As a leader in career education, JWU encourages you to apply leadership and career skills to real-life community settings.
An important part of the JWU approach is to teach and motivate you to understand the role you’ll play as a citizen in the work of community building and problem solving.
Here, community leadership means "strategically using personal and institutional resources to address community needs."
Making the best possible link between your skills and interests and the needs around you will result in maximum community impact and personal satisfaction.
Working in collaboration with campuswide departments, the Feinstein Center seeks to engage students and staff in community leadership by providing opportunities to apply leadership skills and principles to real-life community settings.
Students receive training in community leadership through coursework in community service-learning, leadership, co-curricular training offered by the Feinstein Center, volunteer opportunities and enrichment programming.
Students can also participate in Federal Off-Campus Community Service Work Study placements through the Student Employment program.
The university seeks to model community leadership as an institution, by taking an active role in developing collaborative civic initiatives to link university resources with community needs.
Community leadership is encouraged among faculty, staff, administration and departments through targeted training, service experiences and collaborations with the community.