With a belief in the public purpose of higher education, civic engagement across the Open Society University Network promotes best practices and bold new initiatives to help students, faculty, and institutions realize their full potential as community actors and educators.
The Certificate in Civic Engagement provides a structured path for students to merge curricular and co-curricular civic pursuits and to deepen their knowledge and understanding of civic engagement. The Certificate is offered at partner institutions across OSUN.
The Coordinators are dedicated experts overseeing student-driven projects across OSUN institutions. Serving as key facilitators, they support students in developing impactful initiatives that address local and global challenges.
Global Engagement Fellows promote and coordinate thematic civic engagement projects across the Open Society University Network. Selected fellows have developed and sustained a civic engagement project and demonstrated leadership skills and a desire and aptitude for working with others.
An initiative steered by higher education leaders from around the world seeks to encourage universities to lead as bold and nimble civic actors partnering with communities to respond swiftly and intelligently to unexpected societal challenges.
Every year, the Get Engaged Conference brings together students from across the globe to develop community leadership skills and collaborate on solutions to local and global challenges. Workshops focus on leadership, public speaking, networking, social media, community partnerships, fundraising, and more.
Institutions demonstrate their commitment to shared civic and moral duties by responding rapidly to crises. "A Journey from Kabul to Bishkek" tells the story of students evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021 and the faculty who made their journey to secure partner institutions possible.
This series of monthly workshops - held on the last Sunday of each month - brings student leaders together to learn from each other’s experiences and gain insight and training.
