OUR PHILOSOPHY
The following principles encompass our CASA Research-Based Philosophy which drives our programs:
- Promote new educational opportunities for underserved populations in the U.S.
- Establish social action programs that serve the needs of the local communities and partnering entities such as the university.
- Connect academic knowledge with the community’s funds of knowledge.
- Facilitate a bi-directional relation of exchange between the university and the community to funnel educational resources to the local community.
- Provide technical skills and social and academic knowledge that will define the active global citizen of the 21st century.
- Emphasize the use of technology and innovative learning to gain access to academic, social, and technical skills.
- Engage participants in collaborative inquiry exercises that pose technology as a “mindtool” as opposed a stagnant device for “skill and drill.”
- Foster a collaborative, multilingual/multicultural environment allowing minority individuals to embrace their linguistic and cultural backgrounds as intellectual tools for the problem solving process.
- Link all members of the education system (administrators, teachers, university students) along with parents and community members to establish a steady flow of eligible individuals moving into higher education.
- Create optimal spaces for community development through education, encouraging the development of social citizenship.
- Mobilize participant’s creative resources to “learn to learn” and to develop a cross-cultural understanding in a diverse world.
