Government/Non-Profit The Center for Community Learning is responsible for introducing UCLA faculty members to community partners who are interested in service learning projects.
If your organization has opportunities for UCLA students to provide direct service or research, please contact the Center Director, Dr. Kathy O'Byrne (
kobyrne@college.ucla.edu), to arrange a site visit.
UCLA subscribes to the national best practices for community-campus partnerships:
Principles of Good Community-Campus Partnerships*
- Partners have agreed upon mission, values, goals, and measurable outcomes for the partnership.
- The relationship between partners is characterized by mutual trust, respect, genuineness, and commitment.
- The partnership builds upon identified strengths and assets, but also addresses areas that need improvement.
- The partnership balances power among partners and enables resources among partners to be shared.
- There is clear, open and accessible communication between partners, making it an ongoing priority to listen to each need, develop a common language, and validate/clarify the meaning of terms.
- Roles, norms, and processes for the partnership are established with the input and agreement of all partners.
- There is feedback to, among, and from all stakeholders in the partnership, with the goal of continuously improving the partnership and its outcomes.
- Partners share the credit for the partnership's accomplishments.
- Partnerships take time to develop and evolve over time
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Adopted by the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) board of directors in October 1998.
