Georgia Tech’s Anchor Institution Mission and Role
To streamline and maximize communication, coordination, and collaboration across Georgia Tech community-related initiatives in Georgia to ensure we [Georgia Tech] are employing best practices in community engagement and achieving maximum community impact.
Communicate: Deepen campus-community understanding of community engagement pedagogies and the purpose of Georgia Tech's Anchor Institution Strategy.
Coordinate: Create a dynamic portal for campus-community navigating opportunities for engagement and illustrate community engagement impact through ecosystem mapping and resources.
Collaborate: Cultivate connections between students, faculty, and staff engaged in community-engaged teaching, learning, research, and outreach; and serve as a catalyst connector for Westside communities to campus.
Community Organizing Principles
A role of Georgia Tech's Anchor Institution Coordination Council is to deepen the campus wide understanding of community engagement frameworks and the benefits of applied frameworks to student, academic, and research outcomes.
- Understand historical and contemporary dynamics
- Identify goal and value commonalities
- Build a network of collaborators
- Empower group/collective to self-determine goals and direction
- Align group/collective goals with institutional priorities
