AAP is furthering our collective commitment to imagine and build a better world for all by expanding opportunities to advance rigorous community-engaged instruction, research and creative work, and theory across our disciplines.
At AAP, we view engagement with communities and constituencies outside of the university as a means for exposing students and faculty to the world’s most urgent challenges, adapt research and theory to these challenges, and catalyze transformative change by leveraging university resources and making meaningful connections across and beyond Cornell.
As part of the Cornell Einhorn Center for Community Engagement’s Engaged College Initiative, the college has launched a phased four-year plan that includes defining what community engagement means for our departments of architecture, art, planning, real estate, and design tech; establishing a baseline for community-engaged curricular and cocurricular offerings, research, and creative work; and developing protocols for sustaining long-term initiatives that embed this work in the very core of our pedagogies.
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Engagement Impact Grants
As one of Cornell’s engaged colleges, AAP offers Engagement Impact Grant opportunities to AAP students and faculty to develop and deepen our shared understanding of what engagement as a common practice means within, across, and for our disciplines.
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Core Tenets
As an engaged college and community, we prepare and inspire students, faculty, and community partners to come together to address the challenges of our time, reframe problems, exchange knowledge, and imagine a more just, sustainable, equitable, and thriving world.
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AAP Einhorn Advisory Council
The Engaged AAP Advisory Council establishes and supports inclusive, adaptable processes that reflect the values and needs of the AAP community and meet the objectives of the Einhorn Center’s Engaged College Initiative.
News
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Cornell Faculty Honored for Community-Engaged Innovation
Associate Professor of Architecture Pamela Karimi is among 13 faculty members from across Cornell who are being honored by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement with this year’s Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards.
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Community Engagement Awards Honor Exceptional People, Projects 
The second annual Community Engagement Awards, held at Cornell and hosted by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, celebrated AAP partnerships, faculty, and students.
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