Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
I have accepted the recommendations of the Selection Committee and I am delighted to announce that the Clemente/Catalyst program has been awarded the first Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Community Engagement.
The Clemente/Catalyst program has benefited from the genuine and sustained commitment of the community partners and the University, with extensive and very generous commitment of the learning partners. The program is outstanding and provides an example of what is possible through long-term community engagement, mutual respect and relationships. The program expresses the mission of the University, Mission Australia and St Vincent de Paul Society in ways which exemplifies the synergies across the missions of the three organisations. All involved have continually reviewed the program and reflected upon their learning from its implementation.
I congratulate Associate Professor Peter Howard and all those involved in this exciting program.
In reaching its decision, the Committee commended the focus of the programs of all the submissions received. Their importance for the work being undertaken with the respective communities was evident.
I would like to convey my appreciation to all those who submitted nominations for this award and for the commitment of so many to the University’s mission-related community engagement programs. The University’s Institute for Advancing Community Engagement now provides an effective mechanism for exploring how particular initiatives can be further developed as community engagement programs.
Finally, I am grateful to the Selection Committee established to consider nominations for this inaugural award, for its careful and thoughtful consideration of the nominations received.
- Peter W Sheehan AO
- Vice-Chancellor
- 14 December 2007.
