The Center for Community Education
The transformation of people and communities in the city requires the development and training of community leaders and partners outside the formality of semester-long college courses. The Center provides certificate programs, seminars and community lectures designed to develop sustainable community resources—human, financial, organizational—and to develop churches, ministries, community organizations and schools into transformative institutions.
Enon/Eastern Institute of Entrepreneurship
The Enon-Eastern Institute of Entrepreneurship (E3I) has been created to educate aspiring entrepreneurs and to improve the skill set of current business owners. Visiting professionals and the E3I faculty teach practical methods that business owners can implement immediately.
E3I is an innovative and dynamic environment that enhances learning through exposure to other participants from a wide variety of backgrounds. E3I believes that bringing likeminded business owners together develops and deepens their professional network and encourages mutually beneficial relationships with other entrepreneurs.
Paralegal Diploma Program
The Paralegal Diploma Program is designed to provide a convenient and high quality paralegal education for the unemployed, underemployed, and workers transitioning from one career to another.
The paralegal profession’s projected growth is faster than the average for all occupations through 2010, equating to a 21% to 35% growth rate.
Our curricula are designed to ensure our graduates not only meet, but exceed, the educational requirements necessary for a successful and rewarding career. The 12-month weekend intensive format will prepare the future paralegal professional with both theoretical understanding and practical skills to work in the 21st century world of law.
Our paralegal program is a community based program targeted to the underemployed worker seeking to increase his/her marketable skills, workers seeking to transition from a job to a career, motivated high school seniors with an interest in pursuing a career in law, and second career seekers. Graduates will be fully prepared to enter the workforce as competent and effective paralegals or legal assistants.
Students will complete 8 eight week sessions over a 12 month period. Field trips and law office practicum will be included as part of the program,
Classes will be taught by experienced attorneys, judges, practicing paralegals and other professionals currently working for law firms, corporations and government agencies.
A job developer will coordinate practicum placements and permanent positions for students once they graduate. Our goal is that 75% of those who start will complete the program and find permanent employment as paralegals or continue towards an undergraduate degree.
Church and Community Arts: Certificate Program
The Church and Community Arts Certificate Program is offered in partnership with BuildaBridge International (BI) is for teachers, community and church leaders, artists and social service providers seeking to develop their knowledge and skills utilizing the arts in service and community mission. Through BI’s Institute for the Church and Community Arts (ICCA), the program integrates and encourages the development of art, faith, theology and leadership.
The Network for Social Change
The Network for Social Change (sochange.org) supports the initiatives of holistic evangelism and ministry around the world by providing online resources for missionaries, pastors and other urban practitioners.
In the first phase of a five-year study of faith-based community organizations, the Global Urban Ministries (GUM) Database, as it was then known, sought to build a publicly accessible, searchable online database of faith-based organizations and the work they were doing to promote transformation around the world.
Today, in its second phase of development, the Network for Social Change is expanding in both size and scope to become an online communications tool, as well as a community of like-minded people with a heart for urban transformation. Its primary purpose remains to facilitate networking and information sharing among urban ministries.
Community Lectures
Each year, the Center partners with a local church or community organization to present a guest lecturer of national prominence in their field of expertise, who addresses issues of importance to the city and its members. Past lecturers have included Dr. Howard Gardner, author of Multiple Intelligences, Patricia Smith, Esq, Director of the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, author, social analyst, cultural critic and scholar of urban popular culture.
Contact Us
School for Social Change
Campolo College of Graduate and Professional Studies
Eastern University | Philadelphia
990 Spring Garden Street, Sixth Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19123
P: 215-769-3100
F: 215-769-6785
E: change@eastern.edu
AIM: studychange
