COMMUNITY

CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY

• Social Responsibility:
  • Recognizing one’s responsibility to the welfare of society and its members
  • Enacting this responsibility and commitment through participation in experiences that positively
    contribute to a community or specific systemic issue
• Global Citizenship:
  • Acknowledging the interdependence of individuals working together towards positive change
  • Recognizing that effective democracy involves individual and collective responsibility
    and commitment to the welfare of others

Social justice

• Critical Awareness: Awareness of systems of privilege and oppression that contribute to inequitable
  distributions of power based on social location
• Social Action: Demonstrating the motivation, value, and commitment to create more just, humane,
  and equitable systems within one’s own sphere of influence
• Critical Hope: Exercising resilient hope and persistence in the collective struggle to redress inequitable
  systems and produce positive change