Achieve Social Impact
Social impact and the translation of knowledge is important to CWRU. To achieve a deeper impact, we must disseminate our research and teaching more widely beyond our campus, and we must embark on meaningful partnerships. To increase our external student and faculty activities, we must redefine our partnerships with industry and nonprofit organizations to distribute our educational assets. We must become a more distributed university—extending access to our classrooms and scholarship to communities that did not have it in the past. We must continue to broaden the impact of our students through their co-curricular and extracurricular activities.
Our Goal:
Goal: Foster social good through robust engagement of undergraduate and graduate
students, faculty, staff and alumni with the local and global community.
Pathway Leaders
Pathway Leaders serve two roles: they advise the provost to advance the work of the pathway, and they serve as liaisons to the university community to discuss, gather ideas, and better understand how everyone can engage with the Think Big strategic plan.
Pathway Leaders for Pathway 3 are: Tyler Reimschisel, founding associate provost for interprofessional education, and Julian Rogers, executive director of local government and community relations.
Email them at pathway3@case.edu.
Objectives | Desired Outcomes | Measures |
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3-1: External Partnerships Engage in meaningful partnerships with an array of industry and nonprofit organizations to advance knowledge creation, from the local to the global |
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3-2: Local Engagement Act locally for global impact by significantly improving the mental, physical, legal, environmental, and financial health of Cleveland and East Cleveland |
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3-3: Experiential Learning Increase the number of opportunities for students to translate their knowledge into positive social impact across the world |
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3-4: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Accelerate the adoption of a culture of translating ideas into innovation and engaging in entrepreneurial thinking, acting and doing |
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Pathway 3 in Action

See more examples of how we're helping to achieve social impact at CWRU.

Researcher fights for clean water, works to to slow Lake Erie algal blooms.

Psychological sciences’ Rita Obeid co-writes paper on racial bias and autism identification.

Program gives real-time, location-based risk assessment for transmission of virus.