Engaged with Impact
Distinguish every stage of the Nazareth education through engaged learning with social and community impact, from local to global.
Goals
- To holistically educate undergraduate and graduate students for social change by guaranteeing signature experiences that cohesively integrate community, classroom, and co-curricular experiences
- To cultivate a collaborative culture of engagement that learns from and nourishes our local and global communities by unifying spaces, structures, and processes
- To become a national model for equitable, accessible, and reciprocal partnerships that drive learning and change for all
- To achieve equitable access, support and outcomes in experiential learning
- To build an engaging and transformational student experience through active and inclusive pedagogy
SPARK Experiences
Students like Matthew Reimann '24 (pictured) use the Nazareth SPARK Grant for life-changing internship, research, or international experiences.
Progress
What’s happening?
- Working Group will be focused on building capacity for and celebrating current excellence in active and inclusive pedagogy, and in community-engaged learning.
Providing access to music
As part of an honors capstone project, music education major Paige Lee '22 volunteered at an instrument repair shop at a city high school and began to see herself as a changemaker.
Recognition for Naz clinics
- Health Care Hero for innovation: Rochester Business Journal named Nazareth's York Wellness and Rehabilitation Institute (YWRI) a 2022 Health Care Hero.
- Co-treating Parkinson's patients: WXXI News featured Nazareth music therapy and physical therapy students providing co-treatment with Rochester-area residents with Parkinson's disease. It's one of multiple weekly clinics in the York Wellness & Rehabilitation Institute on campus.
Addressing social justice, homelessness
Nazareth student Sarha Smith-Moyo is a leader in the classroom and community — with a passion for social justice and responding to the homelessness crisis. Her activism earned her NY Social Work Education Association Student of the Year honors. News story »
15,000+
Students learn & gain experience during more than 15,000 visits each year to Nazareth's on-campus clinics for creative arts therapy (art, music, and play), nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, public health, social work, and speech-language pathology and audiology.
Enabling girls to explore STEM
With support from an American Association of University Women fellowship, Nazareth faculty and students provided a summer science camp focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to underserved middle school girls.
Pictured: Marie Bell, Ed.D., Nazareth assistant professor of nursing, shows campers how to use a stethoscope during the camp.
Social Innovation Hack-a-Thon
Nazareth's annual Social Innovation Hack-A-Thon connects students with social innovators, shares changemaking knowledge and skills, and provides an experiential learning opportunity to brainstorm approaches to pressing local and global challenges.
One student attendee said she realized the need to collaborate with people affected by a problem, or your solution won't work.
Service above self
Meaghan de Chateauvieux ’03 has a passion for equity and human rights and is now president and CEO of Willow Domestic Violence Center. She reflects on how her college experiences helped prepare her.