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Dialogue and Civic Engagement Week 2024 (DCEW’24)
The Dialogue and Civic Engagement Week 2024 (DCEW’24) project sought to support High Impact Practices (HIPs) within CLAS courses through a “plug and play” structure that met busy faculty and students where they are with meaningful and manageable work. The DCEW’24 convened a week of programming around dialogue, debate, and democratic talk, supporting the HIPs of community engaged/service learning (CESL), as well as diversity learning and collaborative project-based learning.
The process allowed for interdisciplinary collaboration and featured three themes that showcased a liberal arts consciousness at work in issues of vital importance to the Denver metro area: housing instability and homelessness, how to support the environment, and how to build a stronger democratic community. As expected, anchoring events in classrooms helped to support engagement, evident in quantitative and qualitative metrics.
Not only did this project help participants become more civically engaged, two students Caylee Steenbock, MSU Denver ’27, Communication Studies, B.A. with Marketing minor and Marcellus Mabry, MSU Denver ’27, Communication Studies, B.A., and chief creative at Thunderfairy Raindance Media, were hired as Marketing Interns giving them practical experience and professional development opportunities.