The Community Engagement Associates (CEA) program is a key funding support of community engagement at IUPUI. This program recognizes that the core of community-engaged work is relational work—work that takes time to build and work that cannot be done by individuals alone. Community-engaged faculty and staff may receive funding to employ students to provide support for courses, programs, or projects that advance the community-engagement mission of IUPUI in any of the following ways:
- Is done in a mutually beneficial partnership with the community in both curricular and co-curricular spaces
- Is innovative, emergent, and forward thinking in the field of community engagement
- Supports the innovative use of community engagement pedagogy to deepen student learning (e.g., international service learning, community-based/engaged participatory research, online service learning, graduate level service learning)
- Advances or increases the knowledge base around civic learning, civic-mindedness, or community engagement more broadly
- Builds the capacity of departments/units to increase and to implement opportunities for community engagement or community engaged learning
- Is equity-minded in its principles towards community engagement