SLU Community Engagement Inventory

Data based on information submitted by members of the SLU community, summer 2015.

Library instruction for area high schools

Description: This program offers access to subscription databases and in-person instruction in library research to local high school classes upon request. In academic year 2014-15, the program facilitated 34 sessions, with a total of 512 high-school participants and their teachers.

Community Partnerships:

Affton High School
Altoff Catholic High School
Belleville High School
Belleville High School East
Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School
Christian Brothers College High School
Gibault Catholic High School
Lift for Life Academy
Lutheran High School North
Nerinx Hall High School
North Technical High School
Red Bud High School
St. Joseph's Academy

Primary SLU Contact: Georgia Baugh, baughga@slu.edu

Collaborator(s): All Research and Instruction Librarians participate in this initiative: http://lib.slu.edu/about/directory/pius-research-librarians

Categories: Education, K-12

SLU Community Engagement Locations

About the SLU Community Engagement Inventory

The SLU Community Engagement inventory aims to provide a centralized repository for faculty, staff and student projects in the St. Louis region. This project is a direct response to SLU's 2014-15 Strategic Planning process, which identified a need to develop a clearinghouse for programs and initiatives "to track both opportunities identified by the community and SLU, and joint programmatic activities underway in the community." Accordingly, this inventory aims to provide a comprehensive list of SLU initiatives and their respective community partners active as of August, 2014.

The Carnegie Foundation defines community engagement as "collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity."

Community engagement at SLU, while sharing the Carnegie Foundation definition, has another level of depth, as SLU activities are inspired and guided by the university's mission statement, "the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of God and for the service of humanity." The words of St. Ignatius of Loyola encourage us to "find God in all things," and this is embodied in the wide range of disciplines and practices in which truth is pursued at SLU. As St. Irenaeus famously put it, "the glory of God is the human person fully alive." While always seeking the Magis, this inventory shows the many ways in which Saint Louis University is living out its mission, seeking greater human flourishing in communion with many partners throughout the St. Louis region.

If you have any questions, or would like to submit a project to be included in the database, please send an email to communityengagement@slu.edu.

Acknowledgments - the following people have been essential in the creation of the Community Engagement Inventory: Alexandra Barrett, Nebu Kolenchery, David Hakanson, Mark Rimar, Louis Xu, Bryan Sokol, James Kimmey, Peg Weathers, Steven Sanchez, David Sailer, Nancy Solomon, Keith Hacke, Jae Teuk Chin and Sarah Coffin.