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University of California, Los Angeles:
Minor in Civic Engagement
Contact: Kathy O'Byrne, kobyrne@college.ucla.edu
UCLA is creating a new undergraduate minor in "Civic Engagement", that can be paired with any major and that requires a year of service with a pre-approved community partner. The first students will be able to apply in the fall quarter of 2005. During the current academic year, we will create and convene a new Faculty Advisory Committee to finish the formal proposal for the new minor that will go to the Academic Senate. This same group of faculty leaders will then work on administrative and procedural decisions for the recruitment and management of the minor, including (but not limited to ) liaison with academic departments, review of curriculum and design of capstone requirements for students. We plan a campus-wide launch event in Spring 2005 to formally introduce the Civic Engagement Minor to the broadest possible audience of UCLA faculty, students, administrators and community partners.