The Wilks Institute is happy to support you or your organization develop community partnerships. We aim to support our students, faculty, staff, and community partners to co-create mutually reciprocal community partnerships focused on social change and sustainable futures. We promote the practice of building relationships through Asset-Based Community Development and Community Identified Goals.
Contact us with questions or to learn more.
ComMUnity ߣߣÊÓƵ is ߣߣÊÓƵ University’s new tool for the promotion, management, and tracking of volunteer opportunities in our region. We believe this new tool will increase levels of community engagement in Southwest Ohio and provide us with a more accurate picture of how we are impacting our communities together as nonprofits and educational institutions.
ComMUnity ߣߣÊÓƵ amplifies the community’s voices by providing a platform for nonprofits to promote their needs and volunteer opportunities and is a product of .
In order to ensure that students are selecting meaningful community engagement opportunities and forming mutually beneficial relationships with our community partners, The Wilks Institute for Leadership and Service have created the following guidelines for the approval of volunteer hours. We recognize that there may be situations where it is difficult to determine whether or not an activity meets the requirements to be classified as volunteering, and we encourage students to email their student organization, their chapter’s service chair, or The Wilks Institute with any questions or concerns they may have regarding the criteria.
Please Note: In order to ensure your volunteer hours count towards your student
organization or chapter you MUST:
There are many ways to be an active citizen and engage with local, state, and federal policy. The Wilks Institute offers a variety of opportunities for students to become civically engaged including workshops and training, voter registration drives, and debates.
Do you want to keep up to date about elections or volunteer for events? Join ߣߣÊÓƵ's civic engagement student org ߣߣÊÓƵ Votes!
ߣߣÊÓƵ Votes is dedicated to civic engagement and nonpartisan action on ߣߣÊÓƵ’s campus. Members are invited to participate in:
Are you passionate about making change on campus, or gathering to support a cause you care about? The Wilks Institute shares in supporting the development of the Student Activism Guide. This is a living document, and is designed to be updated regularly with student input. The guide includes information about:
ߣߣÊÓƵ University has earned the Highly Established Action Plan Seal for the 2024 election cycle. ߣߣÊÓƵ is one of that has earned this recognition so far for the 2024 election cycle from All In Campus Democracy Challenge. The 2024 Highly Established Action Plan honors campuses for their commitment to nonpartisan democratic engagement through campus action planning.
The Wilks Institute hosts both a CEEP Fellow and Andrew Goodman Foundation Ambassadors, who work alongside each other to empower students and campus leaders to engage with and act on issues of importance using their votes.
Vote Everywhere, a program of The Andrew Goodman Foundation, is a unique civic engagement initiative rooted in a legacy of civil rights and social justice. Vote Everywhere carries on the work of Andrew Goodman, a sophomore at Queens College who was murdered along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner during Freedom Summer 1964 while attempting to register African-Americans to vote. Vote Everywhere empowers a national community of campus leaders to mobilize others to act on issues of importance using their votes, voices and networks. Vote Everywhere student ambassadors are focused on the census, voter registration, and elections.
Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Our goal is to help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote.