ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of a student orientation developed by the Center for Art + Public Life at California College of the Arts that impart the foundational ethics of community-engagement practice. The authors discuss why this programming is important, and share the process of how they prepare student grantees to embark on community-engaged projects with scaffolded explorations of identity, power, privilege, and positionality. The authors also offer details from peer academic institutions engaged in similar explorations with design students, highlighting the different contexts through which programming can be accessed.
