Faculty & Instructors
Join your colleagues and connect with us to make your class a high-impact learning experience for students!
UniverCity Alliance will connect your class to a Wisconsin community and give students the opportunity to apply their learning to real-world situations.
“It’s active learning. It’s project based learning. (Students are) actually getting out and working in the real world on something that they’re building.”
Evjue Centennial Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Why engage with UniverCity Partnerships?
- UniverCity Alliance connects you with community partners and facilitates communication to ensure positive outcomes.
- UniverCity Alliance can provide some funding to cover the costs of doing projects.
- You make the Wisconsin Idea come to life and show state residents the benefit of having UW in Wisconsin.
- Studetns report amplified learning, engagement, and satisfaction.
- UniverCity Alliance connects you with a vetted project and community partners who can work with students.
- We help you tell your story on campus and in communities.
- UniverCity Alliance staff package student reports and share with community partners.
- Students learn about public aspects of your discipline.
“When it’s real work, there are stakes. It’s one thing to say, ‘Hand in your papers by Friday at 5 p.m.’ It’s another thing to say, ‘You’ll be giving a briefing at the mayor’s office at the end of the semester on the content of your paper, and it might just make a difference in your community.'”
Lori DiPrete Brown, Director, Global Health and Human Ecology, Civil Society and Community Studies, School of Human Ecology
Make the Wisconisn Idea come to life – today!
UniverCity Alliance has new possibilities every year to work with Wisconsin communities through the UniverCity Partnership program. Your next steps for getting involved could include:
- Choose UniverCity projects for class assignments and capstones.
- Find field placements or internships for individual students.
- Pursue Community-Based Learning Designations.
- Expand your network and engage with the “high-road” community.
I believe in the Wisconsin Idea and our obligation to provide valuable time and resources for communities in Wisconsin.
Patricia Coffey, Department of Psychology faculty associate