Community Engagement
Through community engagement, ACU aims to honour its "commitment to serving the common good", expressed in its Mission. In partnership with other organisations, the staff and students of ACU work to bring about change, through their own research, learning, attitudes and actions, and in the lives of others.
The Institute for Advancing Community Engagement (IACE) was established by ACU to advance the development of mutually beneficial and sustainable community engagement in three ways:
Beyond Disadvantage - Reaching out to people marginalised in society.
Beyond Borders - Reaching out beyond national borders to those communities most in need – focusing specifically on education and health.
Beyond Differences - Addressing the need for engagements across faith traditions, cultures, gender and age.
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“Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as “right” in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as “brute force.””
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)