Who we are?
The Community Engagement Unit (CEU) facilitates community engagement opportunities that enhances and promotes the scholarship of engagement through equitable partnership and citizenry to promote sustainable communities.

Our commitment to Community engagement and sustainable community development is reflected in the history and ethos of the University of the Western Cape. As this university embraces its proud history in the struggle, it is also committed to link this proud past to an exciting future grounded in excellence and relevance.

The institutionalisation of the unit stems from the fact that there are various models of teaching and learning employed by our institution that seek to facilitate the development of social responsibility and active citizenship in our graduates and therefore recognising community engagement as the term that embraces all of these models is more reflective of our ethos. 

Discussion of concentric circles:
1. The Scholarship of research aims at monitoring and evaluating the community engagement process through a structured reflective praxis.

2. The Scholarship of integration and application is aimed at continuous facilitation integration and promotion of community engagement through capacity building, mentoring and coaching between role-players and stakeholders towards enhancing partnerships.

3. The Scholarship of theory and practice aims at partnership and citizenry building for the purpose of empowerment.

4. The Scholarship of application aims at facilitating sustainable communities through the recognition of indigenous knowledge and resilience.

5. The Scholarship of Engagement facilitates an enabling environment for sustainable communities through community engagement and has its foundation and structure within Higher Education Institution frameworks.


Community Engagement Unit@ the University Of Western Cape
General enquiry: Telephone: (021) 959 3124, Fax: (021) 959 2689 e-mail: ahellenberg@uwc.ac.za
CEU Database enquiry: Pearl September-Brown; Telephone: (021) 959 2600: email: pseptemberbrown@uwc.ac.za
http://www.uwc.ac.za/CE/Pages/default.aspx