AAP Einhorn Engaged College

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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.

Partners in Engagement


As part of the Cornell Einhorn Center for Community Engagement's Engaged College Initiative, the college has launched a phased three-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.

AAP Engagement Impact Grants


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As one of Cornell's engaged colleges, AAP is offering Engagement Impact Grant opportunities to AAP students and faculty seeking 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


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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.

Engaged AAP Advisory Council


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Led by Milton S. F. Curry, Architecture Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement, the council is committed to establishing and supporting inclusive, adaptable processes that reflect the values and needs of the AAP community and meet the goals and objectives of the Einhorn Center's Engaged College Initiative.

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