UNIVERSITY OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP TAMIU: AN ALLIANCE FOR GOOD AFFIRMS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LEGACY Five local community-serving agencies have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) affirming their commitment to Partnership TAMIU: An Alliance for Good and its legacy of community engagement. The MOA signing further empowers student learning at TAMIU while also focusing on service opportunities that provide much-needed help to community agencies. Partnership TAMIU agencies include Azteca Economic Development and Preservation Corporation, Laredo Immigrant Alliance, Laredo Regional Food Bank, Southwest Key Programs: Las Promesas de Laredo, and the Washington’s Birthday Celebration Association. Signature partners sign three-year MOAs with TAMIU for exclusive collaborative efforts. Through these established partnerships, TAMIU seeks to affirm its continued commitment to improving its local community, explained Mayra Hernández, Student Conduct and Community Engagement director. “Studies have shown that civically engaged students can contribute to a community’s economic growth and build reciprocal relationships that foster transformational change. Transformational change is about adopting new processes and innovative ways of thinking to make the community more successful and increase the quality of services that provide a better quality of life,” noted Hernández. Launched in Fall 2014, Partnership TAMIU: An Alliance for Good is a nomination-based community engagement agreement that enhances existing relationships between TAMIU and external agencies. The TAMIU partnerships help community partner agencies meet their respective agency’s mission and goals, promote the exchange of resources between the University and the agency, and attest to a commitment to social responsibility regarding issues of public concern. 29
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