Fitz Center For Leadership in Community
Institutes, Initiatives and Events
The University of Dayton is seeking to re-achieve the Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification. The Carnegie Classification is a high standard that shows community engagement is deep, pervasive, integrated and sustainable across our campus. This elective classification reflects critical aspects of our mission as a University for the Common Good.
Through mini-courses, certificate and internship programs, competitions, lectures, and events, the Ethics and Leadership Initiative inspires students to recognize the ethical challenges in their lives, communities, and workplaces and provides the leadership skills to face them.
Convened to address health inequities in the Dayton area. Community and partners for health equity are activating ways to combat Black infant mortality from an asset-based approach.
The Imagining Community Symposium is a space for community partners across the Miami Valley to come together in a space of education, dialogue, and action.
The Rivers Institute facilitates collaborations between faculty, staff, students, and community partners working to promote, preserve, and protect our watershed. Through community engagement and transdisciplinary research, our region can sustain the natural resource central to our communal, economic, aesthetic, and ecological vitality.
The Urban Research Initiative project assists the Dayton City Manager and staff with an enhanced research capacity and technical assistance to address opportunities and challenges unique to its economy, location, neighborhoods and history.