Center for Social Transformation and Leadership

Supporting scholarship grounded in reflection, discernment, partnership, and action in service of justice and the common good.

Through faculty development, collaborative inquiry, and community-connected scholarship, CSTL helps cultivate approaches to research and learning that are both academically rigorous and socially meaningful.

Creating opportunities for learning, reflection, discernment, collaboration, and scholarly impact.

CSTL supports faculty as scholars, educators, mentors, and public intellectuals by fostering communities of practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and mission-centered professional development.

Building relationships grounded in listening, reciprocity, accompaniment, and mutual learning.

CSTL works alongside community organizations, schools, nonprofits, public agencies, and civic leaders to develop partnerships that contribute to shared learning, capacity building, and positive social change.

Supporting scholarship that informs policy, practice, public dialogue, and social transformation.

We seek to amplify the work of faculty, students, and community partners whose scholarship contributes to more just, sustainable, and flourishing communities.

Connecting scholars across disciplines and supporting engaged scholarship, leadership development, public scholarship, and partnership building.

Faculty and staff engage with CSTL through communities of practice, collaborative inquiry, professional development opportunities, and interdisciplinary initiatives that foster public impact.

Creating opportunities for collaborative learning, inquiry, and leadership development through engagement with real-world challenges.

CSTL helps connect students with faculty, community partners, and engaged scholarship initiatives that support learning, reflection, and formation.

Building authentic partnerships that connect community knowledge, university resources, and shared aspirations for social transformation.

Community partners are co-creators of knowledge whose expertise helps inform scholarship, teaching, and public engagement.

Strengthening networks that sustain engaged scholarship and mission-centered public impact.

Alumni and supporters play an important role in helping expand CSTL's reach and influence through leadership, mentorship, partnership, philanthropy, and public engagement.

We begin with humility by listening deeply to community experiences, knowledge, strengths, and aspirations.

We create space to consider what we are learning and how our work contributes to a broader understanding of justice and the common good.

We ask not only what can be done, but what should be done and how scholarship can best serve people and communities.

We believe meaningful scholarship emerges through reciprocal relationships where knowledge is co-created and shared for mutual benefit.

We seek scholarship that contributes to positive change, informs practice and policy, and advances human dignity and flourishing.