The USC Coordinating Office for Community Engagement and Service (COCES) has been established as a central coordinating portal through which faculty, staff, students, and those external to the campus can enhance their current community engagement and service activities as well as provide guidance and assistance in initiating new activities.
COCES is responsible for:
- Facilitating the scope and depth of university engagement and service efforts
- Serving as an initial point of contact for faculty, staff, and external parties who wish to either enhance their current engagement and service initiatives or develop new partnerships.
- Documenting and making available to the university’s various publics the impact of its community engagement and service efforts.
- Assisting in developing reward and recognition structures and standards for faculty, staff, and student participation in community engagement and service, including such for departmental criteria for promotion and tenure
News from the COCES
COCES Community Engagement Survey
The COCES has recently developed an on-line survey to obtain information about university community engagement and service initiatives.
COCES Leadership Council
The COCES has established a Leadership Council for Community Engagement and Service. That Council, comprising a group of faculty, staff,
and external partners, is assuming responsibility for a number of significant work scopes.
Carolina Nexus
The COCES is facilitating the development of a new, annual initiative that will provide an opportunity for a cohort of recently-recruited
faculty, staff, administrators, and students to become familiar with the social, educational, economic, health-related, and cultural
aspects of the State.
