The Elliot & Rosel Schewel Center for Community Development and Social Justice is committed to promoting relationships, on and off campus, that center around community-defined social justice needs and priorities.
The Center 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. It was established through an endowment by Rosel H. Schewel ’71 MEd, ’83 EdS and Elliot S. Schewel.
Its offerings include, among other things:
- Supporting faculty efforts to develop service-learning courses.
- Oversight for the approval of credit-bearing service-learning courses, civic-engaged pedagogy and teaching methods.
- Infusion of high-impact, community-engaged practices in the study of social justice topics across the undergraduate and graduate curricula.
