Faculty Resource Spotlight Series: Community Engagement and Empowerment
NCFDD
Your institutional membership to NCFDD provides access to a rich collection of tools designed to strengthen community engagement, foster collaboration, and support collective growth across campus and beyond. Through practical strategies and evidence-based insights, these resources help you build strong peer networks, cultivate teamwork, and create spaces where individuals and groups can connect, contribute, and thrive. To take the next step in enhancing your community-engagement practice, explore the featured resources below!
Academic Impressions
Your institutional membership with Academic Impressions offers a robust collection of resources designed to strengthen community engagement, deepen collaboration, and support your development as a campus and community leader. Access on-demand courses, live trainings, and practical toolkits that provide strategies for building strong partnerships and fostering environments that empower groups to work together toward shared goals. To further expand your community-engagement practice, explore the featured Academic Impressions resources below.
Office of Community Engagement
The Office of Community Engagement at UTRGV serves as a central hub for building strong, collaborative partnerships that enrich our region and strengthen connections between the university and the broader community. Through strategic initiatives, resource sharing, and cross-sector partnerships, the office helps mobilize community assets, support organizational capacity, and promote positive, sustainable change. Community engagement at UTRGV includes forming coalitions, supporting nonprofits, and advancing initiatives that influence programs, policies, and practices across the Rio Grande Valley.