Research and Impact
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Empowering Communities, Shaping Future!
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Leadership & Transformation
Rhodes University Gorvernance
“Winston Churchhill was credited with saying ‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’. What is inspiring about Churchill’s quote is that it causes you to look for the positive and seek opportunities where they might not have been before. I am happy to report that the RUCE team did just that and found innovative ways 26 to reimagine spaces, always looking for opportunities while working hard to keep channels of communication going with community partners and student volunteers.”
- Di Hornby: Director of Community Engagement
Help us Reach our goals.
Rhodes University has identified legacy priority projects that it has earmarked for intensive, targeted fundraising in the next five years.
About RU Community Engagement
Who we are.
The position of universities within our society has never been simultaneously more vulnerable nor important. Globally, the purpose and value of higher education in the twenty first century, is being seriously challenged more than ever before.
Locally, we are confronted with social and economic problems that continue to plague the previously excluded and marginalised in South Africa. This fact is clearly evident in the location of Rhodes University, situated, as it is, in the midst of poverty, in a town with high unemployment and in one of the poorest and most neglected provinces in the country.
About RU Community Engagement
Who we are.
The position of universities within our society has never been simultaneously more vulnerable nor important. Globally, the purpose and value of higher education in the twenty first century, is being seriously challenged more than ever before.
Research
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Research
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Research
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Research
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Programmes & Initiatives
VC’s Education Initiative
Embracing a whole town, building agency and pride in a wide range of stakeholders.
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Engaged Research
We believe in the power of knowledge democracy, where research transcends academic boundaries to become transformative and transdisciplinary.
Leadership & Transformation
Facts & Figures
Our VC is a firm believer that Rhodes University as a research-intensive University plays a crucial role in generating and disseminating knowledge which advances human understanding and wisdom as well as build and sustain a better society for all.
179 → 305
Four No fee paying schools that have been part of the Vice Chancellor’s initiative have seen substantial increase in bachelor passes.
62% → 85%
City wide improvement in matric pass rate.
11 → 138
Increase in admission of well deserving local students from township school into Rhodes University.
RU Community engagement
Strategy Wheel
The Community Engagementt strategic goals are aligned with Rhodes University Institutional Development Policy (IDP), National Development Plan (NDP) and global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Rhodes University Community Engagement has developed this model, the Wheel, to connect the community engagement initiatives of the university.
RU Community Engagement
Research & Impact
Highlights of community-engaged research and its impact.
Impact Stories
Rhodes University is proud of its contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Publications & Findings
Rhodes University is proud of its contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Community-Based Service Learning (Short Course)
Rhodes University is proud of its contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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Community-University Partnerships
Rhodes University is proud of its contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Community-University Partherships
Community-University Partnerships
Joza Youth Hub
The Joza Youth Hub provides township communities - mostly schools - with access to an integrated array of education, communication and IT training services.
Assumption Development Centre
The ADC, responding to the wishes and needs of the Joza community seeks to transform the economy of the community encouraging young people to explore their business ideas.
NEWS & EVENTS
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Research and Impact
Publications & Findings
Rhodes University is proud of its contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
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