The Inclusive and Impactful Civic Engagement Ore Cart encourages exploration of one’s engagement with the campus, Golden, and global communities in ways that support access, resources, and opportunity for all community members to succeed and thrive. This Ore Cart honors those who appreciate, engage, and advance diversity, equity, inclusion and access initiatives at Mines.
Completing an activity or actively engaging in experiences focused on Inclusive and Impactful Civic Engagement will display student’s skills that are:
Emerging
- Develop a local and global perspective of citizenship.
- Consistently uphold personal values and a code of ethics that align with our institutional Code of Conduct.
- Start to understand and value diverse identities, values and cultures by understanding ones own identity, privilege and intersectionality.
- Articulate and appreciate the current and historical inequities that advantage some and disadvantage others.
Developing
- Apply academic discipline to community service.
- Implement an action strategy that sustainably addresses a societal issue.
- Articulate how their individual passions and public service efforts contribute to promoting greater access, resources and opportunities for all communities.
- Promote civic decorum and discourse to navigate differing views and difficult conversations in an informed, committed, and constructive manner.
- Exhibit the ability to work effectively with those different from themselves.
Exemplary
- Facilitate constructive dialogue with peers, faculty and community members around civic engagement and DEIA.
- Commit to socially responsible civic, community and employment roles that foster a fair and just environment for all.
- Harness the power of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences as a source of creative and innovative problem solving.
- Engage the Mines community of peers, faculty, and staff to contribute and address a community effort, concern, or opportunity.