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Community Relations Goals

The Faculty of the School will

  • provide opportunities for students to heighten their awareness of the importance of knowing and participating in the communities they serve, developing community-related programs and communicating effectively.

    • The Student Will Be Expected To

  • recognize the need to establish working relationships with various community-based groups to help them improve services to their clientele.
  • understand the necessity of conducting a community analysis in order to continuously monitor the information needs of their clientele.
  • earn the role of formally constituted networks of information-based agencies in meeting the information needs for the communication process and develop the requisite skills for professional interactions with users, colleagues, administrators and support personnel in a culturally diverse and dynamic society.
  • communicate effectively orally and in writing.