Center for Community Engagement / St. Thomas University

In collaboration with Archdiocese of Miami partners, the St. Thomas University Global Solidarity Partnership (STU GSP) leverages university resources into three long-term collaborative development projects in Miami's sister-diocese of Port-de-Paix, Haiti. Port-de-Paix is also known as the Northwest Department of Haiti, and is the poorest and most isolated region of the country. Through a mutually beneficial process of faculty research, curriculum development, student engagement and community outreach the STU GSP engages students, faculty and staff in a concentrated effort to build relationships of mutuality and solidarity with Haiti’s Northwest, to empower local communities, and to build the economic infrastructure needed to aid in the region’s long-term development.

Ninety miles from St. Thomas University lies Immokalee, Florida. Immokalee is both the largest tomato-producing area in the Unites States, as well as the epicenter for the largest cases of farmworker exploitation in the 20th Century. Through partnerships with leading service, legal, and advocacy organizations, St. Thomas University works to leverage university teaching and research into concrete, substantive change.

The STU/Carol City Middle School Community Educational Partnership is a 5-year, university-wide partnership aimed at leveraging university teaching and research, from a variety of disciplines, into long-term student-success at Carol City Middle School.

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Center for Community Engagement Overview The St. Thomas University Center for Community Engagement brings the university's research and teaching resources to bear on the pressing needs of our world....