The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) fosters relationships that bring community-identified priorities and interests into conversation with academic learning goals through community-based research, empirical analysis, service learning, citizen science, participant observation, public humanities, practicing arts, and other collaborative modalities and methods of knowledge co-creation. Our main program areas include:

• Support for 60 ProCES-designated courses each academic year through community partnership cultivation, experiential learning course enhancements, and faculty development;
• The Derian Summer Internship Program, a faculty-mentored and community-informed research internship supporting collaborations between faculty, undergraduate interns, and community experts;
• Funding and support for community-engaged independent and thesis research and the Dean Hank Dobin Prize in Community-Based Independent Work;
• Partnership with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement to support the integration of academic and co-curricular community-based learning through Service Focus, a university program that connects service and learning for students during their sophomore year. 

ProCES supports academic collaborations between Princeton faculty, staff, students, and community partners that create opportunities to learn from community experience and expertise. Partners include non-profit, public sector, and non-governmental organizations and grassroots community leaders representing a variety of fields as well as racial and environmental justice and social change frameworks. 

ProCES courses and program areas rest on commitments to:

• the aspiration of reciprocity between students, faculty, and community partners;
• students’ preparation for and reflection upon ethical approaches to community-engaged work;
• the co-creation of knowledge and diverse sources of expertise within and beyond the academy.