The Resilience Studies Consortium (RSC) seeks to utilize a nation-wide network of universities in order to advance “place-based” educational opportunities for undergraduate students from a diversity of backgrounds and passions. By sharing academic resources, allowing for transferability between partner universities and creating pathways to a better understanding of Community Resilience in the coming era, the RSC seeks to engage and empower students with rich environmental understanding.
Our core values include:
Our core values include:
- Place
- Utilizing place-based educational opportunities to advance the learning opportunities available to all partners in the RSC.
- Choice
- Exploring opportunities in the RSC network to offer the broad range of choices found at a large university, without compromising the small, intimate setting of the liberal arts.
- Diversity
- Diversifying the environmental discourse through building collaborative learning networks for students from a broad range of regional, ethnic, social, generational, economic, and professional backgrounds.
- Recruitment
- Recruiting more students dedicated to community resilience from traditionally underrepresented communities.