The Mulvaney Center for Community, Awareness and Social Action provides USD students, faculty, staff and alumni opportunities to learn in partnership with the community, and make life-long commitments to promote social change and justice. Through active community-based engagement, students are able to link the learning in the classroom to the wisdom of the community through both curricular and co-curricular pathways.
Under the leadership of the Mulvaney Center, over 6,800 students and nearly 100 faculty have partnered with over 140 community organizations to total over 416,000 hours of engagement during the 2017-18 academic year. This community engagement reflects the vision of USD to set the standard for an engaged, contemporary Catholic university where innovative changemakers confront humanity's urgent challenges.
USD will work alongside participating institutions to identify resources and develop new tools for implementing, expanding and evaluating anchor mission practices within higher education and the communities they serve. Learn more about the Coalition for Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU).