Over the years, the Center for Social Impact has been proud to collaborate on a number of important projects. Click below to learn more about what has been accomplished through each of these projects.
The Social Impact Metrics Lab (SIMLab) at Utah Valley University leverages our greatest resource—UVU students—to carry out faculty-mentored evaluations of the social and economic impact of programs conducted by local, domestic and international community organizations.
The Pathways Practitioner Profiles Project is an effort to extend our empirical foundation of the Pathways of Social Impact. Researchers from institutions across the country are focusing on the knowledge, skills, and dispositions for each Pathway and will develop a profile and toolkit for the Pathways.
Through the Utah Lake National Science Foundation project, students are conducting service-learning, primarily in the form of community-based research, with the aim of informing local and state policy makers in efforts to rejuvenate the lake at the heart of this community.
The goal of the HDI is to provide well-being indicators for the analysis of the Utah economy at the county level that go beyond the GDP's performance. Check out the latest report and data visualizations here.
The Environmental Initiatives Hub promotes engaged learning opportunities around environmental issues in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting to develop environmental citizenship, literacy, and sustainable solutions for Utah Valley.
If you have an idea for a collaborative project or want to talk about ways to integrate social impact strategies or pathways into your teaching and/or research, please reach out to us at socialimpact@uvu.edu and we'll connect you with a faculty or staff member who can best serve you.
Utah Valley University’s Innovation Academy and Center for Social Impact are pleased to announce a call for proposals for the new Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow program (for a semester or full academic year). The purpose of the Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow program is to support academic social impact projects, which should benefit UVU students, our campus community, and our surrounding community.
The visiting faculty chosen to be a Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow will receive office space, admin support, and a project budget* from the Center for Social Impact to assist them in implementing a high-impact community-based social impact project (ideally involving students in multiple service-learning courses, and over multiple semesters if the duration of the fellowship is a full academic year).
The Social Impact Visiting Faculty Fellow will also be expected to work closely with the student Impact Fellows in the UVU Center for Social Impact in developing events for UVU students and the surrounding community related to their proposed social impact project. The visiting fellowship is housed in the UVU Center for Social Impact, in collaboration with UVU's Innovation Academy. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
*See additional details in Call for Proposals or contact Dr. Jonathan Westover at jonathan.westover@uvu.edu.
If you are interested in mentoring Center for Social Impact students in co- and extra-curricular ways, please reach out to Cassie Bingham. These mentoring opportunities may include
If you are working with a community partner and you would like to refer them to the Center for Social Impact for further partnership opportunities, please contact Jamey Williams, Outreach Program Director.
Members of the Center for Social Impact team and student Impact Fellows are available to do classroom presentations for your courses. Some of the topics we would be able to cover include
Reach out to socialimpact@uvu.edu if you are interested in scheduling a classroom presentation.
