunteering Strategy Research Group, and is a Higher Education Reform Expert with the EU Erasmus+ SHERE Programme, a network of experts supporting the modernisation of higher education in countries neighbouring the EU. Martin is an Adjunct Lecturer in Education, with an interest in democratic education and participation. He previously worked in the US in multicultural settings as an administrator, teacher and adult educator. He has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Education Policy.
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