Its offerings include, among other things:
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- Supporting faculty efforts to develop service-learning courses.
- Oversight for the approval of credit-bearing service-learning courses, civic-engaged pedagogy and teaching methods.
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- Infusion of high-impact, community-engaged practices in the study of social justice topics across the undergraduate and graduate curricula.
The CCDSJ is committed to promoting relationships, on and off campus, that center around community-defined social justice needs and priorities. Recently, CCDSJ was the lead University partner with a local grassroots racial justice organization for the sixth annual Race, Poverty, and Social Justice Conference held at the University in January 2020.
The CCDSJ was created in 1996 with the purpose of supporting sustainable community outreach and advocacy initiatives between the institution and the greater Lynchburg area that focus on issues of social justice. The center was established through an endowment by Rosel H. Schewel ’71 MEd, ’83 EdS and Elliot S. Schewel.
