OUR COMMITMENT

What is Community Engagement?

With its distinctive focus on the human experience, Loyola Marymount University’s College of Communication and Fine Arts seeks to provide all our students, faculty, and the larger community, with ongoing opportunities to not just give back, but to develop perspectives that will advance a more compassionate and just world.

By fully reflecting the dynamic educational context of our college, CFA offers opportunities for students and faculty to impact the lives of thousands of atrisk children, adults and families through diverse service initiatives, both as independent programs and integrated into academics. The programs that materialize from this commitment are dynamic, ever-changing in scope and form, and allow for new and evolving possibilities to be constantly explored and imagined.

The students who emerge after four years at CFA not only benefit from an expanded knowledge base and critical thinking abilities, but also from the personal growth that comes from community engagement on a level that inspires a lifetime of leadership in creating a just world. Our students and faculty are involved in service through mentorships, coursework, awareness campaigns, therapeutic programs, partnerships, fundraisers and international programs, as well as over 100 free and low-cost performances, events and exhibitions each year that are open to the community.

CFA’s efforts are dependent upon the generous ongoing support of alumni, parents, foundations, corporations and friends of the university to make what we achieve possible. This support ensures that CFA can continue to educate ethical, talented and deserving students for generations to come.

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“I know that each year our student body looks forward to coming to LMU, and the teachers do as well. Art instruction is something that is sorely lacking at our school, and ARTsmart has been our connection to that.”

Cyril Baird,

Principal, Westside Global Awareness Magnet