CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Lack of data on community engagement by UW-Superior students and employees made it difficult to conduct a proper impact analysis. According to the findings of this section, during 2017-2018, 2,400 UW-Superior students were involved in community engaged activities for 58,000 hours. In terms of number of students and hour involved, ASL was the mostly utilized community engaged activity. During 2017-2018, various types of community engaged activities were possible through collaboration with at least 700 partners from the Duluth-Superior area. Student engagement impacted education and economic areas more. There is room for enhancing community involvement of students through internship and research. This finding is supported by results of Business Survey (Part 3), that internships are one area where local businesses have less interaction with UW-Superior, but are interested in strengthening that relationship. During 2017-2018, 15 of 48 student organizations volunteered for at least 1,450 hours in the local community. Other student clubs can do the same by connecting to local businesses and organizations. During 2017-2018, 47 percent of UW-Superior employees connected to local community through community services, teaching and research. This implies that there is room for engaging more employees in the local community. Based on the findings it is recommended that the Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) play an active role in strengthening the reciprocal relationship between the UW-Superior campus and the local community.
Figure 4: UW-Superior’s Presence in the Region Enhances the Economic Vitality of Northern Wisconsin
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