Objectives
- Serve as a one-stop referral center for community to liaise with the university
- Enhance awareness and understanding of the concept and practice of community engagement
- Instill a culture of volunteerism within the university and beyond
- Propagate shared experiences of best practices in community engagement
- Strategise, implement, monitor and review programmes/projects/activities/flagships that focus on engagement with the community towards national development
- Engage disadvantaged and marginalised communities to transform their future
- Partner community in community-based research and projects
- Actualise community engagement innovations and initiatives that drive socio-economic transformation
- Function as a secretariat that supports transnational community engagement initiatives
- Collaborate in university-community engagement endeavours with institutions of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region